Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-09-27
NEWS IF THE WEEK
 FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
 ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condensation of Weeks News Re- viewed Without Comment-All Nations Find Something to
 Edify and instruct.

Missing somewhere in France" was the word received from the Brit ish war office by J. M. Reeves of Springfield, Mo-, of his son, Robert Reeves, 25 years old.
 In tank" fight on the Somme front Canadian casualties were 400 killed, 1000 wounded and 300 missing. This brings Canadian casualties to about 10000.
 Admiral Mayo reported that 12- inch gun on the battleship Michigan had exploded during firing tests. Farmers in Oklahoma are having difficulty getting cotton pickers, though they are offering $3 and $4 a day.
 J. F. Crimson, pioneer cattle own CT, was killed on his ranch near Plains, Ok. when he was caught in stampede of cattle and trampled to death.
 
 Nine stores and 10 houses were de- stroyed by a fire originating in a blacksmith's shop on the main street at Erie. Mich. The loss is $1o0,00O. F. A. Ball and Andrew s. Dowd, on trial at Little Rock, Ark, on charges of making false reports to the comp troller of currency while officers of the American National bank. pleaded guilty and were sentenced.
 The request of 300 members of the Second New York infantry to remain on border duty after they had been ordered hor1e has been granted.
 
 William J. Bryan started on his sec ond tour of Wyoming in support of President Wilson and the Democratic ticket, with program calling for a number of speeches.
 A son was born to Dr. and Mrs. Paul Samuel Reinsch at Pekin, China. Dr. Reinsch is United States minis ter. Mrs. Reinsch, before her mar riage, was Miss Alma Moser of Wis consin.
 Woman suffrage and prohibition ap- parently have been adopted by the voters of British Columbia, according to incomplete returns received from the general election.
 
 Railroad and telegraphic communi- cation between Fl Paso and Chihua- hua City has been resumed.
 Harry Rowland of Los Angeles, a newspaper reporter, wrote the story of his proposed suicide and then carried out the plan.
 M. G. Roberts of Rupert, Vt., was killed at Shawnee, Ok, in a fall of 1.200 feet in an aeroplane.
 
 King Haakon of Norway declared in speech that the Scandinavian na- tions were united in their desire to remain neutral.
 Illinois has two Frank Lowdens, Georgios Kavalageopolous, a Greek, asked the court to give him a new name. Judge Heard suggested Frank Lowden," and the Greek assented.
 
 Press dispatches report food riots at Chemnitz, Saxo1y, in which 40 ci- vilians were killed.
 Small towns are "churched to death," John c. Adams, publisher of Peotone, H., told convention of sub urban publishers.
 Billy Sunday, the evangelist, stopped his meeting at Detroit when the mother refused to remove a small child which was playing about the aisle.
 Only two of the gold mines along the mother lode of the Amador (Cal.) company are in operation, as a result of the strike order affecting 1,5OO men. The United States cruiser Memphis, on the rocks at Santo Domingo, will be total loss and naval officials are confining their efforts to salvaging her guns, engines and other gear. The minimum wage principle as de- tended and attacked by speakers be- fore the national conference of Cath olic charities in session at Washing ton.