The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-08-28
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks Newp Combinations No
viewed Without comment-Aii
Nations Find Somewhat to
Edify and instruct

sNektSHo tHo SShS'
Edify and instruct
Miss Zella Winslow, a music teach
er, was drowned in four feet Of water
at the high school swimming pool in
Champaign, Ill.
The American reply to the Austrian
protest against export Of arms to the
allies as a violation of the spirit OF
neutrality was cabled to Ambassador
Penfield at Vienna Aug IA.
An order for 1,O00, 900 head Of cattle
to be shipped to Great Britain and her
allies is said to have been placed with
a Chicago firm.
1t is understood that the Peruvian
government has entered upon nego-
tiations for the floating of a loan in
New York.
Five forest rangers were helpless
to stop raging forest fires in northern
Manitoba. Train loads of men have
left for Moose Lake ITO fight the
flames.
The Kaiser has been challenged to
fight duel. His would-be opponent is
Lord Northbourne, 20 years old.
Searching parties who have worked
indefatigably have no clew to the
whereabouts of Ray 'Knoblauch, II
years old. who disappeared from OF
tawa.
The British steamship West Wales,
laden with approximately 295,O00
bushels of wheat, cleared from Gal
weston for Rio de Janeiro. This is
the first cargo of wheat to be sent to
Brazil this season.
Preston Gibson has bet $1,000 with
a fellow member of the Washington
! Metropolitan club that the latter can
not bring forward a four-footed ami
NAL with blue and white stripes, the
stripes to be not more than two inch
es wide.
The Russian council of ministers
has approved the project for the utili.
zation of prisoners of war and for
eign laborers for the manufacture OF
war supplies.
C. G. Stafford, accused with F. R.
Henderson of embezzling $2S,0OO
from the Minnesota Avenue State
bank, Kansas City. Kan, has sur.
rendered to the authorities.
ASatic cholera has appeared al
Cannstatt, Wuertemberg. An official
notice says that only one case has
developed
Theresa Wezcavich, II, of Law.
renee, Kan, was severely burned
when some boys ignited her dress
with burning sulphur and allowed her
to run home, her clothing afire.
| Between 1000 and 1900 employees
of the Warner Bros. company, Bridge
port. Conn, makers of corsets, are on
strike.
The French government will issue
national bonds of denomination of &c
francs ($5) and five francs ($1) bear
ing interest at per cent.
Eugene V. Debs, national leader OF
the Socialist party, announces that a
national labor college, to be known as
the Peoples college, will be estab
lisnsd at Fort Scott, Kan.
A pile of ties was found on the
tracks of the Missouri Pacific railway
near Wichita, Kan, by harvest hand
giving his name as Ernest Kidwell
Kidwell reported to the police that he
was held up and robbed by six men
armed with rifles.
Becaused 10 men were reduced In
wages, LOG employees of the John A
Roebling Sons Co. plant at Roebling
N. j., went on a strike.
Four automobile bandits held up
the cashier of the Leonard Seed com
pany, Chicago, and robbed him OF
$500 and escaped
Joseph M. Smith, sexton of a GENE
terry in Oshkosh, Wis, has been ad
judged bankrupt. Too few people die
for him to live.
Baltimore has been selected as the
convention city of the international
typographical union for 1916.
Miss Ruth Perry and George Perry
Of Lively Grove, H., told officers that
their father, George Perry, Sr., had
not been heard from since he depart
ed for Nashville with s400.
The Portuguese cruiser Republica
which ran aground near Peniche
south of Lisbon, is not believed to be
in dangerous position. ../
Postmaster General Burleson has
authorized an 11-cenf sfamn IN mao,