The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-20

ToOmng mousse. ring anu anOtner ok-
ficer attempted to arrest two Mext-
cans charged with robbing box cars.
To inspect little postoffice in far
away Guam, which pays its postmaster
only $125 a year, is the object of a
$4,000 mile journey which Postoffice
Inspector E. P. Smith is making.
There is no confirmation of the re-
port sent via Genoa that one of Count
ven Zeppelin's latest dirigibles has
been missing for four days and is be-
lieved to have fallen into the sea.
The Texas house has passed the
senate dishwashing bill, requiring eat
Jig places to sterilize dishes and
spoons.
Two of the richest women in New
York have established public kitchen
for the sale of freshly cooked food at
cost to be taken home for use by New
York's poor.
Reports reaching here say that the
Germans in German Southwest Africa
have executed Col. Maritz, the former
Boer leader, for treachery.
Kansas women under IS years old,
who wear ear adornments or treat
their faces with cosmetics for the
purpose of creating false impress
sion," will be subject to fines, if a
bill introduced in the lower house Of
the Kansas legislature becomes a law.
Natalie Tychinni, a high school girl
of Kiev, has received the decoration
of the Order of st. George for service
at the front.
A resolution to create out of the
Panhandle of West Texas a new state
named Jefferson was reported to the
state senate.
DR.. Theodore Potter, for many years
leader of the fight against the white
Pio6uC IhuldhdpOliO, ulCu VI
the disease. He contracted it from a
patient.
Waltour NJ. Robinson, former JUS
tice of the state supreme court, was
arrested at Webb City, Mo-, on a
charge of disturbing the peace of Mrs.
Lydia Willis, an employee in a restau-
rant.
Constable Nelson Wood of Casper
township, Jefferson county, ILL.,, is
charged with attempting to hold up
John Champ, Burlington night agent
at Woodlawn.
The Mann act was interpreted by
the supreme court as authorizing the
indictment of woman, transported in
violation of law, as a co-conspirator
with the person who caused her to be
transported.
William V. Thompson, former con-
fidential secretary of William L.
Hardness of the Standard Oil COM
pany, who pleaded guilty to stealing
$4,000 from his employer, got an III
determinate sentence in Sing Sing.
George E. Neuhardt, president, and
four other former officers of the
Chickasaw Ban and Trust company,
Memphis, Tenn, were found guilty Of
misuse of the mails
Homer Ham of Bloomington, ILL.,,
was drugged and robbed aboard a
Burlington train and left the train at
Humboldt, Neb., in dazed condition.
Riots in Italy growing out of the
agitation over the high prices of bread
are assuming a graver character
Crowds wander about the streets sack.
ing the stores.
Florence Bunschrow, 16 years old,
was suffocated to death and her moth
er, young sister and two brothers bad
ly burned in a tenement fire in New
York. The girl was caught in her
room and could not escape.
The miners employed in the Burr C
mine OF the Carterville Qn.) Coal
company, who were called out on
strike recently, have resumed work.
all differences having been settled.
A 22-pound coon in a pitched battle
with bulldog, witnessed by many
spectators at Cummins, Kan, whipped
the dog after a half hours struggle
for its life.
Frank Anido, Italian. of Des Moines,
Ia, shot and killed his wife while she
lay in bed, then turned the revolver
on his s-year-old daughter Fannie,
killing her instantly, and then shot
his son, aged 6 years, fatally wound
ing him.
A subanti-alien labor bill, less dras-
tic than the measure declared uncon-
stitutional by the special federal court
sitting at San Francisco recently, was
passed by the Arizona legislature by
a vote of 20 to II.
Under an agreement reached Cana
da has decided to settle the claims
growing out of the shooting of two
duck hunters by the Canadian police.
Smith, the one who was killed, will
be awarded $4,000, and Dersch,
wounded, will get $1,000.