The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-04-22
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News Condo nsation he
viewed Without Comment-All
Nations Find Something 10
Edify and Instruct

PIlCHeQ bdlue Win Officers VINO al
tempted 10 arrest him.
Frank A. Lowden has become an
avowcd candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor Of Illinois.
Chief of Police Harper of Poplar
Bluff, Mo, began crusade against
diaorderly houses and gambling.
Alter undergoing an hour OF cross
examination in court, Mrs. Manda Ha-
zelbaker of Prescott. Kan, "A years
old, fell back in the witness chair and
died
Hubert George de Burgh Claiming,
second Marquis OF Clanricarde, is dead
IL London. He owned about $1,000
acres OF Irish land. He was born in
1882.
Eleven hundred and eighteen per
sons sailed from Seattle for Alaska as
passenger\ on five steamers. This is
the largest\ Milling to Alaska for sin
gle day sinc\the klondike stampede.
Notices announcing a wage increase
of 10 per cent Tor all miners were
posted at all the larger mines in the
Leadville district.
Although 100000 worth of repairs
must be completed within a month,
the Erie canal will be opened for the
seasons traffic May Is.
The Japanese fruit steamer Ide
Maru made Honolulu with a jury rud-
der after detour southwark of 100
miles.
A formal charge OF conspiracy to
murder David Phillips OF Bunker Hill.
Kan, was placed against Wilbert Rock
and Phillips wife, Mrs. Lucille Phil
lips.
The senate immigration committee
decided to recommend passage OF the
Burnett Immigration bill without
am6I dment
Mrs. Lillian Dieber and her two
young daughters were suffocated in
fire which swept the Dieber home in
Detroit
Election of "Bill" Sapp as national
committeeman by the Kansas Demo
cratic state convention was interpret
ed as defeat of the federal faction OF
the party.
Frank Hitchcock has obtained con-
troll of the Kentucky Republican dele
cation and will swing the votes TO the
strongest candidate at the Chicago
convention.
A national convention representa-
tive OF all branches OF the tobacco in
dustry will be held in Washington
May %.
Prisoners in the Cherokee Kan0
county Jail are wearing shoes with
rubber soles, owing to the discovery
that some had taken steel springs
from their shoes and used them as
saws.
The ideal town has been found. It
is Warren, Ill, and men do not spit on
the streets nor swear at their wives,
according to Mrs. A. K. Garfield.
mayor
Typhus has broken out at Hurley,
n. NJ, the third case in this county
within three weeks.
The Southern Pacific machine
shops, a roundhouse. three engines
and two coaches we're destroyed by
fire at Naco. Sonora.
Meredith Nicholson OF Indianapolis,
an author, practically has been agreed
upon by President Wilson and Score
tary Baker for assistant secretary of
war
a jury brought in a verdict of muir
der In the first degree against Joe Nc
Cowan of Stuttgart Ark, and sen
fenced him 10 death in the electric
chair.
The semiannual conference of the
board of bishops OF the Methodist
Episcopal church will be held at the
home of Mrs. Sarah B. Cochran at
Dawson, Pa.
The first married men under the
group system were called up by the
British war department. They range
from 20 to 80 years Of age.
The monthly statement of untitled
orders of the United States Steel cor
poration again broke all records. The
orders stood at 1881 ,O01 tons, an in
crease of $3.50 tons.
The rivers and harbors appropria-
ton bill carrying $40, 100000 was
passed by the house by vote of 21O
to 1873.
A motor ambulance unit for the
Russian army, the gift OF prominent
Americans, will be formally turned
over TO the Russian government.
Harold Eckman, a San Francisco
theater usher. has brought a 500, 900
alienation suit against John D.
Spreckles, Jr.
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