The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-30

smoke was seen issuing from the
mountain.
w. L. Murphy, a farmer living near
Quito, Tenn, blew out the gas in his
hotel room at Memphis.
Raymond Swoboda, arrested in Par
is as a spy, has been discharged from
prison.
The British steamships AUX, Irish
and City of Berlin, which were de-
tanned in Hamburg when the war be-
gan, have been sunk by the enemy.
Billie Burke, the actress, reported |
$500 in jewels stolen at San Fran
cisco.
The interstate commerce commits
sion dismissed the complaint Of the
Nebraska state railway commission
against the Burlington alleging unrea-
sonable rates on cattle, hogs and
sheep.
The death Is announced of Sir An
drew Noble, an authority on artillery
explosives.
Senator Kern, the Democratic lead
er, says that he would support the
main features of the administration
defense program.
William p. Stedman, 70. a former
private in the Fourth Michigan regt
ment during the civil war, and the
captor of Jefferson Davis after the fall
of Richmond. is dead.
Al Ringing, one Of the circus Ring
lings, was injured about the head in
an auto accident when en- route with
a party of friends to attend the Pur-
due-wisconsin football game.
| The largest chrysanthemum in this
country, measuring II feet in diam
eter, will be in Cleveland Nov. for
exhibition at a flower show there.
The first order for Red Cross Christ
mas seals has come from Korea.
Capt. Boyd, naval attache Of the
Germany embassy at Washington, has
been promoted to a full captaincy.
The most advanced means Of safe
guarding workers were discussed al
conferences by delegates to the fourth
annual congress of the National Safe
ty council in Philadelphia. Arthur T
Morey Of Granite City, ILL.,, was elect
ed president.
Premier Asquith has recovered from
his recent illness sufficiently to 60 u
the country.
Forty men and women were injure'
when the Lackawanna ferry boa
Netherland crashed into the Barrow
street pier at New York during fog
The Lima Locomotive corporation
has received a $1,50O,0 order for 5
engines from the Illinois Central raj
road.
John C.. Reading, manager Of tn
Boston aviation school, and Phili
Bullman of Maiden we're killed Will
making an experimental flight in a
aeroplane over the marshes of Wes
t Lynn, Mass.
e There are approximately $4,000 Bri
ish prisoners of war in Germany.
More aliens departed from II
a United States in August than arrive
o Aliens to a total of 41,737 departe
y while 27,413 arrived.
II was announced here that Ric
8 mond (va.) financiers, acting for Il
n United States Steel corporation, ha'
l. an option on the Tredegar Iron Worl
:. plant. The price is said to
$3,000,000.
It A contest is about 20 be waged B
e tween the liquor interests and the d
= element for the control of Boonvil
W Mo. one of the last strongholds OF G
LIQUOR interests in that part OF Z
state.
p Sir John A. Simon, home secretal
Is announced in parliament that the &c
ID ernment has no intention OF interim
h Bulgarians at present, notwithstandi
the fact that England has declar
!. war against Bulgaria
When her husband, L. ID. Miller.
came Jealous because her male frien
went into raptures over her TAFT
- marks, Mrs. Mabel Miller returned
III her mother at Detroit.
The first firing across the
1e crande in more than three weeks
In curred Sunday near the Mercet
n (Tex) pumping plant
Robert Hamer, so years old, "
ei claims to be an American milliona
w and the owner of much property
ne washington, has been arrested at
Vi erpool for not registering as an ali
New York will ship $4,000 mules
:. the allies in q few weeks. max
az s1ao. .00o, 900 worth of mules
horses taken from this country.