The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-05-15

Saloon keepers in Nome, Alaska,
are jubilant over the election which
authorized the United States court to
license saloons for another year.
Chicago Chinese rallied to the sup
port of their country by starting what
they expect to be a monster fund to
add to the 100000 subscribed in New
York and the $4,000 gathered in Bos-
ton.
Five hundred miles of road work,
to cast s2,70O,OOO, will be done in Ar
kansas this year.
Mary Kossalo and George Zober-
nick, boarder in the Kossalo home.
are held pending an investigation into
the death of the woman's husband,
Simon Kossalo.
The national board OF the National
Woman Suffrage association has is
sued a call for a conference OF SUI
frage leaders to be held in Chicago
June to 8.
E. E. Smythe, widely known in rail-
road circles of the southwest, is in
hospital at Kansas City, Mo-, in a
critical condition after being run
down by a motor car.
Great Britain has requested the
government of Egypt to prohibit the
export of cotton to all ports other
than French, Russian. Spanish and
Portuguese.
Lassen Peak, in California, is in
eruption again. The latest disturb
ance is the ninety-first within the last
two years.
"Lovey" Mitchell, who has been
held in the Warren county Jail,
charged with the murder of the Daw-
son family at Monmouth, was released
because the grand jury neglected to
take any action in his case.
After celebrating As minutes, a
jury at Fayetteville, Ark, acquitted
Della Williams, 16-year-old wife.
tried for first-degree murder of her
stepson.
Republicans in convention at the
Hotel La Sale, Chicago, renominated
Justice Orrin N. Carter for justice OF
the state supreme court from the Sew
enth district.
A young sergeant in the French
army from whose heart a splinter of
hand grenade was extracted was
presented before the Academy Of
Medicine at Paris. His heart beats
are perfectly normal.
Angelo Lunardi, = leper, whose
presence at Highland Park, ILL.,, for
several weeks has been looked upon
as fearsome thing by the residents,
is to be treated at state institution.
Dom M. Roberts, who is serving a
sentence in the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth, Kan, for election
frauds, was removed as mayor Of
Terre Haute, Ind, by a circuit court
decision.
Announcement that q wireless mes
sage had been flashed for the first
time during daylight hours from Pan
anna to the radio station at Arlington
was made by the navy department.
Thyse women and two children
were killed and a sixth person was
injured seriously when a Pacific cleo
trio car struck an automobile at Lynn
wood, eight miles south Of Los An
geles, Cal.
Sarah Bernhard, whose right leg
was amputated recently, and who has
been recuperating at her villa in
France, will return TO the stage in
New York Sept. 20.
A new publication by the depart
ment' of agriculture, called the
Monthly Crop Report" will appear
this month, taking the place of "The
Agricultural Outlook" which has been
discontinued.
Since the last great earthquake at
Avezzano, Italy, the shocks have con-
tinued with more or less frequency
and recently the vibrations were SO
great that the population camped in
the fields.
A petition filed by the state in the
supreme court of Georgia for the re-
sentencing of Leo M. Frank will not
be acted upon until the case is re-
stored to the jurisdiction of the state
from the federal tribunal.
Justice Giegerich of New York
signed an interlocutory decree grant
ing freedom to Caroline Giddings
Rogers from Lorlys Elton Rogers,
who recently figured as the father of
Ida Sniffin Walters two children,
both Of whom were poisoned by their
mother.