The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-02-05

NAC BIN l4OulLS eHNIIS VIII btttlu-
Der, 1915, amounted TO S2O9, 800 OOS,
an increase of $32.OI7,712.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
been compelled to interrupt her trip
in the flooded regions, owing TO an
attack Of mumps.
Otis Papier, a driver in Ogara No. 3
mine. Harrisburg. H., was crushed TO
death when a huge slab of slats fell
upon him.
Senator Charles A. CulbersOn Of
Texas has announced that he will be
a candidate in the primaries TO sue.
ceed himself
Government troops have inflicted a
severe defeat upon the Chinese rebels
of Yum Nan province.
NJ. LOnguet, a French Socialist dep
uty, who addressed the British labor
conference, on being questioned re-
garding the French losses said that
SOO,O soldiers had been killed,
100000 wounded and 100000 had
been taken prisoners.
A f. Pritchard, assistant postmas-
ter and superintendent of the fiDan-
cial division of the Salt Lake City
postoffice, was arrested, charged with
the embezzlement of s3,O55 April -,
1914
Aviator Burnside at ithaca, y. Y,
averaged % miles an hour in making
built especially for government use.
The two American soldiers who
swan across the Rio Grande and
were captured by armed Mexicans
have been delivered to the United
States authorities.
At a meeting here 35 Nebraska
leaders of the Progressive party de-
cided to nominate a full state. con-
gressional and presidential electoral
ticket.
The split in Danville, H., over the
wet and dry issue was OvershadOwed
by the city council in passing unani-
mously an ordinance for bond issue
of S250,000 to erect a municipal light
plant.
Payments on the third German war
loan have been completed, the last
installment having been due Jan. %.
The total was 12,160,000 900 marks
($3, 3,O4O, goo, ,0O0).
Surgeon-General Braisted Of the
navy told the house naval committee
that he had recently searched the
country in vain for LOO ounces of
quinine for the American marines at
Haiti, and that he had TO pay S4 an
ounce for 1t instead of the customary
so cents.
The extraordinary raipdity with
which the United States supreme
court has progressed during its pres
ent term has resulted in the court
being iorced to take an indefinite ad-
journment.
Liverpool message TO the EX-
change Telegraph company gives a
report that the Dominion liner Morse
man has been sunk.
The Grand hotel at Wimereux. near
Boulogne, which was occupied as
hospital by 60 or more wounded Brit
ish soldiers, was destroyed by fire.
All the wounded were safely removed.
The government has issued an en-
barge on sugar shipments from ia
maica to other than British posses
sions.
". B. Prescott, former president
of the International Typographical
union. is dead at his home in Chicago
of apoplexy. He was born and buried
in Toronto.
Grip caused 34S deaths in Kansas
in December, according to figures
compiled by the registrar OF the state
board of health.
Mrs. George kOrkett Of New York
had her veil singed off and face blis-
tered when she pulled open a crema-
tory door for a last look at her hus-
band.
The submarine H-3, which ran
aground on a mud flat at San Diego,
was pulled off by the mother ship
Cheyenne.
Herman Lunning, 20 years old, a re-
cluse who lived at Dubuque, Ia, was
found with a piece Of wood six inches
long and nearly one inch vide driven
through his skull.
The entire village of Louise, Miss, !
was destroyed by fire. The Methodist !
church was the only building left !
standing