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THE MADISON JOURNAL. ROUNTREE BROS., Publisers TALLULAH, MADISON PARISH, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1915 NEW SERIES--VOL. : NO. 47 l I I I l I I 1 1 1 I Hi l . . . . . . . . . T WS OF THEWEEK I dake OM O0ER WORLD M Ame ENINOS IN OUR OWN AND WW OTHER COUNTRIES TI BRIEFLY TOLD. chm has ORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN han mar News C eisseM M Re Re p vIewed Withet CeWI M AI R Natise Ped amebtI" t me Edify amd tIeel. sm mea MIs Wleesa Mary Dmeas diuhter q Gov. Dense who recelved a letterhot Presdest Wilso eomt aratetloe epes her eeatl marriage to WW - sarbot O h eas has reclved L, se a letter free CoL Theodrme Id Thomas A. ileoa was the goest at a b gis S s r ra Pcleacs o tal, egraph eparators. It was a "speech- g, less" tetilea the adress by the preeste t ipi the respoase by llso- 1 beau made as telegraph Intrumeats. NJ Orvwie . Dorman, 101 years eld, west to the Rame (N. T.) pom pue a re yisterui. e wll rote for i geMahise and woata suoRLme Ni * . * as Jeaqats Oyaem, direeter at the art- sd atios school omaemetel with them mo ise areml at Il Plats. Argastina, was hIes maklas a Mlght. d Par me were hilled and four Ia am l as esplates In the new by pinedn plst of the Teasnsee Coal. or au sai , al araol eompeay at Pair- m eMn. Tm. id Two wome lest their lives ad me e probably was barnes fatally In a p which swept the emee at the m ...al . Ilh earporatson the e- ea -M oer eo as ins balling at At- el Ga. .esger rah Cheage bashal > o - - wht the sates- a he was iriv aslidel with a a A leaen am oet glm maUSkect Iselvad the *sinwiug eable 4 : 'The e ymew M err Mant a weeks has Was ieekered by a Ahe lag1t st. An the s oI the eppes were Iled." U arasA ebamber ot deputhle eprv, a rae te to 1 S. G whreastem Testy algee last May b A- estina, Chas sad NeOVL HMleasatm, a Swelush nab Ua ressaated at meder at Slt ake e " - rStatel to be put t a a P.dua y . lv tsr. see heM e ad ru obbee a wet rogsm m n M I I -ait tisMveablent lI T. Lsod Dl ee Pbim ast Ose's filed s eear at G II'e Pasats wo cmre m floe blater, Gad has n tesii. astd t hs Idl at Olsse Li tsh ea thlt eemmat 1 Amlemeys sggema leert . w Beeby. the g, lst. he hla m tsaest May Os port at edeastm eb aaes sad that meet *ameb m enbr arteeLes mew he mt Mar eew tard lebabt Muese New Pae wnam sadt 5wsd g - .. 5 .Nl t it wtee Pitee tac see - Mals ameIw f rUbh basee wojrd ae I he Cleveland & Buffalo Transit company passed the quarterly dlvi dend. the action being declared ne essary by reason of a decrease In lake passenger traffic. The rumors that Norman Prince American aviator, had been captured by the Germans were officially de The trial of Porter Charlton on the eharge of having durdered his wife has been resumed. Two men were delivered into the Shands of the Milford. England, court. smartial They are charsed with hav Itng given signals during a recent Zeg pelml raid over the London area. Reports came from the Dalles, u miles north of Mount Hood, that smoke was seen isasuing from the moantala. W. L Murphy, a farmer living near Quito, Tenn., blew out the gas in lis hotel room at Memphis. SRaymond Swoboda. arrested in Pa is as a spy, has been discharged from prison. The British steamships Auk, Irish and City of Berlin, which were de talaed in Hamburg when the war be gan, have been sunk by the enemy. C S Billie Burke, the actress reported im; . $O00 in jewels stolen at San Fran- oK Cisco. of The interstate commerce commens siea dismissed the complaint of the Nebraska state railway commissldi against the Burlington alleging unre Ssonable rates on cattle, hogs aad sheep. The death is announced of Sir An drew Noble, an authority on artillery explosives C - Senator Kern, the Dmemocratic lead er, says that be would support the mals features of the administratloa defense program. William P. Stedma, 7, a former a private in the Fourth Michigan regi- s e met ding' the civil war. and the - eaptor of Jeffersoa