Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

John Brown Mayo, 79, personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and for years a resident of Springfield, H., is dead at Oak Park, III.
 Three persons were known to have perished and $5O,O00 property loss was suffered in fire at Cloverdale, Cal
 Cotton planters in Alabama, Mis- sissfppi, Georgia, Tennessee, Okla homa and Texas are warned in a de- partment of agriculture statement of the boil weevil and advised to take steps to kill off the pest.
 Norbert Wiener, 19 years old, form erly of Columbia, Mo, has been ap- pointed an assistant professor of phi losophy at Harvard college.
 Inauguration of Henry Noble Mac Cracken as president of Vassar col lege was the chief event on the last days program of Vassar's semi-cen- tennial celebration.
 Dr. Constantin T. Dumba has ar rived at Falmouth, Eng, on board the steamer Nieuw Amsterdam.
 Philo Judson Beveridge of Los An geles did not know until his arrival in New York that his daughter, Miss May, known as "The American Ve- nus" had been hurt by speeding au- tomobile.
 Col. A. Douglas McConihe, an old Indian fighter and veteran of the civil war, is dead at Troy, N. Y.
 Former Mayor Robert E. McKisson died at his home in Cleveland, o. He was married for the third time on his sick bed, Sept 20, last, to Miss Pauline E. Reid of Buffalo.
 Modified martial law was declared at The Hague, Holland. The procla nation is directed at the various trades which furnish supplies of all kinds to the army.
 The oldest German soldier at the front is Dr. Herwig, military sur geon. He is 81 years old
 Oil holdings in the Healdon field owned by the Coline Oil company, composed of 12 men who made an original investment of S175 each, were sold for $s41,ee8869;6U0 $41 to W. E. Hodges of Chicago.
 
 Wreckage from a steamer believed to have been the Norwegian collier Kronprinz Olav, from Sydney, has been found on the north coast of Prince Edwards Isle.
 A shipment of British gold from London to New York via Halifax, esti- mated at $10,OOO,OO0, has been made. Sir Edward Carson, attorney-gen- eral in the British cabinet, denied a current rumor that he had resigned.
 Princess Arthur of Connaught has gone through an operation for appen- dicitis. Her condition is satisfactory
 Three babies, all boys, were born to Rev. and Mrs. T. W. Burk of Bal finger, Tex.
 Chief of Police Healey, Chicago has ordered his assistants to rid the city of promiscuous gambling.
 The state department officials ex- press the belief that the Turkish au- thorities are interfering with cables to Ambassador Morgenthau at Con stantinople.
 The grand jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in its investi- gation of the case of the Rev. Byron Holley, who killed l.. G. Pearsall. whom he found in his study at New Orleans.
 Federal Judge Hough has declared because the bill originated in the sen ate of the United States instead of the lower house.
 Phillip Bell of Brimfield, H., the fa- ther of seven children, committed sui eide at his home by hanging himself from the limb of tree.
 The Illinois, Carnegie, Cambria and Maryland Steel companies have been awarded the contract for 62,O00 tons of steel rails by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
 A registered letter mailed three years ago from Vancouver, B. C., by J. A. Fitzsimmons to D. c. King at Ocotlan, Mexico, has just been re- ceived at Long Beach, Cal.
 The British steamer Halizones, a liner of 5,093 tons, has been sunk by German submarine.
 Word comes that the prince of Wales, at the headquarters of the staff officers near Ypres, became too familiar with a pretty waitress and a