The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-09
RUssELLvILLE POPE ARK THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1888.

| York gun manufacturers, bid eff tbe Rem l ington armory at Sf52, 900 at the sale by | order of the court in Iion. N Y.
 ON the 1st Winnipeg Spring" a famous i fighting dog. who has won over one bun !. dred contests, fought Madge. owned in i Minneapolis, at the latter city, and war killed in twenty eight minutes. Both l dogs fought at fifAv pounds and for $i00 I side.
 THE Austrian Government, it is report 1 cel. has decided to ask the delegations to l vote 120,099, 900 forins for the first ex- | penses of mobilization.
 AT Drobmore, Ireland, sixteen youths
 have been sentenced to imprison.cent for
 one week with hard labor for lighting l bonfires to celebrate the release of Will
 jam O'Brien.
 AT eleven o'clock on the morning of the 1st earthquake shocks were felt at many l points in Maine, New Hampshire and
 Vermont. No damage has been reported,
 but the shock was severe enough to rattle
 windows and dishes.
 ON the 1st vast industrial parade.
 many miles long and occupying two hours
 and half in passing given point was
 the carnival attraction at St. Paul, Minn.
 Every important business-house in the | l floats, showing goods tastefully dis played, and others by crews of artisans at work.
 OK the night of the 1st shocks of earth
 quake were felt throughout Scotland. AT Cornwall, Ont, fifteen hundred cot
 ton-mill operatives are on strike against l a reduction of wages.
 ON the 2l two carloads of potatoes, l corn and food were sent to the Kansas I sufferers, from Pierre, Dak. The Chicago 1 & Northwes torn furnished free trauspor l taton.
 OK the night of the 2l the annual ban l quet of the Merchants and Manu- facturers' Association of Bal timore. Md,
 took place at the Hotel Rennert and was at tended by representative business men l to the number of two hundred
 ON the 2d the Supreme Court of Michi- l gan decided the Palms will case by re- versing the decision of the court below l and sustaining the trust The result | leaves the will intact.
 A STORM of indignation has been caused l by the telegraph versions of a settlement l between the main questions affecting the I fisheries on q basis uufayorable to Cana 1 da in all parts of the Dominion. 1 CERTAIN provincial assemblies conn l 1 IT, will be suppressed by Russia. OY the 2d the San Francisco Chamber of 1 Commerce adopted the majority report of
 the committee recently appointed to con 1 slider the tariff as affecting sugar inter. | tests of the Pacific coast. The report ad- l vocates that the present tariff be main tained.
 AT Uniontown, Pa, ten prisoners es-
 capped from jail on the evening of the 2d, l by breaking through the rot ten floor of an unused cell into the cellar, and, mak 1 ing hole in the wall, crawled through. AT Louisville, Ky, biz combination 1 to secure con trol of all the leaf tobacco in the country is said 10 be in process of 1 formation.
 l BYLAWS for the government of the organization has been formulated by the executive committee of the Southwest | Texas Immigration convention. THE Canadian Government, acting on 1 information from the British War Office l in London, is about to inaugurate a sys- l tenn of coast defense.
 | DURING the seven days ended the 31 1 the business failures nun bered for the I United States, 247: and for Canada, B, ] or a total of 279, as compared with BIT for 1 the preceding like period, and 2Gl for the | corresponding week ol Ill J edIs 1 IN Ireland the tendency of events, ] and the lack of assurance in Lord l Salisbury's remarks makes the outlook | rather gloomy for the land element. 1 IT is estimated by an officer of the Phll-
 adelphia x Reading Railroad Company that at least five thousand miners re- | turned to work during last week, and said | that there are enough mines being worked | to avoid any inconvenience to the com pany or to consumers.
 ON the 3d two saw-mills at Port Blake | ly, opposite Seattle, W. T., and the
 largest on Puget Sound, were burned.
 The fire caught from a hot-box,
 and the wind from the belts
 caught the flames and famed the
 blazs the whole length of the mill almost instantly, so that the men barely had time to escape. The loss is 1 S250, GOO: no ins surance.
 | ON the 3d the arguments on the trial of
 Benjamin E. Hopkins, of the Fidelity | Bank of Gin cinnati, We @ concluded, and
 Judge Sage delivered his charge to the jury, who took the case under considera- 1 tion.
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