The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-04-08
A total Of 1888 recruits have been
added to the army in the last 10 days,
the war department announced.


Five men were killed an IL others
injured. some seriously, when boiler
exploded at the Manuel Riddle grist
mill on Peter creek, near Pikeville,
Ky.
Fire destroyed one-fourth OF the
buildings of the Pennsylvania Manu-
featuring Co., at Wyandotte, Detroit
suburb, causing a loss of 100000.
In retaliation for the attack on Ger
man camps by a squadron of French
aeroplanes, seven German aviators
bombarded Saloniki from the air.
Loss estimated at more than
100000 was caused at Houston, Tex,
by fire which started in the cotton
sheds of the Missouri, Kansas & Tex
as railway and spread to a dozen 9th
er buildings and 40 freight cars.
\ full state ticket will be placed IN
the field by the Progressive party in
Missouri this year.
Announcement was made that the
Silk Manufacturers association will
grant the demand of the workers for
a nine-hour day, effective April ).
Ferro-manganese was sold recently
to a Pittsburg steel manufacturer on
the basis of $1,000 a ton. Before the
war it sold for S3S.
A rent-free apartment house for I'M
married working women is provided
for in the will of Charles p. Webster,
a dry goods merchant of New York,
who died March 16, leaving an estate
exceeding $1,OOO,OOO.
II. Ashton Ramsay, 81, chief engi-
neer of the famous Confederate iron
clad Merrimac, and one of the few
surviving members of her crew, is
dead at Baltimore.
Burglars obtained stamps, checks
and cash totaling about $500 from the
postoffice at Brown Branch, Mo-. ac-
cording to information received by
postoffice inspectors.
While raising the window of her
room, Mrs. r. E. Darrow, 81, of De-
catur, ILL.,, fell through the window to
the pavement, 20 feet below, and was
killed.
The city council of FL Paso, Tex,
passed an ordinance providing that
correspondents sending out of the city
matter calculated to injure the gen.
eral business reputation of FL Paso
and known to be false" shall be fined
from s25 to 5000.
Freight rates from the United States
to Panama are increasing rapidly. The
rate on cement has increased from
s1.20 per barrel to $1.55, which is
more than the value of the cement.
One hundred persons were killed
when an ammunition factory at Wells
dorf, in Austria, blew up.
Three former Manitoba ministers
were indicted by a Winnipeg grand
Jury for conspiracy to defraud.
According to the provisions of an
ordinance, druggists in Peoria, ILL.,.
will be required to pay the regular sa-
loon license fee of 1920 annually if
they dispense liquor in quantities of
less than one gallon.
A whistling well at ST. Clair, Mimi,
is to be investigated by state geolo-
gists.
Gen. Grants letter book, from
March 20 to April 9, 1865, including
the letter in which he prescribed the
terms for Lees surrender, brought
$3.50 at sale of autographs in New
York.
The proposed advance in charge for
the privilege of milling grain in tran
sit filed with the state public utilities
commission by the Chicago, Peoria &
st. Louis railroad was suspended until
July rs by an order of the commits
sion.
r. j. Andrews was elected mayor of
Sioux City, Ia, by majority of 1000
votes. A total of $3.50 ballots were
cast
DR.. David De Ross, 70, who went
through the Little Big Horn cam
paign, is dead at Wichita, Kan, from
4 disease he contracted from two ar
row wounds which he received in his
right leg during the memorable fight
under Custer.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre. She il
The second granddaughter of Presi.
lent Wilson.
Two new superdreadnaughts have
been added to the French fleet. They
we're named the France and the Paris.
Thomas ]. Pence, secretary of the
Democratic national committee, is
lead at his home in Washington.
President and Mrs. Wilson attended
ball and sale given in Washington
Wednesday night.
The literacy test was kept in the
immigration bill by the house, by .