Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-09-29
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES
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line are giving short measure was is- ssed by the several commissioners of ], eights and measures to the drivers and owners.
 Clarence Brown, one of the three convicts who escaped from the Joliet, H., peritentiary, was captured. Brown was found h1sing ip cave in a stone quarry.
 Frank Clay, balloonist, who fell 1000 feet at the Colorado state fair when his parachute failed to open, is dead
 Alberto Santos-Dumont, the Brazil ian pioneer in aeronautics, will head committee to take charge of move ment to develop aeronautics in South and Central America.
 Property totaling more than $1oO,00O is now owned by the Young Mems Christian association in cities throughout the country.
 Probably the largest order for shoes that has ever been given has just been handed out by the Russian gov ernment to tRree New England shoe manufacturers. It calls for 3,000,000 pairs of high-topped boots at not far from $5 pair, or around $15,000, ,000.
 Church and social circles through out Kentucky were shocked when it became known that Mrs. w. H. Gag Ter had gone before the Methodist church board at Middleboro and made public confession of improper rela- fions with the retiring pastor, Rev. B. F. Chatham.
 A muscular ailment from which former United States Senator Joseph Benson Foraker of Ohio has been suf- fering has grown so severe that the surgeons have decided on an opera ton as the only chance for his com plete recovery.
 Bulgaria has removed all restric. tions on the passage of merchandise through that country to Turkey.
 Michigan's congressional delegation is overwhelmingly for national pre- paredness against war and is almost equally united in upholding the ex- portation of munitions.
 Purdue university was made de- ifendant in a $25,000 damage suit filed by Abraham L. Obenchain of South Whitley, Ind, father of the late Fran cis w. Obenchain. who was killed in the university tank scrap" on the night of Sept. 13, 1913.
 The eight flag-draped caskets, con- taining the dead of the F-4, which ar rived aboard the United States steam CT Supply at San Francisco, have been shipped east.
 Senora Luz Aspiroe de Rivera, we'll known in Washington when her fa- ther was ambassador from Mexico, committed suicide by taking lauda- mum.
 William Isabel was killed in a knife duel with Sherman Isabell in the fam lily parlor at Rieazi. MisA
 The Turks are rushing more rein forcements to the Dardanelles, expect ing renewal of the Anglo-French of fensiye
 The southern labor congress at
 
 150000 wage earners throughout the southern states, has gone on record in favor of the equal suffrage move ment.
 Tn an attempt to arrest Lafe Young, George Ford, jailer at Hot Springs, Ark, was fatally shot by Young, who then killed himself
 The Fabre line steamer Santa Anna has arrived at St. Michaels. Azores. according to dispatch to Lloyds.
 The marriage of Judge J. N. Grid ley, veteran central Illinois lawyer and Republican politician, and Mrs. Emily Collins Brady at her home in Long Beach, Cal, marks the culmina- tion of a romance of the early sixties.
 
 Forty-five yachts belonging to northern people were destroyed by fire at Miami. Fla. The loss will be about .s100,0O0.
 Former President William H. Taft, who has been making spaking tour of the west for several weeks, settled at San Diego, Cal, for short vaca- tion. He intends to play golf.
 Dr. Victorino de la Plaza, president of the Argentine republic, ratified the parcel post convention between the United States and Argentina.
 Gottlieb von Jagow, German foreign minister, has been promoted to the rank of major in reserve of the Third regiment of Hussars.