Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-08-16
NEWS IF THE WEEK
 FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
 ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condensation of Weeks News Re Viewed Without Comment-All Nations Find Something to
 Edify and Instruct.

Gen. Cipriano Castro, former presi- dent of Venezuela, has arrived in Porto Rico from New York
 Knights of Pythias brought to a close their supreme convention in Portland, Ore, after sessions extend ing 10 days. John J. Brown of Van dalia, H., was installed as supreme chancellor.
 Andre Godin, the Egyptologist and poet, has been killed in France by an aerial torpedo as he was leaving a communication trench at the back of the French lines.
 President Wilson has just signed the act of congress creating the Lassen Volcanic National Park in California. The new park contains 82,SS0 acres.
 Brigadier General Pershing, com mander of the American troops in Mexico, wants screened mess rooms and kitchens.
 Secretary Daniels, in an address at the annual meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence Society of America, expressed the belief that "the day is coming when total abstinence will pre- vail in America'
 Seventeen brigadier generals have been placed on the reserve section of the French army by order of minis ter of war.
 Miss Helen Stewart, 22 years old. school teacher, who Is held at Superior. Wis. on a charge of shooting Dr. J. G. Barnsdale, has refused to add to her statement of the affair, repeating that she had tried to blind him because he had mistreated her."
 Subsecretary of Foreign Relations Amador of Mexico is dead after an ill., ness of 10 days.
 A circular Issued by an importing firm quoting prices on dyestuffs brought to this country by the sub marine Deutschland shows that some grades of the product are valued at $70 a pound.
 A personal letter from President Wilson to the kaiser. touching on con ditfons in Poland. was delivered to Foreign Secretary von Jagow by Am bassador Gerard.
 The state of Illinois Is now officially free from foot and mouth disease. l
 J. B. Malone, former superintendent of schools of Cotton county, Ok, shot and killed himself and his daughter, Lavinne, years old, at Walter, Ok, and wounded another daughter, Juan ita, 12.
 General Callaris, Greek minister of war, has resigned.
 The famous bells from Salzburg cathedral have been melted down for war munitions.
 Six thousand citizens have com pleted their course of military instruc- tion at Plattsburg, each receiving his discharge.
 A. B. Stickney, founder of the Chi cago Great Western, and constructor of other lines, is dead after an illness of four weeks.
 After struggle shark seven and half feet long and weighing 225 pounds was hooked and shot in the bathing center of Rockaway Beach.
 The president has recently signed bill appropriating $135, 900 to assist in the elimination of infantile paralysis.
 The Portuguese congress was ap- prised that England would loan sums sufficient to cover the cost of partici- patton in the war
 Burton Harris, laborer of Los An geles. Cal, received a message that wealthy uncle had left him $200, ,000.
 Vice Admiral Hikonojo Kamimura of the Japanese navy is dead.
 Profits on war contracts to the amount of $760.Q00 have been v6lun- tarily returned to the British treasury by E. w. Baillie of Hamilton. Ont president of the Canadian Cartridge