The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-08-21

Fearing her husband, a private in |
Company NJ, United States infantry, |
would be sent into Mexico, Mrs. John |
Greene Of Chicago, 20 years old. swal-
lowed mercury tablets.
The London Gazette announces tnat
Sir David Beatty has been promoted
10 be vice-admiral He is the hus-
band Of Marshall Fields daughter and
is As years old.
Sudre Dartinguenave, president OF
the senate. was elected president Of
Haiti by the national assembly.
e. Z. Wilson was shot and instantly
killed at Starkville, Miss, by w. A.
Thomas, who resented Wilson's atten-
tons to his sister, Roma Thomas.
Special Judge Eichorn of Bluffton
sustained all but five minor counts OF
the 48 indictments against Thomas
Taggart, Democratic national commit
teeman.
George H. Guthrie, United States
ambassador to Japan, accompanied by
his wife and niece, Miss Laura Wsrtz,
left for San Francisco to sail for
Japan.
The White Star line steamship
Adriatic, which sailed from New York
Aug. with large cargo of war sup
plies, arrived at Liverpool Aug. IL
r. c. Cunningham, a city fireman.
entered n crowded cafeteria in Los
Angeles, shot Miss Flora Sanders, an
employe, twice and then fired three
bullets into his own body.
Eugene Morris, a constable at Uni
versal, Ind, mining town, was shot
in the back by an unidentified man
and died in hospital
]. A. Oxley, postmaster at Kenwood,
Ia, has been removed from office by
Postoffice Inspector Griffin as the re-
suit o robbery at the postofice re-
Gently.
When Arthur Vei,ch of Maizie, Ok,
boarded train six weeks ago for a
honeymoon trip some of his friends
tried to pull him from the train plat
form. Veitch resisted and in the strug-
gle ligaments about his heart were
torn. He is dead as a result of his in
juries.
Several Russian battleships are re.
ported trapped in the Gulf of Riga
:.-
A Zeppelin flew over the fort at
Ust-Dvinst and dropped many bombs
German aeroplanes attack Riga every
day.
The Milwaukee Merchants and Man
ufacturers' association has decided to
try to secure the Democratic national
convention for Milwaukee.
The Rockford & Interurban Co. of
fered its capital stock to the city
council.
Capt. Percy Archer Give a member
of parliament for Herefordshire, ha.
been seriously wounded In Flanders.
The American consul at Cork re
ports that the body Of M. W. Harvey
a Lusitania passenger, washed ashor,
on small island off the Irish coast.
The Guggenheims' American Smelt
ing and Refining Company returned II
, the federal government $I12,766.SS fl
| money and returned to government
entry 3,476 acres Of valuable coal lant
the company had operated under falls,
entry.
Three convicts have escaped from
the federal prison at Leavenworth
Kan.
Hugo Kempff, 60, founder of the re
ligious sect knows as Government b!
God," killed himself by inhaling illu
minating gas at his home on GardeI
street, haywood, N. ].
Villas forces in Durango have suf
fered a severe defeat and are retirin,
toward Torreon.
c. G. Stafford. former cashier Of
state bank in Kansas City, Kan, wa.
arrested in connection with the EN-
bezzlement from the bank Of $4,000
Actual work Of raising the Eastlan,
has begun. The hulk of the ship hai
been pumped dry and divers went un
derneath the vessel to attach chain.
and hawsers.
II Roumania continues her prepara
tions for war, having already calle,
to the colors three more classes o
reserves than were summoned for tn,
Balkan mobilization of 1913.
The%American answer to Germany
latest note on the Frye case has beel
sent to President Wilson at Cornish.
Lee Osborn, 20 years old, was acct
dentally shot and killed by Harr.
Lawson, IL, at Mt. Vernon, Ill.
Alfred s. Woolf. 6s years old, pic
neer merchant, is dead at Kansas City