Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-03-10
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
 TOLD HERE.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For eign Countries Are Here Given in Short Meter for
 Busy Readers.

 Madison, la, in the hope of finding the body of Andrew Graylord, city clerk, who disappeared from his home recently.
 The Chicago Grand Opera company filed a voluntary petition in bank ruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $264,- 400 and assets of $61,500
 Owen Bird, 31 years old, and J. A. Potteroff, 40 years old, were killed by a White River train at Larvissel.
 Owing to the scarcity of benzine and rubber tires, the German federal councils have decided that motor traf- fic through Germany must be greatly curtailed.
 The disabled steamer Mongoiian ar rived at Halifax with her bow deep in the water, but she proceeded under her own steam.
 Nearly half a million tons have been added to the American merchant marine since the law admitting for eign-built vessels to American regis try was passed.
 Policeman Joseph Carroll was shot through the arm and one of three bur glars captured in a street battle with robbers who were caught in the store of Freeman Bros.
 A Central News dispatch from Lis bon states that Deputy Henriques Cardoso was assassinated as he en- tered the Democratic club to attend a political meeting.
 Municipal taxes in Berlin have been increased 125 per cent since the war began.
 son Memorial home iii eastern Dis tr7ct of Columbia has passed the senate.
 Fire destroyed the ice plant of the Central Illinois Service company, at Marion, Ill., causing loss of $100, 900.
 
 Increased passenger rates on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad in Massachusetts went into effect March 1.
 The Rev. James Morrison Darnell charged with violating the Mann act, was indicted by the federal grand jury at Milwaukee, Wis.
 Two young girls were killed and a woman seriously injured in a grade crossing accident at Jewel, Ind, when Pennsylvania train Mo- 19, north bound, struck the automobile in which they were riding.
 Frank Shilling shot and Killed Grover Starkey at Lepanto, Ark, when the latter cautioned him against making disturbance. and then siaot the toy's father.
 Mrs. L. A. Haller of Carriere, Miss, was attempting to burn the grass off of field of the Haller suburban home, her clothing caught fire and she was burned to death.
 A skull and various other bones of the human body were found in the Miami, Fla.
 An indorsement of President Will sons European war policy was tabled in the Iowa senate by vote of 2S to g.
 Six thousand dsllars deducted from the salaries of representatives in con- gress absent during the closing days of the last session was restored to the absentees by a resolution passed by the house.
 An acceptance of a bet to drink quart of whisky resulted in the death of William Pfell, r, in a patrol wagon while being rushed to St. Agnes hos pital Philadelphia
 After thoroughly condemning the lobby register as "ridiculous,' the Texas senate discarded it. The lower house, however, continues to require representatives of special interests to register.
 All heads of households in Berlin were ordered to furnish to the gov ernment an estimate of the amount of flour they have on hand.
 Inquiry into the American land ques- ton in its labor and capital aspects will be begun by the federal indus trial relations commission in public hearing at Dallas, Tex, March 15. The Roosevelt, Admiral Peary,s Arc tic ship, will be taken over by the bureau of fisheries, to be used in con- nection with the fisheries service in Alaskan waters.
 Mrs. Mary Miller, 9S, is dead in Greenwich, Conn. She never rode on a trolley car or on railroad train.