The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-01-30

Adoo, eldest daughter of the treas
urer. and her chum, Miss Catherine
Britton, daughter of prominent
banker, are to become Red Cross
nurses with the allies.
An anti-alien land-ownership bill
was passed by the Idaho house of
representatives. There were only two
votes against the bill, one of which
was cast by Speaker Conner.
Democrats of the senate banking
committee set to work in earnest TO
perfect bill for establishment of a
rural credits system.
House Democrats who will be
members of the next congress will
caucus on Feb. TO agree upon the
reorganization of the house. II is vir-
tually conceded that Speaker Clark
will be chosen to succeed himself.
Mrs. Mary Joy-Sorrow of Chicago,
seeking a divorce, told the Lake coun.
ty superior court judge she wanted
the Sorrow removed permanently.
When Charles Henderson took oath
as governor of Alabama his hand rest
i ed on the same Bible that Jefferson
Davis used when inaugurated presi-
dent OF the confederacy.
There is no truth in the report pub
lished in the United States that the
German steamer President was sunk
off Havana by the British cruiser Ber-
wick.
While plans for the presidents trip
| to the Panama canal and the Pacific
! coast are proceeding, the president
! made it clear to callers that condi-
tions at home or abroad might pre-
| vent his departure. Invitations to
| Francisco are being answered with
the statement that it may be impossi-
BILE for him to leave Washington at all.
Marked improvement in general
trade conditions, as affecting interna-
tional exchange, was reported to Pres
ident Wilson by ]. P. Morgan.
Porter Charlton, who was extra
dited from the United States to be
tried for the murder of his bride,
Mary Scott Castle Charlton, at their
villa at Como, Italy, on June 8, 1910,
was committed to the insane asylum.
The abandoned schooner John. w.
Dana was found by the revenue cutter
Itasca and is being towed into Nor
folk, Va.
Smith Mcpherson, for Is years
Judge of the federal court in the
I southern Iowa district, died at his
home at Red Oak, la.
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The rivers and harbors bill, carry
ing millions of dollars for improve
ment projects on the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers. probably will fail of
passage this session.
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Dan Barber, his son, Jesse, and Bar
ber's two married daughters, Eula and
Ella Charles, negroes, were taken
from the Jasper county Jail at Month
cello, Ca, by a mob and lynched.
The strike of 1000 glove cutters
which has paralyzed the fine glove in
dustry in Gloversville and Johnstown
N. Y, for five months, has been de
clared off.
Mrs. Mary Roe of st. Augustine
ILL.,, with $50 descendants, celebrated
her one hundredth birthday.
Details have reached Petrograd o
feat of the cruiser Breslau. By al
error that vessel bombarded Turkish
position at Liman, in the Black Sea
killing 5000. The Breslau steamed
away unaware that she had beel
, slaughtering her ally.
: Theodore w. Decker, 80, is dead a
Middletown, N. Y, after having sui
fered from hiccoughs for three months
:
/. Joseph X. Ettor, noted /. w. "
e agitator, was arrested at St Clairs
vile, o., charged with treason.
Rather than kill $500 prize rooste
+ to get a SIS diamond from his croI
r Walter Keefer, of Washington, d. c
+ owner of the diamond, had the Dir
d operated on.
A private dispatch from Berlin n
ports that Zeppelin airship sale
0 over Paris and that an aerial bon
# bardment of the French capital 500
t. is to begin.
e Vice Admiral Sir George Stron
Mares, retired, famous Arctic e,
plorer, died in London at the age {
q "a. He commanded an Arctic explor;
=, ton expedition in 1856.
a Because the officials found the
presence unsanitary all cats mu!
leave the naval training station, til
ia ships and barracks at Newport, R.
4. Numerous mascots and pets owned /
T. enlisted men must go.
Maj. Henry M. Brewster, who W,
70 in command of the military patr
70 service of the city of Washington {
~ the night President Lincoln was. a