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I.THE MADISON JOURNAL.° ROUNTREE BROS., Publishers TALLULAiH, MADISON PAlISI, LOUISIANA, SATUliDAY, 111.1('I1I "2, 111 NEW I .._EW_" ll ll.__--___l. "_ 1_. I EVlDENCE OF CORRUPTION FUNE gIATE LOBBY COMMITTEE CON "UCTING AN INVEST:GATION OF CHARGES. N LABOR CONTRACTORS mgsd to Have Used $50,000 Fund t Deieat Pen;ling Hughea Bill. gp 5ewspaper Ctn New, , rvtep. ushlngton.- "There is no evidenet Jgof any $S,.000 fu:nd," said S-enato gman, chairman of tile Senate Lob IVCgmmittee, at the conclusicn of thf gluittee's investigation of report: glt much a sum was being used Il jintagton by representatives of gIsa labor contractors to defeat the Mlag Hughes bill to restrict mar SIIg of convict made goods. The chairman's remarks, which ap itgy closed this latest pha-e ou the ggitttee's Inquiries, was addressed *igward Boyle, a Chicago attorney agmerly treasurer of the-National of Charities and ('orrec who has opposed so-called anti labor legislation for years as representative of a group of having prison labor Whiten, an Instructor of University and chairman of tiseutve Committee of the Na Cnmmittee on Prison Labor, was witness who had been sub besides Boyle. He spoke of Boyle at a meeting of the Conference of Charities and and said Emery Lyons, of the Central Howard As of Chicago had told him on gesnles that prison contractors a fund of "a dollar a year to defeat national anti labor legislation. Boyle had IJsrmed this in substance, he also asserted that at a hear a house committee In 1910 itlar bill Frederick P. Mills, oft the American Prison As had first favored the meas them "went to pieces In his after a conversation with TENON VERGE OF WAR i s ovemment Dispose Its to Prepare for Emergency. -"War in Ulster" is the headline sensational London are disp.aying in the black ent began to dispose igealar troops In Ireland, so be in position to deal with that arises. The army aUe time ago considered the Shome rule strife and in t General Sir Ar Fitaroy Paget, who com isth garrison, to take nec tlons to maintain order property. A general re of forces in Ireland there ats were sent from the roe the Ulster garrisons ' eeps in Ulster were moved In conformity with the that In the event of trouble will not have to encounter ith whom they had formed Some Irish recruits were the Armagh recruiting sta d. Idtle of a collision be soldiers and Ulster vol from the superheat eling,are recognized, but bth sides are trying to ex Jfluenee. John Rtlmond, Iader In Parliament, tele dlts In Belfast an ur to abandon a parade ar Suday In Londonberry, thought likely would re Sir Edward Carson. ismler, and members of the Invoked calmness on the valanteers. tI' Old Frisco Debt. eral Circuit Judge rved the arreement by Ileuivers of the St. Louis ieo railroad cancel an 5 8alanst the road of nearr nMd relinquish ownership o In Louislana to the promoted them. The MeDdes for the surrender of note, aggregating by Albert T. Perkins, _of the St. Louis Company. iti oe Co. In Court. petition in bankruptcy Several creditors against COetton Company of Mem msldent of the company Ie firm was insolvent. . capitalized at $150,000 of $68 o000oo. The com. aIn existence about 10 chiefly in eastern tt owns several plan to Len Banks, 4 will be ab to py for dollar. 4 GEORGE CRUMP, JR. N HS to -e Ur ° b is C If )f George Crump, Jr., of Wewoka, a- Okla., is the second ex-convict to an n nounce his candidacy for the govern orship of Oklahoma. He has asked q Al Jennings to withdraw from the e race and give him a chance to "beat d it back." Crump was sent to the Spenitentiary for forgery In connection with indian land frauds and was pars n doned by Lieut. Gov. J. J. McAlester. Governor Cruce denied the pardon and Crump appealed to the courts and was released on habeas corpus. SYOUTHFUL BANDIT SLAIN BY POSSE ROBBED BANK OF NEWALLA OF $700 AND WAS PURSUED TO HIS DEATH. Westrrn Newpeprr Calon New. "er. Oklahoma City.