Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-11-13

shoulder. The Uniunists, it SAYS, hav
been in power for six months, and hav
not made an attempt to suppress the Ma
tional League which is stronger, NOR
active and more resolute than ever. an,
laughs at the Government devices. Dluste
and threats. The paper taunts the Gov
crnmant with being afraid to use coercion
A large number OF landlords in West
Clare made n reduction in their rent.
Thursday. The rents on the Browne es
tates we're reduced 10 per cent, and on the
. Kelly estates 30 per cent. Col. Stewart
| made a reduction Of 30, and Capt. Morgan
of 10 per cent. The tenants generally arc
paying.
Mr.. Lewis, who was beaten by Justin
| Mccarthy in the recent contested election
case in Londonderry, in a farewell address
| to the loyalists OF that district, saws he
| regrets handing over his seat in Parlia.
| mCnt 10 one who, whatever his personal
] qualitiee may be, has been received and en-
| listed in America by Fenian dynamitcrs
and advocates Of murder.
Though cholera in Japan is somewhat
| abating. the mortality is somewhat euor-
| nous. From September % to October :
there were COLA cases and 4.I35 deaths.
| In Toxic, 4S3 new cases occurred and IOJ
| deaths. The returns for four weeks ending
| September 20 give 81, 9OS cases and %
IA deaths; average mortality, IS per
! cent.
| The Customs Committee OF the Chamber
| Of Deputies has decided in favor of the bill!
raising the duty on foreign wheat from
| three to five francs.
Maurice BernharIt. son OF Sarah Bern.
| hasdt, has fought duel with ". Lan.!ois.
the exhibitor of painting ridicUing his
| mother NJ L-tngois WAS wounded.
| John C. kirkpatrick OF Shreveport was
| shot and killed on Canal street. New or.
| leans, Wednesday evening by DR.. +. g. Ford
| OF Shreveport. Mrs. Ford had LEFT >hrrye-
port with kirkpatrick six months ago and
| they passed in New Orleans as brother and
sister.
The Rev. &. W. IIinkle, OF It. Luke's
Episcopal Church. jackson. Tenn. was shot
and dangerously wounded Wednesday
night by ) Ohm Il. Newman. an Illinois Cen
| tral conductor. Newman's wife bad con-
| fessed that the minister had seduced her
while sitting with sick friend.
"A special tofhe Daily News from Loo
goOtee, Marlin County. Ind, says that at
3 o clock Wednesday morning, the Arkcr-
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was burned aud three men persisted in the
| flames. They were forgotten in the excite
ment until it was too late to save them.
Two oi them were John q. Gates and
Michael Tracy. who were Tuesday elected
Treasurer and Auditor respectively. OF
Ma rlin County. Worn out by the cxertions
| OF the day, they retired at IL late hnur and
| were not awakened until too late To escap pc.
Gates died Il death OF torture. as indicated
| by the position in which his body was
| found. The third victim was John Burch.
whose epresencemth the building WAS unknown.
He leaves family OF four children. Gates
had eleven children, mostly grown.
john Hooley advance agent for the
Rag Baby company. committed suicide
by cutting his throat in his room at ~ hotel
in New York. He is the son OF Mr.. Hooley,
the wealthy theatrical manager OF Chicago.
He attracted considerable attention during
his short stay by his strange actions, and
/ it is believed that he was insane. He was
1about % years OF age. Among the letters
found Or him was one which seemed to in
Ydicate that he was married and living at
2S3 Clinton street, Brooklyn, but another
| note from Hooley expressed the ,pquest
that his body be sent to his people in
! Chicago.
young married man, committed suicide
Wednesday night, placing two bullets in his
| brain. His parents had opposed the match.
The president has issued his proclama.
| ton designating the 25th OF November as
the day OF thanksgiving.
Charles E. Watson, a prosperous drug
| gist Of Galveston, Tex, ended his life by
| chlOroform at Houston on Monday. No
| r1S 10 httti is-s hot
| love had much to do with the act.
President Cleveland sent $500 to the
| chairman OF the New York State Democratic
| committee last Saturday.
| The engagement OF James Russell Lo.
| well to Lady Lyttleton of England is pri-
| vately announced. She is 40, but like Lo-
| well, has been married twice.
The Standard Mines, Mount Pleasant,
Pa, caught fire Saturday and are still
burning.
| AT Fort Smith Ark, six men were SEN
fenced to hang January Ii for crimes COM
mitted in the Indian Territory.
On the island OF Siiu, Friendly Islands.
| seven native villages were recently destroyed
by volconic eruption.
| Il ettNiCtS over lne cndTTeu re-
| mains of the Rio Wis railway horror took
place Monday at Portage. Wis.
| Mrs. Susan Scoville and Mary Jane
| Dunn were arrested in Oneida County. y.
| L.. the otner day for stopping a man on
| the road and relieving him Of his valuables.
| he Scoviiie woman is "a widow. aged 80,
| who has been tending canal lock at West
| ernville. The Dunn girl is only 20. They
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AT Kingston, Pa, Saturday. Engineer
| Moses at one of the mining shafts started
| his car too soon and crushed laborer "a
| death. He was so overcome by the result
| OF his careIessness that he walked to hif
room and blew his brains out.
in the Weton- Bergh will case at New
/ Haven, Conn, decision was given Saturday
| in favor of Henry Bcrgh. who gets $3.50
| 900 for his Humane Society from the will
| of Miss Carrie Weton, the eccentric lady
| who was frozen to death ia ascending a
Colorado mountain two years ago.
| Mrs. George Donaldson, wife Of =
| Georgetown (Va.) carpenter drowned her.
| self and her two children in the Potomac
River because OF dependency over a rela-
| tive's death.
w. p. Payne, Prosecuting Attorney d
the county had prominent DemOcrati,
| politician, in drunken quarrel Saturday,
| killed his brother Albert at Perryville, Nc
Doweli comfy. W. Va.
| VIM. Stewart, railroad engineer aged
%. was mysteriously murdered ia thl
streets Of Detroit Saturday eveaing. II,
was walking with his bride, when he ex
| cused himself for q few minutes. As TX
left man approached Mrs. Stewart whom
she mistook for a for a former acquaintance
| While walking up the street with him await
| ing her husbands return she came upon his