Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-05-12
CONDENSED FLASHES.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF GENERAL
NEWS ITEMS.
The Nows from Various parts of the Globe
In Condensed Form.

Munster Pcndleton Is rapidly recover
ing. lie takes carriage rides daily.
Fifteen banking houses in Bueno,
Ayres have suspended within ten days.
Mount Etna, in Italy, is in state OF
activity, but the eruption has not assumed
a serious aspect.
Gen. Carl Schurz and Bismarck hav,
been discussing politics at Berlin very
amicabiy over their beer.
AT the Democratic territorial conven-
ton held at Ogden, Utah, all the Nor
mon delegates were excluded.
Gen. Boua gers friends in Paris have
distributed free, 1900, 900 copies of his
book on the Franco -German-Wa
Emperor Don Pedro, of Brazil, who is
suffering with throat disease similar to
Emperor Fr, derrick, lies dangerously ill at
Milan.
Dispatches from India announce that
Delhi and MOradabad have been visited
by disastrous hail storms, about one hun
| dred and fifty persons having been killed
The hailstOnes were fiat and oval in shape,
and some of them weighed as much as
two pounds.
Chairman Hodge, of the grievance
committee of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers at Chicago, H., says
the strike has not been declared off, but
the men have been allowed to secure
their places with the Burlington COM
pany at the hest terms they can get.
In the Edgar Thomsons Steel Works,
at Pittsburg, Pa, the new rail mill was
put in operation recently, and the first
rails made since last December were
turned out. PinkertOn guaEysa1s are sT7i;iil
on duty, but everyhDly is in good humor,
and no furthG"disorder is expected.
Col. William r. Aylett, of Pickett's
dlvls3n, delivered lecture in Philadel-
phia, Pa, on Gettysburg" before
large and distinguished audience, in
luded among which was Mrs. General
Pickett. lie paid Il glowing tribute to
Generals Grant, Sherman, Mcclellan
and Hancock. Mrs. Pickett says she
takes great interest in the great assem-
blage of Northern and Southern soldiers
which occurs at Gettysburg early in July.
The schooner, Edward E. Webster, of
Gloucester, Mass, arrived at San Fran
cisco, Cal, after a six months voyage,
during which she ran out of all provisions
except musty flour, and the greater part
Of her crew came near dying
from strange disease, probably
eau, ed by insufficient food. The
meat on board became tainted and
bol 10 I,n +bro ,p Snop aftar
several of the crew fell ill of a strange
complaint, which swelled their limbs,
made them useless and several died.
About three miles above Centerville,
Ohio, at Milkanna Station, as the train
Of Miller and Freeman's circus, passing
that point, went through deep cut
known as Backbone, it met landslide
which threw the engine and five cars
from the track, piling them up in con-
fused and broken mass A. Ii. Stillwell,
of Wellsville, O., engineer, was terribly
scalded. Elmer Ellsworth, of Colum-
bus, Ohio, coloed cook, was killed
outright. The passenger coaches, con-
tanning performer, were unlnJured, as
were also the carscontaining the horses.
Edgar L. Hernance, late pastor of the
PRESBYTERIAN qlurch, in the village of
White Plains n. Y. shot himself while
in the pulpS. Hermance's resignation
was asked Tor some months ago, in con-
sequence of dissatisfaction arising be-
tween hinself and the flock over his sal
ary. Eis wife is the daughter of ex-
President Wo,lsey, d. d., LID, of Yale
college Shortly before he shot himself,
Iernance was sitting within the chancel
with the sexton, John Blake
u, and appeared perfectly rational.
Hardly had he closed the church door
On leaving, when he was startled by the
report of pistol shot, and rushing back
into the church, found the pastor stretch
I'd prone upon the floor of the pulpit. He
was bleeding profusely from a bullet
hole in his right temple. Close beside
him lav a smoking 32-calibre revolver.