The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-08-14

Employees of the Dupont Powder
Co. have been notified that they will
work on an eight-hour basis and re-
ceive the same wages as for 10 hours.
Late returns from rural districts in
sure the election of Theodore G. Bill
DO as Governor of Mississippi by
majority of 5000.
Twelve thousand Italians, now
prisoners in Siberia, will be released
by the Russian Government.
Mrs. Emily Hoppin of Yolo. CAL.
president of the California Federation
of Women's Clubs, and one of the
largest fruit growers of California is
dead of heart trouble.
Average daily attendance during
July at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
was 69,602. The daily average since
opening 58,268.
Clint Williams, young negro, con-
victed of numbering Oscar Scroggins,
messenger boy. last December was
hanged at Fort Worth, Tex.
Sauerkraut promises to be low In
price next winter. Central Illinois
gardeners are being paid but Is cents
per hundred pounds for cabbage.
| Eight persons were injured when
Baltimore & Ohio passenger train No.
l04, east-bound, colIided with a Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton freight
train at Washington Courthouse, o.
Specially constructed talking ma
chimes are now being manufactured
by Paris house for use in the
trenches.
Harry G. Hontz Is in Jail at Salt
Lake City, having confessed that he
wrecked the Scenic Limited on the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad near
Springville, Utah, last Monday.
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fight duel. His would-be opponent is
Lord Northbourne. 20 years old.
William c. Loomis of Rock Island,
ILL.,. has confessed robbing the bank
at North Liberty, Ia, July 16.
Leo Mayer, 17-year-old Bavarian
boy. who has been IN the county Jail
, at Oakland. Cal, since July 19
| charged with theft, hanged himself in
his cell. ~
Mr.. ard Mrs. Oscar Gootch of Litch
field. H., found their daughter in
Pana after Is years absence She
was placed in an orphanage in Chi
cago Is years ago.
Edward Kinna, the Louisville (Ky.)
boy, charged with desertion from the
British naval reserve, was released
The railroad tracks between the
5 Des Moines River bridge and Alexan
r dria, Mo-. south Of Keokuk, are under
water, and culvert bridge is washed
out of line, so that Keokuk is cut of
from direct communication south.
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Reports indicate that Marion W
T Reilly had received 14.00O votes OF
r 10000 counted SO far in the Missis
4 sippi gubernatorial primary. Theo
i dore G. Bilbo received 10000.
c. c. Curtis, charged with conspir
( acy in the robbery of the Kaw Cit,
(Ok.- National Bank April Is, was ar
rested at Sierra Madre, Ca He ad
{ mits he is the man sought.
Premier Okuma Of Japan and hi
cabinet may reconsider their resig
{ nations. The elder statesmen hav'
r recommended to the emperor that h'
decline to accept the designations.
Dispatches report an attack b.
French aviators on Strassburg, capi
tai of Alsace-Lorraine.
Five Geneva, Ill, girls, two of then
> high school graduates last June, hav
applied for positions as Geneva lette
carriers.
The two-year-old son of Mrs. Elme
: Joseph of New Haven. ILL.,, fell int
e an open cistern and was drowned.
b One man was killed and three 9th
ers were injured by an explosion Il
the experimental bomb proof" room
at the United States arsenal a
. Frankford, Pa.
The Germans already have begul
U using fax as substitute for cottol
in some of their munitions factories
The unearthing of great temple a
Muphis, Egypt, was announced by tn
- University of Pennsylvania museum
The first daily newspaper to be pul
lished in the German language has al
peared in Brussels.
- Renewed activity of Katmai voican,
Alaska, is indicated by the presenc
OF ashes in the air.