-Four hours after Joseph Agnes Patterson, 23 years of age, and a former Newalla youth, held up the cashier, Bert Bradley, and rob bed the State Bank of Newalla, 19 miles east of Oklahoma, City, of $700, he was surrounded by a posse of be tween 30 and 40 men, two miles east and one mile north of Newalla and killed. The money was not recovered, $3 being found in the clothing of the " robber. Patterson shot and wounded ] four members of the posse in the run ning fight. Chief of Police Charles Hawk of Shawnee was shot in the lung and a hand. Deputy Sheriff Frank Tlmmlns of Shawnee was shot in the arm, a bullet grazed the head of Jerry Spann, night chief of police of Shawnee, and H. M. Hulse, a farmer Jiving near New alla, was shot in the leg. It was feared " at first that the injuries of Hawk I might prove fatal, but later it was an- t nounced h) would recover. b The youthful bandit who was born and reared at Newalla, but had been I Sway for three years working as a railroad telegrapher, entered the bank. I forced the cashier, the only person I present, Into the vault and gathered i up the loose cash. The cashier rscap- t ed In five minutes and spread the alarm. * A note found in the pocket of Pat terson, read: "This is the day: If I am successful and I feel I shall be, that I will go to t her." a Embezzling From Mother-In-law. St. Louls.-Edgar M. Davis, a former r,;i;road builder of this city. was Ind'ct- - ed cr, a charge of eniezzllng $500,000 f.i-'a his mother-in-law, Mrs. Annie B. Cross of Jerseyllle, Ill. Davis formerly had charge of the estate left, by Mrs. C(iss' husband, a banker. Filibusters Becoming Active. Douglas, Ariz.-Ives Lellvier, Consti. tutionalist representative here, wired to the State Department at Washing- . ton, insisting that neutrality laws be rigidly enforced on the border. Lell- n vier said Mexican Federal sympathiz era had organized filibustering bands on the American side and hid Invaded Constitutionalist territor, with the ob ject of destroying lives and property. To keep the bands in check, he said the rebels were required to maintain large forces needed elsewhere. Counterfeiting Villa's Money. El Paso. Tex.-The continued issu-. nag of counterfeit Villa paper currency in the United States resul'ed in agent N of the Chihuahua rebels accosting an American in a hotel lobby here, accus Ing him of having in his possession 12,.0.0,000 pesos counterfeit money. O They were told to "mlnd their own bulinees." The incident raised a ques ton as to whether the possession or even manufacture of Mexican flat cu I rueay was illegal in the United States. Great qusatits are ia.eirclatoml KELLEY PLANNED A REVOLUTION UNEMPLOYED ARMIES WERE TO SEIZE THE FEDERAL GOVERN MENT AT WASHINGTON. BY HALF A MILLION MEN Would Have Seized Rock Island Arse- I nil and Then Marched on Na tional Capital. W.'tern Se . papor Tn'-r n n N Ews S.Ervui. Sacramn:o. ('al.-In a rlp( rt to the War I.partmcnt in \Washington. Ad Julant (;sýneral For-es of tlhe N:ational Guard of ('alifornia, has given officia! cognizance to an alleged plan of G(en eral" Kelly's arrany to -:ei:e the fede.ral arsenal at Rock Island. Ill., in order to equip .',0,,00o men for a revolution against the government. General Forbes' report is based on one made to him by Lleut. Franklin Grimes of a Sacrameto company of the state guard, who joined Kelly's army anti acted as a spy. Lieutenant Grimes related how he gained the confidence of the leaders, who dlvul d their plan for capturing the United States government. There was to be a gathering of many "arm les" at Chicago, according to Grimes. The leaders, according to the militia spy, believed they could a;ssemhle 500. 