The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-09


felt dollars were found by the police.
Petitions in bankruptcy were filed
by the Krit Motor Car company of
Detroit The liabilities of the motor
car company are said to be SSSl, 233,
with assets of S622,533.
Every sailor passing through the
Panama canal will be given a Bible,
it was stated by James Wood, presi-
dent of the American Bible society.
Details of native uprisings in the
Philippines beginning Christmas eve
were given in a Cablegram received
from Governor-General Harrison at
the war department and made public
by Assistant Secretary Breckenridge.
The report minimiZed the extent of
the trouble, but stated that small bod
les of F'ilipinos had assembled in Ma
Mia and Navotas Christmas eve and
at Laguna De Bay and attempted to
make trouble. As a result 40 men
were arrested and one man was shot
by policeman.
Capt. Oman. commanding the
armored cruiser North Carolina at
Beirut, Syria, informed the navy de-
partment that 1t was a Russian
cruiser and not an American vessel
which threatened TO lombard Tripoli.
Most Rev. Patrick William Riordan.
archbishop of the diocese of San
Francisco of the Catholic church. is
dead.
The gradual withdrawal of federal
troops from the Colorado coal fields,
where they have been on strike duty
since last April, will begin this week,
according TO Gov. Ammons.
Col. Arthur Macarthur. grand mas
Ter OF the encampment. knights Tenn
plar of the United States, died sudden.
ly of apoplexy at Troy, n. Y. He was
81 years old
The Swiss government has decided
10 order partial rehabilitation. &C.
cording to the Petit Parisienne's cor
respondent, who says that about
100000 men will gradually be re-
leased from duty.
The trawler Ocana was sunk by a
mine. Eight men were drowned, only
the second engineer being saved.
When attendants removed the COW
erings from the bed On which Peter
Thanner died at the soldiers home a,
Leayenworth, Kan, they found a to-
bacco box in which was deposited
$1,000.
Legislation designed to prohibit the
expectation OF arms and munitions of
war TO beiligerent nations will be con-
sidered by the house foreign affairs
committee.
Fernando SomeZa Vivas, consul-gen-
eral at San Francisco of the republic
OF Honduras, was arrested on charge
of arson.
Capt. Bill Mcdonald, Go years old,
famous as Texas ranger and former.
ly President Wilson's bodyguard, mar
ried Miss Pearl Wilkinson of Quanah.
Tex.
Eight westbound transcontinental
trains marooned in southern Arizona
by the floods of last week left Phoenix
with 800 passengers, some of whom
had been stalled since Christmas.
III was announced that the Illinois
Central railroad had placed an order
with the American Locomotive com.
pany for so locomotives and the Nick.
ell Plate railroad for Is.
Discovery Of new counterfeit $40
note on the National Park bank Of
New York City was announced. The
counterfeit bears the check letter "E.,
and the portrait of William Mckinley.
Eight locomotives were disabled.
four destroyed and the Duluth round.
house of the Duluth, Winnipeg G Pa
clfic railroad wrecked by fire. The
loss is estimated at s15O.OeO.
Tho Chricfy,ae e1o.z-
NOR is that William Jennings Bryan is
TO retire soon from the cabinet and is
to be succeeded as secretary of state
by William Joel Stone of Missouri
Z. c. Gilbert. Villas general man.
ager of railroads, arrived at Ell Paso
Tex. en- route to Dallas and st. Louis
TO buy and lease 1000 box cars, $50
locomotives and all other rolling
stock he can obtain for the National
lines, which are controlled by Villa.
To promote the foreign commerce
OF the United States the government
VIII go into the newspaper business
Jan. 2 next, when the first issue Of
the Daily Commercial Report is to be |
turned out by the department of COM 7
merce.
Justice Lamar Of the supreme court
granted an appeal from the refusal of
the federal district court for northern.
Georgia to release on habeas corpus
Leo NJ. Frank, under