The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1889-06-29
CURRENT TOPICS,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


The fire meuaced manufacturing and ship.
ping interests.
The New York Central frci,h house a
Buffalo, y. V, was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 18th. y number uf the in.
mates were severely burned, loss, abou
$1,000
OK the 18th Attorney General Miller
received the resignation of George 4.
Allen, United States attorney for the
Western district of Pennsylvania.
w. Ii. DERRY, former cashier of the
Mutual District Messenger Company OF
Boston was, on the l9jh. sentenced tu
three years Imprisonment for embezzle-
ment.
THE National Association Of Stove
Manufacturers of the United States as
sembled i'll Semi-anuuIl convention Al
Saratoga, n. ", on the 18th, with seven
tyfive delegates in attendance.
THE graduating exercises Of Smith Col
lege, at northampton, Mass, took place
on the 18th. The graduating GLASS num-
bered fifty young ladies from different
sections of the country.
SENATOR MANDERSON, of Nebraska, who
has long drawn a pension for a gun shot
wound received during the civil war, has
discovered that under the law he is en-
titled 10 an increase Of pension with Il,
700 arrearages.
EDWARD b. Cox, well-known politi-
clan and ok-keeper of New York CITY,
was committed to the Tombs, ON the 10Th,
TO await the action of tie grand jury on a
charge of embeZZling 5000. Cox's pee
ulations extend over a period OF three
years.
THE Treasury Department, on the 10Th.
rejected the appeal of the Central Stamp
ing Company of New York for the allow
apce of a drawback ON imported tin
plates used in the manufacture Of various
articles intended for expectation.
THE mayor of Belfast, ireland, cabled
to General Hastings at Johnstown, on the
18th, to draw upon him for the sum of
fjO0 as an instaliment of the citizens re-
lief fund for the Conemaugh food suffer-
ers.
THE second section of mail train No. !,
west bound, on the Pan Handle railroad,
was wrecked, on the 18th, while pasiugs
New Cumberland Junction, two miles
east of Steubenville, q. Two persons
were killed outright and eight injured,
four of them seriously.
The Senate committee on Indian af-
fairs, of which Senator Dawes is chair
man, will start West early in July to re-
sumo its investigation into the conduct of
Indian traders.
Mr.. THOMAS POWER O'CoSSOR testified
before the Parnell Commission, on the
Goth, that the turning point of the agra
rian struggle in Ireland was the rejec-
ton hv, Parliament os. the bill! TO COM
pensat0 tenants for the improvements
made upon their holdings. Disturbances
thereupOn began, and the tenants were
compelled to combine
The management OF the Nottingham
Colliery of the Lehigh q Wilkesbarre
Coal Company, on the 10Th, discharged
all the Polanders and Huugariaus en-
ployed in the mine, to the number of
nearly three hundred. \ notice was also
posted that in future none but English
peaking and experienced men would be
mplOyed.
The monument at OmOroy, Japan, to
he members of the officers and crew of
the American corvette Oneida, sunk i'll
Toxic Bay,in 1870, was strewed with flow
ers on Decoration Day by detail of vet
erans from the flagship Omaha.
FIRST LIEUTENANT .. NJ. CARTER. of the
Engineer Corps, against whom charges of
i'll office have been made,
has been ordered from Savannah, Ga,
where he has charge of the river and
harbOr improvements, To Fort Finch,
Fla, on temporary duty, pending an in
vestigatiOn of the charges bv Inspector
General Hughes.
The municipal authorities OF Paris gave
a garden party in the Pare Monceau, on
the Goth, in honor of the committees of the
exhibition and the exhibitors. Thirty
thousand invitations were issued. The
affair was grand success.
FIVE bodies were recovered from the
drift near the Johnstown bridge on the
20th-three women and two children-all
badly decomposed and unrecoguizable.
One of the women held the bodies of the
two children, aged about six and fourteen.
clasped in her arms.
RHODE ISLAND voted, by Il large major
ity, on the 10th, to repeal the prohibitOry
amendment to her constitution. The
amendment was adopted in 1SS6, by a vote
off5, l13 to 923).
The death of Joel Parker was an
nounced on tho New York Stock Ex-
change on the 10Th.
GENERAL LUCIUS FAIRCHILD, of Wis
consin, notified the President, on the
10Th, that he accepted the appointment on
the Cherokee Commission.
PRINCETON COLLEGE conferred the de-
gree of LID. upon President Harri
ton, on the 10Th.
REPORTS accumulate of the ravages OF
the green midge" among the wheat
fields of Northern and Western Indiana.
JOHN KERN. of Bellefonte, Pa, was as
saulted and robbed, on the night of the
10Th, in Cambria City. lie was found next
morning lying in the street. unconscious,
and was taken to the hospital. The ply
sicians say that his injuries are very
serious.
A SILVER brick from Colorado was auc-
toned off in New York for the benefit of
the JOhnstOwn sufferers and brought
$40.
The King OF Holland has had a serious
relapse of the malady which last year
caused a temporary resignation Of the
reins Of government.
The Canadian Government has beer
notified Of the discovery Of a mine OF ex-
celent anthracite coal at CanmOre, ". W
T. The veins have been traced for -four
miles and are over nine feet in width.
THREE Hungarians, Frank George
Harry Harson and Alec HarsOn, charged
with trying to wreck passenger train on
the Delaware & Hudson River railroad
were arrested at Scranton, Pa. on tht
night OF the 20;h.
A WHITE man named Nottingham wa;
accidentally shot, on the 2)th, at Parks
lev Va by his friend VIII Parker while
fooling with a pistol. The ball entered
the thigh and passed up into the abdo
Laen. uaking a dangerous wound.
AMOS 5. BEECHER, of Winstead, Conn.
aged ninety-One. died on the Goth. H.
was the oldest Mason IL that State.
A SERIOUS riot. the outcome OF the
strikes in that region. occurred at Klad
no, Bohemia, On the 21th. The striker