Davis after the tall t- of Rie mend, is dead. Al Rihgiu , one of the cirue s ingl in SfIags, was injured about the head in W a a to accident when es route with a a party of friends to attend the Pur. a due-Wlscosal football game. The largest chrysanemum in this e ountry, measurlng 17 ftet in dim. eter, will be ia Cleveland Nov. 6 for tb aehibitlen at a flower show there. D ra f * * at o- The first order for Red Cress Christ hi Sas seals has come trom Korea 0 0 " th Capt. Boap-Ed, naval pttache o the IT Gear mbassy at ash ton, has eay been promoted to a fall captaincy. c The most advaneed meaas of afe m Sgurding worers wre discussed at se coaferenem by delegates to the fourth > Sanneal esegres of the National Satf ty eosnel i Piladelphia. Arthur T. h Merey of Granite Cty, Ill., was elect rat ad presdet. Proemier Asquith has recovered trom IN his recent illness suffllenty to so to the euntry. S orty men sad women were r njured when the Lackawaa ferry boat Netherlad crashed into the Barrow Sstreet pier at New York durin a fog. ? The Lima l~aoes ve eororratiom e as resdved a $1.i,.W00 order for p ngns ft Sms the 13n5e0 Cntral ral. a s Joh C. Readg, manager t the Deease aviatlon school, and 1Philip - et Mai mene wer imled whlle a ag an epermental flight ia aa arlne ever ths marshes o we st ih prsers f r in erny. e. More ales departed froms the Unitd States in Agust tn uabrived. wo Aies to a tetal Ot 4.127 departed, t ws asmiced here that Ribch mao (Vs.) fimanLer ating fo the - Unitd States Steel corpmrtia, ae san epties the Tredesar Ire Works pilat. The prieo saMid to be t A est a bei to be wa* be te tween t qur interests and the dry elemoet far She este eo Beesvill Mo., one of the last stmaholds e the liquor interests in that part of teI 8P Sir John A. Sion, uome secetary, annumneda in parulament tht the goy te nmant has no tstiot a s Interuni ish aulgrins at preset, notwitudia the tact that Egtand has declared war ia int laria. ·Whm hew huband. L. D. Mifler. e wmt ltaw raptures over her tattoo marks. Mrs. Mabel Miler returned to her mtmer at Detrt. gmdo in more then thre weeks o eurred Snday near the Meredes (Tea) rpa lg plant. R ert amer, U yesrs o t. w as y t d a i mI t a Uvl - -II y ~ im iss in GiiS TWO HAD Five I toI Nei fay, I army. in-law i ice ed thW Amer carry Acc CHARLES M. FOREE. New Charles M. Fore the new assistant Confe controller of the treasury, has held out a important positions in the controller' o m office since 1903, his latest being that that of chiet clerk. He now succeeds W. W. Warwick, promoted to be can troller. A sad BALTIC SEAPORT I AGAIN IN PERIL ' addil CLAIM GERMANY HAVE CONCEI eryI I TRATED LARGE FORCES said SOUTH OF RIGA. 1,00 cer I London-Battles south of Rigs, where the Germans have made some app Sprogress In the new thrust at the Bal p B tic rroince port, and in Volhyna ad to Galtla where the Russians have ron gained vitories, are now competing Earc Stis interest with the Balkan operations. e c m The Germans have concentrated me h large forces, with a great amount of sta r artillery, south of Riga, and a stub with boran battle has beea in progress for plod a several days. Von Hindenburg, who is T W In command of this reg on, reported reP or that his forces had reached the River ep Dyina. but, as on previous occasions, and this waterway appears to have held the mi hia up .or the time being. dys At the other en.. of the eastern front e the posititn is just the reverse. Gen. One e Irvanof, who has proved himself to be by as the mot aggressive of the Russian c commanders, has been strikting hard at the Austro4erman forces on the SalddleStyr and all along the fringe a t of Gelica that is still in Rossian th handi. - At several places IvanoRf has drives ha T. his opposents back, and there is a r port that the Austrians have evacuat ed Csernowits-a report which fnds = some confrmation In a Odessa die - to patch declaring se Russians have to abandoned their contempleted evacua- to tieo of the northern districts of Bess- Ita sd arabla. J. at The progress of events n Servia is ow surrounded by considerable mystery. on iS. The Austr-Germans and Bulgarans p are advancing along the various fronts. -a but slowly. The Austro-Germans ap 5* parently have spread their armies over W a wider frost, a Berlin reports they Tr are advanciag On Shabots, a long din- tie tamee west of Belgrade; while for the wh h Bulgarlanst its claimed that they have con ip esptured Sultan Tepe southwest of geal Palank, and that i advancing toward Kumaovo they took ,00 I p et dri l-b ine-e Tax Argument Ends. Waslhflto.