The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-04-11
NUMBER 32.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESV1Cs
Gen. Grants condition has improved.
The decrease of the public debt for March
vas S483, ,0OO.
Ten men were killed by the caving OF
,oal mine at Raven Run, Pa.
Ex-Secretary of State Freinghuysen and
lis wife are both dangerously i'll.
The Exchange National Bank Of Norfolk,
Va, has suspended with heavy deficient.
A young lady was killed and another
severely wounded by falling sign in Pitts
burg.
Cyrus Field is about to retire from active
business after a campaign of fifty years in
New York.
Munster Foster has been requested to re-
turn to Madrid aud negotiate new treaty
with Spain.
baby show is in one of the attractions
at Spanish Fort, the popular. New Orleans
lake resort.
Trains on the Pennsylvania railroad now
make faster time than on any other road
in the world.
President Cleveland will try to attend the
National Commercial Convention which, is
to meet in Atlanta next May. fa'
Lawrence James, a laborer, 81 years old,
committed suicide in New Orleans after
vainly attempting to shoot his wife.
An old man, young lady and a litts
girl were burned to death in a house near
AshvilIe, Tenn. Foul play is suspected.
City elections have taken place in Cincin-
natl, st. Louis, Columbus and Chicago
within the past week, with mixed results.
patient in tho Tennessee Insane Asylum
killed an attendant and one of the other
patients the other day by breaking their
skulls with nope
Sullivan and Ryan are matched to fight
with small gloves and big stake on the
10Th of June. The mill will probably come
off at Butte City, Montana. 4ss*
An election for Justice of the Supreme
Court aud Regents of the University took
place in Michigan ON Monday last apd the
Democrats carried the State by aser 4OOO
majority. =
A box Of flowers valued at $40 was de-
livered at Gen. Grants residence ON We'd
nesday. It was the gift of Geo. w. Childs
of Philadelphia who will send similar
box every day. 2ss#
Sullivan and McCaffery were not per-
m;tted to have their advertised boxing
match at Philadelphia on the I'd inst. The
men we're arrested and put under bonds to
keep the peace.
Two car loads of powder stored IN q
magazine belonging to the Harvard Pow
der Company at st. Joseph, Mo-, exploded.
demolishing several buildings, damaging
large number of others and injuring hall 9
dozen persons.
=...-sz-.- - - FOREIGN. .sx
Osman Digna's son was shot in q recent
engagement. =.--. zzzsasa1s
Princess Montclair of Austria committed
suicide by cutting her throat.
The Pope is confined to his bed, and his
symptoms cause great solicitude. -
The Sultan of Turkey has issued proc
lamation deuouncing FL Mahdi as an i'm
postor and robber.
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American Legation at Rome, is reported "a
be lying at the point of death. s.
Five persons have been arrested at Mad
rid for completely in an alleged plot to as
sassinate King Alfonso.
NJ. Flouquet was elected President OF the
French Chamber of Deputies on the thlre
ballot. receiving 179 votes to 175 for NJ
, Fallieres.
Roman Cath dics arep undergoing sever
persecution in several provinces of China
A number have been killed and their prop
erty burned. l-z
The French frigate Irsere will leav
! Rouen for New York about the end OF April
with Barthoidi's statue OF Liberty en-
tightening the world. ...= ~
!, An immense number of coal miners haV
struck in England against reduction o
ten per cent. in their wages. In Yorksh1r
y alone there are 10000 strikers.
England has annexed Quelpaert lsiant
with the eonaent Of China, as auzeraln +
= Corea. Tho island commands Corea, tn
entrance to the Sea of japan and Russia
- ports on the Pacific. s
The Prince and Princess OF Wales
:" rived at Dublin on Wednesday and wei
oiven an enthusiastic reception. crow
% of Nationalists attempted to foment RIO
but were suppressed.
~ The difficulty between Morocco and Spa
has been adjusted. The batteries At Aai
- gier have saluted the Spanish flag. III
III Sn,tan has apologized for the attacks mac
-. upon Spaniards by Moqrs along the re
y coast, and has promised to have the go
- ernor severely punished
= Senator De Freycinet abandoned tlas
- y, tempt to form neu French ministry Al
'n tho task was intrusted to NJ. Henri Br;sso
- - who is said to have completed cabinet
fellows: Brisson. President of the Cou
-. Gil and Minister of Justice; De Freyean'
=. Minister Of Foreign Afairs; Allan Iars
~ Minister of the Interior; ClamaGeran, MI
cd ister of Finance; Goblet, Minister OF fu
80. Tic Instruction: Gen. Campenon, Minlsf
49, of War: Sadi Carno., Minister OF Pub
,ot Works: Pierre le Grand, Minister OF Ag
"a cuIture: Hervs Mangon, Minister OF Coz
-. merca: sarrieu, Minister of Posts and ie
ed graphs, and Admiral Galiber, prooa'
-, Minister of Marine and the Colonies.
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yer An additional article of the Mako
ie treaty. extending until May 20, sloo6.
'o time for approval of the laws necessary
IL carry the treaty iato effect, has oe
az oy adopted by the United States Senats.se
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