The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1889-05-18
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

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l. minutes. The best DreviauS tir.s am
record, which was mail. by TN, Ftrrria
! was days. ! hour and jG mi,Utr. Tn
@ CITY ot Paris, best daily record wa, m,Ir
on the 'th, when her log shovcI5 5li miles
IRE fund which !. being raised in Lon
{ doh as n testimonial TO Captain Nurrall
OF me steamship Missouri. who T,scyIo J
'he passengers Of the sinklng shin Dam
nlark, had. on HE Sth, reached fSD
! Nv" persons were killed and eight in-
urea Dy wreck on the Valley road il,
the suburbs of Cleveland o.. on the @ih.
SECRETARY WINDOW and Assistant
secretary Tichenor heard arguments, on
the Sth, In favor OF th6 cuutinuarre ~
the custom Of nOn-aSses, ment OF duty on
railway cars coming from Cauaia 10 the
United States, which, until recently. had
been In fierce for the past twenty wears,
lMMENSE deposits of rich copper ere
have been discovered in the cliG form,.
ton of the State cf ChiapaS, Mexico, and
company has been formed III London
10 work the mine.
a CONFLICT took place ar Essen. Ger.
many, on the stb, between the strikino
miners and the military. Three strikers
| wer" Killed and five wounded.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS of Missouri. on tha
Sth, refused to interfer, with :he sentence
or Dave Walker aud hi,fson Bill. convict.
ed Bald Knobbers.
FIRE at Danville, Mont, on the 9.h. de-
stroyed twenty-three buildings, leaving
only the bank and hotel standing in the
business portion of the village.
MISS HELEN TRENHOLM, n niece Of ex-
Comptroller Trenholm, of South Carolina.
eloped, on the 9th, with Wilson W. Brenne-
man, clerk in real estate office in Wash
lnSton. The couple went to Philadelpbfa.
Miss Trenholm is eighteen wears or aos. |
and was one Of the bellies OF West Wash. |
ingtOn.
TIE persons arrested for participating
IN the GweedOre (lrelaud) riot, in which
Police Inspector Martin was killed have
been charged with completely in Iii, rhur-
der by special jury.
THERE Is shortage Of over $. .ODO in the
accounts OF Eckford Moore. late postmas
ter at Trenton, y. j., which is under.
S'oou 10 have been the cause of his sum-
mary removal.
ABOUT forty survivors of the Tipppca-
noe Veterans who voted for GaueraI
William Henry Harrison, in 1870. called nt
the Executive Mansion, on the 9th. and
PAID their respects to the President.
OWING to the strong anti-Semitic feel.
ing i'll Vienna, Hungarian merchants re-
tuSe to buy grain in the markets OF that
city. I
The Pennsylvania Legislature od. i
lourned sine die on the 9th. /
ON the 9Th Special City Tax Collector !
Michael j. Burke, of Brooklyn, confessed {
10 shortage Of 5000 i'm his accounts
with the city. His bond5:aCn are respon- 9
sible for the deficit. {
lHE daily average attendance at the /
Paris Exposition is in the ueighborhood q
Of 10000. I
COLONEL FRED D. GRANT, the new Min
Ster to Austria, arrived in Vienna on =
he 9th. c
THE trial of Howard O. Spencer for a
Sergeant Pike in Salt Lake ii
1lty, Utah, over thirty years ago, is in h
progress i'll the District Court in that e
.ity. -''' O.
REPRESENTATIVE LAIRD, of Nebraska, z
Who has been i'll for several months. part
II the time in very critical condition. is b
ecovering slowly. el
PROCTOR KNOTT was beaten at the la
(ky.) Derby Ey Spokane by
nose" ot
Ten miners were killed by falling c3r m
the William colliery, near Middleport, OF
"a, on the 9th.
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Buffalo, n. V, after being out eighteen la
ours, returned n verdict, on the 10Th
murder in the first degree. Sentence tn
as deferred. ci
ASA MATTHEWS, of Illinois, has been
ppointed First Comptroller of the Treas
ry.
1T is understood that a company Of
merlcan and Canadian capitalists, a +
eaded by Mr.. Carnegie, contemplates vii
yinS new cable from Nova Scotia TO tai
lie Irish coast. on
NOTICES were posted, on the 10Th. Of n ,
dnctlon of ten per cent. in the wages of 80.
! employees of the Dickson Maunufact ,1S ,1<
ing Company OF Scranton, Pa, to take 'f'
feet May II. The reduction affects o"
Iout nine hundred men. Is
UNITED STATES SENATOR Bgowy. of OF
aorgia, who has been lyin. at the point !
death from malignant dysentery for kot
veral days, has rallied somewhat and snc
$ physicians think he will recover. :
MEMORIAL Iaywas observed ut Charles ar,
n, ). C.. with the usual ceremonies at 80
agnolia Cemetery, where the Coufcder- ~.
e dead are buried. The attendance was &c MI'
ry large. The ceremonies included rc ''A
'lous exercises and the decoration of cue
9 graves by the young ladies' of the L
nIeuefate Home. ms
ITALY declines to surrender Vitelic and TeN
vino, the murdercrs OF PaymaSter Me- chu
ure, near Wilkes barre, Pa, but will fry eve
I'm III that country if evidence is for Y
rded
)N the 10Th three miners were killed co,,
diars A. RrooI."i i''Cu III comnlct win lep,
had gathered in a large body aud re- -
led to disperSe when ordered. The SOL P''
RS thereupOn fired on them. Aho
DISPATCH from Zanz,bar s.o.o.. A.. colt
officer and two seamen belonging to II
German cruiser Schwalba were killed 18Th
baSamoyo, on the East coast of Afri- ava
Clal
APANEsE papers express the fear that the
ni'er Srin u states steamship PaioS, which pro-
i ISih Lor ohee-fo 90 early in the Mrs
ing, aud has not been heard OF since, (.
been lost. ~
SUDDEN wind and rain storm. reser. hii'
lg cyclone, swept over the Potomq.
ley near Point of Rocks. severty oi
rs above Washington, on the ION tehc
enty-five men working on a railroad Tor
'tle spanning the river were blown ,ff IT
the water, sixty feet below. Cad
GENERAL strike Of the NOtting ngh,m stoy
eland) lace-w workers is imminent. mur
oHN +. SALISBURY, Secretary of State dian
Delaware, son OF Willars salisbury. ibad
ncelor of State and ex-Unlted States ua q
ator, and the nephew os ex-senator
Salisbury. died az his home in Dover. "a "a
: on the 10Th, Of heart disease, aged MN
ty-six years. dam
he funeral Of Count Tolstoi, late r US. ana
Minister Of the Interior, took place Til
he 10Th. The Car, who was present, syiv,
donated the sum % 2Jl,OlD roubles to >,0gy
ntess Tolstoi, and in addition a yearly v,