The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
+. FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
- OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News condensations Re-
viewed Without comment-Ah
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct

Charles Flueter, night counter man
in the railroad eating house at Mis-
souri, Valley. Ia, quit his Job to be
married in order to qualify for le-
gacy Of $4,000 left to him by an un-
Gle in New York City on condition he
should marry before Oct. 1.
Fire destroyed the Vienna milling
plant, at Peoria, ILL.,, owned by Don
meyer, Gardner & Co., with a loss Of
100000.
Mrs. Christen Dean, 80 years old
and . cousin of George Washington, is
dead At Carthage, Mo.
Vic Guerringer of Kansas City was
sentenced to rs years in the peniten-
tiary for attacking Mrs. Gertrude
Shidler in March, 1914.
Ophelia Hanson, years old, and
her sister Violet, 4, daughters of Mrs.
Lewis o. Hanson, of Maiden Rock,
Miss, were burned to death while
their mother was driving home the
cows.
A silver jubilee celebrating the
tventy-fifth anniversary of the found
ing of the Daughters Of the American
Revolution was held at Memorial Con-
tinentaf hall. President Wilson made
an address.
The marriage of Mrs. Mary Quinlan
1f T.. Il
Brady, Illinois state auditor, was re-
ported.
Jonas James, a pioneer miner at
Danville, Ill, dropped dead in the Blue
Bird mine of apoplexy.
Bulgaria's minister and his staff
have left Rome for Sofia, proceeding
via Switzerland.
Application was made in New York
for incorporation of the National
School Camp association. The object
Of the association is to issue a call
for 100000 schoolboys to take a
course in military training.
British casualties reported from
Oct 1 to Oct. IL amount to more than
31,o0O.
Four of the daily papers OF Paris
Rappel, Radical, Guerre Sociale and
loeuver-have been suspended by or
Ger of the censorship.
Ministers of Peoria, Ill, acting with
he law enforcement league, have be
gm plans for a monster parade to
esrry on a petition to Mayor E. n
Woodruff asking the closing Of saloons
= Sunday.
Former Judge William Johnston is
dead at Valparaiso, Ind, at the age
d72.
Health authorities of Pennington
ID, were considering steps to combat
n spidemic of typhoid fever. Eigh
teen cases are under quarantine.
Federal Judge Hough has declared
unconstitutional the cotton futures act
bscause the bill originated in the sen
VI tnc 0IdtCo AhSSSo1 VI
he lower house.
Chief of Police Healey, Chicago, ha:
Gdered his assistants to rid the city
= promiscuous gambling.
The grand jury returned a verdic
d justifable homicide in its investi
ntion of the case of the Rev. Byron
1olley, who killed L. G. Pearsall
HON he found in his study at New
Orleans.
The state department officials ex
press the belief that the Turkish au
horities are interfering with cable
TO Ambassador Morgenthau at Con
stantinople.
The Illinois, Carnegie, Cambria ant
Aaryland Steel companies have beel
awarded the contract for $1,000 ton
Of steel rails by the Baltimore & Obi
nilroad.
A registered letter mailed thre
years ago from Vancouver, B. c., b
J. A. Fitzsimmons to d. c. King a
Oeotlan, Mexico, has just been re
eeived at Long Beach. Cal.
The British steamer Halizones,
liner of 5,093 tons, has been sunk b
German submarine.
Fifty tons OF coal tar dyestuffs G
German manufacture have arrived /
New York. consigned to the secretar
Of commerce.
Two men who rode motor cycle
4 held up and robbed Earl Smith, bool
Keeper in the office of the Latta
IN Greek Coal company, near Hymer;
\ md, and escaped with $4,000.
Heavy Japanese guns, manned
expert gunners from the Japanes
1fmy. are being used by the Russian
y the defense of Dvinsk