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

Seventeen oil experts have left
Pittsburg for. Colombia, South Amer
ica, to explore in the interior of that
country, which is said to be the rich
est in oil in the world.
Petitions were circulated in Rock
Island churches seeking to get the %
cal option proposition ca the ballot
at the spring election.
Charles Dolan and Joseph Greenly
were perhaps fatally injured and 19
other miners were seriously hurt by
an explosion of powder on a work car
in the Apollo mine OF the Pittsburg
Coal company.
The 6-year-old son of Charles Lig-
get Of Gaskins City, H., was badly
injured by the explosion OF a dyna-
mite cap which he had placed on a
stove. The sight of one eye was de-
stroyed.
Manuel Medinavietia, former chief
OF staff TO Francisco Villa at Juarez,
was admitted to the United States by
immigration authorities after a three
days hearing.
The American steamship Ausable,
from Galveston for Es5ierg, Denmark,
taken into kirkwall Jan. II, has been
released.
A fall of IL inches killed Andrew
Myers at Terrell, Tex. He was alight-
ing from his automobile when a mis-
step threw him to the ground, break
ing his neck.
China'S poppy growers, whose busi-
ness soon will be wiped out. are re-
spOnsible for the recent outbreaks, ac-
cording TO Wang Shih Young. editor
of the Shanghai Shin Wen.
The 81 cOnvicts who escaped from
the Arkansas penitentiary. are said
to have been found barricaded in the
hills near Moscow. heavily armed with
guns and ammunition stolen from 3
gun store.
The Texas branch of the Congress
siOnal Union for Woman'S Suffrage
was organized at a gathering of prom
inent Texas women. Mrs. Harris Mas
terson of Houston was elected presi-
dent.
The half yearly statement Of the
American Locomotive Co shows an
Increase in gross earnings OF S9O39,-
$50 for the last six months. The COM
pany had untitled orders amounting
to s52,24O,0OO.
Mrs. Joseph Tumulty. wife of the
secretary to the president, was ope-
rated on for appendicitis
A bill introduced in the Cuban con-
gress provides a credit of $4,000 for
the entertainment OF Col. Roosevelt
during his forthcoming visit.
Charles Douglass, a negro held in
the Greensburg, Pa, Jail under SEN
tenCe of death, attacked his guard and
beat him into insensibility. He then
took the keys and escaped with two
other prisoners.
The United States has notified
Great Britain of its objection TO the
application Of the trading with the
enemy act in a manner affecting
American trade.
Tex, owned by ]. NJ. Guffey Of Pitts
burg, Pa, and associates. has become
a volcano" The crater has widened
to circumference of 100 feet and
around it is piled a cone of mud more
than 80 feet high
The 700 employees of the Davis &
Furber Machine company of North
AndOver, Mass, who struck last week
for an advance in wages. voted to ac-
cept the cOmpany's offer of 10 per
cent increase.
President Poincare and Albert
Thomas, under secretary for war,
were present at the trials at Saturv
Camp of the newly invented ire.
cannon and bullet-proof shields.
Richardson, Alaska, reported so de-
grees below zero. Other points report
ed from 40 to 60 degrees below.
The Belgian Count de Prelles de la
Nieppe has been arrested at the in
stance of the Belgian authorities at
Calais, charged with frauds involving
several million francs.
Fifty funerals waited at the gates
Of Calvary cemetery, New York,
while cemetery officials settled a
strike OF 300 grave-dlggers.
By a vote of 2S1 to 81 congress
passed the Shackleford bill authoriz-
ing an appropriation By the federal
government of $25O0O,O0O to aid the
states in the building of public high
ways.
". ]. Mayfield, 80 wears old. was
taken from the Jail at Boston. Tex,
and hane.d to a tree about a half mile
south of town.
The nomination Of z. NJ. MCCarroll
as postmaster at Walnut Ridge. Ark.
was rejected by the senate. He was