Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-02-18
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
SHORT NEwsY PARAGRAPHS FOR
HURRIED READERS.
Condensed Cablegrams and telegraph
Dispatches Boiled DOwu-The
World AT Large.


The attempts made by the Russian gov
eminent to float loan have not been sue.
Cessful.
The new high license law in Philadel.
phia, Pa, reduces the Number of lcghlized
liquor saloons from more than 5000 t0
less than 2, 800
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Governor
General of Canada, will succeed the Earl
OF Dufferin as the Governor General of
India at the end Of the present year. g.
The failure of Bensley Brothers, of the
Chicago, ILL.,. Board of Trade, firm of
thirty years standing, was announced.
The general impression on Il e Board OF
Trade was that the liabilities would reach
$500, 900 to $3.50, 900. -.
A special from Seward, Nebraska, says
that Miss Eta Shattuck, the school teach
ef who was so severely frozen during the
recent blizzard died. The Omaha Bee
fund for her benefit, amounting TO 80, $40,
will probably he turned over to her pa
rents.
The German Reichstag recently passed
the military loan bill without debate.
Three members (social Demecrats) op-
posed the measure. The Reichstag com
nit ee has rejected the clause of the
anti-socialist bill relative to the expatri-
alton OF socialist leaders.
A Knights of Labor miner at Fremont,
Pa, informed the Associated Press rep
resentative that he, and many other rep
resentatives of the. order would retura tc
work, and he declared that the orga0Ss~-
| ton in that section was practically broken
| up as a result of the strike.
A largely attended meeting was held a,
the club house of the National Republican
League, Philadelphia, Pa, in cOmmemo.
ration Of the birthday of Abraham Lin.
coin. Addresses were made by Senator
CLllom, Frederick Douglass, Simon Wolf
and others.
William Kelly, inventor of the pneu.
matte steel process known as Bessemer.
died at Louisville, KY, aged IS. Besse.
mer applied for letters patent on the pro-
cess here and in Great Britain at the same
time, but Mr.. Kelly was granted the pat
ent on ground of priority
The British steamships Agatha, Cap
tain Carwisc. Lufr;l Captain Gnmstead.
/ anu NuDldlH fiOht'.
, charter to 90 to Philadelphia with iror
ore for Messrs. Naylor 4 Co., are miss.
ing, and their crews, numbering in all
eighty souls. are believed TO have been
lost.
pack Of Gagged wolves escaped from
Sanger's circhs. in London, Eng The
elephants; camels. horses and other ami
mails became mad with terror and were
liberated with difficulty. The wolres
were trapped in stal,le, where they fu-
riouslv devoured horse already slain.
Austria and Turkey have been visited
by violent snow storms. In Turkey the
storm is the worst experienced since 1874.
! All traffic by sea and land is suspended,
and telegraphic communication is inter
,upted. AT COnstantinople the snow is
three feet deep. and business is at
standstill. p. ~.:'
= Thousands of persons gathered in Tra'
falgar square. London, England. TO. ats,
tend the meeting .annbnhccd TO be held
there The meetfrgwas adjourned, how
+. ever, to the Thames. embankment, where
several speeches were made. There was
no disorder, and the police did nst. inter.
FIRE. ... =,
! A daughter was born to one 80 the
Sioux sauaws in BuFalo Rill's r"mr. ..
IondOn. Iugian b. on, .uristeD'. if.t''.
Victoria Alexandra, in honor .l We.
Cleveland, Queen Victoria. and~tn, tTA
cess of Wales This is the IT,, instance
of the birth of an American Indian child
in England .....
An epidemic of typhoid fever has
broken out quite suddenly in the. State
Industrial home for girls in Adrian,
Mich, and thirteen or fourteen cases are
already reported. The attacks so far are
comparatively mild, but a change may
occur at any time, and every precautipn
is being taken TO meet the dread disease.
4 John S. Hayes, well-known farmer
of Broadbend, H., had just built corn
mill and was making te.t Of the ma
chinery. The stones were run ut high
rate of speed. and becoming heated.
burst, the fragments flying IN all direc-
tions. John S. Hayes and his son, An
drew, were instantly killed. Henry But
Ter. engineer, and w. o. Burtner, car
penter, were seriously injured.
Stephen Joseph Meany, the well-known
newspaper man and Irish patriot, died at
Waterbury. Conn. He was one of the
famous 4g men and also an agitator
later years. He was exiled and be2
m American citizen When sent
land for the New Yor Star in
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