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THE MADISON JOURNAL. REE BROS., Publishers TALLULAH, MADISON PARISH, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, MARIIH 6, 1915 NEW SERIES-'VOL. :1 NO. 1: NEWS EFLY TOLD OF THE SEVEN ARE BRIEFLY HERE. D THE PLANET Our Own and For. Are Here Given Meter for Readers. house of representa bill for the enforce Itate-wide prohibition meadment. The bill from the senate a federal indictment to corrupt the dec 1914, in the Fifth Indi district, five Re. not guilty. .,rkers. who led. the Arlsona a dry state engaged to man in Chicago. by the postal a a1t since the begin e4t German news publication. Sir state-wide prohibi by the senate of the -leIg tre. The reo tse nbmission of the Imple at the next brimer judge of bat for four months a Springs, was killed as aatemobile driven head for $1,00o, is 'n fmned In a sack of ML, by Perry erk, was sent to st hope of locattin -ankalty - ordered to sink every mgr be Adriatic. amate passed a bill 1110 treatment of e ilaeminded and in *e te ElkV Theate Ark.. contanlat oms. The tot mhelin I. Fort a ippinted by Pres i mmissuloer a abot and probabl a holdup of Pral at Sapulpa, Ok. bytr theOatry de abe state nnlversit, recordta mill Cewan, a 5-ya Sste last year pro s safei in the Clti illmersbur, Iad Senablhier, Jobi wak, and scape arU 56mm were sI the marder of i f the Farnmeri I tieat of his pl t as aUsatisfactor P peends and tb . the Vanderbill e has been poe nvbtigatian of tb Rhode of LIl that rief over t, * Thomas Whit Sthe murder of MYr at Joplin, M I to end her life. up Henry R. Ponto hank, 0 feet fro station, and robib Slevels aIgrelathl S addng to the hie eeassities, all 1 been advanced iht instead of ~ in New York. Te, Ill. Action Sthe state'sl attor to hnave the indi ;rder f his rfati Ste utteratn of se gd rease J.T.K.I L benm prison * eetalde ef beJd aillemise a has beam t -IF he fintes tax l ass s a Nets a The London Times has achieved what is said to be a record inu the fiel4 of raising money for a popular cause. Its fund for sick and wounded passed F $5,000,000. The street railway commssion sent a letter to the eDtroit United Railway company which contained a proposi tion to buy the company's holdings. * " " EV The Nevada law reducing the resi dence limit for divorce applicants to six months went into effect. The Austrian government has taken over all stocks of rye, barley, corn SAl and flour products. Twin lambs, male and female, born in Central park( New York) sheepfold Bug on Washington's birthday, have been christened George and Martha. Male members of the Cedar Cliff (N. J.) Episcopal church turned out in working clothes at dawn, and when T dusk fell they had erected a one-story sce building. lent S" " galt When John G. Andrews, 25, of Bing- ea hamton, N. Y., learned from the court r that his mock marriage to Miss Grace Beacham, 19, was legal, he filed suit the for damages against Charles Springer, afd who was responsible. " 1 ord John Pedro of Allentown, Pa., who ord thought he was the Italian army, built a barricade of rails and of other ma terials and prepared for a long siege. A posse captured John to inquire into his sanity. When William Pfeffer awoke re- suy cently he discovered a freight car of Col floor lying almost at the door of his Chi residence at Oconomowoc, Wis. The eW car became detached from a freight I train and rolled into his yard. PRa S*"* the The United Fruit steamer Santa Th Maria, which lost her rudder off Cape sul Hatteras, has been taken in tow by a she wrecking tug and is being towed into ell New York. coy The department of agriculture has leg extended the foot and mouth quaran- pa tine in none states-Illinois, Indiapa, tlt Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania,. ew gei Jersey, New York, Opo asF int consin. Ge The Clifornia eight-hour law pro viding that no woman shall be em ployed more than eight hours a day or more than 48 hours a week was held constitutional by the United States supreme court. Shad Felell, a negro charged with w five murders, was killed and Charles A Gunning, a city detective, was wound- so e4 in a pistol duel between the negroe and six detectives at Dallas, Tex. ad S* th* Bud Thomas and Amon Marks, ne groes, were held for the murder of C. T. Royse, a farmer, whose body was found under a pile of brush on his farm near Carlslae. Ky. Mystery surrounding the reported jC robbery of the express ear on the At in lantic Coast line flyer at Alexandria, K Va., has been cleared by a coession all from the two messengers that they smashed the company's strong box. To conserve the coal supply, the management of the Italian state rail way system bas decided' to decrease the number