Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-10-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
DOMESTIC.

| "''7 'HSi''b iut lfou CtIl Tor tle redemption
| oi bonds. The calls for $4,000, 900 of
| the 3-per cent loan OF 1852.
| Benjamin Gardiner, a farmer of POuuon-
| 'ock, Conn, his wife and daughter-in-law.
| we're all three instantly killed by a train
| While returning from church.
In a fight on Calf Creek in Searcv
County, Ark, John Rogers was fatally
stabbed by j. 5. Clymer, VINO was after
ward wounded while trying to escape.
| Hambrick the Anna, H.. bov-mur,Ier.
r. being brought into court pleaded guilty
accidental mansaughter. and was
ehtenced to the Reform School for two
nd one-ha!f years.
Mrs. John L. Heard, wife OF the congress
IAN. died at BOonviIle Mo-, on the 18th,
liter an illness OF several weeks. She was
ne daughter Of David Andrews, Of Boon
lie who is absent in California.
Conductor Harrison and Engineer
brewer, II the excursion train in collision
Z silver Creek, y. Y, have both been in.
iIcJrd for manslaughter by the Grand Jury
at NayNI!le. They are held il 5000 bail
each.
The porte has informed the Bulgarian
government that Turkey accepts Prince
AleXander 5 ahdlcation, and promises not
occupy Bulgaria SO long as the country
quiet and law and order is preserved
herein.
"A special from Albany, Wis. states
mat Murray's block, containing j. W.
Hicks drug store and B. J. McAtee's con.
ectlonery, was totally destroyed by tire on
the 18th. Loss, Sl2, 500; insurance.
s., 900.
Grant Monahan, 80 years old and be.
longing 10 the construction department oi
The Sante Fe Railroad, fell from the top OF
q box car at Burns, Kan, and fifteen cars
passed over his legs and arms. He lived
Two hours.
DR.. Edward D. Hall, formerly of st.
Louis, and q prominent physician of
Wichita, Kan, was seized with hemor-
rhage OF the lungs at 10 o'clock on the
evening Of the 18th and died before medical
aid could reach him.
Peter McLeiland an old, leading and
excellent citizen of Waco, Tex, died at 3
a. N. on the 25th. The estate foots up in
the near neighborhood OF $3.50, 900 and is
Dequeathed to his wife, and after death to
the children of Peter McLe!land, Jr., his
son.
A lamp exploded in the home of Mrs.
Flanagan, OK Pennsylvania ayenue Pitts
Durg, Pa. fatally burning her daughter
sadie, aged years, and her 5 months old
babe. Mrs. Flanagan, in her efforts to
ave the children, was badly burned about
he i:lce and neck.
Capt. Robert w. Andrews, Of Sumter
:. C., who is SO years of age, and who since
he was "a has walked 1000 miles in ped
estrian tours through the country, not
counting walks OF 100 miles or SO, has just
finished his second tramp from South
Carolina to Boston.
John l.. Dugan was run over and killed
by freight train a Few miles west of Bois
ID Arc on the Gulf Railroad, in Missouri
How the accident occurred or who Dugan
is is not known. There is a valise in the
express office directed to him and sent
from Kansas City.
The Richmond, Me- Conservator. so
long owned ard edited nv Col. lake Child,
The rresent United States Minister to einn
has been sold 70 Gaorce W Tricr. and will
no continued as Democratic sheet. Mr..
Tricr is the present county Jerk cand will
retire from office IN January.
Joseph Neal. n maternal uncle of Presi.
dent Cleveland, died in Baltimore, aged 81.
Ills death was caused by exhaustion of the
vital forces. Mr. Neal has been a resident
oil baltimore all his life, and was for many
years in the secondhand book business.
lie was in comfortable circumstances.
Peter Thielen, working on tile grave.
rain OF the Dubuque and Northwestern
,;alrOad in Iowa, attempted to Jump irom
the car and WAS thrown back under the
his body were strcwn on the track for a
hundred yards. He was a single man, q
years old.
-Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out in a
nerd OF cattle belonging to W. j. Etheri,g
ton, twenty-five miles north of Mandon
Oak. Ten have died and forty more are al
lected. 1t is stated that two weeks ago a
car load OF cattle was brought there from
Chicago. The local Board ofHealth is pre-
pairing to quarantine.
Some time age DR.. Bertling married
Mrs. Kemp, rich widow of Athens, Ga.
The lady died recently. The reading of the
will created n sensation by cutting off her
husband without u cent and distributing
her-entire fortune among distant relatives.
1t is probable that the doctor will make an
effort to break the will.
Numerous destructive forest fires are
raging in the Yellowstone National Park,
and immense bodies of timber have been
DESTROYED. The Black Tail Mountains
near Mammoth Hot Springs, are one mass
Of smoking ruins. This tremendous conila-
grafton was started by lightning, and is be-
yond all human control.
AT an early hour on the morning OF the
22d the grocery store of Thomas Smith at
Shelbyyiile, ILL.,, was discovered to be on
tire. The flames spread rapidly, and in a
lew minutes it seemed evident the entire
eastern part OF the business portion OF the
town must go, but the fire companies sue
ceeded in extingushing the flames.
The nail factories OF Chess, Cook Il Co.,
Jones & Laughlin and Schoenberger q CO.,
at Pittsburg Pa, which were shut down
on account of the existing low prices, have
resumed at the Amalgamated Association 5
scale with hundred machines in operation.
The resumption of work is the cause OF
great rejoicing among the workmen.
"A rumor that case of Asiatic cholera
had occurred in Breslau almost created a
panic there. However, an official inquiry
showed that while woman had been
stricken down in the street, her symptoms
were not those of the Asiatic type OF chol.
era. The Breslau authorities profess no
lear OF the presence OF the disease as yet.
The bOileri in the American Print Works
at Fall River, Mass, exploded, badly scald.
| ing the fireman, John Harrington, and
blowing fire ior distance OF sixty feet.
Hall OF the works has shut down for want
| OF steam, as the main pipe leading TO the
steam chest was broken. Ii is probable
that the entire works will be stopped to
repair tho damage.
-Abiiah Rich, 73 years OF age, who came
TO Fort Smith, Ark, from Indiana about
one year ago and lived On farm with his
son near that city, was found dead in front
OF his house. He slept in the secondstory
OF the house, aud it Is supposed he got up
some time in the night while it was raining
and by some means iell off the high porch,
MASKING himself up badly.
The County Commissioners court OF