The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-03-20
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FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For
eign Countries Are Here Given
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Busy Readers.

Busy heaoerA
Mrs. Dorcas Brazzell of Dubuque,
Ia, convicted of the murder of her
husband at her first trial, about a
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 ]. 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
]. 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 s cents loaf wholesale and
from 5 cents to cents retail, has
taken place.
Arthur Smith, an aviator, before the
members of the American Association
Of Fairs and Expositions, assembled in
his biplane over the lake front in Chi
cago and turned 80 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 its 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 100000, growing out Of the shoot
ing OF strikers at Roosevelt, n. j., by
The guards OF the chemical plant on
Jan. 10, were filed against the Ameri-
can Agricultural Chemical company.
One policeman dead, two probably
MORALLY wounded and fourth police
man and two citizens slightly injured
Is the result of q running pistol battle
here with two men who were trying
:. to escape arrest as suspicious charac-
tiers. Both firslly were captured aft
er one Of the mhad been shot twice
y and slightly wounded.
The annual meeting of the Missis-
sippi Valley Suffrage conference at
Indianapolis has adjourned. A peace
meeting" was 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 Is.
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 108, follow
ing the recovery Of 13 bodies.
darkness, the big Lusitania, from New
York. reached Liverpool, extraordi-
nary precautions having been taken
to guard against German submarines.
The Lusitania carried AIS passengers,
Of whom 120 were in the first cabin.
Charles Taylor, an old.time burglar
xvxh
years in the Chester and Joliet peni-
tentiaries in Illinois, thinks now that
he Is entitled to a 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.
II is reported that Mrs. Florence
Carman, released by a hung jury in
her first trial on the charge 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.
A dispatch from Copenhagen to the
huou Doiy Mall says SeTnldny mas
mobilized the elephants in Hagen
backs menagerie and has sent them
to valencienne for work in heavy
hauling.
Lieut--G Tchinosuke Okla, minis
ter Of war. and Viscount Yoshimichi
Hasegawa, chief of staff of the Japa,
nese army, went from Toxic to Hay
ANA 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 shivering
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 had
been paid to issue the British war
loan of sS25.o00,O0O approximately
s1.625. oOO. O00).