The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1889-05-18
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

LII NbWS In EhlEj,
COUNT "oLsroI. Russian Minister of
Interior, died on the sth.
#, On the 9th the coal -heavers Of AsbIor
, WIS., struck for higher wages.
THE President, on the 7th. annoi,,
rronk W. Palmer,Of Chicago, to be Pub
Printer
= "ENERAL WILLIAM :. HARVEY. I
- noted Indian fighter of past generate
dled at Orlando, Fla, on the 9th, az
eighty years.
IHEo. ROOSEVELT. of New York, n,
FRANK Thompson, of South Carolina. ba
D'eh appointed members OF the Civ
Service Commission.
MR. JOHN DILLON and his assooiafa q
Messrs. Deasy and Esmopdr. nave he,
received at Sydney. ~ =. W, with gre
enthusiasm. Their meetings are crowde
Ar two O'Clock on the morning Of II
I2th' the London police raided the Fiel
ana Adelphi clubs, and surprised and n,
rested large number of titled and otbe
gamesters.
IHE Flndlay (O.) Goblet Works. said T
De the largest es establishment of the kin
IN the Chlted States, were burned, on TN
'th, throwing 300 persons out of employ
ment. The total loss is $l2j,09l.
WALKER BLAINE stated, on the 1Otl
mat there was absolutely no truth in IN
puOiI&Ied re;'nrt that the Danish Govarn
meht had protested against the appnint
meht ot Sir. Enander as Minister to Den
mark. ~ A'n
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Scotch-Irisl
citizens of the United States met ot Cn1,
I ambla Tenn, on the sth, and orpanizel
the Scotch-lr Irish Association, Ex.Gnv.
ernor Proctor Knott of Kentucky. deIiy.
cred the opening address.
lHE interior Department, on the Sth.
instructed Inspector Pickler, at Oklaboma
'lty, Okla, to notify settlers that sales az
town lots by tOwn-site companies or other
private individuals or organizations are
worthless under the law.
THEODORE WnDMAy, of New York CITY
who was secretary of Typooranhic.I !
Union No. from 1884 TO lsSS. is sai1 hv
an expert who has examined the bpoks to
accounts with the Union.
lHE Edward Rail Shoe COMPANY. of
Boston, has assigned. The corporotion
was organized in 1887 under Maine laws
and with capital stock of $4,000 The
cause of the assignment was an attach.
ment by small creditor.
COLONEL F. c. LovELAND has been an.
Poin'eu 10 succeed General Siegel as pen
SION agent in New York. Colonel Love-
iand formerly held position as special
agent III New York City, but was dis
missed by Commissioner Black.
FoRrY-sTx Of the striking street-car
drivers or Rochester, n. ", united in n
petition, on the Sth, To be taken back into
the employ OF the company, thus prac-
ucally ending one of the longest and
most expensive strikes in the histsfy of
that city.
A SUIT against Adam Badeau, ex-Cou-
SUI TO Havana, who figured as a claimant
-or compensation as the alleged author of
.Irants Memoirs, has been flied in New
ork by the Government to recover
money which it is claimed Bad eau apnro. |
1riated while in office.
lHE Irish congress at Columbia,
'eII'' closed, on the llth, after thanks |
lau Deen voted to Mayor Pillow of Col
imOla, a1d the announcement was made
nat all WHO want to join the Scotch Irish
,ociety OF America should address a. c,
lloyd, Columbia, Tenn.
EMMA ABBOTT, the prima dOnna. IN.
ontracted with a Philadelphia firm for n
monument to her late husband, Eugene
etherell, TO cost $1,000. 1t will he
rected at Gloucester, Mass, and will he
tty-fOur feet high AMI composed of va
lous species of marble.
IHE last performance of the theatrical
rm of Robson IS Crane took place at The
TAR Iheater, New York City, on the 1lth.
The Henrietta" being the play. The
oUse was thronged. During the even
iS each was made the recipient OF many
andsome floral tributes.
THE body of Thomas Downs, a promi-
ent Democratic politician, who had been ,
lysterlously missing for more than n ,
eek, was found floating in the lake at
leveland, o., on the Sth. Inability to ,
rocure employment is supposed to have ,
iused him to commit suicide.
e /,
lr is expected that the President will /
'on be called upon to decide DISPUTE
tween the Interior Department and the {
Ivll-Service Commission as TO which is
ltltled to dispense the patronage Of the q
ensus Bureau, numbering three thousand '
erks, besides local superintendents. |
NEWS was received, on the oh, that {
eV' rather Damien, who for the past
Steen years had devoted himself to r
oors among the lepers at Molaki, Z
avail died at kalawa, April 10, of Il
proSy, contracted in the performance Of u
dutleS. He was Belgian by birth.
The Comptroller of the Currency. on d
e 9Th, forwarded to San Francisco diyi- s.
nj checks amounting to S2s7, ,JOD for the {
yment OF the first dividend of sixty II
g per cent. on claims proved against u
California National Bank of San
ancisco, which failed December Il, 1888. a
FIRE in the hold of the steamship Ru- al
|, from New York for Hamburg, en- C;
ngered the safety of the passengers
Il crew Tor over two days, but was fin ii
eXtlngulshed by turning steam into lie
burning compartment, and the yes- 81
put into Plymouth in safety on the h;
h.
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At Toxic, Corea, April 13, one hundred W
lStables beat a man named Boku TO ~,
'th because he bad paid the entire tax T,
y of his village, the people being too r.
'r to pay it. The enraged townspeople in
reupon attacked the constables, kill
a number OF them and wounding the II
vivors.
WHILE James Smith was on trial in OF
nsas City, Kas., on the charge of bur- Cl
ry, on the llth, he suddenly drew Sc
or aud cut a seven-inch cash in the I'll
K of Detective McGiIlev nrodpcino ne