000 men there. Then, moving in force, 4 they would attack and capture the r Rock Island arsenal. d Railroads out of Chicago would be commandeered, said the lieutenant, and the unemployed force, well armed, it would be rushed toward Washington, where it would have the federal gov ernment at its mercy. The plan was to spread a nation wide rebellion of workingmen against t employes of labor, which would depose all civil and military authorities and SInstall the armies' leaders as supreme. Grimes declared his informants as serted the movement was being con ducted from the East and that Kel ly's force was but a small unit in the whole. Among other statements was one that the leaders were relying for support on a large Canadian contin gent. "General" Charles Kelly's unemploy ed army, which began its march on Washington, D. C., 1,800 strong from San Francisco ten days ago, has been dispersed. Only a handful of Irrecon r cilables remained in the camp in Yolo levee, to which the army was driven last week by Sacramento deputies. ANOTHER ST. LOUIS HORROR 1 t Wall of Burned Club House Collapses on Another Building, Kills Many. W«+te'r Nw.p,,r rantnn vows Srvite. St. Louis.-The bodied of three work. men were taken from the ruins of the St. Louis Seed Company building, r wrecked Tuesday when a wall of the b f burned Missourt Athletic Club col- e I lapsed and crushed the four-story struc ture. Fifteen others have not been accounted for, and 10 persons were taken from the building injured. The walls of the club house which was destroyed by fire, in which 30 per- d I sons lost their lives a week ago, col. lapsed under a high wind, and crashed S through a four-story building occupied L by the St. Louis Seed Company. The wall, which stood seven stories high, crumbled when a 35-mile wind veered to the northwest. A few mln utes before the collapse Building Com missiloner McKelvay, who was direct ing 170 men in the work of exploring the rains of the Missouril Athletic Club, feared th* wall would fall, and order. o ed his men out of the debris. a Opposed to Church Union. "hiladelpbih-A feeling that the time is not yet ripe for organic union of the seven church bodies represent- i ed in the council of reformed church- t es in America holding the Protestant t system, was voiced by virtually all a speakers at the council here. Busch's Personal Estate $17,000,000. St. Loula-s.-The inventory of the es- a tate of the late Adolphus Busch, lists b personal property aggregating $17,- : 000,000. t Southern to Spend $300,000. Memphis, Tenn.-Construction work to cost more than $300,000, which will tc raise the total investment of the Sonth. T ern Railway Company in Memphis to w nearly $1.000.000 was agreed to by the h offlcials of the road. m Storm Claimed 3,000 Victims. C StBL Petersburg.-The storm that 11 swept over Russia claimed more than of 3,000 victims in the territory near tihe be mouth of the river Don. according to er a dispatch from Rostoy. o1 Mrs. Robert Goelet Divorced. M Newport, R. -.-Mrs. Elale Whalen Goelet, prominent in New York and 84 Newport society circles, was granted a J divorce from Robert Goelet on the vi ground of extreme cruelty. Both are ol to share cunatody of their oldest son, n Ogden, aged six. The mother is to is keep Porter, aged two, their only other a child, until be is six years old, when ea she is to share the eastody of the on child with the father. Neither Goelet a msr MU Goelet was la eurt aad the im sailt was assmatse ., HAXIM0 CASTILLO III Maximo Castillo, the Mexican bandit II who set fire to the Cumbre rallwa tunnel, causing the death'of a num s ber of men, Including six Americans, and who was captured by American e soldiers and imprisoned at Fort Bliss, SCLOSE CALLS IN MILWAUKEE FIRE EVENING WISCONSIN, HOTEL WINDSOR AND WESTERN NEWS PAPER UNION WERE BURNED. Westrm Newspapelr t'nlno News ,Rane. Milwaukee, Wis.