The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-23

It was announced that the cotton
loan committee in charge OF the
sl35. 900 900 fund has granted the first
application for a loan. a sum. the
amount not stated, going to Alabama
Brigadier-General Andrew S. Burt,
U. S. A., retired, veteran or the civil, .
Spanish, Philippine and a number OF
Indian wars, died suddenly of heart |
failure. He was a native of Cincin- |
natl and was rs years old.
President Wilson declared that he
was not thinking of announcing his
candidacy for 1916 when he made the
statement in his indianapolis speech
recently that the people of the United
States might have a chance to judge
of his acts.
Chukri Pasha. who commanded the
Turkish troops in their heroic defense
of Adrianople against the Balkan al
lies, has been wounded and taken pris-
oner by the Russians in the Caucasus.
A resolution to amend the senate
| rules to permit a vote on prohibition
| for the District of Columbia was re-
| ported favorably to the senate. Sena-
tor Sheppard of Texas, author Of the
resolution, predicted its passage.
|
! Samuel Magner who won fame by
wig wagging at Altoona Pass, Sher-
mans famous war message, Hold the
fort, | am coming" is dead at Pana,
ILL.,, aged 70.
While declining to say so in specific
terms, President Wilson again made
it clear that he will veto the immi-
grafton bill He is as strongly OF
posed to the literacy test as ever.
Mrs Ernest A. Mathews of Prince
Albert, Sask., gave birth to three girls
and one boy All are living and strong.
Mrs. Mathews is 80 years old. These
are her first children.
A resolution by Senator Lodge re-
questing the secretary Of war to sub
nit estimates prepared before the
European war by the army general
staff for q mobile s~my of approx
mately 100000 men was adopted by
the senate without debate.
, The Chilean government ordered
, Guillermo Billinghurst, former presi-
dent of Peru, and DR.. Augusta Durand
to leave Chilean territory within eight
days.
The Naco and other border prob
lens were considered settled by ad-
ministration officials, report prac-
tically to that effect having been
made by Gen. Scott.
More than 100000 trains, carrying
, 189,167,326 persons, ran 67,339,3Sl
, miles on the Pennsylvania system in
1914 without killing single passen
, ger in a train accident.
Kazimierz Gawezwmski, a Russian
Of Trenton, n. j., is the two milliontf
y alien naturalized in the United States
I since the establishment of the bureau
= of naturalization Dec. q, 1906.
Oil
!. Every prisoner entering the Illinoi:
state penitentiary at Joliet must un
dergo a psychopathic examination il
A accordance with a plan of Warden E
, NJ. Allen. Four alienists constitute
4 the psychopathic institute.
r Secretary Lane announced the ap
. pointment of Stephen T. Mather o
Chicago as assistant to the secretar.
] of the interior to succeed Adolph {
+. Miller, who resigned to become
II member of the federal reserve board
q The federal reserve board has de
termined to admit all state bank
which desire to enter the system an
r conform with the provisions of tb
IS federal reserve act.
ID The tiniest baby to arrive at Bell
ef vue, N. Y, hospital in years was
two-pound girl, born prematurely
Mrs. Anna Suto, victim Of last week
~ subway disaster The baby will liv
10
SIX hunQred men went on strlh
a. at the plant of the Inspiration Col
solidated Copper company at MAN
Ariz, following the employment Of
r. nonunion worker in the boiler shop.
of
to Joshua r. Lowrance, 81 years oil
ce is dead at Topeka, Kan. For u yea
so he was active as a minister of Il
Nv Presbyterian church, being license
to preach in 1888.
IN,
rst AS a result Of the discovery Of tv
nd cases Of smallpox, among the Ell
He ployes of the Chicago, Burlington
ILL., Quincy road, $50 shop and yard wor
on ers were vaccinated within a fe
hours.
ar Vice-President Marshall and Spea
IN er Clark will be empowered to a
w. point congressional committees to
'ed tend the formal opening Of the Pa
Dill ANA canal in March, under a joi
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