The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-05-22


which should he present in case the
country decides to go to war. the Ital-
ian cabinet resigned in body.
The national convention OF the So
cialist party will be held in Chicago
the week beginning June II, 1916.
Hearing on the rates and practices
of the express companies was set by
the interstate commerce commission
for May 20 at Washington.
After being out 80 minutes, jury
at Richmond, Mo-, in the trial of
Frank H. Werries, who was charged
with killing Andrew Wilson, found
that Werries acted in self-defense.
Elton Tharpe, II, is held at Carroll
ton. ILL.,, charged with killing Lloyd
Witworth, r. According to the re-
port, he is charged with killing the
Witworth boy because of 14-year-old
girl.
Chicago pays $14S,000,0O0 annually
for intoxicating liquors, according to
federation, which has opened cam
paign to abolish saloons.
One thousand bluejackets from the
Atlantic fleet, now at New York, went
to Paterson, n. j.. to hear Billy Sun
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TRAIL
Orders have been issued to all the
wardens of the Pennsylvania depart
ment of fisheries to install the newly
improved state law prohibiting unnat-
uralized foreign-born residents from
fishing. A similar law prevents them
from hunting.
George ]. Head, who recently re-
signed as captain in the Texas nation
al guard, was arrested at Brownsville.
Tex, charged with conspiracy and
| ENLIGHTENMENT in connection with the
| alleged sale of ordnance of the war
department sent to the Texas nation
al guard.
Owing to the vagaries of the city
hall clock, X. o. Anderson Of DEVILS
Lake, N. D., missed his train several
| weeks ago, was late for his wedding
and his bride refused to marry him.
AS result of the eccentricities of the
timepiece, Anderson asked the city of
Minneapolis for $4,000 damages.
|
The body of Frank Maier, 4S, a
farmer worth $4,000, was found, with
the throat cut, by neighbors. 1t was
lying on the floor of his home. A
razor lay near the body.
Only the walls remained of the
Deutscher Verein and German hotel
| at Victoria, B. c., wrecked inside by a
mob led by uniformed soldiers in re
taliation for the sinking of the Lusi
tania.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
the st. Louis, Iron Mountain & South
ern and the Cotton Belt railroads have
filed a petition in United States dis
trict court asking for an order to re-
strain the Arkansas railroad commits
sion from enforcing the states 2-cent
passenger fares law.
The consensus of opinion of the
Lusitania's survivors is that only five
of her 80 lifeboats were successfully
launched. The officers of the shiI
contend that it was impossible tC
launch the boats until the vessel haG
slowed down.
Camillius P. Macs, for 80 years
bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese
of Covington, KY, died from a compli
cation of diseases. He was 60 years
old.
The case against German Consul
Wilhelm Mueller, accused of conspir
acy to buy business secrets from ar
employee of the Seattle, Wash, Con
struction and Dry Dock Co., was dis
missed in the superior court.
Two additional cases of bubonit
plague in Havana, bringing the toto
to IA since the beginning of the out
break of the disease six weeks ago
are reported.
The Copenhagen Politiken says tina
the first steamer of the season has ar
rived at Archangel, the great seapor
on the north coast of Russia, which
has been closed by ice for months.
]. ]. Haggerty. former president o
the Raymond (Wash.) Trust Co., VIII,
disappeared last December, is unde
arrest at Los Angeles, CAL, on ,
charge of grand larceny.
Although refusing to reduce tn
bond Of the IL Terre Haute electio
fraud conspirators, Judge Anderson Il
federal court here granted the pet
ton for a writ which transferred tn
case to higher court.
The national board OF the Nationa
Woman Suffrage association has is
sued a call for a conference of sui
frage leaders to be held in Chicag
June 6 to 9.