Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-12-15


 adopt blue-eyed baby abandoned on New York doorstep with a note reading, T hope some true-hearted mother will take care of baby this Christmas
 Two hundred Belgian women and children arrived in Chicago to rejoin members of their families from whom they have been separated since the war began.
 Pinkerton detectives swore out war rants for the arrest of Vic Hugo, man. age, and Charles Hodhurst, treasurer of the Majestic theater, at Cedar Rap ids, la, charging them with embezzle- ment.
 Count Alvaro de Romanones was chosen by King Alfonso to form 6 new Spanish government.
 Continuation classes to meet the re- quirements of the child labor law which becomes effective Jan. 1 will be organized in Philadelphia by sev- eral department stores.
 The American oil steamer Commu- nlpaw, reported to have been sunk off the coast of Tripoli by submarine, has sailed from Alexandria, Egypt, for New York
 Charles H. Randall, farmer living near Columbus, O., exhibited here a sweet potato that measured 39 inches long and 10 inches in circumference.
 F. P. Arnold of Denver shot and dangerously wounded Mrs. c. G. Cren- shaw of Jackson, Tenn, and then killed himself at Salt Lake rooming house.
 The California grand lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen filed a petition in bankruptcy. The liabilities were given as $327,S27.43 and the assets s5,4S6.6S.
 The largest labor organization in England, made up of 10000 was formed for offensive and defensive ac- tion respecting wages and conditions of work.
 After serving five and one-half years in the Kansas penitentiary, Thomas Johnson has been freed as innocent. He was convicted of killing Frank Allen at Winfield. Another confessed the crime.
 H. J. Callahan told the Chicago do nestle relations court he got many a meal free by satisfying his hunger and then throwing a pet coekroach on the plate.
 The Conyngham, the largest de- stroyer in the American navy, ex- ceeded her contract speed by making an average of 30.40 knots, while her contract called for 29 knots.
 
 In the presence of 40,000 Kentuck- ians former Congressman Augustus Owsley Stanley took oath of office as governor of Kentucky.
 
 Nine firemen were buried, two of them being seriously injured, when the roof Of the Woods Dancing acad- emy, at Chicago, caved in on them. Oftlclal announcement was made in the house of commons that the Brit lsh lost 643 men in killed and 3.330 in wounded in the battle with the Turks l in Mesopotamia.
 Thirty thousand dollars worth of stock certificates were stolen from | the office safe of the c. H. Foote Lumber company, Cleveland, O., by burglars who picked the lock.
 Ottoman Ear Adusht Hanish, head of the Mazdaznan Cult of Sun Wor- shippers, was taken to the house of correction to serve a sentence of six months Imprisonment for mailing ob- scene matter.
 According to the Echo de Beige. Fort Co8nelle. one of the defenses of Namur, was destroyed by an explo- sion and 80 German soldiers were killed
 Mrs. Jessie Kephart was found guilty of the murder of her husband. William Kephart of Danville, H., Oct. {, and given IA years in the peniten- ,iary.
 big timber wolf was shot and killed by Orville Todd at his farm, .hree miles north of Greenville. III. The latest census figures from Ire and show an increasing population. For the quarter ending September the l ast number of births in Ireland was 27,779, and the deaths 14,670. There were only 3,511 emigrants, so that the | net increase in population is 9,59S. The British steamer Carleton, New York to Queenstown, put in at Hali- lax with fire in her No. hold