-Fire wilah t le stroyed the job printing department of the Evening Wisconsin, the offices of the Western Newspaper Union and the Windsor hotel Thursday morning caus ed a loss of $350,000. At first it was feared that a score of guests had been trapped on the top floor of the hotel, but at 3 o'clock Fire Chief Thomas A. Clancey announced that all the guests had been rescued. The cause of the fire is not known. It was at first noticed by a policeman, who after turning in an alarm, rushed into the hotel and rescued guests on the second and third floors. He was unable to get to the fourth and top floor because of the smoke. The elevafor carried down as many as possible until the operator was com pelled to flee. About 40 guests are said to have been registered at the Windsor Hotel. Shortly after the alarm was given guests rushed down the steps and Into the streets dregssed only in night clothing and sought refuge in the Shubert theater. The hotel was a four-story structure. The building was equipped with fire ropes front and rear so that any one being caught on the top floor could escape. Congressman Sued for Divorce. Bristol. Va.-Mrs. Loberta Barton Slemp, wife of C. Bascom Slemp, rep. resentative in Congress from the Ninth district of Virginia, has instituted suit for divorce alleging desertion. Mrs. Slemp is a member of a prominent Louisiana family. She and Represen tative Slemp were married three years ago. Stock Exchange Seats Off. New York.-The market for stock exchange membership, after a period of strength, is off again. This devel oped with the announcement of the sale of two seate at $50,0D0, a drop of $5,000 from the previous price. Only 157 in Unemployed Army. Scramenta, Cal.--In the camp of the unemployed, north of Sacramento, there are but 157 men. the remnant of the army of 1.500 which invaded Sacra nmento two weeks ago. Would Forfeit Trust-Held Patent. Washington-A bill proposing that all patents and copyrights controlled by a trust shall be forfeited by the gov ernment was introduced by Represen tnltve Campbell of Kansas. Grandson to the Kaiser. Berlin.-A son was born March 18 to the Duke and Duchesa of Brunswick. The Duchess of Brunswick formerly was princess Victoria Louise of Ho henzollern, only daughter of the GeOr man emperor. The marriage of the princess to Prince Ernest August of Cumberland took place on May 24, 1913. The prince assumed the throne of the Duchy of Brunswick last Novem ber. Emperor William ordered a gen eral holiday in Berlin in elebration of the birth of his slith grandson. Mon. J. M. Licey Reported Dying. Pine Bluff.-Monsignor J. M. Icey, 86 iesam old, for 40 years pastor of 8t Joseph's Catholic church here, and vicar genefhl of the Catholic diocese of Little Rbek, is dying at San Ants. nlo, Texas. Monsignor Lueey took the last sacrament Moiday night amd his I condition has been growing weaker each day since. Monsignor Lacey is one of the state's leading msn, and a magnifiemat chureh blildng - beig Ir eseetesd here as a maamet o b I uashtnams md the pubie 1u e JEALOUS MAN SHOOTS A. WOAN. TRAGEDY IN BATON ROUGE MAY END IN A MURPCR CHARGE. laton IRouge.-- ( 'raz d b .i tousy and d ink, Idd e .\losa,. flerlh,.til ly e td timnk eler for ithe Standald ( il. i-hot and probably fatally wou !i,l.'I 1, is. Bridget-s. keeper of a resort on i'hPllii stlreet, in front of her hose 'I hur:,day morning. After shooting the woman, Acosta saw that she wias ca:rried into her house and then telepihonled ('hief of i'olicee Iluvek to come for h;n.. lie was lodged in the parish jail. The woman was taken to the' sanitarium, where an operation was perlortend. It apin'ars that Acosta, after a nizht of dissipation, s-aw the woman walking .vith another man in front of her house and immediately fired at helr back, the shot taking effect in the shoulder. As the woman reeled he fired again, the bullet passing through the stomach. The man who was with the w\outnded woman wrenched the re n volver from Acosta's hand. It is b, - lived that the shbt in the stomach will prove fatal '"I was drunk and didn't know what I was doing." said Acosta. "1 have been living with the woeban for six years, . and we always got along all right. It was all an accident." Acosta dgnied that he had shot the woman from the back. lie said. that he remembered none of the details of the accident. Acosta is apparently about 25 years of age. He came to Baton Rouge six years ago from New Orleans. lie has held various positions of responsibility, and was for three years head time keeper at the Standard Oil plant. No charge has been made against him yet, but if the woman dies he will probably be indicted for murder. LOSES AN OIL LAND SUIT I Ownership of Soda Lake Bed Decided Against J. B. Slattery. SWeternm N.ewpaper rnlnn ~News .rvSes. Shreveport.