Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-05-05

for passage by the industrial affairs commission of the Illinois house, the Mccormick bill, limiting the number of working hours for women to nine, and the Kane bill, providing for one days rest in every seven.
 The United States army transport Buford has left for Colon with AS passengers, all officers and men of the army.
 A long series of alleged discrimina- .Cions against soldiers and sailors at public amusement places in Washing ton eliminated in police court trial in which the owner of a dancing school was fined $10 because he re- fused to admit trooper in uniform from Fort Myer.
 It is announced that Jesus college, at Oxford England, has decided to bar alcoholic beverages while the war continues. Similar action has been taken by Oriel
 Ida Bonora, ballet dancer of Milan, Italy, known in private life as Mrs. Mari Lambardi, wife of the grand opera impresario is dead at Portland Ore, from poison taken after she learned her husband had dropped dead
 Secretary Houston has started west to visit national forests, to observe to what extent their timber, forage, graz ing and water power resources are being developed.
 Geraldine Farrar of the Metropoli- tan opera company has signed con tract to act for motion picture veF- sions of some operas in which she has sung.
 An average price of $250 was re- ceived for 90 pure-bred Shorthorn cat tie from farms of Missouri and Kan sas at the annual sale of the Central Shorthorn Breeders association in Kansas City.
 Six hundred acres of wheat have been destroyed by crickets in the Will son Creek section of Grant county, Wash.
 Two firemen were seriously injured and nine others overcome by smoke when the St. Paul (Minn) public li- brary practically was destroyed by fire.
 Among the 50 passengers on the steamship City of Tampico, which ar rived at Galveston from Vera Cruz and Tampico, was Phil E. McCleary, the American newspaper man recent ly sentenced to death by Carranza
 Frederick w. Seward, who was the last survivor of those who took an 1865, when President Lincoln was shot at Ford's theater by John Wilkes Booth is dead at Auburn, N. Y.
 Capt. Geddes, once prominent on the Chicago Board of Trade, and recently in command of a company of Cana. dian troops in France, was killed in action in the course of recent fighting
 The lower house of the Florida leg islature rejected a resolution to sub- nit an equal suffrage amendment to the voters in 1916.
 It was announced at the White House that the president would be unable to attend the Southern Com mercial Congress at Mukogee, Ok.
 Landwehrman who was wounded 47 times and in whose body there are still IS pieces of shrapnel is recov. ering at hospital at Konigsberg. Joseph Benson Foraker, Jr, son oi former Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio died in his cottage at Manhattan Beach, N. Y. He had been ill si1 months.
 Miss Alexandra Legeray, a member of Cossack regiment, has been pro noted to a lieutenant.
 A dry nation by 1920 was the pre- .diction of Oliver w Stewart, former member of the Illinois legislature, who closed the campaign of the flying squadron in Hannibal, Mo-, with an address before 2,500 persons.
 Charles Burnham, 45. of Arden, N Y., was fatally burned when he stun bled against the railing of the steps of his home and ignited a box ol matches in his pocket.
 At the point of a hat pin Miss Anna Goldsmith, IS, of New York, took two young men to police station for pass ing remarks about her new hat.
 The trawler Envoy, which was sup posed to have been sunk by German submarine. was brought safely into the Tyne.