--Orau argument before the supreme court of the income tax the cases has been eompletd. Most of the ed. disdassos was by AssMLatant Attorney ed, teelr waace sad solitor OGenerald urts or the soverameLnt cb. Men's Pay For Wome. the Loeadoa-David LoydGeorg, mad Slatter ef muatussu, anoences that we mens 18 years old and over engaged ins benanities work receive a mlamumn wage of eme pouad weekly. 8Bitish Loeo incre Lead .-British asalties pub. lished since October 1 total 2.25 of - the Smrs ad 50*12 moacomtmlrioned ot heaers sad meo. Oklahoman Is Set Fro. Wuats oa. - maresident Wilsaon commnated to exptre imediately the seoatence of Oscar Houston, coaelcted of having brebeb ato the Enid (Okla.) h . Infantrymen Win ioeot. ackseonii Fl. - The United t5 fatntry tclm won the national 1 rile mastch with a total of 34 p o plats out of a possIble 3,w 1 35 18 Merdchantmea Doer oc Lo. do.-4)-dal sasunacemest was oes made t the total number of m er chant vesela exeiaiv, of ahermen sa by stharlaes to October 14 e w was 183. The aumber f fishing yes " re sis ss o that time wss 7 a Lty Gewerament Transfrerred. Jil 3u -The seat or the aermbr rvaar has bee treaEed t OlSCOVER PLOT TO BLOW UP VESSELS TWO MEN ARE ARRESTED AS BEING SECRET SERVICE MEN. HAD MAP NEW YORK HARBOR Five Steel Mines, Said By the Police to Belong to Prisoners, Later Were Found in a West Heoboken Storehouee. New York.-In the arrest of Robert ` Pay, a lieutenant in the German who army. and Wrliter Scholz, his brother- 1914 in-law, police and federal secret 'r- w 1 vice agents believe tney have detain- Arc1 ed the lesders in a plot to wreck Isla American munition plants and ships carrying munitions. According to Captain Tunney of the New York "anarchist" squad, Fay t confessed that he came here to work Id out a plan for stopping the shipment F of munitions. He said, Tunney avers, a that he was supplied with $2,000 for w carrying out his operations. Papers 001 found it his room showed he was a German secret service agent. A vast quantity of high explosives and survey maps of New York har bor were found in the prisoner's room L in Weehawken, N. J., where the ar has L rests were made. pow Both men are held on technical ees charges of disorderly condut. An als, additional charge of attempted bri- and 4 ery may be made against Fay. He is to said to have offered a police offieer wi $1.000 to release him, and made an advance payment of $40 when the offiar cr agreed to his proposition. The men are declared to have been testing a bomb in a small grove when e apprehendeld. Five steel mines, sad by ,he poliee ma to belong to the prsoners, later were eve Lye found in a West Hoboken storehouse. i ser Lg Each was packed in a separate wood- cgs us en case, and fitted with an attach. oen Led meat which might be fastened to the opt of stern of a ship by a wire. Contact fi, ub' with the propeller of a ship would en ( for plode the mine, it is said. re is Two suit eases found in the men's sal led rpm in Weebawken were flled wita li, ver explosives, leters written in German lea us, and oMcial-lookiag documents. Among the ead the explosives were several sticks of f, dynamite and various kinds of acid G, oat used in the manufacture of explosives. I, a One of the papers, .. is ascertained be by the police, showed Fay to be a uo Ian lieutenant in the terman army and f connected with the foreign offimce in Wilbelm 8trasse. The police assert that the prison- th age era have admitted the ownership of a w dan high-powered automobile and a speedy the motor boat, both of whieh are in Wee it yea hawken. ha re- so Italy Holds U. S. Cotton., New York.