-District Judge T. F. Bell has decided for the defendant the suit of J. B. Slattery against the Ark I ansas Natural Gas Company,.lessees of I about 200 acres of land belonging to I the Caddo I evee Board located in the t bed of Soda lAke, Caddo oil field. "Mr. Slattery, of Shreveport. claimed own- I ership of the bed of Soda Lake under patent from the Federal government. a claiming that the patent was roverned t by the common law as it existed in 1840, also that if the state was owner I t he acquired title through accretion I Judge Bell decided that the state, and not the United States, owned the lake bed. through its sovereign; also that b plaintiff acquired nothing through accretion. TWO MONROE CITIZENS DEAD a Unexpected Demise of Uriah H. Mill. saps and John 8. Handy. W..".r L.lr.p."r Union New. mr~. ti Monroe.-The announcement of the a sudden and unexpected deaths of c Urlah H. Millsalls and John S. Handy, a two of the wealthiest and most promi- 1 nent citizens of Ouachita parish, a came as a great surprise and shock a to the community. Out of respect to h their mnemory two banks and several a of the city's leading business establish ments were closed for the day. show Ing the large financial connections of F the two men. The death of Mr. MilIl- . saps occurred at 12:45 o'clock Satur day morning. He had been In Ill health since September, and his condt tlon took a sadden turn for the worst late Friday. - R Mr. Handy's death was. without warning and came. at 6:30 .o'clock Saturday morning. He lpt :Frilday in Ruston and when he rietired, sem ed to be enjoying his usual -ealte. V Messrs. Millsaps and Handy controlled large flnanaial intereste and .weWr. M rated among the etty's wealt.hiest men, Mr. Millsaps was' rated as be; ing worth nearly half Sa aillioti doI" lars while Mr. Handy's fortuene ii di~t '1 quite so great. hi Serious Automobile Accident. hi Shreveport.-The bursting of a tire di cause'd an automobile in which they li were riding to be overturned on a high be embankment on the Shreveport-Relsor pi road, several miles south of here, re- m suiting in the serious Injury of Mrs. to J. C. Reynolds and the severe ?njury of her husband, who was driving the car. Mrs. Reynolds sustained frae- S4 tures of both hips and Internal hin- to turies and is in a precarious condi- i tion. Near where this accident oc. ith curred an automobile party was pitch. se ed over the embankmept several p months ago, causing one fatality. ,. 1I So ~ at Monroe. - - Monnre-Mnned by a. higsh iin.' fire here Tuesdia destroyed the, Mot, f roe Molasms. ;ominy's .plant,. -2 f dwellings, 1 .freiCtt.eai's. 16 of which ye wore loade., wi~h drdhed lumber, w and 'about 2,000. eet of track. property i of thd 8S LoIus, Iron Mountain and ed Southern railroad. The loas is esti. al matted at $75,000, puirtly covered by m inMrance. The flames itarted: n 'tbe' mologeee plat, from a ase not de. termite. ThreaSh .snmvie the au laWlu evtv es was mbe t th .MRS. JOSEPH E. RANSDELL '' I Mrs. Ransdell, wife of Senator Rans t dell of Louisiana, wife of Senator Rans. f of the Daughters of the American Rev olution. iTO RUN RAILROAD TO NEW OIL LANDS NEW LINE CH'RTERED TO CON. NEtT WI$,H LOG TRAF ' 'FROPM MANSFIELD. We-tern Ne'w.ptitr i n., n N' w ,ry'. ."