The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-05-29
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WOULD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News Combinations Re-
viewed Without Comment-AIl
Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify and Instruct.

A war order representing bushes!
of $4,000 a day was refused by the
Union Steam Pump company, Battle
Creek, Mich.
The evacuation of Saltillo by the
Villa troops and the city's occupation
by forces of the Eulalio Guiterres fac
ton is reported.
Miss Jane Adams, American suf
frage and peace leader, formally pre-
scented to Herr Won Jagow, the Ger
man foreign secretary, the copy of the
resolutions ad opetdb1 1886 1894 I
resolution adopted by the Women's
Peace congress at The Hague.
His hearers had chosen woman's
second best profession, DR.. Wiley told
the members of a nurses graduating
class at Washington, but he declared
marriage was the best one.
The Northern aBptist convention, In
session at Los Angeles, Cal, adopted a
motion to send a message to President
Wilson expressing admiration for the
wisdom with which the complications
of the European war have been met.
The average young woman student
at the University of Illinois spends
$173 a year for her clothes, the lowest
spent by any student being $50 and
the highest $500.
The London Telegraph states it has
information from an absolutely relia-
BILE source that the German crown
princess is about to break with her
husband and leave Berlin for Russia,
her native country.
"Honus' Wagner, the veteran short
stop of the Pittsburg Pirates, lost his
job as a member of the Pennsylvania
fisheries commission. He was ap-
pointed by Tener, but Brumbaugh
failed to reappoint him.
Editors of labor publications of
America have gone on record as not
opposing prohibition.
James Morrison Darnell, Kenosha
(Wis.) marrying minister" was SEN
fenced to serve three years in prison.
Darnell was convicted of violating the
Mann law.
Charging that she was maintaining
q gambling establishment, the New
York police raided the apartment of
Josephine Moffitt, who claims to be
the Princess of Thurn and Texts, ar
resting her and about 20 guests.
Clarence Dewein of Belleville, ILL.,,
was declared by jury at Benton,
Ark, to be sane, in a verdict returned
by the jury. Dewein's execution is
set for June s.
An announcement was made by the
Smithsonian institution that DR..
Charles G. Abbot has just been award
ed the Rumford medal by the Ameri-
IAN Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Six families were thrown into panic
when bomb Of exceptional power ex-
,loded in the hallway of threestory
.hree-flat building in the heart of the
Italian district, Chicago.
Mrs. Polly Anne Weed Strodes, aged
70. who has been married Is times, an
bounced she would seek a divorce
rom Harrison Strodes, aged 81, and
ssoon as she obtained it would mar
y her fourteenth husband.
A coroner's jury returned a verdict
" "willful murder" against Emperor
William in the case of John Smith,
Who died as the result Of shock fol-
owing recent Zeppeli nraid.
Austrian unemployed numbering
20, who arrived here from Manitoba,
we're taken in charge by Canadian
and sent to the alien pris-
IN camp at Brandon, Man, for intern
nent.
Emperor Yoshihito of Japan, who
opened the diet, expressed
he hope that deliberations would be
in a spirit of harmony that
would assist in bringing about the
'assage of needed laws.
Lieut. c. M. Lyman of the Fourth
,avalry of the United States army.
whose skull was fractured in a col
ision with Walter Dillingham; in a
same of polo. is dead.
President Allan P. Hawley of the
Zero Club Of America announced that
public subscription had been started
" the governors of that club to &C.
luire bonds with which to purchase a
quadron Of aeroplanes for the use of
militia Of each state in this country.
The Merritt bill, designed to break
- the so-called tip trust" was
'assed by the lower house of the leg.
stature. The measure prohibits the
easing Of cloakrooms. shoe-shining
lands, Mushrooms and other public
laces for obtaining gratuities.
A print shop for the publication of
monthly magazine for the blind will
% opened in Jacksonville, Ill.
Oscar Wilde's son, Cyril, is among
hose reported killed at the front. He