Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-07-26
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It has been learned that Robert Bacon, former ambassador to France, and Dr. A. P. Strong of the Harvard medical school left Columbus, N. M., for Gen. Pershing's headquarters in Mexico.
 Two British prisoners have been killed by guards in riot in work shops near the detention camp in Berlin.
 A Zeppelin airship which raided Riga was hit by shells from Russian high-angle guns and wrecked.
 Miss Alice Mazerky, former Chi- cago social settlement worker, will not be executed for high treason In Austria, the state department has an- nounced.
 Two hundred fishermen are believed to have lost their lives in monsoon off the coast of Colombo, Ceylon.
 Carl G. Morse and J. E. Barnes pleaded guilty before Judge Latshaw in the criminal court at Kansas City to obtaining motor car under false pretenses. They were sent up for three years each.
 Two Swedish flight lieutenants, Mannstroem and Krues, were killed at Stockholm. Their machine fell from a height of 300 feet.
 Miss Lizzie Lyndon, Miss True Esh- elman and Arthur Larson were killed when their automobile turned over near Kewanee, III.
 Five policemen, answering a hurry call in Kansas City, Kan, were in- jured when front spring of their au- tomobile, running at high speed, col lapsed.
 One man was killed, one probably fatally stabbed and several hurt in a fight between union sympathizers and employees of the Memphis (Tenn.) Street Railway Co.
 A naval court of inquiry into the grounding of the naval collier Hector, abandoned off Charleston, has begun hearing at the Charleston navy yard.
 Four passersby, Asae street oppo- site his locksmitR shop at Newark, N. J., were shot and seriously @w0ur-Sed recently by Calvatore Castronova, 55 years old, an inventor, who suddenly had gone insane, before he set fire to his clothing and burned to death.
 The Germans will commence the manufacture of synthetic rubber on a large scale next month.
 One hundred and sixty laborers at O., struck because of excessive heat.
 J. c. Jackson of Danville, negro, is in jail here following his arrest on warrant charging he collected funds for "the white horse army manual training industrial school and or phans' home" at Danville, a mythical institution.
 The Sioux City Daily News has been sold at auction to Gov. Arthur Capper of Kansas for S1S,000.
 A contract has been signed by the municipality of Bogota, Colombia, and a New York financial concern under which Bogota will borrow $5,000,000.
 The fleet of deep sea treasure hunt ing ships which will seek to recover the million dollars worth of silver bullion aboard the sunken Spanish steamer Merida put into Newport News for repairs.
 Leo Palace, years old, at Joliet H., was attacked by rooster which he was trying to chase and as re suit is in serious condition. The rooster turned on him and pecked him in the head, rendering him uncon scious.
 An American four-masted schooner presumably laden with petroleum, and three Swedish steamers laden with pulp have been captured by German torpedo boats and taken into Swine munde.
 American sheep raisers will receive about $75,000,OO0 for this years woo crop. Average prices during June were 2S.7 cents pound, higher thar for many years.