of pssenger trains being T operated. s * o tl. Divorced and remarried within 24 t hours at the age bt 15 a the record of o Grace Tucker of Webb City, Mo. now w Mrs. Willie Shadwick. She was mar- t ried the irst time at the tender age p of 12. s The Arkansas house of represeta tives by a vote of s6 to 26 defeauted a ' bill which would have allowed Little SRock voters to decide whether or not t m Sunday baseball gamus should be per mitted. r epresentative Richard Bartboldt of o a St. Louis was the guest of honor at a a t frewell dinner at the Releigh notel, , Sgiven by the Missouri congressionalI i delegation. s State's Attorney Pred Wolfe of , i- Adams county, ll, announced that he e would nolle proe the indictment p e- against Ray Pfanschmidt chargnag t B. him with the murder of his father. I Frederick Ulmer, 21, son of a wealthy New York manufacturer, shot r- and probably fatally wounded Ethel n Odell, pretty 18-year-old cabaret sing 4 er, in a subway station, and then at g tempted to end his own life. J P. Morgan has sold the famous h Mme. Du Barry Fragonard colleio onI 5- of paintings in the Metropolitan Mu- i to seam of Art to Duveen Brothers, who a ro recently purchased the collection of Chinese porcelains. ed Gov. Hatfield, who is a physician, a l- assisted in the vaccination of mem ey bets of the West Vi;rginia legislature. 0 Et- The vaccination followed the an-i er nouncement that Delegate Pilchard 0 had smallpox. t Sh 8teamhip passengers arriving from me. Straits Settlements declared that 400 1. 81ikh mutineers were killed in a battle with loyal British forces at Singapore cm Feb. 15. W5 The Spanish fleet has sailled from let Algecra for Carthagena. A torpedo boat fltlla will be kept on patrol duty alog the coast of Moroceo. F With passengers on board, the wI, Coard iar Lsntanla arrived at New . Tec tim Irve'ps. abe see the -. a w1 a t e war war. live FAVOR RECUSATION r'i are LAW FOR JUU$i S s nev of SEVERAL PROMINENT LAWYERS for ON STAND AT LEGISLA- Its TIVE PROBE. the Pul occ SALARY FOR CLERK URGED I nea Dar tioi Suggest Commission Be Created to Ina Pass Form, Style and Constitu- tio tionality of All Bills. lib tio New Orleans.- fac Three of the most prominent and su successful members of the New Or- Bo leans bar told the Legislative Investi- "S gating Commission that they favor the col enactment of a law providing for the of recusation of judges of the Louisiana su Supreme Court in all cases where ou there is close kinship between judge she ahd counsel The enactment of such frc a law is necessary, they testified, in mi order to create a greater degree of Bc public confidence in the courts. The witnesses before the commission were ml attorneys Edgar H. Farrar, Henry P. qu Dart and Charles P. Fenner. All of tit the witnesses favor the addition of two ot] justices to the membership of the MI supreme court and the division of the no court into two sections, with the bu Chief Justice as presiding officer of each section. to Each of the witnesses formed the b passage of a law putting the clerk of Di the supreme court on a salary basis. They also agreed that any surplus re sulting from the supreme court files b should be used in the emplogment of at expert clerks br the members of the de court. p1 A suggestion of Mr. Farrar that a a legislative commission be created to p. pass upon the form, style and coastt- gc tutionality of all bills, except emer- a gency statutes, before being formally hi introduced in either branch of tims General Assembly, received the hearty In endorsement of Mr. Dart. I TOLD IN A FEW LINES. The Great Southern Lmber Comrn pany of Bogaluss have sent out circu lars to all purchasers of Cut Over Land calling their attention to the a scarcity of bread and the shortage.of good land. The circular points to the advantage of the cultivation of even the smallest acreags, and urges the a planting of orange, pecan and small B fruit trees. o E. L. Woodside brought suit against f the Louisiana Railway & Navigation I Company for $216 to cover alled In- C juries to a carloid of cattle shipped fronm Bonn station to New Orleans in December. Mr. Woodside's petition alleges that two head of cattle died in to transit and a doaes others were so n badly Injured that.they could not be t S Shelby Taylor, president, and John g T. Mitchel of the Railroad Commis slon, spent time in Covington investi- I gating conditions which followed the e taking off of the trains of the New t Orleans Great Northern Shore Line II r which reached here formerly at 9:20' Sin the morning bringing the morning paper from New Orleans and the pea sgers, mail and express. . The famous kldnrapln ease of little S"Bobble" Dunabr of Opelousas, came I t to an