The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-04-24

John Bunny of New York. the popu.
lar moving picture comedian, who
was seriously i'll as the result of
overwork, is reported much improved.
The estate of the late Baron Roths-
child was Professionally sworn for pro-
bate at e2,50O,0O0 (s12,5OO, ,OOO) =.
Baron Rothschild died in London
March "a.
The "low brow" faction of Sing
Sing convicts is agitating a recall
election Of Mayor w. j. Cummins,
bank swindler, of the civic prison ad.
ministration.
Harry X. Thaw, slayer of Stanford
White. lost in the supreme court, ap-
pellate division, his fight to be re-
turned to New Hampshire. He must
return to Matteawan.
The Western Grain Dealers associ-
alton. comprising prominent grain
men OF Iowa and Nebraska, held a
two days convention at Omaha.
Accused OF threatening to kill Vim.
cent Astor IL he should refuse to com.
ply with a demand fer $500, John
Meriella was arrested at the Grand
Central terminal, New York, on com.
plant Of Astor's business agent, VII.
liam A. Dobbyn.
George Brogan, an amateur boxer,
died IN hospital from the effects of
blow over the heart in a boxing
match at the Loughlin lyceum in ST.
Cecilia's Roman Catholic church in
Brooklyn.
Amended 30 drestically that even
Its author voted against it, the
Straight statewide prohibition bill
was killed by the Michigan senate.
Since the opening of the Panama
canal the expenditures have been ap-
proximately 10 per cent in excess OF
the revenue, due to the high cost Of
maintenance and operation of the wa
teEway.
An official statement authorized by
the Japanese embassy here, character
lied as "preposterous," reports that q
naval base had been established in
Turtle Bay, Lower California.
Railroad detectives are securing
the woods three miles north of VIM
cennes, Ind, for supposed train wreck.
ers who attempted to wreck the north
bound Dixie limited on the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois railway.
The petition Of the men convicted
of election frauds at Terre Haute, for
a reduction Of the bonds under which
they. were held, was denied in the
United States circuit court of appeals.
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, California's
novelist was much improved, accord.
ing to Or. Edmond Dvol, her physi.
clan.
T. Cummins Lucas, undertaken run
ming for election as a city councilman
at Passaic, N. j., will present a coffin
to each Of 81 candidates he defeated.
A British military bandsman, who
suffered aphasia when buried by a
shell explosion at Ypres, recovered
his memory by reading a sheet of
music placed ON his bed. =
Alarmed over reports that the Car
negie foundation is bankrupt, John
Mund of Chicago is going to sue Ski
bo's laird for 81 he says he loaned the
steel king 81 years ago.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt was ope-
rated on successfully at the Roosevelt
hospital. Surgeons refused to disclose
the nature of the malady.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Peters said that a definite period-in
neutrality's interests he would not say
how long-had been fixed for the
Kronprinz Wilhelm to repair and
leave American waters or intern.
W. G. c. Gladstone, grandson of the
late William e. Gladstone, and a men,
Der Of parliament from Kilmarnock,
has been killed in action.
Frederick M. Smith of st. Joseph,
Mo-, was elected president of the re-
organized Church of the Latter Day
Saints to succeed the late Joseph |
Smith.
Two navy aeroplanes are being
built by the government for the Cleve-
land aeronautic corps of the United |
States naval militia.
The bodies of Mrs. Luther A. Leon
ard and her four children were found |
In the family home in Spokane, Wash.
They had been poisoned.