Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-08-16

DroKen out III canton.
 Commander Leigh c. Palmer was nominated by President Wilson to be chief of the navigation bureau with rank of rear admiral
 Without debate the senate agreed to the conference report on the army ap- propriation bill carrying $267.597, ,0OO.
 A battery of the Massachusetts na- tional guard, known as the millionaire battery" has declined the war depart ment's offer to muster it out.
 
 Germany has prohibited the inpor- tation of raw tobacco on account of the great stocks already in the empire.
 Postponement from Oct 1 to Nov. 1 of the opening of the mounted service school was announced by the war de- partment.
 All of the ships of the Atlantic fleet except the tender Yankton are engaged in maneuvers off the southern New England coast.
 terrific explosion of gas partly wrecked the Woodraw colliery of the Delaware, Lackawana & Western Coal Go. at Edwardsville, Pa.
 An explosion of ammunition which was about to be shipped from Koenigs- berg, Prussia, caused the death of 30 men and 20 women.
 One death and much damage was caused by storm which swept over Pittsburg and Allegheny county, Pa.
 W. B. Ellis, sheriff of Baylor county, Texas, was knocked down by blow from the handcuffed fists of Steven arrest, and then slain with his own revolver. A mob shot Brown to death.
 Frank Beck, living on the Murphy farm, little west of Litchfield, H., killed himself with a shotgun in corn field.
 The senate and house conferees on the naval bill have voted to report a disagreement of the building and personnel sections.
 "Undiluted Americanism" was adopted as its own by the convention Of the Central German-American Ali ance at Erie, Pa.
 The years naval war game will en- brace nearly half of the Atlantic coast, and will be staged commencing Aug. 29.
 About 1S,000 Austrian prisoners, taken by the Servians and transport ed from the Adriatic to the Island of Anasara. have been taken to France.
 Fred Kruse, 57 years old, killed himself with revolver in the pres ence of his wife in St. Louis.
 Miss Flora Sanders, a sergeant in the Servian army, has arrived at Tou-
  holiday in Ireland.
 The Arkansas state farmers con- vention has adopted resolution en- dorsing the statewide prohibition act that was passed by the last legisla- | ture
 Luther Huitt was arrested in Carter l county and lodged in jail at Center vile, Mo-, by Sheriff Parks, charged with the murder of a young man whose skeleton was found in the woods near Bunker in August, 1913.
 All officers and men dispatched the first of last week on recruiting duty for the Illinois national guard were recalled by Adjt. Gen. Dickson, who received orders from Maj. Gen. Thom- as Barry.
 Gloom has spread over the army camps at Fl Paso, Tex, with the news that watermelons have been banned by the authorities because the rinds draw flies.
 The Farmers State Bank of Flor ence, a suburb of Omaha, was robbed of about $1,000 by automobile bandits. Two men drove up to the bank in moto rear shortly after noon. One re- mained in the car on guard while the other made the cashier turn over all available cash and currency.
 
 The convention of the National As sociation of Grganists, being held in Springfield, Mass, voted to send President Wilson their resolution that