The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16


Complete returns from 13 camps in
dicate the adoption of the Rockefeller
industrial plan by employees of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company BIZ 4
ratio of at least 5 to l. The total vote
recorded was: For. 1880. against,
23O.
Frank o. Lowden declares that he
would exercise his authority to close
saloons on Sunday throughout Illinois
if he should be elected governor by
the Republicans.
Official reports at Juarez state that
Gen. Rosalio Hernandez. who was re-
ported TO have reyolted against Villa,
was shot by his own men.
1t is reported from Bombay that a
great fire occurred in cotton ware
houses, causing a loss of $4,000. .00O.
A bread knife thrown in fit OF
anger by Frances ZimDa, years old.
caused the death of her 5-month-old
sister at Huntsville, Wis
When the shovel he was carving
over his shoulder acted as a lightning
! rod, Angelo Deli. - years old. was
killed at Walla Walla, Wash, during
an electrical storm.
While the main part of = Atlantic
fleet is engaged in war maneuyers
along the whole Atlantic coast. a de-
tachment of torpedo boat destroyers
was detailed to participate in a mimic
attack on the coast defenses of Bos-
| ton.
! Because Samuel Drinan of New
! York refused TO pay for $3.50 worth
| of cigars, Albert S Hartley, a cigar
manufacturer, levied upon his donkey
| TO satisfy the debt
| Secretary of Commerce Redfield Sis
pended without pay Charles Eckliffe
! and Robert Reid, the government
| steamboat inspectors under indict-
ment at Chicago in connection with
the Eastland disaster.
| Prof. Sola, director of the observa-
tory at Barcelona university, has an
nounced that he discovered Sept. Is
a new planet in the Pisces consteIla-
ton.
Twenty-Five former convicts who
served their time in Auburn or Sing
Sing prisons set an unusual precedent
by giving dinner to Thomas NJ. Os-
borne, warden of Sing Sing.
death and her daughter. Mrs Robert
E. Preble, was so badly burned that
she may die, when their home was de-
stroyed by fire at Chicago.
Despondent over the depression OF
his stock and bond business, C. C. Nc
Donald, widely known Raleigh On. CT
stock and bond broker, took his life at
the Raleigh Country club.
The Lokal Anzeiger publishes a dis
patch from Constantinople saying that
the British consul and the consular
guards at Ispahan have been killed by
Persians.
The Washington navy yard machin-
lists have won their fight for increased
wages. Beginning Oct. 9, a new scale
of wages, with increases ranging from
SO to SO cents a day, goes into effect.
Mrs. Eleanor Elkns Widener of
Philadelphia, widow of George d.
Widener, who was lost on the Titanic,
was married to DR.. Alexander Hamil-
ton Rice.
Charles Flueter, night counter man
in the railroad eating house at Mis-
souri, Valley, Ia, quit his job to be
married in order to qualify for a le-
gacy Of $4,000 left to him by an un-
Gle in New York City on condition he
should marry before Oct. 1.
Otto Buckner was killed at Benton,
H., by switch engine while attempt
ing to board an Illinois Central train.
The $4,000, 900 Arrow Rock dam, at
boise. Idaho, has been dedicated
| A vigorous campaign to defeat the
proposed new constitution OF New
York state, declaring that 1t tends to-
ward aristocracy. was decided upon
by the executive council of the state
federation of labor.
Three dwellings were DESTROYED and
one side of hill was washed away
when one wall of the reservoir for the
storage of the Portsmouth, O., water
supply collapsed.
Or. Frederick A. Cook, who left San
Francisco in June to climb Mount
Everest, in the Himalayas, was ar
rested in Rangoon, Burma, as a Ger
man spy.
President Wilson practically has de-
cided not to call a special session OF
the senate before the meeting of con-
gress.
Rev. ]. w. d. Hunt, So years old.
died at the home of his son, William
Hunt, at Polo, Mo. Hhe was a Bap-
tist minister for so years.