!r 31lanbfiehl>,(-Th, trausportijll In o lem to the Jý$Lsoto Nll fiel haI4c solved. .luit before 1ff was found near Mansfield the Frost-Johnson Lumber ('ompany had procured the right of .yay for its tram road from its saw meill here to the oil field, and when oil was discovered it rushed work on the line. When it riached Naborton and tried to build the road on to the oil field the Nabors inter ests found that the road did not have the right of way through a forty-acre tract of land belonging to John H. Nabors. The Frost-Johnson people were en r Joined from passing over the J. H. Nabors land, and as they were not a chartered railroad they could not con demn the right of way. A new railroad has been chartered to build a line from Naborton on through the oil field. This road will run its trains over the Frost-Johnson tram to Mansfield, and the depot, in stead of being at Naborton, will be several miles beyond and a town will be built at that point. The tram'roAd having no right to build and manipu late depots, etc., will not stop at Na borton except to Ipad logs. The charter of this new railroad has been pMee pared, all of the stock taken and the work of building will begin at once and will be completed in about. two' weeks. The new town *ill be the first regu lar depot from Mansfel)d and the only shipping point in the oil field. Na borton, which is a new town, built when the oil boom and the enjoined railroad started, will be practically isolated as a result of the injunction and the chartering of a new line. Fiscal Agency Changes. Baton Rouge.-When the State Board of Liquidation meets, April 14, to let the contract for the fiscal agency banks there is likely to be a change. The fiscal agency banks now I are the New Orleans Nitional Bank, Hibernia Bank and Trust Company ( and Whitney-Central National Bank, all of New Orleans. To these one half of the state funds go. The fiscal agenc. banks in the country parishes are Bank of Assumption, Napoleon ville; State National Bank, Iberla; First National Bank, Shreveport; Commercial National Bank, Shreve port; Central Savings Bank and Trust Company, Monroe; Rutob~i State. Rank, Ruston; louidlana Na'fibnal . Bank, Baton Rouge: Biank of Baton i Rouge; Rapides BalE*~t Areian.rila: Union Bank and Trst4altipa~sy, Ople lousas. " ".* "" *" " WANT EXPRESS RATE RELEF Many Ponchatoulans Quit . CeiIjn " ', Crops on Account pf Rates. Sorinchatoula.-- Asserting. thkt tIx 'res companies have charged such high rates that the industry has been affected, many. local truck growers have discontinued cultivating commd. dttles such as okra, squash, etc. The Louislana Railroad C('ommission will i be petitioned to rule against the ex press company in the matter of a I more uniform rate between Poncha toula and points north. Amlte.-The treasurer of the Parish School Board last week issued checks to the amount of $13,46;.30, which a represents the unpaid balance due 1 the teachers of Tangipahot pariah for c services in 1912-13. The board ex pects to settle all claims by March, 1915. -" Resent Labor Emlgrqtjl. -*, * faldsonville.-On account of the. fact' (tat the. Miles (ompany has deo cded not to operat' fi tioldings thisL year and a certain amount of labor wonld be out of employmnent, a great many labor aigedt haVe been.attract. ed to this section with the result that all of the sprupln labor has been xe, move4 to otheqr lcetlths of the state. tls surplus ASow belag dxhalasted u d the agents still activeg the planters as mow be~nag to roseat this a ties vtious* ' I BRIDGE ACROSS THE MPISSISSIPP PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR FINAli CING $5.000,C00 STRUCTURE AT NEW ORLEANS. \\ ' ' .. ,- ".p,",.lr 1 10 ' -, q rw v h5.1, . i () . -an .-- Pr'i.tidnart plans to I " V set,,, , bilrid~i' acros ii at N'w r()leans hav I t - it progt',nri to thstlre SuO " ` n. ti ." ',rth r 1!cGuirk #t\ #)r )r : ftrn , \ h returne II frot \, ,rY,. Mr. Mc.tiuirk wen to Ni\ Y' ,rk for the l)ock Board t4 halt,!h . 