Sharp County record., 1888-01-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Birmingham (England) canal purSC
on the Sd, at point near Dudley. Hun
dreds of families were rendered homeless
by the inundation.
DR. WIN. H. RYDER, pastor of the Con-
Church at Ann Arbor, Mich,
has been called to the associate professor
ship of Sacred Literature in the AndoVer
Theological seminary, Andover, Mass
DR.. Ryder is as yet undecided whether he
shall accept the position.
ABOUT dozen persons occupying
tenement in New York had narrow es-
cape from suffocation on the night OF the
Cd. A gas. pipe in the cellar leaked and
the gas filled the house. The inmates
were insensible when rescued, but all re-
covered after q couple of hours OF treat
ment.
IT is rumored that approaches made to
Holland to join the triple alliance have
been well received by the Dutch Govern
ment. A leading Hague newspaper, the
Dadblad, having semi'oflicial relations
with the government, advocates Hollands
joining the alliance.
HENRY HOPES, employed by H. &.
Allen, Sons & Co., wholesale oils, alcohol
and chinaware, at Philadelphia, has been
quietly arrested as defaulter. The de.
falcation is said to be at least $4,000
THE President issued a proclamation on
the 3d warning all persons from dlsposlng
of or selling any of the lands claimed by
the State of Texas.
THE great Reading railroad strike in
and ~ /, oh ~
terized by the same determination OF both
sides to stand firm that has marked it
from the beginning. The company says
that it is overwhelmed with applications
from laborers in search of employment,
and that they have enough men in reserve
to fill any number of vacancies that can
possibly occur.
THE strike among the flint-glass work
erS has extended from the Western manu-.
facturers to the Eastern factories, and
the men who left work i'll the fifteen
factorie, in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, New
Bedford, Boston and Corning, N. Y,
failed to return to work on the ID, with
two exceptions. In the East and West
about $1,000 men are now out.
Rev. DIR. TALMAGE has been chosen to
succeed Henry Ward Beecher as chaplain
Of the Thirteenth regiment of Brooklyn
A TERRIBLE marine disaster is reported
to have occurred near Waterford, on the
Irish coast, in which twenty-five persons
were drowned.
THE annual ball of the British Minister
was given on the night of the 4th at the
legation in Washington, and was attended
by nearly every one prominent in society
at the capital.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE story says President
Carnot has assured Germany that so long
as he is at the head of affairs France
shall adopt no warlike policy.
THE Shoemakers' Union of Newark, N
j., numbering several hundred members,
has decided to withdraw from the Knights
of Labor. The reason assigned is bad
management on the part of the National
and local leaders.
THE strike on the Reading system is al
ready producing coal famine in Pennsyl'
vania.
THE newspapers of st. Petersburg
publish a Russian translation Of the
forged documents sent to the Car. The
tone of the press toward Germany has
completely changed.
A SECRET tribunal in Russia has con-
demned to death the Nihilist Tschernoff
and seven other prisoners charged with
an attempt on the Czar's life during his
Journey in the Don Cossack country.
THOUGH this season marks the third ice
palace built in st. Paul, Mimi, the first
serious accident occurred on the 4th.
Ernst Hoenspa, workman, fell from the
top of the turret, a distance of sixty-five
feet, and landed at the bottom in bag
of chopped ice. He was taken to the
City Hospital, where he will probably
die.
GOVERNOR LARRABEE of Iowa, on the
4th, prepared and signed the death war
rant of Henry Schmidt, of Fayette Coun-
ty, fixing the day of execution on jan
uarv 10, and transmitted the document to
the sheriff of the county. The hanging
will take place at West Union.
Two express trains on the Dutch State
railroad collded near Meppel on the 4th.
Twenty.six persons were killed and many
others injured.
A FIRE occurred on tho 4th in the thea :
ter ROYAL at Bolton, England. All the
properties were destroyed. There is evil
dence that the fire was the work of an
incendiary.
SPEAKER CARLISLE expected to be able
to announce the House committees on the
4th, but owing to the necessity of seeing
certain members who he proposed to re-
assign to other committees, he was COM
peeled to abandon his intention. 1t was
thought that the list would be finished
and announced in the House on the 9th.
SPEAKER CARLISLE presented the names
of the standing committees of the House
of Representatives on the 9th.
THE Pope took farewell Of the pilgrims
at Rome on the 9TH. There were shouts
for the "Pope- King"
THE treasurer of Logan County, Ia, is
reported to be between $50, 900 and 81, coo
short in his accounts.
Ton BUTTsFIELD, young farmer, living
near Palmyra, Neb., was arrested on the
9th, charged with numbering his father
and mother. The particulars received are
meagre-