end when William C. Walters, . who was charged with kidnaping the chld, was released from the parish prison. Walters had been convicted d of the cri in Opelaousas, where the a alleged kidaspln is saMid to have oc ,culrred, and was seatenced to serve l life imprisonment. iAfter coonsultation with the other o- I leers of the orgalnsiaton, President I William K. Krebs, of the Louisiana Press Association, eceted the invl Statlon of the Monroe Chamber of Com meree and ixed Monroe as the next meetint pulace of the asociation. The a annual meUtlng will be held June 8, l and 10. from New Orleans, where he conferr ed with Adftant General McNeese relative to the organiation of a mill Stary compny in Alexandria. A meet. . ing will be called in the immediate Sfuture to take steps looking to its or f ganiation. SThe Loatulans Railroead Commislukon , of Baton Rouge had the Texas and . Pafic Rathlroad beore it to show a cause why it should not be fined for n- fallure to install its Bfirst twenty miles rd of block signals uas it was ordered by the commission to do over a year ago. In a statement issued to the press e T. H. Harri, state shperintendent of Seducation of Baton Roues, denied that he intended becoming a candidate for governor, declaring he intended to de vote his life to the cwase of educa do tIo rol ANew York bakn our eese has taken the 1,000 school bond inse he voted rcatly n Wiiansbora The m donas soMi st pear and the mmey e e irLed will be used ln eresting a seheel ibalrs at at n. '.~ . ·: If suggestions made to the Legisla tive Investigating Gommission by Hen ry P. Dart, attorney and vice preel dent of the Court House Commission, are adopted by the legislature the Louisiana State Bar Association would be declared a public institution, its vast law library now housed in the new court house would become a part of the state library and, instead of WA forcing the Bar Association to vacate D its quarters in the new court house the legislature would turn out several public boards and commissions now occupying rooms in that building. In response to a suggestion from CO Senator George Wesley Smith, Mr. Dart said he felt that the Bar Associa tion would welcome the proposal to gy make the association a public institu tion and would be glad to give up its library to the state under such condi tions. Mr. Dart called attention to the fact that a lot of public institutions, Coi such as the Orleans Levee Board, the its Board of Port Commissioners and the its "State Highwayman," which have no connection with court affairs, occupy do] offices in the new court house. He suggested that they should be turned wai out. The Dock Board, he thought should occupy quarters on the water front, nearer its work. The same might be said of the Orleans Leveet Board. Yo He explained that a lot of the com missions and boards had been given PE quarters in the building from time to time only because the state had no for other convenient place to house them. of Many of them, he said, certainly had p no right of occupancy in a court building. r Many valuable documents relating to court affairs are now stored in the ma r basement of the building, said Mr. f Dart, because of the lack of room. en Drillers at the well being put down ! by the Monroe Oil and Gas Company o f above Porsythe Park have reached a e depth of 1,000 feet. They are greatly pleased at the prospects so far and he a are confident of striking oil or gas in J s paying quantities. Drillers are now - goinog through a stratum of soil that of contains oil. Several pockets of gas r have been struck. Members of the a company putting down the well are dig p Immensely pleased with the propects ati The convention of the Grand Grove Woodmen Circle of Louisiana will meet at Alexandrlsa on March 9, 10 and 11. It is announced there will be fully two hundred delegates in attend ane.a The local grove has appointed r committees and is perfecting other necessary arrangements for the eate t o tainment of the delegates. a T. L. Miller, the young man who e e walked into police headquarters at m 11I Baton Rouge and surrendered himself, confessing that he was wanted in At lanta for an $18 forgery, was released m t from the city Jail. Chief of Police 6 a Beavers of 4tlnta tht the Texas Oil nG e. Company, which he vietimiasd, did not di i care to prosecute him. at a The Truck Growers' Association and a In the Bogalusa Association of Com e0 merce are makil an efort to have m three additional market houses erect ed for the benefbt of the truck grow- p era of this vicinity. t Ir There are several ese of sma-post LI- in Sulhpur and anempedemlo is feare. re ed. Health authorlties have the mast T w ter in hand and are worktng vigorons. se ly to stamp out the disase. 