The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-03-20


bought for the United States navy.
They will not be as large as Zeppe-
Inns, 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, H., |
that the mittimus commit |
ting Newton G. Dougherty, former
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 a Jury
In the supreme court of New York.
The same jury short time later
placed the value of mans foot at
$1,000.
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 a bill the Tennessee
house passed making night riding a
felony, with the penalty of Is 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.
sity of Chicago, has completed a ~
year task, it was announced, of draw
ing 10000 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 success and that already 25,-
900 sailors are taking courses of vari-
Gus sorts.
A package containing $1,000 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.
Upton Cox, former president of the
Cox-Blodgett Dry Goods company, and
Thomas Blodgett, former treasurer of
the concern, at Wichita, Kan, were
arrested, charged with the embezzle-
ment of $4,000 aud the alteration of
the records of the company.
An order for 46,50O tons of steel,
valued at 100000, to be used in the
manufacture of shrapnell. has been re-
| ceived by the Gambia Steel company
from the Russian government.
Mia Booth, teamster of Marion,
ILL.,, 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
In the Congressional Record. The
average congress, according to report
ers of debates, runs about 10000
pages. while the recent body talked
$4,000 pages.
Betting on horses in Texas was put
off for two fears when the house
killed the pari-mutuel bill by vote Of
IS to II.
A tax of 81 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"
II you come across this new wiener
you may remember that the Texas
legislature has placed a bounty of s
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. ].
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 Der.
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 $4,000 laborers and un-
skilled workmen In the Clyde, Scot
land. shipyards have decided to strike
If an increase of cents an hour in
their wages is not granted.
A bill which would authorize the