The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-11-13

es of Christian America mas an
nounced that Sunday, Nov. IA, will be
day of prayer in behalf of the Ar
menians.
Wesley Ring, the 16-year-oid son OF
P. T. King of Minneapolis, Mimi, is
dead following the eating of an apple
which he had found on the road. The.
boy died from strychnine poisoning.
"The reports in the foreign newspa-
pers that Prince Won Buelow has been
entrusted with the preparation of
peace negotiations are absolutely in
correct" says the Overseas news
agency.
The American schooner Frederick
A. Dugan brought to New York about
400 young men from Ireland, many of
whom say they had left home to avoid
conscription.
Complete returns of the town elec-
ton of Bolton, Conn, reveal that Mrs.
Finley, the winning candidate, ran on
the Republican ticket, while her hus-
band, F. d. Finley, was a candidate
on the Democratic ticket, but he also
was elected.
"The kaiser has disgraced Admiral
Won Tirpitz." A Central News dis
patch quotes the above statement.
George NJ. Sternberg. United States
army, retired, formerly surgeon-gen-
eral of the army, is dead at his home
in Washington.
Miss Bertha Chatkin of Chicago
died at a hospital in Pontiac of in
juries suffered when her automobile
was struck by a Chicago & Alton
train.
Returns show that the single tax
amendment to the city charter of
Pueblo, Colo, was repealed in election
by a small majority.
The death of Chief Surgeon Perre-
non of the German cruiser Kronprinz
Wilhelm, interned, was announced.
Heart failure was the cause.
The steamer British Prince, $40
tons, from Cape Town to Luderitz-
bucht, German Southwest Africa, is
ashore on Possession island.
The Argentine delegates to the sec
ond Pan-American Scientific congress,
which will meet at Washington Dec.
| 27, will leave Buenos Aires Nov. Is.
risen to $50 a ton, arrangements are
being made to import coal from Japan,
where it is obtainable at six yen (S3)
a ton.
The trial of Daniel Hurley, 19 years
old, charged with the murder of Cath
crime Roller, II, of Broadwell, has be-
gun in Logan county, Illinois, circuit
| court.
DR.. Francisco Bertrand was elected
president of Honduras. He resigned
the presidency last July in order to
be eligible as a candidate.
Fire following an explosion in a
three-story lodging house at Brooklyn
resulted in the death of 13 people.
Following the withdrawal of Ameri
cans from the trenches on the border
Villa made his fifth unsuccessful at
tack on the Carranza garrison at Aqua
Prieta.
Glass, baked in bread, caused the
death of Mrs. Mary E. Smith of Red
Lion, Pa.
A dispatch from Athens giving de
tails of the sinking of the British
transport Marquette by German sub
marine says the undersea boat fired
on the lifeboats.
A unique and picturesque plan fol
labelling by means of khaki bras
sieres those fit and unfit for military
service is announced by the English
war office.
The business section of Columbi
ana, Ala, a town of 1000 population
and county seat of Shelby county
has been destroyed by fire.
Fire in the plant of the W. F. Job
bins Chemical company, Aurora, Ill.
which manufactures glycerin for u.s.
in high explosives, caused damag'
estimated at 100000
DR.. Thomas Adds and Ralph X
Blair, both of San Francisco, convict
ed of violating the neutrality of tn,
United States, were fined $1,000 each
It was announced at the Whit
House that the marriage of Presiden
Wilson and Mrs. Norman Calf woult
take place near the close Of Decem
ber"
Sir Frederick Edward Smith ha
been appointed to succeed Sir Edwar,
Carson as attorney general of the Brit
ish cabinet