The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1916-04-08

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$6O,OOO,OOO year for 10 years.
Henry p. Haas of Pittsburg was
elected president of the National AS
ISOLATION of Real Estate Exchanges.
A woman who killed herself by
! drinking poison in a downtown Wash
ingtcn hotel has been identified by
authorities as Madge Suratt.
A reward of $1,000 is offered for
the arrest of Oliver H. Cline, missing
cashier of a Seattle concern. whose
books show defalcations of 100000.
Gross earnings of the Erie railroad
during 1915 were $66,436. 72O. an in
crease of s6,776,494 over 1914, accord
ing to the annual report.
The British steamer Carly has been
picked up, disabled at sea, by the
steamer Fogola, and is being towed to
Halifax.
British casualties in March, as COM
piled from the published lists. amount
ed to 1,1O7 officers and 1887 men.
A dispatch filed at Oldenzaal, Hol-
land, says that many persons lost
their lives in a fire in a powder fac
tory at Troisdorf, near Cologne.
The schooner Metinic, which sailed
from New York on Feb. &c for Ston-
ington, Me-, has been given up as
lost. She carried five men.
A general amnesty proclamation ap-
plying to persons convicted before tri-
bunals Of Alsace and Lorraine has
been issued by Emperor William.
Pennsylvania mine inspectors be-
gan an investigation of the explosion
In the mine of the Conemagh Smoke
less Coal company, at Seward, which
cost the lives of eight men.
Two earthquake shocks occurred at
Panama, one in the morning and the
other in the afternoon.
Fifty freight locomotives were Or
dered by the Pennsylvania lines. The
locomotives will be of the mikado type
and the order win approximate
100000.
The northeastern section of Barton
county, Kan, is said by farmers to be
seriously infested by the Hessian fly.
The Burnett immigration bill. with
its literacy test and Asiatic exclusion
provision unchanged, has passed the
house by vote of 3O8 to 81.
The Hairdressers' guild announced
that after April Is, next, its members
will raise the charge for shaving from
4 cents to cents, and hair-cutting
from 8 cents to 10 cents.
The senate passed the Indian appro-
nriation bill carrying approximately
$12,OOO,00O.
Maj. Gen. George w. Goethals, gov
ernor of the Panama canal zone, has
sailed for Panama on the steamship
Pastores. He said he was confident
that the canal would be opened by
April Is.
Ten thousand Mersey river dock
hands at Liverpool went on strike fol-
lowing a dispute concerning pay for
overtime work.
Before the house public buildings
committee a request for 81, OOO, 900 for
a terminal postoffice at Kansas City,
Mo-, was presented.
The Louisiana state Republican
convention selected IL uninstructed
delegates to the national convention.
A dispatch from Teheran says that
Grand Duke Nicholas has released all
Persians taken prisoner by the Rus
SLAMS.
The police at work on the case of
Miss lola May Cramer, "a, a trained
nurse who was found dead in a Dallas
school yard, are endeavoring to prove
that she was attacked by a Jealous
lover.
Six masked men held up 80 men in
an alleged gambling house in New
York and obtained money and jewelry
estimated at $500.
Final certified statements of the
revenues of the PaHama-Pacific expo
sition submitted to the board Of d.
rectors gave the grand total of re-
ceipts as $12.524,523.4O.
A message from Perugia, Italy, says
thieves entered the sacristy of st.
Peters basilica and stole nine pic
lures Of great value.
DR.. E. P. Beverly of Colon hospital
has been selected to undertake the
cleaning up Of Buena Ventura, the
pest hole Of Colombia.
The withdrawal of the steamship |
Rotterdam Of the Holland-American
line from service was announced at |
the company's offices.
Two American citizens, Arthur Mac |