20 - 19 W rk is being pushed rapidly on the Ican which is beng duag in the horse. h shoe drainage district near Alex adrlc , and which will drain four o thousand acres of land in that dis .e trict. e The city couancil approved the appll- p sh cation of W. E. Barrett for a twenty d year gas farchise for the City of be Lake Charles, and the ordinanmce grat n- it the franchise will be submitted to * tv the voters for theie endorsement p The Good Roads Committee has I -I awarded contracts for the building of nt roads from Covington to.Pontchatoula, a via Madisonville; from Tallisheek to vi- Bush, and from 8Uldell to Pearl River m- village. he An attempt is being made at Crow 8, ley to rganise a military company as I a part of the National guard. Major Bret W. Eddy of Lake Charles, First I ad Regiment, L N. G., is here in charge .p of the preliminary work. se l- Excessive rains have retarded farm et- work at lota. The excessive fall has t forcgpl all small streams out of their , banks and the low lands are under water. b The Lockwood Oil Company, Inc., g with a capital of $25.000, has just been w organtuised at Alexandria, for e D. I. Willis, a prominent tfarmer of by Forest Hill has killed a hog that Uo tipped the scales at 450 pounds. eResidents of Vincent settlement, six Smiles south of 8Plphur and the raill at road, have organisetd a irmers' tele to phone company and practically all of do the stock has alreidy abel subcribed. lMrs. Lme Despaux of New On lens has entered suit for .$10.00 hs alanst the Woodmen of the World Sfor damage based ona alleged slan Phe derss statement whleh was contain. d ed ta the Woodiee's aswer to a mit eat e 1Nb 8 o praeUe wee ae et order Sed by Williamn 4. Dvi OPEN DOOR NOT OPPOSED BY JAPAN WANTS CHINA TO ATTAIN REAL DIGNITY OF INDEPEDNENCE GUARANTEES INTEGRITY. COUNT OKUMA GIVES VIEWS Says That Mischief Makers Have Been Trying to Play C Fina Against Japan and America. Tokyo.-The Japanese premier, Count Okuma, said that in presenting its demand to China, Japan had no Intention of trespassing on China's rights or interfering with the open door policy. Japan's desire, he said, was that China should attain the real dignity of independence and not fall prey of any nation. > 'Count Okuma's remarks were made cha to Prof. Shailer Mathews of Chicago line and Prof. Sydney L. Gulick of New fer York as they were taking leave of the ed premier. They sailed for San Francis- k-. co, having completed their mission RI for the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The Japanese press declares the work that they have t done in fostering cordial relations be tween Japan and the United States is of historic significance and will be p1 most helpful in maintaining the friend- LI ship of the two nations. Count Okuma stated 'to Prof. Math ews and Prot Gulick that the integ rity and prosperity of China were not I only to the advantage of Japan, but constituted the sole guaranty of peace pva in the Orient To secure this peace, i he said, was the underlying motive of Ru n Japanese diplomacy. Japan had no Nl r thought of intringing upon the rights wii of other nations. ter "Efforts recently have been made to me Invent some plausible reason for a for r disruption between Jaban and Amer ca," the premier continued. "These t attempts having failed, the michiet materq now look to China as a ield in which the two powers may be made to clash. I see no reason for such a conflict." ol Count Okuma said Japn and Great Britain had a well grounded under- ol standing concerning equality of oppor tunity in China and the Integrity of ha that nation. In acordance with the well known policy of the United States, he believed that American ra manufacturers would find the Chinese w it markets open to them. Make Efforts to Feed Civilans. Washingtou.-Proposals have been he made lnformally by the United States sti government to both Great Britain and Germany suggesting a basis for an un derstanding on the subject of food stuffs for the civilan population of belligerents and submarine warfare ad against merchant ships. 5 we New Counterfeit $20 Bill. t- Washington.-A new counterfeit $20 w- gold certificate has been discovered by the secret service. It is of the series tf 1906 and bears the portrait of W oa Washington, the workmanship of 1r which is said to be particularly poor. ,f The .aumber of the specimen tI the . hands of the secret service is 10449787. Eight Hour Law Upheld. e he Washington.