-American cotton valued din at approximately $60,000,000, shipped am ave from the United States and consigned me' to Germany is in possession of the th s Italian government, aceording to Capt. th J. W. Bachelor of the Liverpool S81a m a Is vag Assocation. who arrived here in ory. on the steamship Baltic from Liver iS Lass pool l rats, at aP To Settle Foe Ctton. ad aver Washington.-The British Board of ~, the Trade has arranged to make final set hI dig tlements for all American cotton as the which it has bought and which is not N ave covered by sales contracts. of p clna Edlen VIsits Santa Reem 000 Sata Rosa, CaL--Eighteen hun dred school childrem athered ma Luther Burbank's garden when be a rived here with Henry Ford to visit the famous horticultrust. ermaao Ls Fpor More. Stockholm-The British submartaie eampelvs arsaat Oermma shiplD M the Baltic is belng carried on actively. The sinki of four more German steamshps is reported. Nobleman Is 8olvent. o Indon.-An order for a receiver im has been tissued agast the Duke ol * ama Maachester on the petition of a ereditor. Berlin, via Lonon.-The mllitar I comasnder nla the market of Branden Sburg s fixed the maximum price ol I butte- at two marks, pfennigs (ap I prammistely T cents a pournd. Fathers Heroism Fatal. the Leevile, La--C. W. Averre, city al ed dersan, died of burns received whea )kla.) he tried to rescue his alve-year-old daaghter from -s buraing home. To Name New CardInal. auted Rome.-At the coaiMstory to be held Lonal November 22, accordingl to newspa 3,61 pera in close touch with the vatica, 12 aew cardlnals are to be created. Battleship to Pert. t wasNewport Npr ews, Van-The battl mer ships of the ouarth Division of the Umn MUntle teat which r~ ently were S14 engaged m the great w& game, came g s nto Hasmpta Rds. lue ships here are the lisansa, New Hampslhir Mtnnlest and New York. rblar Sank tbbs m SE S3,U ed .. 5ttie, Wasb.-Two men robbed f Oo tl5tms' bank of Mites, si m t Ibm fr m b er ad aeaed ml -eat S.$A b e w -rg . Eli MOl C Capt v. a EFANSSON. V. Stefansson, the noted explorer who has been missing since March :2 C2 1914. notified the authorities at O'ta erni wa that he discovered new land in th* quan Arctic region southwest of St. Patrick gati Island. lock - The GRECE TURNS DOWN the lOFFERR OF ALLIES R it sub; - - prea re DOES NOT SEE ITS WAY CLEAR t a TO ACCEPT PROPOSALS TO C ENTER PRESENT WAR. bur Cos m London.-The Greek government tioz r has informed the quadruple entente wa powers that it does not see its waj the el clear at present to accept the propos Cos in ala, including the cession of Cyprus wit I and other concessions offered in re C Sturn for Greek military co-operation fro ar with Ser1a. poe n While Greece's refusal is defnita so It far as the present is concerned, Lan on don commentators feel that a material Fe Sstrengtheningt of the entente ell e contingent at Saloniki would have a t material Influence on the attiude the w even of the Greek government Oh s. servers here believe, too, that Greece l. cannot persist in her present ambigu- wil -a- ous position and that Greek public he opinion probably will exercise its In. lt met usence. e Greece's reply to the ofer, which reached the foreign ofce is lengthy, E's ad while it has not been made pub 1t lie, there is reason to believe the Hel in_ lenic kingdom bases its decision oa m< the ground that the AngtiePrenn of ree landed at aloal is not, in the tb Greek government's opinion, strong be es enough for the task allotted it. t med The refusal of the allies' offer was wU a not unexpected, as it has been stated often in oMctal circles that both Rou mania and Greece were withholding their assistance until the allies either won a decisive victory or proved to say the Greeks and Roumanians their abil te Ity to