Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-01-09
NEWsY NOTES.
Short and Comprehensive Com.
piIation of Things Trans.
piring in the World
About Us.


W.P. Judsh, an ex-theatrical manager o.
louisville KY, died suddenly.
thorough test OF Mattoons new water.
works prove them successful.
John EImore. a Baptis. minister, suicided d
By drowning near Clayton, Ind.
Hueb Sherman. m echanic, shot and fatally
wounded his wife at Buffalo, N. Y.
A conspiracy 90 form a republic is said Il
have been df covered at Tarragona, Spain.
Band, lave been arrested at Paris.
Tb,, Dominion government has paid out &c
fs< on account OF the campaign against Riei
0$50.000.
An Engishmau named Harrison has beer
arrested In Spain on charge OF forging Bank
Of English notes.
Mrs. W. II. Bowman, president of the w. C..
T.U. ct Marshall. Mo-, dropped dead at that
place.
Marshall Bridgerford of Centralia, ILL.,, was
severely stabbed by Riley Sellers while trying
% arrest him.
eyiua Smith, coIored, was painfully cut
vith razor In the hands of John King, also
oolored. at Texarkana.
George L. Walton was dangerously wounded
b. an accident with pistol in Williamson
county, Texas.
In fight between negroes and tramps at
Johnstown, Pa. one tramp was fatally and
smother seriously wounded.
Six boilers Of the San Francisco water
works exploded killing two men and danger
ously wounding two others.
John Dennis was shot in the abdomen and
his brother William In the arm during q street
nght at we),sville, o.
Burglars broke open the safe of w. H, Harris
Bro. at Seguin. Texas, and robbed 1t Of sew
ord aundred dollars.
lee Hunt, sged 10, wss shot and killed by
the accidental discharge of his gun while out
hunting near West Plains, Mo.
Atemperance olmpsign under the w. G. T.
U.is being carried on in the colored churches
at Washington.
TWO ladies' of Austin, Texas, Mrs. Hancock
and Mrs. Phillips, were brutally murdered at
their homes by some unknown persons.
8 D. J. Beggs. a prominent merchant at Clin-
Ton, Ohio. was robbed and left for dead in his
room with several cuts In his neck and face.
huge Christmas tree in the county hospi-
tal st Chicago caught fire, igniting the cleth-
inR Of some twenty persons, but no one was
seriously hurt.
walter L. Newberry, Chicago millionaire,
heme in cask of rum and quietly buried by q
freud. who has only lately told it on his death
Senator Sherman In declining the invitation
ON. ID. Harter, the lately defeated anti-Sher-
man candidate for state senator, to meet Prof.
noe.trader of Connecticut, in Joint debate
0n the tarin question, donating the proceeds
rallied from the sale of seats to the poor of
1ansoeld, Ohio, indorsed his check for 500,
= be applied To charitable purposes. The
1onator's Official duties rendered 1t impossible
1or nm to leave washington at the time set
for the debate.
11o eepublican state central commit e of
l11Iana has issned call to the members of
- party In the state to meet In mass conven-
uo4o 10 the various counties OF the state Sat
ytesy, January 20. to elect delegates to the
ensrict conventions which will be held Febru-
~ II. which shall In turn elect members of
- state central committee.
report has gained currency in railroad
ellcIee, from what is contidered as first class
on.nofity, TO the effect that Jay Gould had
4.!oeoed his stock In the Texas and Pacific
kellrsad before the latter passed into the
<-lde OF receiver. IL is stared the road has
son Of dilapidation until now beyond the
toenoed there is liGtle left beside rickety
DFloges and worn out rails and rolling stock.
nre was started by order of the chief in
00nton, TEX. for the purpoe Of drilling the
stemon. The boys were on the ground In two
Ia ohe-hslf minutes from the first tap u the
~ ~. ~. q sad accident happened in connec-
1e,sed IN the run and fell into ditch. The
Sootors nave only slight hopes of his recovery.
While Capt. j. 4. Fisher. auditor OF the
22y1snern racinc Railway. was sitting on the
1r01t piszza oOf his residence in the Fourth
s.R Su; soutn, In Houston, Tex, he felt sudden
~ ns ~ n!s eIt wrist Upon looking to sscer-
~ .nat was the matter he discovered that
- nso been snot through the wrist, the bali
Z - close t0the main artery. making quite
sg.Iu,ui wound. The shooting was done by a
xSsns poy who was celebrating Christmas. 1t
~ purely accidental.