Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-05-24


 Gen. Gene Baptiste Marchland, one of the most notable figures in the French army, has been killed at the front.
 A strike of union telegraph opera tors employed by the Western Union in Washington w7s averted when the company reinstated II telegraphers recently discharged.
 The tank steamship Standard Ar row, the largest vessel of it's kind in the world, was launched at Philadel- phia The vessel is 468 feet long and has capacity of 4,0O0.000 gallons.
 Consul-General Skinner in a mes sage to the state department an nounced that the British steamer Etria has been sunk by a German sub marine.
 Practically all the striking work1nen at the plants of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company, in East Pittsburg, Pa, have returned to work
 J. w. Samples, 72 years old, has en- tered Marshall college, at Huntington, W. Va, as a student.
 Coffee will displace beer at the let ter carriers state convention in Plain field, N. J., on May 30.
 Mrs. Carl Hyne of New Harmony, Ind, was bitten by bear. Gypsies camped near New Harmony had two bears and Mrs. Hyne was caressing one when the animal sank it's teeth in her arm.
 Gov. Dunne of Illinois called at the White House and invited President Wilson to address the Illinois Bar as- sociation in Chicago June 8
 All telegraph operators on the Penn sylvanfa lines east of Pittsburg have been notified of wage increase.
 Seventeen firemen were overcome by an explosion of gas during fire at the Oriental Tea company's plant, in Milwaukee.
 Shocked by too fashionable dis play of ankles by several telephone girls on the streets, the head operator at Paterson, N J., has ordered all To- cal hello" girls to wear long skirts.
 
 The house adopted the conference report on the bill amending the minimum deposits per month from $10O to $1,00O.
 Dr. Clemens Delbrueek, German minister of the interior and vice chan eellor, has resigned.
 The Hansa Steamship company of Bremen, the third largest German navigation concern, reports it's net profits of 1915 were $8000, as com pared with $2,20O,o00 in the year be- fore the war.
 Samuel Friedman of New York thought he knew Mrs. Katherine Phip- pard and gave her a friendly greeting by skipping her on the back Three months in jail; now you'll know bet ter" said the court.
 William White, the discharged ne. gro trooper who killed two negroes and wounded white woman, was wounded and captured in battle, aft CT an exchange of shots with soldiers from Fort Leavenworth
 The board of education barred Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Ven ice" from the New Haven (Conn.) schools.
 Adj. Gen. Harry F. Gamble of Colo rado requested the resignations of all officers of the field and staff of the militia.
 terior, granted full citizenship rights to ITO residents of the Yankton Sioux reservation
 
 A forest fire burned 2,500 acres in the Jemez division of the Santa Fe national forest
 A resolution to pledge congress to support all efforts of the president to maintain "even-handed and undiscrim- mating" neutrality and facilitate the establishment of permanent peace was introduced by Senator Gore
 Tenants in a New York building kicked a stick of dynamite around the railways for three days before a la borer discovered the nature of the football.
 Gov. Whitman has been requested by the war department to select three enlisted members of the national guard between the ages of 19 and p as candidates for West Point
 Two Of Indiana's famous sons Meredith Nicholson and Booth Tark- ington-put their names to the enlist ment roll for sumTser military train ing at E0rf Ear7 iarnir IIo YY-ie.ori