Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-03-17

lins, nor will they be of the rigid type. Bids for the dirigibles will be adver- tised for within a week Sheriff Butts of Peoria county, nl., announced that the mittimus commit | ting Newton c. Dougherty former 1 superintendent of the Peoria schools, to Joliet penitentiary had disappeared | from his office.
 Twenty-Five thousand dollars was the value placed on an arm by jury in the supreme court of New York The same jury a short time later l placed the value of a mans foot at $5,000.
 President Wilson is working out a budget system of government expendi- | lures for submission to the next con- gress. A budget system is regarded ! as doubly desirable at this time, be- cause of the effect of the war upon the governments revenue.
 Gov. Rye of Tennessee had before him for signature bill the Tennessee house passed making night riding a felony, with the penalty of 15 years imprisonment
 For the first time in two years the Gary, Ind, plant of American Sheet and Tin Plate Co.,, has begun operat- ing at 100 per cent capacity 
 Dr. A. A. Nicholson of the Univer- slty of Chicago, has completed a 12- year task, it was announced, of draw ing 12,000 lines on six square inches of metal, which, it is said, will deter mine the chemical substance of the planets.
 Secretary Daniels announced that the new educational system inaugu- rated in the navy last year has proved to be a success and that already 25,- 900 sailors are taking courses of vari- | ous sorts.
 A package containing $1,200 cur rency and drafts was taken from the depot office of the Wells Fargo Ex- press Co. at Springfield, Mo-, recently Two men, it was stated by the de- tectives, are under surveillance.
 
 Tipton Cox, former president of the l Cox-Blodgett Dry Goods company, and Thomas Blodgett, former treasurer of the concern, at Wichita, Kan, were arrested, charged with the embezzle- ment of S84,00o and the alteration of the records of the company. An order for 46,500 tons of steel valued at $2,000,000, to be used in the manufacture of shrapnell, has been re- ceived by the Gambia Steel company | from the Russian government. | Mila Booth a teamster of Marion, | H., was crushed to death by heavy machinery that was being unloaded | for new bakery. The Sixty-third congress broke all | records in the volume of proceedings 1 in the Congressional Record The | average congress, according to report | CTS of debates, runs about 12,OOO l pages, while the recent body talked | 32,000 pages.
 l Betting on horses in Texas was put off for two fears when the house killed the pari-mutuel bill by vote of | 78 to IT.
 A tax of $1 on every barrel of beer made or sold in Michigan is proposed in bill in the state legislature. Out side distillers and liquor dealers will be required to pay $500 yearly.
 After escaping from his burning home, Thomas Upp, collector of Car mel N. Y., author and naturalist, rushed back to save his collection of rare coins and was burned to death
 Rabbit sausage-made in Texas l If you come across this new wiener 1 you may remember that the Texas legislature has placed bounty of 5 cents per head on jack rabbits.
 Four men were killed and one was seriously injured in an explosion of gunpowder in one of the buildings of
 the plant of the Dupont powder works
 at Haskell, N, J.
 Compulsory school attendance by
 all Belgian children will be enforced
 by order of the governor-general of
 Belgium, according to a telegram re-
 ceived from Brussels by way of Ber-
 lin.
 The state department received word from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin that the German war office had told him
 all waters surrounding the Shetland
 and Orkney islands are in the war | zone.
 More than 15,0O0 laborers and un-
 skilled workmen in the Clyde, Scot
 land, shipyards have decided to strike
 if an increase of 2 cents an hour in
 their wages is not granted.
 A bill which would authorize the