The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-09
Wireless telephone communication


plished for the first time Sept %,
when experiments extending over sew
eral months eliminated in successful
transmission Of the human voice by
radio from the great naval plant at
Arlington, Va, across the continent
$500 miles away. The experiments
were conducted by the American Tel
ephone and Telegraph company and
the Western Electric company Sec
retary Daniels, announcing the result,
predicted that further development Of
wireless telephony would make great
changes in long-distance communica-
ton, both for military and naval
service and in commercial usage.
Denver's great new union station
has been opened. 1t is strictly up to
the minute and is one of the finest in
the west.
The first English snow of the sea-
son fell Sept. 80. The peaks of Der
byshire are thickly capped with white.
The death on the field OF battle Of
Lieut.. Won Pohl, the only son of Ad-
miral Hugo Won Pohl, is announced.
B. E. Walker, former cashier of the
Bank of HaZen, Ark, was sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary, after
he was found guilty of embezzlement.
| Two workmen were killed and three
others were burned when 2,40C
pounds of powder burned at the Has
kell powder works at Butler, n. ].
| An explosion in an ammunition fac
tory at Wittenberg,l Prussia, Aug. %
killed 242 workmen and injured man.
others.
Evelyn Arthur See, founder of TIL
so-called Absolute Life cult, and it
former high priest, was denied pa
role by the Illinois state parole board
T. z. Chang, Chinese minister of ae
riculture, purchased go ears Of cor
that won the sweepstakes prize at tn
international Soils Products expos
ton in session in Denver, Colo, for
cents an ear.
The question Of placing the NAL
, members of the Marshall (Mo) hg
| school under military training is III
der consideration and has many adv
Gates.
o Miss Clio Davenport. sister Of II
+ late Homer Davenport, cartoonis,
j. dead at Los Angeles as the result
|. an automobile accident.
Gen. Carranza has issued strict o
ders against violation of neutali
laws on the American border.
L Gen. Alexander H. r. Won Iluc
after q period of recuperation IN t!
country, is now fully restofd
K health and is living in his Berl
II home.
Capt. Joseph Bernier, the Cnadii
II. arctic explorer, has returned b o.
le bee after a trip into the arcticl ldurll
a which he discovered rew land whi
has been called Baffin island
lg Distinguished clergymeE Of I
e, Protestant Episcopal churcl frc
zg many states participated in the con-
re, Grafton services OF the Iev.
Charles Clark Fiske as Dadju'
bishop of the diocese Of GENITAL N
DO York.
la, Otto Engel, an employe of a bal
re- at Sterling, ILL.,, was killed when
became entangled in bread mixer
lot A semi-official statement deny
reports that Russia had Isked
Japs to send troops to Europe l
ed been issued.
Mrs. James Ogden, BRIDE OF
June, is dead, the fifth vftim OF
3D. | epidemic of typhoid fever at Pete
|, burg. ILL.,, in the last two weeks.
.ds Pope Benedict is prepf1ng
rus orIor letter to the belligernts, ask
for a general truce on Al Souls
,alf A massage from the British war
loe- flee has reached Mr.. and Mrs. Da'
bad Denny of Youngstown, D., tell
of them that their son, Johi Denny,
been killed while fighting with
British army in Egypt.
nal
nth Approximately 1000 employees OF
, to United States Cartride Co.'S p
by at Lowell, Mass. returned 20
GOV. after being out two weeks. me c
ans pany has submitted tie question
wages to the state bdrd OF arpi
tion.
to A herd of II anne der, SIX hee'
for cattle and 307 hogs, wned py Il
II E. Swift, were slaughtered by gov
one ment agents at his ounuy estau
Lake Forest, H., bec.use OF loot
mouth disease.
was Chief of Police Haley ordered
Irst nol;ca furIoughs caIceled and {