-The California eight- al ' hour labor law for women employed in .1 - manuftacturing and mercantile estab- t T lishments, except those in harvesting t. and cantlng trait, boarding houses i and graduate nurses tn hospitals, wasn upheld a constitutional by the Bur pil preme Court. ty* of Turn Looe Large Timber Tracts. Ut Washington.4-The Supreme Court to afirmed the action of the Louaisman Federal Court in caneelling patents to a large area of timber land in Vernon as Parish, La., now in possession of the of Wright-Blodsett Company of Michi 114 gan, on grounds of fraudulent entry. to re Rockefeller Gives Millions to Charity. New York-There was contrlbted d or pledged by the Rockefeller founda-e aw- tion $6,397,607.64 between its estab. a lishment in March, 1914, and Febru- I aor ary 1, 1915, according to a statement Ml filed with the United States commis roe sion n Industrl1 relations. Des Moines to Relieve Delaware. um Washinzton. - The gunboat Des ha Mones at Guantanamo, has been or teir dered to Vera Crus to relieve the bat de tileship Delaware, which will rejooi the Atlantic fleet. ne. General Cabral Resigns. eon DougIas--Gen. Juan Cabral, sent to Sonora some time ago to take com mand of the miitary forees of that of state, resigned, saying that he could lnot support Gen Franciseo Villa a the supreme Mexican chief Keep Liquor From Indians. Tacoma, Wash.-The Northwest a Federation of Indian Tribes adopted a So resolution asking Congres to appro Spriate $150,000 to suppress the liquor trafc among the Indians. O0. d Food inquiry Hung. Chicago--Grain brokers engaged In business in the Chilcago Board of Trade have ratesed to sbmit their books or reeeru4 to goveanmet eR eias ~sveMigatb wheat sad SL r ! A TEl SAY HAS Clail C is a autt Prza stall of a the E. N. BREITUNG fron Mr. Breltung is the man who pur- In t chased from the Hamburg-American nys: line the steamer Dacia, whose trans- T fer to an American registry is regard- stre ed by Great Britain as a subterfuge. win of t RUSSIA SUSPECTS - MILITARY PLOT i the PETROGRAD GENERAL STAFF BE- cide LIEVES ENVELOPING MOVEMENT forE OF THE TWO GERMAN ARMIES. the nus hay Petrograd.-Officers of the Russian general staff believe that the Germans plan of operation in Northern Poland is to concentrate attention upon the Russian fortresses along the rivers SNiemen and Bobr, and with their left th Swing saely established on Russian territory to make a general southerly movement, meeting Austro-German th forces advancing northward from the Carpathians and acquiring a large see tion of Poland, in addition to that al ready under their control. The success of this gigantic move- th meat is dependent upon the ability of Sthe Germans to capture the line of fortresses, of which Ossowets is the first to be singled oaut. The latest communication from the Russtln gea Secral staff indicates that the Germans have achieved no success in this ini tial attempt. In view of the difficulty of pesetrat Sag the fortlfied lines at this point ek where the marshy land presents a se lobus obstacle, the Germans evidently la are shiftting their attack to Lomsa de Shoping to encircle the fortresses n- a a stead of taking them by direct as- th sault. . S Makes Satisfactory Explanation. Washington.-William Mitchell et the army general staff, who recently 'l said an enemy could take and hold w the American seaboard, has explained be to Secretary Garrison's satisfaction di that he was speaking at a private meeting, thought his remarks were p privileged, and had no idea thy would be published. -. oe Sir Edward Grey Denies. T. Washington.-Sir Edward Grey has o sent to the State Department a state- t ment characterising as a falsehood a P recent Berlin charge that Great Brit- e it- n intends to destroy an American m in ship in the naval war zone and charge w it to a German submarine in order f to' precipitate a crisis between ,the U United States and Germany. Bryan Aks MOO00 to Protect Citizens Washinston.--Secrtary Bryan ask.a ed Congress for a defeiency appro- A priation of $50,000 to meet "any emer- P gencies that may arise abroad" in t connection with the protection ofa American cittsens and intertst in the he war-wept eountries daring the perlod tl when Congress will not be in session. Upholds Taft Withrawmral. Washington.-President Taft's with drawalo of oil lands in California and SWyoming in 1909 without empower b ing letgislation was upheld by the Su - preme Court and entry claims of Indi- * t 1iduals and corporatons valued at Is hundreds of millions of dollars an- C nulled thereby. t Tomato Growers roit. Wahington.-A decided advantage came to tomato growers in IMissisppi, Louisitana and Texas when the aInter state Commerce Commission approved tinereased rates on tomatoes from Plt ida to points west of the Misslstpp I to river. That the Florida growers would . be pat to a great disadvantage in hat their competition with the growers In uld Misisappi and other states to the as West was one of the principal reasons filed in oppoition. Another Judge For Texas. rst Was~hpton.