The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-04-29
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with daily flow of nearly 10000 bar
rels, has been sold at public auction
Rafael Xubaran. former confidential
agent Tor the Mexican government at
Washington, has been appointed mir
lister TO Germany and the adjacent
countries.
4 bill TO make the writing OF a
threatening letter to the president a
lnisdemeanOr was reported :avorably
by the house judiciary committee
August Dieter. Missouri university
student, 26 years Of age. committed
sricide by sending bullet into his
head.
DR.. c. f. Bowden. member of the
Missouri state Republican committee.
was slain when lightning struck his
auto at Appleton City, Mo.
An eight-hOur day is soon to be in
augurated in the miGcontinent oil
fields.
Several hundred wOrkmen held up a
street car elected all the passengers
and broke all the windows on a line
on the south side in Chicago. Bad
service caused the demonstration.
Some modification of the embargo
on exports of dyestuffs so sorely
needed by the American manufacture
ers has been decided upon by the Ger
man government.
Notice was posted in the WHY'S
Overland automobile factory, at To
ledO, o., that wages of all employees
would be increased from to 10 per
cent on June l.
DespOndent because her friends said
she was not goOdlooking. Miss Clara
Swearingen. University OF Illinois CO
ed and daughter of a banker, commit
ted suicide by taking gas.
The Portuguese government has or.
dered the expulsion OF all Germans
over the military age and the intern
ment of all others.
A detachment OF marines from the
Brooklyn navy yard has taken charge
OF the big wireless plant at Tuckerton
and no more messages will be sent
without the sanction Of the depart
ment.
Eighty-five business men and law
yers have enrolled with the speakers
bureau of the National Security league
to conduct meetings in the interest OF
preparedness.
An Exchange Telegraph company
dispatch from JANA states that Italian
troops, as vii as British, French and
Servian, are now on Greek soil.
Guests at the Mundelein banquet
started a campaign to raise $4,000 Il
be offered as a reward for the capture
OF Jean Crones, who slipped arsenic
into the soup.
Very severe earth shocks were re
corded on Georgetown university seis
mographs.
Harry X. Thaw has at last secured
his divorce from Evelyn Nesbit Thav
in the courts at Pittsburg.
Enormous fields of ice that hav,
been on Keweenaw Point. extendin,
into Lake Michigan north and west a,
far as could be seen, broke up befor,
gale.
Another revolution in Haiti is immi
nent. The crisis has been develope,
by the action of President Dartiguen
ave in creating council of state t,
draft a new constitution.
The British admiralty announce
that 40 lives were lost when the Brit
ish steamship Gent was sunk withou
warning by a German submarine
Eight persons were killed and 80 in
jured when the Gilt Edge expires
train on the New Haven railroa
crashed into the rear of local trail
on a siding at Bradford. r. !.
The trade agreement recently mad
between Germany and Roumania pro
vides for the establishment of a sci
ing bureau in Bucharest and a buyiu
bureau in Berlin.
Fighting between government troop
and revolutionists took place at Car
ton, China, when soldiers opposed tn
IN nf b. Ill
Judge Newton in Terre Haute Ind
fined George Baxter $500 and ser
fenced him to the state penal farm 70
$50 days because he borrowed saw
and did not return them.
The impartial asserts IL has learne
that new transatlantic line betwes
vigo, Spain, and New York is 500
to be launched.
Eighty merchantmen with a tots
tonnage OF 100000 were sunk by Gel
man submarines or by mines durin
the month of March.
A Bulgarian convicted OF espionag
was executed. Another Bulgarian
awaiting trial They were caught sp!
ing on the allies at Saloniki.