do so, or until the operations had reached a stage which would as sure them their countries would not be overrun by forces of the central ned powers or their Turkish and Balkan A nlllee no Ied There is no inclination here or in the the capitals of the other members of apt. the quadruple entente powers to mini Sal. mise the seriousness of the situation sere in Servia. The AumroOerman and , ver Bulgarian campalC- is developing b slowly, but the plans are now fhtrly h slear. The Austro-erman eater is advancing down the Morava valley I of teom Sneadia, while the BIlgarians a set, rave got across this valley to the e tton south and commande the Belgrade- a not Nish-Salonit railway. The Xustro- u 3ermans have three other forces e a Iaged, wen is the northwest near hin mats, one at Bdelrade ad the dhird. $ hu rhlch has not yet crossed the Dulb , ma sut Oravar s ai -__d OMersn_ Washinton.-AlI leave o ahsence i the men of the Germtan auillary riisers Krosprin Wilhelm and Prins ltmsl Friedrich, internd at the Nor ly k Navy Yard has been revoked un 1l the d ppearance of six warrant soght the 7echt Eclipse, had been dyer granted leans for a anal and did mot Orae. Division in Italy. Deane-The qums.neo of Italy'o par Itary tcipatia or nonaparcipation ln the Eden lka n campaig is still agitatg the e ~ utry, whic~ tr divided into two (p namps, one favorita the sendlnlg of scope to-aid the Serbians and the dther believing tha all the Italian trees are requsred at home. when Pardoens Cameron Spear. aod Philsdelpia. - President Wilson, a. vhle traveling to Princeton. an monaced that he had granted garden o Cameroa 8pear, a mtenecd to five held rears in the Atlanta peitentiary for wsp salawfully using the malls in coneae tia, io with the Collins ~lreless Tel Led. aInos Compeny. Danish Ship ls Prizs. bttle' landon. - The D·nish steamship Sthe lrgt-is, which left. New York Sep. were ember 25 bound for Christisaln sad came (eemhsg has been taken Into a a here 3rltish poart as aprie Uritishers Torpedo Tm. i Stekholm.-The Germaa stemer Sernambeeof 4,758 tons, nd the robed lede~haman. of 1,4ln tos, were to . six aeded by a n itih phmarie of I with I .laen.m slug the BlASe ma at The EXPERT REVIEWS LOCKS AND DAMS no e is mat ceptio MONROE CITIZENS ARGUE FOR ceptio COMPLETION OF OUACHITA in tht RIVER IMPROVEMENT. tion utes ( they are p WORK IS HALF COMPLETED subjet fered is the Capt Fiske Will Visit Camden, Where it is e He Will Hold Second Conference the I of the Present Trip-Other On C0 Points Will 3e Visited. cause or re serssi statu Monroe- the a Capt. Harold C. Fiske, of the gov- strait s ernment engineering corps with head- fends it quarters at Vicksburg, is in Monroe act b hl gathering data for his report on the issue, locks and dams in the Ouachita river. trict The completion of the system of nine Ity o locks and dams, with more than half tweel the work already done, depends on No. I the report Capt. Fiske will make. held Recognizing the importance of the reas subject, representative business men the presented arguments to Capt. Fiske pur to show the necessity for completion "unls of the work as originally planned. lawf Capt. Fiske arrived from Vicks- lege burg. He was met at the station by facta a committee from the Chamber of of V Commerce and taken to the organiza- a it tion headquarters where the subject te was discussed at length. Following a1 the conference at the Chamber of s- Commerce a luncheon was served gar us with Capt Fiske as guest of honor. Atto re- Capt. Fiske was shown the river Judi on front and the place where the pro suit posed municipal docks are to be built. was so It was made plain ny Major Slattery real o on his visit here recently and by Capt. sel at Fiske that much depends on the ter- New ci minal facilities the Capt. Fiske left for Camden, where pres he will hold the second conference of tinu the present trip. Other places inter- ber ested will also be visited. Because of the low stage of the river, Capt Fiske n will not be able