The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-11-06

ters is to devote a whole season to
American drama.
1t has been revealed bv questions
put to the government that the mar
gus OF Lansdowne and Earl Curzon
uecllned TO accept salaries when they
received their appointments.
A rifle purchased by Abraham Lin.
coin and Henry Brooner for SIS, and
which was used by the famous war
president in deer hunting, brought
s225 in a sale of Lincoln relics at
New York.
Hudson Maxim consulted with Sec
retary Daniels regarding a device of
MS Tor timing the explosive of tor
pedoes from aeroplanes.
henry Schooling, Al years old, shot
himself through the heart with a shot
gun at his home near Sturgeon, Mo-,
after quarrel with a neighbor.
Gov. Dunno has issued his annual
Thanksgiving proclamation.
Thirteen of the II guards at the
Laurel, Va, reformatory have struck
because of new regulations forbidding
them to smoke or chew tobacco in the
presence of boy prisoners.
An Anglo-Franco Russian Joint
noted dated Oct. 19, in which Japan
was invited to join the allies agree
ment not to make separate peace
treaties with the Teutonic powers and
an acceptance, Signed the same day
by Ambassador Inoye, was published
by the government.
uaited States immigration inspec.
tors raided tho Pacific Mail steamer
mongolia and captured Sc Chinese
stowaways at San Francisco.
Blshop Alexander Nemilowsky Of
New York City, head of the Russian
Orthodox Church of America. is do.
fendant in suit for $4,000, charging
slander, filed by the Rev Timothy w.
Peshkoff.
p. virginia is after delinquent taxpay-
>ers, and has unearthed a claim against
Thomas +. Ryan, multimiIlionaire. for
Sl59,757. which representatives of
Ryan has expressed willingness to
pay. without contest.
Fresident .J.AE. Welborn of the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron company has an
nounced that the company has begun
filling large order for steel bars and
wire, both plain and barbed, for the
French government.
= Ine nrst referendum of any Ameri-
can political party to nominate candi-
dates for president and. vice-president
ebegan when blanks were sent to all
members of the Socialist party. .
Lieut. Gov. Frank B. Barnard. sue-
cial representative of the Dominion of
Canada, was the central figure on the
program Of Canada Day" at the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition.
wv. R. Miller. a Pittsburg engineer
VINO made a tour ofcsauthern points
seeking the best location. for a big
steel plant, is authority for the state
ment that Richmond. Va, has been
:, ]. z: Cara, ,Carranzista consul, de-
MED. that Mexican bandits wounded in
the battle with American soldiers at
Ojo de Aqua had .been.taken to Mata-
moros for treatment
An investigation is under way to de-
terlnips whether the government will
buy at a4tSi0p fhe ship Eastland.
which eyertfrneI IN. the Chicago river
last JULY fs1ryfns, more than 500 per-
sons tosAsF deaths
|. The Mryard corporation announced
sifts 70 Harvard college totalins' s141.-
j $3.50: III.
= Andrew Fisher. ffhe premier Of Aus
.trAia, hss accepted the post of high
commissioner of Australia, in London.
~ S, f-+ - -
= A'bug with'an appetite for lead pipe
is responsible for the perforation of
cable covers instead of electrDlysis,
according to Albert Schuler of Santa
Barbara, Cal.
S,y&ss < fsss
y Ralph. J.. Blair and DIR. Thomas Ad-
.deis were found guilty in San Fran
cisco of eonspiring to hire men in the
United States for British military
seryice. - =, -. -
Mrs. L. Brown, 60 years old, of
Gamma, Mo-. vas killed when the ma
chine in which she was riding crashed
through a low abutment on a bridge
and fell into ditch. -,
The interstate commerce. commits
sion authorized the establishment of
commodity rates from Memphis,
Tenn, to points in Illinois, indiana,
Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan. Minnesota,
Missouri, Ohio. South Dakota and
Wisconsin. pending the commissions
hearing Feb, II. next
+. The, Echo de-. Beige says the Ger
mans have killed 1859 Belgian civil
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