The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-02-19
A q Davis. ipare Of the Thirty-sixth

railroads and the American, Adams
and Wells Fargo express companies,
restraining them from carrying liquor
into Daviess county.
The senate has confirmed the ap-
pointment of Otto Praeger of Texas
to be second assistant postmaster
general.
Frank Anderson of Mednota, ILL.,,
arrested and taken to Henry county
to tell what he knew OF the death OF
Roy Lenox of Dixon, confessed that
he murdered the man with an AK.
The funeral of II victims of the re-
cent Zeppelin raid, which was held in
the church of the Notre Dame de la
Croix, at Menlfmontant, brought out
a immense throng.
In letter Admiral Dewey described
the coast Of Long Island as the most
unprotected and most easily attacked
portion OF the coast of the United
States" Admiral Dewey said that only
a powerful navy could prevent an in
vasion
Harold l.. Severely, the youth who
shot four persons, one MORALLY, in AL
bany, was committed to Matteawan
state hospital for the criminal insane
by County Judge Arlington.
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A wireless dispatch reports that n
French cruiser had arrived off the Vir-
ginia capes and was patrolling there
to prevent the Appam from escaping
| from Newport News.
Two women were killed in mysteri-
| Gus assault in the home of G. w. ST.
| Clair, a railroad worker. at Mingus.
Tex. Mrs. st. Clair and Mrs. Will Will
kins were beaten to death with an iron
bar No cleWs.
George Burch of Bonham, Tex, just
coughed himself out of an illness OF
| IL years duration. Physicians said
his coughing spells were due to tuber-
culosis. But he coughed up collar
button swallowed when a boy and is
getting well.
Three men were drowned at the wa
| terworks lake at Forum, Ok, when
they were trying to rescue Miss Stella
Anderson, who went through the ice.
Prince Leopold of Bavaria will be
appointed to command a German
Turkish army in an attack on the
Suez canal, according to the Bayer
ische Burier of Munich.
Creation of a national Hawaiian
park including the crater areas anG
natural wonders of the islands anG
volcanoes is proposed in a bill intro
duced in the lower house by the com
mittee on public lands.
The Russian government has pro
hibited the importation of bound
books.
1t is rumored that I. T. T. Lincoln
former spy, who escaped from custod!
in Brooklyn a few weeks ago, is nov
en- route to Europe.
Charged with forcing their two chill
dren, 6 and years old, to remain il
the cold until their feet were so badl
frozen that amputation was necessary
]. A. Clark and his wife, negroes, ar
| in ioil OF DriotnI Oh
Pope Benedict has appointed the RI
Rev. John J. Lawler, auxiliary bisho
of the archdiocese of st. Paul, MINI
to be bishop Of the diocese of Lead
s. d.
Robert B. Briggs, 81 years old, Il
charge of the United States weathe
bureau at Phoenix, Ariz., is dead, TO
lowing a five days illness. During tn
recent storm and floods in Arizona b
was constantly at his post.
Too much water defeated the drys
Sugar Creek township, near Teri
, Haute, Ind, when a prohibition vot
, was taken. The floods marooned tn
dry voters.
Robert H. Perry, 103 years old, sal
, to be the oldest Arkansan, is dead q
/ his home at Conway. He was too oil
for service in the civil war.
Otto Ruehle, Socialist member of tn
reichstag, has followed the example {
DR.. Karl Liebnecht by withdrawn
from the Socialist group in the reicl
3 stag.
James Wilson Guiteau, q brother
Charles J. Guiteau, who assassinate
President Garfield, is dead at b
, home in Dobbs Ferry.
Fire in the heart Of the business di
2 trict of Toledo, o., caused damage est
mated at 100000.
= A general battle over the possessic
a of land in the Kentucky mountains,
. which one man was killed and thrt
others badly wounded, was reporte
from Floyd county.
a Miss Lena Keyser Of Schenectad
d n. Y, was shot and killed by John
4 Pierce of Delenson, N. Y, to who
Z she was engaged. He afterward sh
himself.
/ The steamer Harvard, loaded wi
q. passengers from Los Angeles, ramm'