The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-06-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News CONVERSATIONS Ne
viewed Without Commep2-Ah
Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify and Instruct.

A brutal baby murder case came to
light when the body OF 2-month-old
girl baby was washed ashore from the
damage canal near Lemont, Ill.
Minister of Munitions Lloyd-George
eminent is sending "a prominent bust
ness man" to the United States to dis
cuss the whole subject of American
and Canadian war contracts.
Joseph H. Peterson, attorney-gen-
eral of Idaho, was acquitted of
charge Of completely in embezzle-
ments from the state treasury.
The proposed employment of wom-
en- as bus and tram car conductors
for Birmingham, Eng, has. been aban-
doned.
The reconstruction of the district of
Colon, Panama Zone, which was de-
stroyed in the great conflagration of
April 80, has begun.
It was learned from authoritative
sources that Len Small of Kankakee,
Ill. will be elected president of the
state board of agriculture
Plans are announced by the Ford
Motor Car company to establish
plant on the Detroit river below River
Rouge to manufacture all the steel
which it will use for making parts for
automobiles.
Mabel Hammond, aged &c, died in
Harlan, Kan, as the result of a stom-
och ailment. She weighed 500 pounds.
President Wilson viii announce his
selection of successor to former Sec
rotary of State Bryan upon his return,
shortly after July 4, from his vacation
trip to Cornish, N. H.
Because the purchase contract was
not ready to be submitted, the board
of directors of the Detroit United Rail-
ways company adjourned until June
80.
The Nashville, Tenn, scandal over
the disappearance of the city books
had a new sensation when it became
known that ]. B. West, Jr., assistant
treasurer, was unaccounted for and
his whereabouts unknown.
The American dollar is now worth
more than 100 cents. The drop in
sterling exchange to s4.76as makes
the American bill represent a value of
$1.O2A in English coin.
A report of Joseph z. Davies, COM
missioner of corporations on trust
laws and unfair competition, made
several months ago, was given out in
Washington. 1t draws special atten-
ton to the difference in the treatment
of trade monopolies and combinations
between the United States and GER
tain foreign countries. Mr.. Davies
urges that state laws regarding COM
petition be made more uniform The
federal laws on the subject are now
quite satisfactory.
Mrs. Frank BetZ was hit by an in.
terurban, car at Harrisburg, ILL.,, and
killed instantly. This was the first
serious accident since the street car
system was installed.
Alva B. Johnson, president of the
Baldwin locomotive works, said he
had received a cable message from
the Russian government awarding a
contract to the company for ESQ loco
motives. The order amounts to
$4,000, 900.
Arbitration of the strike of 10000
union carpenters which has tied UP
building operations in Chicago since
April 1 has begun.
Servian troops who invaded Albania
have occupied the city of Elbassan
and are moving westward along the
Scumbi river toward the Adrfatic
Their advance guard is less than &c
miles from the sea.
Leaders of 10000 striking painters
have refused to permit a referendum
vote to be taken on the new proposal
submitted by the employers for a set
Element of the strike in Chicago.
Miss Katie Freddie, 20 years old
Of Greenfield, Mo-, is charged with be
ing an accessory in the murder of hel
child, an infant, whose dead body wa.
found one night last September.
The British steamer Toftwood from
Galveston, May Is, via Newport News
May "a, for Havre, has arrived a
Cherbourg with fire in her cargo.
An investigation into the boiler ez
plosion on the torpedo boat destroye
Bailey in Chesapeake bay, four mile
out of Annapolis, was ordered by tn
navy department.
Anti-war riots are reported to hav
broken out in Constantinople. Gel
man soldiers were attacked In tn
streets by Turks.
The Evangelical Lutheran Orphans
home at Hoyleton, Ill, was destroye
by fire started from defective flue.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the Der
yer Juvenile court is charged with cor
tempt Of court by John Rush, distric