The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-04-10
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A proclamation calling for the oD-
servance of the semi-centennlal OF the
death of Abraham Lincoln, April 10,
was issued by Gov. Dunno OF Illinois.
The governor directs that flags be
placed at half mast on all public build
ings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis r. Larkin or
New York are receiving congratula-
lions upon the birth OF son. Mrs.
Larkin is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Benjamin F. Yoakum.
Citizens of Cleveland, o., must pay
the cost of a fire department run il
the blaze is from a needless cause.
Mrs. Thomas Wilson of Lincoln, ILL.,,
was burned to death while asleep in
her bed. The clothing caught fire
from a spark from nearby stove.
Sir John Lamb, a noted English sci
enlist, is dead at his home at Hemp
stead at the age Of 60.
Judge Bachman directed the jury to
sustain the will Of N. Phillips, which
left an estate of $4,000 to Mrs. Mar
garet Mickler of Fort Wayne, Ala, his
fiancee. A sister sought to break the
will.
An interurban car on the Joplin &
Pittsburg railway was held up by four
masked men az Cherokee junction,
Kan.
Giulio Gatti-Casasza, general mana
ger of the Metropolitan Opera COM
pany, has received a cable from En-
rico Caruso, in Monte Carlo, stating
that the famous tenor had been en-
gagged for 10 appearances late In May
at the Buenos Aires opera house, Ar
gentine. at $1,000 a night.
Four-year-old Teddy Slingsby, the
center of a lawsuit in the British
courts involving 100000 estate, ar
rived in New York with his mother
Mrs. Charles Slingsby.
National President John Williams Of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin Workers announced
that the official count of the recen
referendum shows that the sheet ant
tin plate wage reduction has been &C
cepted.
A contest is on between Washing
ton and Baltimore dealers as to which
city shall have the honor of furnish
ing the artificial leg which Sarah
Bernhard will require.
Radio operators in the United States
must not use profanity or obnoxious
language of any kind Gin the air.
This ruling was made to stop grow
ing practice.
Two sleeping children were burned
to death and their mother, Mrs
Charles O'Brien, was perhaps fatally
burned in a mysterious explosion ani
fire which wrecked the O'Brien home
at Des Moines, Ia.
David Reynolds, 4 years old, prove,
a hero when he routed four familie
from their beds and saved them iron
possible injury or death when fire a
tackled an apartment house in Eas
Sixty-fifth street, Chicago.
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The British government has prohib
tied the sale of absinthe Throughout
Egypt.
Secretary Bryan announced that tn
grand vizier Of Turkey had informe
Ambassador Morgenthau in Constant
nopfe that there was no foundation
for the reports of violence at Urumaf
Northwestern Persia.
The hearing on the habeas corpu
writ by means Of which Harry
Thaw hopes to procure a test of hi
sanity was adjourned until April 5.
Mrs. Andrew Borden, mother of 81
Robert Borden, premier of Canada, 4
dead at her home at Grand Pre-.
Mrs. Marion Louise Davis, 81 year
old, Of Paterson, Is believed to hol
the record for children in New Jerse,
She has borne II children, nine {
whom are living.
A. M. Augustine, one of the leadin
horticulturists of Central Illinois, ha
discovered that the peach crop in tbs
section has been ruined by the sever
temperature Of last winter.
Judge Marshall of the United State
court issued an order for the removs
Of Ten-Ne-Gat, or Hatch, the Piute II
dian outlaw, from Salt Lake City I
Denver for trial.
An order to strike has been issue
by union officials to 1000 members {
the Chicago painters council, who's
wage agreements have expired.
Seven men were injured in tn
Schoolhouse zinc mine, east of Joplil
Mo-, when two charges of dynami,
exploded prematurely.
A Cape Town dispatch to Reuter-
Telegram company says a Germa
camp at Plattben, so miles northea,
Of Ukamas, German Southwest Afric
has been captured by the British.