Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-05-12
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An arbitration award advanced to some extent the rates of pay of 64,000 locomotive engineers, firemen and hostlers employed on the 140,000 miles of the lines of 9S western rail roads in the United States.
 Included in the latest list of officers killed at the front is the name of Brig adler General Riddell, commander of the Northumberland fusilIiers' bri- gade.
 After forcing neighbor woman to write his will, Harvey Gilgert of Violo, H., 30 years old, shot and killed him. self in the woman's presence.
 A suit to recover alimony of $100 month awarded to the divorced wife of Lloyd Osbourne was filed against the estate of Mrs. Robert Louis Stew enson in San Francisco. She is said to have guaranteed payment.
 Hector Ramos, head of Villas se- cret service corps, announces that all Mexican consuls in the United States will be dismissed.
 Patrick J. Hart of Springfield, H., former secretary of the state board of labor statistics, was indicted by the Sangamon county grand jury on a charge of embedding $4,50O from the state of Illinois.
 John Carroll, formerly of Missouri, has arrived in Washington from Pan anna. Mir. Carroll said the great con- meeting link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans would be self-sustain- ing by the end of the year.
 Six hundred acres of wheat have been destroyed by crickets in the Will son Creek section of Grant county, Wash.
 The annual convention of the Amer ican Hotel Protective Association of the United States and Canada is in session at Houston, Tex.
 Ochelata, a small town 10 miles south of Bartlesville, Ok, was hit by cyclone and considerable property damage was caused.
 Gen. Hughes, minister of militia, an- nounces that if the German authori- ties carry out their sentence of death upon Private Lonsdale of Leeds for having struck a German officer in German prison camp there will be re- prisals in Canada. Gen. Hughes stated that as soon as he learns that the Germans have executed Lonsdale he will order three Germans prisoners at Kingston courtmartialed and shot.
 Angus w. Mckenzie of Sedalia, Mo-, was married to Mrs William A. Moore, who was formerly Mrs McKen- zie, but had divorced him some time ago.
 May 14 was fixed for hearing in the hearing suit of Mrs. Florence Weeks of Scranton. Pa, against Vir- ginius J. Mayo, who came into public notice several months ago after the death of his stenographer, Lillian Cook.
 The United States circuit court of at Chicago denied the motion of attorneys for the convicted Terre Haute politicians for a reduction in their bail bonds.
 Sixty-four vessels of the United States navy will take part in the na- val review that will be held at New York May IS.
 The body of 6-year-old Adam Woj- dix was found propped against tele- phone pole in an east side alley in the rear of his home at Milwaukee, Wis. The boy disappeared Sunday night.
 Charles c. Shor, one of the three Americans who were killed when a German submarine torpedoed the United States steamer Gulf Light, for merly was a wireless operator on lake boats.
 The London Daily News says the budget statement of Lloyd George has been introduced in the house. It will be a provisional budget on the as- sumption that the war will last throughout the fiscal year 1915-16.
 A novel use of the aeroplane Is un- der consideration by owners of seal ing vessels. as a result of the failure of the seal hunt this year. It is pro- posed that two experienced aviators be engaged to visit the east coast and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, respective ly, just before the opening of the next season and locate the herds.
 Dr. Maude Slye, the University of Chicago medical research worker, was awarded the Howard Taylor Ricketts prize by the faculty of the university medical school