Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-08-07

A law has been passed by the Massa- |
chusetts legislature under which, unless a
man is sentenced to the Penitentiary for !
longer term than five years, he can be re- !
leased on a ticket-of-leave.
Clifford johnson Maxwell OF Philadel- !
phia, wealthy man confined in an insane |
asylum, unjustly, his friends thought, died |
while habeas corpus proceedings were being |
pressed for his release.
Joseph Faulkner Of Miles City, Mont, |
killed himself while temporarily insane.
Eliza Rolston of Philadelphia quar-
relied with her husband and took poison. |
She is dead.
A threshing boiler exploded near Ere
donia, Kan, killing William Chaplin and
Al Page Maggie Marshall was badly in
jured.
Mrs. Scott, wife of a planter in Mont
gomery County, Ala, was scared to death
by party OF armed negroes who wanted
work.
A Cleveland (O.) druggist sold Mrs. An
drew Bertalli arsenic instead OF cream oil
tartar. She is dead and her three children
may die.
Simon Hancock of Gresham, Green
County, KY, tried to kill James Bass and
fatally wounded Mrs. Bass, who tried to
save her husband.
-Ex-Gov. w. r. Marshall of Minnesota
has written an open letter in defense OF his
action i'm proposing that that the Younger
brothers be pardoned.
Salvation Jack" otherwise known as
Thomas Richardson, Jr., a worthless young
man of Fail River, Mass, attempted to
kill Sarah Bishop, n member of the Saliva
ton Army, who had rejected his advances.
Jessie Fitton and William n Russell inter
fered and both received wounds that may
prove fatal. Miss Bishop escaped with a
slight wound in the left hand.
Willie Sells was convicted OF murder in
the first degree.
Harrison, the revivalist, is holding n
meeting at Clinton, Ill.
Lexington, No, is to have a temper
ance meeting beginning August 9.
Miss Starke, living near Lamar, Mo,
has been badly lacerated by a barbed-wire
fence.
John Koeher shot and killed John Car
ter and mortally wounded Peter Haupt at
Louisville, Ny.
H. G. O'Bryon was nominated for Judge
of the Tenth district at convention at Slke-
ston.
John Pearson. who lived near Lawrence,
Kas, shot his wife dangerously and then Kill
led himself.
The Gem City, with eighty st. Louis ex-
cursonists on board, is aground at Cincin-
natl Landing, near Louisiana, Mo.
A Democratic mass-meeting at st.
Joseph, Mo-, selected delegates to the state
convention at st. Louis, August II.
Republicans OF the Fiftieth Illinois SEN
atorial district have nominated Capt.
Charles F Nellis of Alexander county for
| the state senate.
| Congressman Burnes was renominated
| unanimously to succeed himself by the
Fourth district Democratic convention al
| st. Joseph.
| Prof. j. G. Strunk shot and killed
| Charles Hoover at the New Albany, Ind.
and seriously wounded DR.. Hoover, fathel
of the murdered man.
/ Seven depredators on government lands
| in Christian county have been bound ovei
to the United States district court at Jeffer
son City, September term.
/ Democrats and Greenbackers of the
Twentieth senatorial district and Four
teenth judicial circuit OF Missouri propos'
| to fllSe Tor the next election.
| "A warrant was sworn out chargin
William z. Pierson, cashier and chief book
keeper of the American Baptist Publication
society, with the embezzfement OF 1000
William B. O'Connor was arrested a
Lawrence, Mass, having confessed that h
| murdered Mrs. Hannah Conway, his mlt
tress The remains were found in n terribl
mutilated condition.
The Galatea. has not yet arrived at Me-
York.
Tom Hayes killed Ben Hicks near Ja'
per, Tenn.
-Macoupin County..Ill., normal is in sci
sion at Carlinville.
-Four psisoners succeeded in breakir
,, Jail at Atchison, Kas.
Spencer Psatt of Alabama has been al
pointed minister to Persia.
4 4 Wisconsin Prohibitionists held the
|. state convention at Madison.
j. NJ. Halstead of Eureka Springs WI
found dead in his bed at hotel in Pier
City, Mo.
! Gen. Condor was nominated for go
y ernor Of Georgia by the Democratic conve
y ton at Atlanta.
: A fire occurred on the French steam
. Labrador off Quarantine station, Staten
land, New York.
n There is q serious trouble at New Yo
d between the knights OF Labor and the Pr
| gressive cigarmakers.
n Further large discrepancies have be
9 found in the accounts OF Bolton, the Chic
e go post-office defaulter.
a The Glover-Lancaster matter has 8
j. into such shape in congress that under pi
is lamentary rules it goes over to next s
r. sion.
p. Paulson, who committed suicide
a. drowning himself at st. Joseph, Mo-, b
been recovered from the river at Leav
- worth.
Y. Peter Rattigan, editor and proprie'
n of the Millerstown Pa Herald, was hor
ii whipped by q number OF women whom
no had offended.
&c, H. L. Gilmer, painter, identified SE
Pc "A the man who lit the fuse in the Haym
ne ket (Chicago) riot and Schnaubel as the n
y who threw the bomb.
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ii, England which has Just been ratified by
rer chamber Of deputies. II was resolved
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