The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-04-03

+, from the deck Of the battleship Ore
gon to San Francisco bay and was
towed to Alcatraz island, four miles
from the anchorage of the war vessel,
oy device Of his invention.
Ioucned by word that George Sav-
age, prisoner in the Minnesota peni.
tentiary, was dying, President Wilson
signed a pardon, and orders immedi-
ately were telegraphed to the warden
10 release the man. Savage, a former
81. Paul realty dealer, was serving a
sentence of five years at st. Paul for
violation of the Mann act.
Jonn Stewart, owner of great tracts
OF tlmper lands throughout the North.
west, is dead at aurora, ILL.,, at the
age of 81 years.
Buster Caldwell, 4 years old. IA
tally shot Russell Standard, aged 3.
through the body while they were
playing with a pistol at Evansville.
Ind.
A fleet OF barges will leave La Sale.
ILL.,, for New Orleans, La, May /. in.
augurating water freight service with
san francisco and other points on
the coast.
Gen. Rene Joseph Delarne, chief of
a DIVISION OF the French army, was
killed when he was struck in the head
Dy bullet on an inspection of a
trench at the front.
Forty-five hundred Villa soldiers
were opposite Mercedes pumping
plant, on their way to Matamoras to
give battle to the constitutionalists.
Vllia currency is being traded here
freely at three Villa dollars for one
Z5-cent piece of United States cur.
rency.
A bill in the Illinois legislature lin.
It's the amount of money a widow and
children can inherit to 100000 and
the amount a childless widow can in
herit to $50,CO0. 1t also permits lille
g1timate children to share equally
with legitimate.
A German Zeppelin attacked the
Russian fortress of Lomza on the
Narew river, the war offices an
nounces. Fourteen bombs were
dropped and nine civilians we're in.
jured.
Sammy Mucoish, aged II, confessed
that he had shot and killed Felix No
venski, also aged IL, near Jackson.
Vile, Ind, recently. He admitted hid.
ing the body in clump of bushes.
AS result Of fight at Big Muddy,
I'LL, Patrick Priest is in the county
jail, probably mortally wounded, and
six other men, slashed with razors
and shot. are in hospitals and eight
others are prisoners.
Walter L. Ross, receiver for the |
Clover Leaf railroad, applied to the
federal court for permission to bor-
row 100000.
A large band Of masked "possum
hunters" armed with shotguns, Wis.
ted the home of Thomas Rockport of
Rockport, KY, and took him and his
son Frederick into a nearby thicket
md whipped them with hickory
switches.
Mrs. Victoria Cadaract, aged los. is
lead in Ottawa county infirmary,
lear Oak Harbor, o. Mrs. Cadaract
vas the last survivor of the native
ohio Indians.
George Ward, charged with the muir.
Ter OF his wife, Mrs. Ward, whose
haired body was found in the ruins
Il the burned home of the family near
Willow Springs, March IL, was dis
harged by Justice R. F. Holloway of
Willow Springs.
The gasoline yacht La Sofa, with
er millionaire owner, Morgan Adams,
is bride OF a month and 10 friends
board, all Of Los Angeles, Cal,
urned six miles off San Pedro.
After dreaming that he saw his
aughter, Mrs. Stella Laird, who had
lsappeared from home recently, on
he steets Of Fort Worth. Tex, ]. T.
IcForums of Waco, Tex, found her.
L
The Vermont legislature passed an
ct providing for eugenic marriages.
fine of $500 is fixed for any person
no weds without fulfilling the re- \
nirements Of the law. {
H. j. Freelich, the Chicago pro- !,
otter who has been in jail at Dam :
lie, I'LL, since his arrest last Decem. :
er, has been released on bond of
$1,000.
Speaker Champ Clark, wife and
cir daughter, Miss Genevieve Clark, u
lrrowly escaped injury when the Il
Vnn Haven hotel, at Pass Christian, Il
as destroyed by fire. d
A vote on the preferences of chill a
en- In the Alton, ILL.,, public schools
to moving picture dramas shows
at the largest number like covhov