The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-06-26


John f. Redmond, the IRISH Nation
alist leader, is suffering from pto-
! maine poisoning
| An inventory filed here of the prop
! erty mentioned in the will of the late
Mrs. Frank Leslie showed that nearly
$1,500,000 will be turned over to Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait for the use of
the suffrage cause.
One hundred and forty-two new ca
diets were admitted to the West Point
military academy, the new men COM
prising the "plebe" class.
The Exchange Telegraph company
has received message from Berlin
giving the information that Count Yep
pelin is seriously ill with bronchitis.
William J. Bryan denied story
sent out from Toronto that he had
made personal contribution of $500
for elevation of distress among in
termed Germans"
|
The German submarine U-21 sank
the Lusitania, according to the Elsi-
more, Denmark, correspondent of the
Evening Star. :
Carrying $50 refugees from Mexico,
the United States transport Buford is
at quarantine.
Gov. Dunno re-appOinted DR.. c. st.
Clair Drake secretary of the state
board of health.
The British press bureau issued an
official denial of a report current in
the United States that the British bat
tleship Agamemnon was sunk at the
Dardanelles.
Former President Taft delivered the
principal address at the Wellesley
college commencement. The class of
290 young women was the largest ever
graduated from Wellesley.
A confession of the stabbing to
death of Thack Wright, private of
Company c, Twenty-third infantry.
was made at Texas. City, Tex, by
Frank NJ. White, a business man, who
found his wife in the soldiers tent.
The Illinois house passed, 104 to 1,
the Lyle bill. "a substitute for the pres
ent child delinquency act. The bill
provides a fine of 5000, imprisonment.
in Jail for one year or both, for per-
sons taking a male child under IL
years of age or a female child under
Is into resorts, policy shops, pool
rooms, saloons or gambling rooms.
Sam Stephens, a negro, was taken
from the Stephens county (Ga.) Jail
by a mob Of more than 100 armed
men and hanged to a nearby tree.
Miss Harriet A. Graham has been
retired on a pension by the board of
education of Pittsburg, Pa, after SO
years service in the schools.
| The supreme court held as consti-
tutional an Illinois law compelling
railroads to furnish cars within rea-
sonable time after freight is offered.
| Aroused at some statements TheO-
dore Roosevelt is alleged to have
made against Germany. the Roosevelt
ciety in Milwaukee, Wis, voted unani-
!, mously to change it's name. In the
; future it will be known as the Steu.
ben Verein G. U. G. Germania-
Pope Benedict has informed Austria
that should a hostile air raid result in
damage to church property in Rome
or to residences of dignitaries the
Vatican would consider it grave in
} cident.
Miss Mona McAdoo, daughter of the
secretary of the treasury, has return
, ed to New York from France, where
, she has been nursing wounded sol
| diers. - ....
! Villa and Angeles now are open enc
! mics, each accusing the other OF COW
, ardice in first retreating at Leon.
Compulsory military service is pro
vided for in a proposed amendment
introduced in the New York constitu
; tional convention.
Baron Ernst Won Saalfeld, 10 years
old, son of Prince Ernst of Saxe-Mein
ingen, has fallen in battle.
, BY vote of Is to %, the Illinoi!
: senate defeated the Canaday bill pro
r viding for the abolition of capital pun
3 ishment.
Arthur L. Vissers of Los Angeles
Cal, was married to Miss Myrtl,
:. Bush, thereby complying with thu
: terms of will by which he is to in
herit $4,000. t-,' .--
= Seventeen spies have been captures
: in Belgium within the last few days
q Eight were executed, six sentence
to seven years each.
q Oleomargarine frauds that have cos