Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-10-18
NEVIS IF TIE 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.

John Cook, living in Massac county, H., shot himself through the throat and when the wound did not prove fa- tai crawled into straw stack and set it afire.
 Precious stones may now be i'm ported into the United States through the mails.
 Conductor Benjam Fairchild and Brakeman Carl H. Hinde, both of Cumberland, Md, were killed when an excursion train on the Western Maryland railroad collided with an other.
 Official announcement of the agree ment reached between the Hudson & Manhattan railroad and it's employees disclosed that the company is not obliged to recognize the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
 
 Traces of oil have been found at 1913 feet at an Ullin (Ill.) well. Stock holders and farmers are pouring into the town.
 Miss Helen Macumber, 15, jumped to safety from a second-story window when fire destroyed John Bakers store and several other business houses of the town of Essex, III.
 Recognition of the union and rein statemcnt of strikers were the chief provisions of contract signed at Mus kogee, Ok, by which the local trac- tion strike was ended.
 The German diet has decided to seize the stocks of tobacco throughout the empire The issuance of tobacco tickets will follow the seizure.
 German business interests in South America have been officially advised that submarines will sink no ships be- tween North and South American ports.
 The migration of negro laborers from the south to the north, where the war has resulted in scarcity of European immigrant laborers, attracts the attention of the department of labor.
 In defiance of possible lurking sub marines, the White Star liner Adri- atic, the queen of the munitions fleet has sailed for England, carry ing 18,000 tons of war supplies.
 Mrs. Amelia Dudek, tried for the murder of the Rev. Henry Japeski, Catholic priest, at St. Paul, was found not guilty but insane by jury.
 Norway's losses at sea from the opening of the war up to Oct. 10, as the result of mines and submarines, are I'll vessels, of total of 235,000 tons.
 Adam Schubert, a millionaire farm CT and land owner of Lsrain county, O., burned his country home, failed in an attempt to hang himself and ended his life by cutting his throat.
 Popular use of the term "highbrow" to express scorn of intellectual things is condemned by President John H. Hibben of Princeton university.
 Gov. K. Livingston Beckman and United States Senator Henry F. Lip pitt were renominated by the Rhode Island Republican convention.
 Private Herbert Glaser, 20 years old, of battery, First Indiana field artil- lery, accidentally shot and killed hlm- self at Point Isabel, Tex, while clean ing a pistol.
 Willys-Overland stockholders will get cash quarterly dividend of $1,- 100000 on Nov. l.
 One man was shot and killed and four others probably mortally wound ed during general battle following a school election at the Beech Grove precinct, in Breathitt county, Ky.
 Three men were killed and seven injured in q collision between two freight trains on the C., G., c. & St. L. railway at Fernbank, O..
 Dr. Arthur l.. Hunt, who assisted the health department in observing persons coming to the District of Go lumbia from communities infected with infantile paralysis. is dead o that disease.