Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-02-11
WEEKLY GLEANINGS.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES CAREFULLY
COMPILED.
An Interesting Budget Of General IN
formation.


The Hvnes carriage factory at 'luihC!'
III. uhe largest in the Wcstl, was w
,troyed by fire.
Fifteen hundred cotton operators art
on Il strike at Cornwall. ONTARIO U" az
count of Il reduction in wages.
Archbishop Walsh will lay the iouna&'
tion stone of The National Irish C"uIci'
of st. Patrick, at Rome, staly
Latest reports from Manitoba ln.lic'"'
that there has been great loss OF llle OH
the Canadian Pacific owing TO Sho"
slides
The private bank of W. III. cutter
called the .'GuClph bank company: Su''
pended payment recently at Guelph 'n'
tario.
The absorption of the Whitney Arms
Companv bv the Winchester Repeating
Arms Comnanv. of New Haven. Conn,
is believed to he the beginning oi ScrIcS
of such mbinations resulting Ill nrc-
arms trust
The Nat onal Tube Works Company,
of McKccsport, Pa, employing 4'ooo
men. have posted II notice ordering re,
duction cf ten per cent. in wages OF all
employcs. If the reduction Is not &C
ce, ted the firm will shut down.
The carpenters of Pittsburg, Pa. have
notified employers that on the trSt ol
/ Nav they will make demand for an ad-
/ vance of ten per cent. in wages, and Inc
EMPLOYERS say that the demand Will cause
a suspension of business.
Eugene Zimmerman, formerly direc-
tor of the Fidelity National Bank at
Cinci anati, Ohio, who was i'll Europe
when he was indicted by the cnlted
States grand jury for completely III the
wrong transactions in that bank, has re-
turned.
ExLord Mayor sullivan, of Dublin,
Ireland, was released from Tullamort
prison The other day after two months
confinement. \ large crowd was gath
cred in front of the building and greeted
Mr.. Sullivan with great enthusiasm, ant
he afterwards received addresses iron
various delegations.
A man named Fitz Maurice, who re
Gently took farm near Tralee, Count
Kerry. Ireland. from which two brother
. had been evicted, was going to market
, when he was approached by the tw
brothers. who shook hands with him.
if to make sure of his identity, and the
shot him fatally with revolvers.
o The limited express west bound on IL
. Pan Handle railroad. ran into an Opc
:. switch at Urbana, Ohio and cOllided vii
. switch engine. Both engines we
badly wrecked. Frank Brown, cnginec
- and Charles NJ. Alband, fireman of Il
20 Messenger locomotive and Frank Shad
= roadmaster, were Killed.
d Vim. Mcfarland, one Of the olde
W actors in the country, died in the coun
D. iail, at Minneapolis, Mimi, whore he "
ID awaiting examination as to his SAINT
n Intemperancc had made him a wrec
III Mcfarland had supported Macready,
to elder Booth and Forrest, and other not
rv stars of a former generation.
i'll About 5000 men. women and glr
as employed in the shoe manufacturing b'
n, iucss. a,e locked out in Cincinnati, Oh
i'll The manufacturers agreed upon 4
ut course of action. The origin of
tn trouble was the keeping back OF
tn wages of twelve girls in Blocker, Gers
he & Co. s mauufactOry recently, which
a firm claimed hid been paid them
he properly by mistake in estimating tn
up work.
II! The inccndiary who set fire to the II
III III pital for Ruptured and Crippled Child
iu- on FOrty-secOnd street and LeXing
II avenue, in New York city, has been {
'o covered in the person of "a pretty, mi
IN hammered little girl of II years, nan
CO. Nav Wilson. She has been in the J
- pital nearly three years, suffering fro
or wry neck. She was about to he :
III: home as cured when the terrible or
no was discovered.
Ii ss The Assembly chamber, in the Cap
at Albany, \. Y, is about to be yaca'
The authorities have discovered m
serious movements of stone in the -
arch. all of the main ribs Of the V
split, and many of the stones crac
clear through. The whole ceiling Is
rom clared to be in dangerous condIt
div The time must come soon, they say, W
, IN without warning. the whole ceiling
, of fall. and recommend that the whole
and scmblv wing of the capitol be vacatc
of once.
/, of Burglarics have been # almost mig
are occurrence in the western addition,
will of the most fashionable quarters OF
-. rity of San Francisco. Cal, and the
Iotte dents have appealed to the chief OF p
were for additional protection. \ bn
ltion entered the house of Chief of p
nan, Crowley. while he was asleep, and
/. IL. 81. 500 worth of jewelry from his v
'roo1 room. Mrs. Crowley was aroused j
ON time to see the thic' jumping from
lanu- window.
liie When the men employed at Glend
au colIicrv. near Mincrsville, Pa. came
ats from work recently, they were met
lur, mouth of the slope by a large crowd
NeiNe : men from the adjacent Heckshervill
!ulsl lev. who besought them to stand by
ISSUE striking brethren, and offered, if
Ies as would, ''to share their last crust
haries them" As an earnest of their
tVT"e' faith, the women offered them subst
pm r.. contributions, which they had br
eenl! with them, consisting of bread, met
h" potatoes. Little or no attention wa
n',,., ~ % to this novel appeal.
sur EXPRESS train No. 8. on the New
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