The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-30
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News condensations Re
viewed Without Comment-Aii
Nations Find Something to
Edify and instruct


Of Gov. Dunno, who received letter
from President Wilson congratulating
her upon her coming marriage to VIII
Ham Corboy Of Chicago. has received
also q letter from Col. Theodore
Roosevelt.
Thomas A. Edison was the guest at
Q banquet given by San Francisco tel
egraph operators. 1t was a speech
less" function, the address by the
president and the response by Edison
being made on telegraph instruments.
Orville 8. Dorman, 101 years old,
went to the Rome IN. " polling
place and registered He will vote for
prohibition and woman suffrage.
Joaquin Oyaben, director of the avi-
alton school connected with the ma
rine arsenal at La Plata, Argentina,
was killed making a flight.
Four men were killed and four in
tured in an explosion in the new by
product plant of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad company at Fair
. field, Tenn.
Two women lost their lives and one
other probably was burned fatally in
fire which swept the offices of the
Mutual Film corporation on the Sec
ond floor of an office building at At
Ianta. Ca
Roger Bresnahan, Chicago baseball
leader, was injured when the automo-
bile he was driving collided with a
buggy.
A London firm of glass manufactur-
ors, which has q plant at Maubeuge,
France, received the following cable
message: THE chimney of our Mau.
heuge works has been destroyed by q
Zeppelin dashing into 1t. All the oc
eupants of the Zeppelin were killed
The Brazilian chamber of deputies
has approved, by a vote of 103 to 5
the arbitration treaty signed last Ma!
bstween Argentina, Chile and Brazil
Joseph Hillstrom, Swedish sub
tect, convicted of murder at Salt LAX
City, was resentenced to be put Il
death Friday, Nov. 1.
Six men held up and robbed Wes
shore train in Haverstraw, N. Y, ant
then escaped in an automobile.
Felix Decori, President Poincare'
oecretary-general, died suddenly q
the Elysee palace.
George William Foote, well know
= Q free thinker, is dead In Londor
Louis Wade, prominent merchan
not and killed his wife at Ocea
springs, Miss. and then committe
suicide.
The Arkansas supreme court su
hined Gov. Hays veto Of the measuI
sppropriating $656.000 by the last le
hlature
Gen. Venustiano Carranza, nr
eAief of the constitutionalists, a
hounced that he would be candida
~ the presidency of Mexico.
At the request of Kansas City, MI
louisville has relinquished an optit
- Billy Sunday, the evangelist, WI
gill hold a meeting there next MI
md June.
Bulgaria notified the United Stat
hat the port of Dedeagatch has be-
closed and that merchant vessels ca
not enter between sunset and sunris
Admissible liquids and oils and OF
sr similar articles may now be Sc
by International parcel post from I
United States to Dutch Guiana, Hor
kong, Leeward Islands, Mexico, NJ
Zealand, Panama and Sweden.
j. p. Morgan & Co. received sh
ment of British sovereigns worth
proximately $25, 100000. 1t "
learned that the coins will be melt
into bars and credited to the Brit
government.
Prize stock was placed on exni
ton at the opening Of the Panan
Pacific exposition cattle show.
The Utah board Of pardons dem
Communication to Joseph Hillstrom
terminated his reprieve.
Fourteen men were killed when
powder house at the Granite Mount'
mine of the North Butte Mont. &C
pany blew up.
John N. Rose, a prominent law
OF Little Rock. Ark. committed
eide. He was the eldest son OF
4 late Judge u. n. Rose, member
1 the Hague peace conference.
Two men now under arrest AZ
Francisco are credited with distrii
ing bogus s. gold pieces to the .
value Of mon 100000 to sso0.0oo.