Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-10-31
NEWsY NOTES.
',hort and Comprehensive Com.
pilation of things Trans
piring in the World
About Us.
Ipnusestlc.

Galveston longshoremen are still on
strike.
There is some excitement in Peoria over
mslLpoz.
Gen. Lew Wallace has gone back to Turkey
on private business
Dpcctur Wells, a crooked postal clerk OF
Renova. Pa, has gone to Canada
vm Becker WAS killed nv the cars on the
Reading railway az ltingfown. Pa.
Another storm swept the Atlantic coast, do
FMS Cnnsiderable damage.
The Southern PsciHc Ra lway company will
erect new shops at Hnu-Ion. Texas.
Ch1nqes Shrider of Little Rock. Arkansas, at.
tempted suicide by tSking chlOroform.
AZ. GARRISON OF CovinVtOn. Kv., has pur
chased an interest in the Houston, Texas, Post
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad company
has declared semi-annual dividend of per
cent.
The railroad commission OF Missouri pro-
nounces emphatically against dUa! classihca-
ton.
Joseph Riggs, a Canadian. was killed in q
contest ith a grizz y bear in the Rocky noun
tains.
WIN C. Glenn has been arrested at Chicago
for swindliug operations on merchants in OH
croities
Green Watson, wanted al Baton Rouge
Ls for murder, has been captured al CaddO.
1T.
Rockford Farm: near Cedar RAPIDS. To-. was
bought by WIN. Roxbury of Glasgow, Scot
land, for $500
The rooms OF the Memphis Cotton exchange
and the Memphis Merchants exchange have
beer lormerly opened.
Jarses Hicks an Arkansas boy only lG years
old. has been sent to the penitentiary for two
years for forgery.
The Elizabeth coal mines IN PENNSYLVANIA
are 70 ha started up at the Sec nt rate deman-
ded by the strikers.
.HenSy Boce, tax collector Of Bowie, county.
Texas obtsineda verdict for 81 900 against the
Tskas Pacific railway at TaIarkana.
Ithas been discovered at Detroit tn at per-
sons passing through from Montreal have
used forged Naccination certificates.
Rockford stock farm. near Cedar Rapids.
had closing our sale nrpviOus 20 changing
hands. The amount realized was go 40
Lewis Webster for the murder of Perry Har-
rington at Caneva, o.. IN Decemhar last has
been sentenced to hang February Il, 1885
Annie McKamp n l4-year-old school-girl.
was brutalc assaulted bv two white boys and
one colored at 0akdale, Pa. Lyuch'ng is prob
able.
Mrs Hannah Remlev. for aiding her son to
murder husband. has been sentenced N
Dodyevtlle, Wis. to Imprisonment for life.
Ina nrht between horse thieves and the
owners Of he stock, on Sycamore creek in Ar
kansas. two OF the thieves were killed and
three escaped.
Union men surrounded the boarding house
OF the n irb y-Tu-Denter company at MenOmt
nee NJ Oh. and prevented the non-union men
fron soing TO work.
Central aud Southern Pacific roads have at
tacbed em'grant slaepers 70 heir regular p-s
senger trains which shortens the time to San
Francisco two days.
Tho county commissioners OF Greenwood
county. Kansas. have been ordered to Jail for
contempt of court in refusing TO levy tax 10
pay railroad bonds.
Influence is being brought TO bea- on the
Creek Indians. nv the Cherokees, adverse r.
the selling TO the government OF their Interests
in Oklahoma
holders, Col. Robert C ClDwry of ChicaVo was
elected n director In place of Hon. John VI
Pendar. resigned.
Mary Alien. the cNlored woman who put
poison in oatru pal and fed It to ch ID of
Emanuel Derov, Mt Plttsburg, has been con-
vicied Of murder in the second degree.
The Massachusetts Democrats nominated
Frederick O. Prince of Boston for governor
and " II. Gilmore Of Cambridge for lieuten-
snt-ruvernor.
c,t'zens ot Rock Springs, Wv. turned out er
mssse and save an Ovst:on to the rioters who
had not been indicted by the Green River
grand Jury.
Capt. Thomas Rootes, quite n noted charac-
ter. having served with distinction both in the
United States ard confederate navies, died at
bONIfE uFttu. NO.
Proceedings have been instituted at Mat
TO n. H.. against colored barber by another
color man. under the Illinois civilrights
Law The barber refused to shave the other
man.
r. J. Hawts. United States inspector of GUS
toms of San Francisco. has accused Deputy
United Ststes Marshal Mcllus with having OF
fered him n hrihe 10 allow Cinnamon who ha''
been remanhed to- China tn come ashore The
mattnr has henn investigated and Meius has
been dismissed from the government service.
Tammanv nnd Irving halls New York Dem
ocracyl agreed upon a joint county ticket
headed bv Hugh j Grant OF Tammany for
sheriff Besides the nomination for sheriff
1smmanv takes the county clcrkship and
Judge OF Superior court giving Irving hall a
judge oftfe citv court. president of the board
of aldermen and one coroner
The Portland. Me-. Argus states thar Hugh
dhompsCn, cashier of tn Grand Trunk freight
depot IN that city. left town about month
ego TO he gane on a vacation IF two eks
He did not return and something wrong was
suspected. His books were overhauei and he
was found to be several thousan dollars short
IN his accounts. II is supposed that he lost
larRe sums In betting on the GenestsPuritar
yacht race and took the monev for that pur
pose, IL is not known where Thorn pSOn is