to inspect the locks ae and dams and river conditions until Me In-later. g Ich prol stor gb STAT HAFENING. to el- __ he sa The early organization of a rural per sean credit association i· LoulsIsan g to the the lies of the assoieation which has ful g been operating so successfully in Kena- give tucky and a number of other states was was forecast by the arrival in New 7 ted Orleas of Col. Houston Shaw, con- cil Ssuiting actuary of Washingtoe. D. C. po who eare here for a series of con- r terences with business men on the Lot Ssunbject of establishlwg a system of as rural credits tor the farmers of this Me stat col At an election at Etherwood and the Morse upon a proposed bond Issue of qt eal $2,000 or a drainage distriet, series A, with a -il tax for thirty years, lnteret pwble amianally lad ln principal annually, the voters here were usalemous i favoring the pro- f lt Jet. Taere were 4 votes with a lon property value tof 40,T for, and no ad votes agalst, the small vote east int being due to the fhet that this Is per" ily haps the busiaest seass of the year. sy An additieal bshortage i the ac ans counts of Sherif Joha Parker of On the ehita has been disoeeered by Supervi ad- e of PuMe Aeesnts McFarland, tro- who has returned to Baton Rouge e- from cheeking the sherl's books at a- Moaroe. Thlns ins the shortage to b hid. S,2, the 4 sbhortag was mov- a b ered by the aspervisor in Parker's It cease tax ead laherltaace ta ao oe The Asadia prish poliee jury has ms ary contemplation te bilding of 150 'as mes of gravei rasas throuh the par Nor ib. The plas call for two 18-foot I a- reeds eteadln eorth ad south sad al rant two east ad west, with necessary has laterals; the eost of which wold be had smething like ST.OW , at Hardea Wwa., forur a deputy tl emmisiomer ea the docks ad now A member a the ate Board of Ap praisers, has sannmounaced that he will tl par- hire a ha and epoe the methods the o the Doek Board." s-r. Wren has the bee ll but now is convaleslacing. a two - a S The women of t8L ~nthoay's Church a the oara of .cDonoghville will II la give a euchre and dance at the Jet- e ferson Democratic Club hall Saturday, Oetober 3, or tlhe benefit of the shureh repair beta o The Southern M etist pasputors in A rdoa New Orleas are bmsy preparing or 1 v ther aamual coaereace at which they y for w report their years work, on No a rember 17. The coafmereae will be 1 T held in Masfield, La., ad will be In am for neearly a week. I Th Board of PharYam ban pe. uship eedings agaiast V. DeGry. a drg. I Sep. gist of Mandevle streat, New sad Orleans, by revoklng his eart5ys, 4 to a The board will le adavmt rgamg D Omuy with vir.ts of the state pharmacy aw, by compounding drugs withbat the naseary ieass to do so. amer - I the The Welsh Petoleuam Comapany a tn- wus organised here by J. H. Bowers, a o3 for the purpose at alkrig a well on at aof the *l UaMI plaatio two miles mgg@ gbs ama The American Sugar Refining Com pany has made answer to the ouster suit of the state entered through the attorney general, alleging first that the action is premature in that thirty days' notice provided by the act h's not been given to defendant to correct any specific acts of whicu complaint is made, and defendant pleads the ex ception of prt maturity. Second, ex t ception is made to the incorporation in the petition and supplemental pe tition of letters, telegrams and min utes of defendant on the ground that they are scandalous and impertinent. are purely evidentiary in nature and subject to legal objections when of fered in evidence. The third xception is the usual one of va-tonenos. Fourth, it is excepted that th: law under which the proceeding is urought is invalid on constitutional grounds, and b. cause the state cannot claim any right or remedy under the act of the extra sessln., because the otfficers of the state charged with the enforcement of the act have been and are now re rV strained from enforcing against de fendant any of the provisions of the eC act by a