The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-08-05


effective for the treatment of infantile
paralysis
Sheriff Fred J. Collins of Musketon
Mich. has taken charge OF his wi1r
Sarah, whom he Will return to Muske-
ton TO face charge OF aiding two
prisoners 10 escape from the county
Jail
a meteor. the unburied part OF
which is as large as five-room house.
fell on a farm 20 miles west OF Hot
Springs. Ark.
The army appropriation bill, the
last of the big preparedness measures.
has passed the senate. The bill car
ries appropriations of approximately
s3OS. 100000
Organization OF all of the working
men and women of the United States.
including the systematic collection of
funds from both employers and EN-
ployes for local anti-tuberculosis cam
paigns. is proposed by the National As
sociation for the Study and Proven
tion OF tuberculosis.
Lieut.. Otto Parschau. recently given
the decoration of Pour lie Merte for
bringing down his eighth enemy aero
plane has been killed in an air battle
of h.i Nh oh
have been closed six months are be
ing opened by Pittsburg dyers. Part
Of the dye cargo of the Deutschland
was consigned here.
Robert f. Pruitt. Sc years old. of
Detroit, Mich. climbed to the top of
an electric sign on the roof of the Ter
minal hotel, at St. Louis, 10 feet
above the sidewalk.
With practically only one county miss
ing. the totals tabuiated in the recent
Texas primary showed an increased
lead in favor of the submission of a
prohibition amendment. The figures
were: For. 1906; against, 154,72O.
Thirty-five persons were injured
when a Midland Valley train ran into
an open switch at Tulsa, Ok, and
crashed head-on into freight train.
President Wilson has signed the riy-
ers and harbors bill. carrying an ap-
preparation of $42,SS6.OS5.
Charles 8. Hamlin of Massachusetts,
governor of the federal reserve bank,
was nominated for another term by
President Wilson.
Great britain is not firing OF the
war: on the contrary, the country has
never been more hopeful and united,
said Lord Derby, undersecretary for
war, in an interview.
Six civilians have been executed by
the Germans at Client, charged with
war treason"
The Standard Oil Co of Louisiana
has announced 1-cent reduction in
the price of gasoline at all Arkansas
stations.
| The Austro-Hungarian foreign min
lister has handed a note TO the neutra
representatives. in Vienna, protesting
| against the sinking of Austrian mer
/ chantmen by entente allied suhma
! rines.
President Wilson has definitely de
| cided to remain in Washington, NJ
matter how late congress is in SEES
sion.
A pageant depicting the entry o
! the MOrmOns into Utah nearly g
years ago and into Mexico in 1885,
was presented before Gen. Pershinl
and his staff at Colonia Juarez by tn,
| Mormon colony.
tuberculosis has caused the dis
charge of 10000 soldiers from tn,
French army up TO April l of thi:
year.
After being held up since Januar.
on objection of Senator Hitchcock
the nomination of Thomas S. Allen a
United States attorney for Nebraski
has been confirmed by the senate.
Judge and Mrs. H. A. Miller of Lei
anon. H.. celebrated their fiftietl
wedding anniversary.
Twenty-Five thousand employees il
the mechanical division of the For
Motor Car Co, at Detroit, have begu
a two weeks vacation, to end Aug.
William o. Potter. judge of the mt
nicipal court at Marion. ILL.,, has witt
drawn from the race for the Republic
an nomination for state senator fror
the Ffftieth district.
Everod S. Downing, 81 years old.
pioneer in the development Of IN
west. is dead at the home of hi
daughter in Kansas City.
Capt. Sally Louisa Tompkins, SO, tn
only woman ever commissioned as a
officer in the Confederate army.
dead in the Home for Confederat
Women, in Richmond.
Twenty persons were drowned whe
two ferry boats collided with each OIL
er on the Spree, near Berlin.