Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-08-30
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'o99iSA0 LSlluuS udS SIdL6Q that 43O,000 iron crosses have been distributed since the outbreak of the war
 Robert Quarles, 1O4 years old, and Jane Stewart, 91, wards of the county poor house, have been married. Quarles is native of Kentucky. The couple have departed for Cooper Hill, Tenn, to start life anew"
 
 Mrs. Frances c. Axtell, president of the Washington State Congressional union opposing Wilson, has resigned her office and will stump the state in the presidents behalf, according to telegram received at the White House.
 Three men were killed when an au- tomobile in which they were riding was struck by Burlington train eight miles east of Lincoln, Neb. Two heavy cranes, said to have been overloaded broke at the National foundry, at Erie, Pa, killing at least seven workmen and injuring several others
 Lightning ignited a 37,000-barrel steel tank belonging to the Gulf Re- lining Go. at Port Arthur, Tex. The loss is estimated at $300,0oO
 The British steamer Quebra, 2,S01 tons, has foundered after striking a rock west of the Big Basket island off the coast of Kerry. Thirty-four of the crew have been landed at Ventry The captain and two others are miss ing
 The street car service i'll Chatta- nooga, Tenn, has been suspended fol lowing the action of more than 100 reserve carmen joining the strike.
 
 Capt. George Stillson, commanding the expedition of three tugs engaged in the salvaging of the $1,0O0,000 cargo of the sunken steamer Merida off the Virginia eapes, says the wreck has been located
 
 Three children of LaIo Blea, a rancher, were drowned in Penusta creek, near Clayton, N. M, when a wagon in which they were fording the creek overturned cowboy lassoed the mother and hauled her to shore. Secretary of State Lansing has ad- mitted that he instructed Ambassador Penfield at Vienna, and Gerard. at Berlin to make formal inquiry of the German and Austrian governments for facts concerning the attacks by submarine on the American steamer Owega.
 Mrs. Ethel B. Ellis, B years old and Mrs. John Bonnell, GA, both o1 Tulsa, Ok, were killed when an auto 1 mobile in which they were speeding from Denver to Estes Park was struck by an electric train.
 Dr. T. T. Matlock, 35, member of a prominent family, shot his wife then himself. There is no hope for Mrs. Matlock's recovery. Three young children of the couple witnessed the shooting which followed a quarrel.
 
 Mrs. Julius Cojensko of Greenwich, Conn.,, is 27 years old and is the mother of 13 children, eight of whom are dead. Triplets and twins were born in the last seven months, but only lived a few hours, The mother is in good health.
 A government inquiry into the exc cution of Sheehy Skeffington and two other Irishmen named MaeIntyre and Dickson, who took part in the Dublin uprising in Porto Bello barracks, April 26. has begun.
 Six men ir brokers office were lined up against the wall in room high up in the Baltimore building, Chicago. downtown skyscraper, by two robbers, who took about $l,000 from them.
 Alvan F. Holbrooze, well-known playwright, is dead here after he had been thrown from the running board of an automobile in which he was rid ing from Plandome to his home at Port Washington,
 Private households in Vienna are now included in the "meatless days"