The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-03-27

Breaking into the home of George
". Carlaw, at Aberdeen, S. D., author
ties found his wife and 16-year-old
laughter murdered. Carlaw has been
missing for some time.
The body of Miss Jessie Traub, ste
who disappeared Feb. 6,
was found in the Cuyahoga river, at
o. A flatiron was suspend
ed from her neck by handkerchief.
An information charging perjury
was filed in Denver, Colo, by District
Attorney John A. Rush against Will
liam w. Rowland of Denver, a men, |
Der of the Colorado house Ct repre- |
sentatives.
Gen. Joffre, the French commander,
has sent letter to Mrs. Clara Wash
ington Lopp of New York thanking
her for the large supply of tobacco
she gathered for distribution among
the French soldiers.
Notices have been posted at all OF
the Dupont Powder company plants
throughout the country announcing
that beginning April each employee
will receive an advance of 20 per cent
in his wages.
How he cut off his own hand at the
wrist with a pen knife, after being
caught In the cogs of an electric
pump, was told here by Wallace E.
Rittenhouse, who is suing the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron company for
S35, 900 damages at Denver. Ritten-
house claimed the place where the
electric pump was located was badly
lighted. It was his duty to oil the
pump. He slipped on a car wheel,
catching in the gear of the pump.
Held fast, he drew his knife and sew
cred his hand at the wrist.
| Sheriff Wooley of Tulsa, Ok, has
stored in his office in the courthouse
liquors valued at more than $4,000,
which he obtained in a single raid on
resort.
After being convicted at his first
trial and sentenced to 10 years In the
penitentiary, F. M. Douglas, farmer,
was acquitted Of a charge Of murder
at Alton, Ill.
United States Senator Lawrence Y.
Sherman of Illinois was Endorsed for
the Republican nomination for presi-
dent of the United States in 1916 by
the Sangamon county Republican Gen.
trail committee.
Newton C. Dougherty, former Pc
oria educator, convicted of embezzle-
ment of school funds, reached the
Joliet penitentiary at 9 o'clock Satur-
day and five minutes past 10 long
distance telephone message from Gov,
Dunno made him free man.
Mayor Curley of Boston forced
young society women in a classic
dance at woman suffrage benefit te
wear stockings. He said bare fee
and legs were shocking"
The Twenty-ninth United States in
I fantry marched up Broadway, New
, York, behind bands playing popula
| airs, between tens of thousands whit
! lined the streets, boarded the trans
port Buford and departed for Panama
!. Joseph z. Vance. a retired bushes
1 - Dnf oh in
for the killing Of A. ]. Krause, a fol
mer friend, was acquitted of tn
= charge of murder, the defense bein
a the "unwritten law"
The officers of the Italian genera
: staff have tested the new 305-mill
meter (12-inch) siege cannon and sa
they find them to be excellent gun!
8 SURPRISING in exactness and range tn
+ famous Austrian cannon.
e The steamer Blonde, arriving in tn
l. Tyne, reported that she was attacke
r by a German taube and that one men
Der of her crew was killed.
4 The Persian cabinet, headed by Pr
y mier Ala Els Sultanesh, has resigne'
T. Controversies over the policy Persi
B. should adopt with reference to til
invasion of her soil by Russian, Turl
ish and British troops are said to hay
!. caused the split.
:, Standard Oil clerks and officers al
- to have a 100000 private roof garde
restaurant at rs Broadway, New Yor
a. Mystery surrounds the death
u Mrs. Clara Brerton, IS years old,
Springfield, Mo-, whose body W,
found on the floor Of her home by
N neighbor. The head and face we
al mutilated. Near the body were sc
TX eral small coins.
h. -
1T The Seattle chamber Of CONNER
has received cable advices that
party of 30 prominent Chinese mt
IN chants, bankers and officials W
"A make a Today, 11.000-mile tour Of t
ne United States this spring.
The jury brought in q verdict
l.. guilty of manslaughter in the case
which Jerry Johnson killed Absal
Dyson at Bloomington, Ill.
i'd Edward F. Burch. 40 years old.