temporary restraining order e issued out of the United States Dis r. trict Court, where the constitutional ie Ity of the act is in contestation be lt tween plaintiff and defendant. Act in No. 11 of the extra session of 1915 is held to be unconstitutional for the e reason that its title does not express 'n the object thereof. in that the title e purports to legislate with regard to • "unlawful" restraints of trade, whether lawful or unlawful It is also al leged that the act exposed Is ex post by facto, in that the offense complained of of were committed previous to the at passage of the act ict o At the request of the Amerlesa Se gar Refinery, and by agreement of the { Attorney General and the consent of Judge King. the trial of the ouster ro suit of the state against the company it was not heard. It was urged as the ry reason for delay that the chief emsa pt. eel of the sugar trust, Mr. Beck. of or. New York. was not t the city, and the company needed his services to wre present the case. The case was eoa of tinued oy Judge King until Novem er- her 8. of - Ike The hurricane victims at Datber. R.golets. Lake Catherine and Chef ' Menteur sent expressions of samee - gratitude to New Orloeas for the vTR prompt relief rendered them after the storm. Dr. Fred Turney, who came i to the city from that section, m he had been appealed to by score of tral persons in the four towns metaoned aug to bring to hew Orleans their grt has ful aeknowledgment of the aUsisml :en- given to them. Was -- lew The Bateon Rouge commission es ,- cil has placed .Jself on record as e C.. posed to the increase in the rate ae eon- gravel and sad proposed by the the Louisiana raliroads. Formal resola iof ions on the sublecS introduced by this Mayor Groachy, were adopted m , copy will be forwarded to the Las lana railroad commission to a and the commislosers' reerd when the , of case comes up for trial beln It. lea Wre. The assessment roll aor 1111 tanes, ad fled with Sheriff J. W. Payne oft NW e chitoches. shows: Ttal aasseme n . pr o parish. $1,235,30; pasrI taes h a gus.sai; state tax. $41.171.4; pAs lo tase. 4ASa; Confderate revsra c t tax. =Sa240.4; good roeds (stab), SL r 07.1$; special seehool tax. $48,W1.54; special road tax, $4110. Tetal, ne- $232,544.71. i. Lee Herord. editor of "The Pae pie's Paper." which moved to -r cy about a year ago, has now dede - to move his plant to Orange, T "a. a t where he will euge i the rtin g a business, and establis a wecl c newspaper. He propeas to a his l' oc- aocl coatrasts from Oraugs. ad Bro RMder was shot and lastently killedlya saloo ma at asl as Bragea perish. The sha ast I in i I1 sai, foowed a quarrel lu ofm st . Ip9 lag. The slaye is 22 yearn it age oot the sea of Pierren Maned. Rmde ws · about 0 years of id be The fourth hear th Ijrbety De in in New Orleans it wl Ie n tch i t Coaoderate and Uat Veteran e spty the Soldiers' Home nd the Ohae now Army of the Republic an alm If pm Ap sibleo a deleaegti of vetereanm frm, Swill the Soldier.' Home at eaveoi. thods - a has re destroye the aoundry o l ah I . of the Ruastm Ibmadry and Matca shope, Lmite situatd the lowerw hreb r subors t Alandri, emntailng a wi loa etheatd t M$0,160. The pro. a Jeti- erty was only part ally hem . arday, f the The Democratic 3aseatie Ce to tor Alea persh met aed ale tho parsh primary oar January . ,ih rs i A seoend primary, If nearessr, w i tor be held February 9. ither - a No The federal grand Jury, weh ac l ' been to seasik has started a prme e a of the falrae of the Moaroo Natioal last Jane a po Annouflement was made ifom tUhe idrag hequarters of the Loisita At wi Salo League that Seabor . Wrghtl east. t Georgia and Dr. '. Alex Cairasn ar g Now Jersey would speak • IndlLeism i state n favor of prohibition sabalnmss be drugs fore the close of the campalg ti do so. January. mipany Raoul J. Montague of Ahbbev lowers, long a member of the Houm ofr ip re on seatatives from VermillMe p~srt miles w elted presidat of the as 4 Scentral of the Lno Mea