The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16

many lIOlll july " StDitlAlOtA VI lA4Ao
year was 9S1. as compared with 1.60S
during the same period last year.
One of the historic oaks under
which the Republican party was born
at Jackson, Mich, in 1854, has been
seriously damaged by storm.
Thomas Capello was found guilty
by a jury in the Franklin county cir
cult court of the murder of Robert T.
| Hill, chief of police of Senser, H.. on
| July II. He was sentenced TO serve
life term IN the Chester peniten-
tiary.
7. c. Betterton, general manager of
the Tennessee Coffin and Casket COM
| pany at Chattanooga, was arrested,
! charged with violating the penal code
of the United States by shipping
whisky in caskets sent out from his
factory without showing their con.
| tents.
For the first time in the history of
the state, girl ushers served in the
| Washington Park Methodist Episcopal
church, Bridgeport, Conn.
On pleas of guilty under nine
charges of embezzlement, Irving
Hirsch Of Little Rock, Ark. was SEN
fenced to one minute of imprison.
ment in each case.
Chief of Police w. B. Nichols OF
Oklahoma City, Ok, was shot three
times by Patrolman John Lung in a
fight which occurred in the police sta
| ton.
Yale college has opened its 25Oth
The Army Nurses of the Civil War
elected Mrs. Alice c. Rivey of Jeffer
son City, Mo-, president.
The Spanish steamer MILAN Car.
risco, of SGT tons, foundered off Luar
ca. 1t was reported that her entire
crew was lost.
A verdict of $4,000 was returned by
a jury in the Christian county Qll }
circuit court in favor of Frank J. Wot
iowa of Belleville against Mrs Ora
Belle Ridgley of Assumption and ]. T
Long.
In the midst of a session of court
70 hnarinD
Judge Sellers at Conway, Ark, sus
| pended business in that line to per
form the ceremony uniting c. ]. Yam
cey and Miss Lille NJ. Roberts.
Ellison Scott. a negro, was found
| guilty of the murder of his sister-in
law in circuit court at Murphysboro
| H., and sentenced to he hanged. I'm
mediately after being sentenced he
escaped from Jail. but was captured
Reports Of five of Pittsburg':
largest banks, carrying the payroll:
of big corporations in the Pittsburs
district, show that the October pay
will approximate $4,000, 900, exceed
ing that of any month by at least 1;
per cent.
Sangamon river water is nothins
less than diluted sewage, says DR.. C
st. Clair Drake, secretary of the stat,
board of health.
Included in gifts announced by tn,
Harvard college corporation was let
ter written by Thomas jefferson il
1919, in which 1t was stated that Har
ward students of those days confined
their drinking to water.
A series Of earthquakes was expert
enced in Utah, Nevada, the northern
part of California, Oregon and Idaho
The German naval base al Zeebrug
&c has been bombarded again. Ffv,
allied aeroplanes attacked Zeebrugge
but only three returned. One wa.
shot to earth by a German gun anC
another was forced to land on Dutcl
soil.
A federal indictment was returne,
against the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad, charging it with re
batting.
The Russian Red Cross society ha
published list of As sisters of mere,
who perished in the bombardment O
a hospital by the Austrians and Ger
mans.
The pension office mailed to Wash
ington addresses hundreds of pension
checks for civil war veterans VIII
were attending the G. A. R. encamr
ment.
British military authorities hav
recognized the importance of machin
guns by the formation Of a specis
machine gun corps.
Fire destroyed the Salisbury roa
military hospital at Plymouth, Eng
but all the patients were safely r,
] moved.