The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-04-10

having been 2,35S.642 This was an
average daily attendance of more than
$4,000.
The Jefferson County Qll) Medical
Society at Mount Vernon placed itself
ON record as opposed to the practice
of clairvoyancy. An alleged swindle
perpetrated by a clairvoyant was The
reason.
Eight masked robbers entered the
mail order business of Babsou Broth
ers, Chicago, felled the Waterman,
John Kastory, with an iron bar, bound
him to a chair, blew open two safes
and a vault and escaped with more
than s,vu.
The Austrian postal department, &C.
cording to advices received here, an
nounces the suspension of parcel post
to America.
No clew has been obtained to the
four men who bound and gagged
Charles Ball, the teller of the Ma
tional Bank of Hays, Pa, and escaped
with $4,000.
The Sabbath schools of the Seventh
Day Adventist denomination in North
America have contributed $272,630 for
foreign missionary work in the past
year.
Ten thousand men who have been
idle since the first of the year re-
turned to work in the steel mills and
factories of Chicago Heights.
Guards with bloodhounds and a
posse of citizens in automobiles are
searching the country about Bis
marck, n. D., for six convicts who
escaped from the state prison here.
John Pepic, As, a coal miner, was
shot and killed by his wife at their
home at Duquoin, Ill. After the shoot
ing the woman ran from the house
and spread the news among the neigh
bors. The wife declares she acted in
self-defense.
A childs pushmobile is a vehicle
within the meaning of the law and en-
titled to the right Of way in the
streets, according to decision by the
supreme court of New York.
I -
johnson, 20, of Loxa, ILL.,, and Charles
F. Llewellyn, 49,, of Windsor, disclosed
a newspaper advertising romance. 1t
was admitted by Llewellyn that he
had advertised for wife, and that
Miss johnson had appeared in Wind.
sor in answer to the advertisement.
Tom Green county, Tex, remained
in the wet column by a small major
ity, as shown in returns received from
a recent election.
Walter L. Ross, receiver for the
Glover Leaf railroad, applied to the
federal court for permission to Dor.
row 100000.
King Alfonso Of Spain has signed a
decree for the naturalization of the
foreign debt, says a dispatch to the
Havas agency from Madrid. The
bonds will be negotiated in Spain and
the coupons will hereafter be paid ex
clusively in pesetas.
California has 500 incorporated OF
companies and PIG oil producing com
panies. The number of producing
wells is 6.1S3, producing 657,051 ,45'
barrels of oil.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Woodhall o
Stamford, Conn, died within sever
hours of each other after having beer
born within a stones throw Of eacl
other in England and having beef
married for over 60 years.
l. The Cleveland ,(O.) segregated dis
trfct has been closed for the first tim,
in the history Of the city.
A German Zeppelin attacked tn,
Russian fortress of Lomza on tn
Narew river, the war offices an
nounces. Fourteen bombs wer
dropped and nine civilians were In
jured.
Crazed by fear of German subms
rines during the trip from Leghorr
Frederick Hosel, an Englishmar
jumped overheard FROM the ship Raj
pahannock when it locked at Ne,
York.
A Houghton, Mich, dispatch to tn
, Gold and Stock ticker states that tn
copper range mines have increase
| wages 10 per cent, putting them BAG
, to where they were at the outbreak q
the war in Europe.
In accordance with letter Of CO.
Willis, the Ohio state tax commissio
removed all officials in charge of tn
taxation machinery in the SO countie
of the state. Those removed are q
Democrats.
I DR.. Charles Richmond Henderso
, head Of the department Of socioloe
at the University of Chicago, IL dee
Of paralysis.