Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-03-17

Ia., convicted of the murder of her husband at her first trial about year ago, was given her liberty at the opening of her second trial.
 The supreme court has formally granted the application of the state of Virginia for permission to sue J. P. Morgan for the return of the will of Martha Washington. The state alleges the will was taken from Fairfax coun- ty courthouse during the civil war and eventually was sold to the late J. P. Morgan.
 The expected drop in the price of bread, which was raised by the big New York bakers on Feb. 10 from cents to cents loaf wholesale and from cents to 6 cents retail, has taken place.
 Arthur Smith, an aviator, before the members of the American Association of Fairs and Propositions, ascended in his bip1ane over the lake front in Chi cago and turned 32 somersaults in the air.
 An Athens correspondent sends the following: Premier Venizelos an nounced in the chamber of deputies that, as the king did not approve the policy of the government, the cabinet had rendered it's resignation"
 
 The Panama canal has been closed to all but the lighter-draft ships by rapid slide of earth from the top of Culebra cut at a point north of Gold Hill.
 Twelve suits for damages aggregat- ing $120,000, growing out of the shoot ing of strikers at Roosevelt, N. J., by the guards of the chemical plant on Jan. 19, were filed against the Ameri- can Agricultural Chemical company.
 One policeman dead, two probably mortally wounded and a fourth police man and two citizens slightly injured Is the result of a running pistol battle here with two men who were trying  ters. Both finally were captured aft CT one of the mhad been shot twice and slightly wounded.
 The annual meeting of the Missis- sippi Valley Suffrage conference at Indianapolis has adjourned. A peace meeting" swas the feature of the last days program.
 Summer quarters were leased at Beverly Cove for the British embassy. Sir Spring-Rice, the British ambassa- dor, who spent last summer at Dub lin, N. H., is expected there May 15. F The death toll of the explosion in the Layland mines of the New River and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal com pany, at Hinton, W. Va, is 1Os, follow ing the recovery of 13 bodies.
 Moving through the mist in total darkness, the big Lusitania, from New York, reached Liverpool, extraordi- nary precautions having been taken to guard against German submarines. The Lusitania carried 475 passengers, of whom 120 were in the first cabin. Charles Taylor, an old-time burglar and housebreaker, who has spent 31 years in the Chester and Joliet peni- tentiaries in Illinois, thinks now that he is entitled to parole, and in let ter to the state board of pardons has asked permission to do the last year of 20-year sentence outside the pris- on walls.
 It is reported that Mrs. Florence Carman, released by hung jury in her first trial on the chaNge of having shot and killed Mrs. Louise Bailey in | her husbands office in Freeport, l.. l., on June 30, 1914, will be placed on trial early in May.
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 A dispatch from Copenhagen to the London Daily Mail says Germany has mobiIized the elephants in Hagen. backs menagerie and has sent them to Valencienne for work in heavy hauling.
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 Lieut-Gen. Tchinosuke Oka, minis ter of war, and Viscount Yoshimichi Hasegawa chief of staff of the Japa. nese army, went from Tokio to Hay anna and were received by the emper or of Japan at his winter residence
 Two young men bound Charles Pc terson in a bathtub in the rear of his barber shop in Chicago, robbed the cash register, turned on the cold wa ter and fled Peterson released him self in half an hour and ran saiverint to the police station. David Lloyd-George, the British chancellor of the exchequer, revealed in the house of commons that no un derwriting commission whatever hal been paid to issue the British wa Joan of 9325,0Oo,0o0 (approxlmate'. l f1.625. .000.600)