-Appointment of an da additional dcircuit judge in the Fifth pro Judicial District of Texas was provid lr ed in a bill passed by the Senate with out debate Would Buy Montioello. S Washintton.-The house rules com of mittee voted to report a pelal rnle b-ir fr cosiderstioen t a bill apprdpra U tiag hA0 lor the purchase oft Mo ut tiele the Vli seta e te o Thomas JeferseL TEUTONS DEFEAT STIRS PETROGRAD SAYS EMPEROR WILLIAM'S 8OL DIERS ABANDONED LARGE NUMBER OF GUNS. HASTY RETREAT EXECUTED Claim All German Troops Which Crossed the Niemen Have Been Forced Back to Other Bank. l'etrograd.-The highest importance is attached by the Russian military authorities to the German defeat at Przasnysz. It is asserted by Russian staff ofllcres that the Germans' hope of success during their operations of the last fortnight along the northera front was based upon their confidence in breaking the Russian line at Prsas nysz. This attempt by the Germans to strengthen the position of their left wing, which was an important part of their plan for a gigantic encompass ing movement extending from Augus towo to Eastern Galicia, is said by the Russian leaders to have failed deo tinitely. The reports state the retirement of the Germans in the north is more de cided and precipitate than any hereto fore in this theatelr. They state that the Germans have abandoned large numbers of heavy and light guns and have even left behind slighty wound ed soldiers In an effort to execute a hasty retreat.' This condition of affairs, according to the Russian viewpoint, assumes added silgnificance from the fact that the Germans are said to have employ ed some of their best troops In this Sfighting. There are many indications that the Germans were entirely coal leat of success. The reported German plan for na dd*taklng a siege of Grodno woulh now appear to be venturesome with the Russians advancing along the left bank of the Nlemen toward East Prns sia and endangering the position of the German left flank. The claim is Smade here that all the German troops which recently crossed the Niemes haven forced ack to the other bank. 1 Chils Pledge Fealty. - Washhgtse.-AD the rwolatinary it chiebt in Hal, oelal dispatehes say Sbhave pledged allegiance to Gen Gull y laame who has Just areit rown Preses a dent Theodor. Dispatches fom Port 3. au Prince say Guillaume is expected . there sad, that order is be pre. served. 1,036000 Prisoners. S Frnkfort-The Frankfurter Z.t ty nag estimates that the prisoners of Id war In Germany and.Austria now naum d ber 1,03000. This number, t says, is a divided as follows: Russians 03,00, Srench 237,000, Serblans 50,000, Be ams 37,000, British 19,000. Pass Farm Credits Bill Washlgtoa.-A farm credit hill pcs iding for government lons to arm * owners, was attached to the agrieal . tural appropriation bill Ia tts harried a pssage through the Senate Presenb it. ed by Senator McCumber as an aamesd m meat, the provisn was incorporated r with a record vote, at a time when but er few senators wdre in the lchamber ProL. Mathews made 100 addrssas daring the month he was tin Japan. He said he was convinced of the deq k. rooted friendship of the Japnaseo hr SAmerica and could conceive o a e. posbility of serious dimculties be. in tween the two nations, provided they e continued to diseuss with frnhases heall quetilsa which arse betwem ad theek Bryan Wears His "Doveo Poooe." Washington.-secretary BryaM a ith peared at the eabinet meeting weaz ad aIng on his lapel a eamel white deveo er- of pace with n olive branch in ats mouth . The seeretary saMid it wasu a dl gftof af rend' and potnted to it at when questioned concernlngt pssible * compieations for the United States ta the foreign stutaio. Wholeaealers Not Taxed, Washington.--The Tennessee law of ne 0 imposing a $500 linase tax on wholesale liquor dealers was held by the Bupreme Court not to apply to red wholesale dealers engaged exclusively lr in selling liquor to resMidents of other bpl states. in Defeat Farm Census Bill. SIn Washington.-Proposals in the leiae the lative appropriation bill for an agrt one cultural census were stricken out by the Senate. Bridge Worth P000,000. a Mexico Clty.-There is a 160toot ib bridge that is composed entirely of vid- mahogany, worth at the present price Ith. of the wood, almost $2,000.000. Would Make U. . Dry. Baltimore.-Charles H. Randall, Pro m. bibition party congressman-qlet from rule California. in an address to Prohib. Stionists · nmaoeed that it is to be pIe go. posed in the next Conress that thbe a federal goveramet shall wlthdraw tem theblsosr busianas