The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-07-24

received a dispatch denying the re-
cent announcement that DIR. Alfonso
Costa had died in Lisbon.
The proposal to incorporate the
New York stock exchange was laid
on the table by the corporation COM
mittee Of the constitutional conven-
ton.
Mike Demski, a Franklin miner.
killed himself with dynamite.
Another effort to save Charles Beck
er has failed. Chief Justice Bartlett
of the court Of appeals has rejected an
appeal from Becker's counsel.
A raise OF three cents an hour in pay
Of Chicago street car employees, an
nounced, will cost the companies ap.
proximately $1,17O,oOO a year.
President Wilson's daughter Mar.
garet has Joined the chautauqua sum-
mer school. She will deliver several
lectures during the season.
Ethel Pigg, "a years old, a lifelong
cripples, was shot and killed by Jo-
| seph Tribbey in Cass, Ind, when he
mistook her for a burglar.
Two negroes, suspected of having
aided Peter Jackson, were lynched
near Hawkinsville by a posse of ciu-
zens.
Eight white and AZ negro muleteers,
survivors of the British steamer Ar
menian, torpedoed by a German sub
marine, arrived at Newport News. Va.
on the British steamer Winnifredian.
A Little Rock, Ark, jury found Mrs.
Mollie Washburn, Sc, guilty Of first
degree murder, for shooting and kill.
ing ]. H. Suth, So. a carpenter. June s..
She was sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
The Swedish schooner Daisy struck
mine and sank in the Baltic. Capt
Stryback and four Of her crew were
drowned.
Walter Leake, colored, "a years old,
was shot and killed by Peter Brown.
, a special watchman of the Illinois
: Central railroad.
By a unanimous vote, the bill of
rights committee Of the New York
: constitutional convention decided
, against proposals to abolish the death
penalty.
A Central News dispatch from Am
sterdam says: Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg is engaged in prepare
tions for something that will surprise
the world and may decide the war;
A Paris paper suggests that a street
be named after Theodore Roosevelt
because of his friendship for the
allies.
A Boston paper announces the re
ceipt of a letter in which the writel
states that two bombs have beer
placed in the state house and another
+ in the custom tower and that thes'
: would be exploded soon.
The Dresden National bank at Dres
J. den, Ohio, was closed while Nationa
e Bank Examiner Bachman was tryinl
a to untangle the mystery of the disap
pearance of the cashier, John Horn
ung.
i Minister of Munitions David Lloyd
q George, who absented himself from
his office while reports of an impend
ing clash with Lord Kitchener ant
Premier Asquith were in circulation
has resumed his duties.
It was announced here that Empero
Nicholas Of Russia had conferred tn
cross of St. George upon all the on
GERS and members of the crew Of tn
, British submarine which recently san
German battleship in the Baltic.
- Garment workers to the number q
= 10000 are out on strike in New Yorl
II The Gary (Ind) Steel Mills starte
:, operations at full capacity on the 12tl
~ The COLORADO supreme court a
~ firnred the death sentence Of Co
James c. Bulger, soldier Of fortun
convicted Of the murder OF Lloyd
IN Nicodemus, q Denver hotel manage
Charles Scaratt, an honor convict
=. the Joliet penitentiary, returned vo
:, UNFAIRLY. after running away from th
ungarded prison farm.
m. Arguments on the motion for a ne
Ia. trial for John r. Lawson, convicted
Ia. FIRST degree for the murder Of job
Nimmo, a deputy sheriff of Trinida
Colo, have been concluded befol
ro Judge CRANKY Hillyer.
~
he Several great turf fires have broke
er. out in Germany southwest of Hanov
and war prisoners and German troo]