1. ,d,'t il oi lnec'tt'd witt tI1, ' n,:tr ,, ;Inil titansfer of the $3, 1i ",l",I.I , it" { tl. '%; :rt'hol se ton(lds re cIntii ' Itl I t Ith ,oarl. W hile ir, Nev. Yrl, h. to,.k u;. with financle iand p '- rs , , " r'I pro. et. R turnl I hiun., h st\. to Iproject Ii fa-ihb1 fr, ;t -itoral .nli finas i::1 .ta',d'ilu, t. and ;i\ l be pu Tl!r. V't ;uiitrk ]prol,o, to have th bribiu'' i'ultitcly own: ,"i aln pi blicly (i!nrtua"i. i11"' tre:,i". inhat it shoal I, hanldei oint ly bl" tlo Doc)1k Boar and Publie I (it (C nTr tnisionA. Ile sa that N;w,% %rhleans. trat It would easil sulirt itl No trouble W ill he ex bfriintied in getting the money nee sary to finance the bridlge, he said. A bond issue handled much as Dock0 iloard i.sus hat, been hradled would readily sell, he believes. The plan is to build the bridge lt the uppe.r section of the city. Pre. ihninary plans call for a structure six and one'-half miles long, including ap proaihes. The total length of the steel structure would be two and one tenth miles. The length of the mail channel span would be 1.0O,6 feet: length of shore spans 607 feet: total length of mailn span 2,280 feet; ex treme height of towers above clear 176 feet: (lear height. of span above high water 4. feet; range between low and high water 19 feet; depth 'at low water 100 feet: depth of foundas tions below river bed 70 feet; total height of structure 450 feet. "1'I have a letter from Col. Elmer L. Corthell.of St. Lois, who helped to build the Eads bridge at St Loui, and assisted likewise in the jettles, approving the project and pronoune Ing it feasible both from an engineer ing and financial standpoint." Mr. Mo Guirk said. "lie expressed regret that there is a tendency to build a bridge at a point above New Orleans. Such a step would woi, harm to the port of New Orleans. "The structure could be flnished within five years from the time work began. As far as feasibility from a financial standpoint goes. St. Louis supports three bridges and is pla- Sing a fourth: Memphis has supported one so w.l a second is in contemplak Lion. New Orleans can certainly sau port one." FOR WELFARE OF THE CHILb Federal Legislation Safest Plan to Conserve Nation's Child Life. New Orleans.-Federal legislatiol as the safest and moqt certain meamn to conserve theechild Ilfe of the nation and rob the country's Industriesa of its blackest horror-the emaclated, stunted boy and girl slave-was vigor ously advanced by able speakers at the sessions of the Tenth National Conference on Child Labor, under the F auspices of the national child labor committee, and a general advance was made toward the goal for which so many of the leading thinkers of the time have been strivn! . . To Suspend Rate Ad4anc~. Shrei'eport.-Thbe tralTl.-depirtmegt of the Chamber of Comperce .ek In e relpt of a pOtition filed with the later. state ·gommeree Commfssion by 8hel by Taylqq. chalnmay: 1l.* A. "ildge and 'ohdl T. lichel. cqnstituthg the rallroa~t'' coinmlslon *of Lalsliana, througllh Y, .-. Barrow, assistant at. torney gpneral and special coaunsel for the railroad commission asks the Intrstate Commere. Commaalson to susDpld certaln of' Agents elqa4, Wahbutlrn, Ryan andtiedhimani tlariffl napming wholeprlse dIrne ih in cs and o'nminodity ratq* to JhrureportL , Monroe, Alexliatfa Tike ChbarJ fayette and yLttichlly tg.o4W'ia louislana west of the Mlidssissilppl rivler until surh tlme as h. Ilntru"t Oammerce . C·ommlsoh. may IWrtel. gate reasortmbleness of the advances which the railroads have made in their rates. John B. Dunn Commits Suicide. Slaughter.-John B. Dunn. aged about 63, who has been postmaster here for eight years, committed aul cide Saturday evening at the home of hla brother, V. H. Dunn, by blowing his head off with a shotgun. Mr. Duns. was despondent over I1l halth. To Norfolk for Alleged Defaulter. Baton Robge.-Deputy Sheriff J. Hopklns left for Norfolk, Va., to bring back for trial Robert Kyle. formerly cashier of the local branch of the Schwarschild & 8ulzerger Packing Company, who is charged with having embezzled funds of the company to the tmout of about $700. Kyle's sup. posed shortage was discovered several weeks ago and he immediately ab scoaded whenabits alleged Irregularl. ties became known to the olceurs o the eomnpePry.