The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-13

Ar Sharon, Pa., the furnace employees struck on the 3d, for au advance of twen- ty-fve cents per day. ON the 4th the California delegation to the National encampment U. A. R., at Columbus, O., reached Portland, Ore, where 1t was joined by the Oregon dele- gation and proceeded eastward to meet tho Washington Territory delegation at Tacoma.
 THE casting of the prov of the new United States cruiser San Francisco has been removed from it's bed, and found to
 be complete success. r was made by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco THE telegraph operators along the line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, 1t Is said, have been notified to
 sever their connection with the Order of
 Railway Photographers or vacate their po- sitions.
 THE bark JacobinI. from Colon, is de- tained at Quarantine at New Orleans
 with her captain and all her crew down
 with ehagres fever. Her second mate
 died on the voyage. OS the 9th there were 145 yellow fever patients at Camp Perry, near Jackson- vile, Fla Five had been returned to
 Jacksonville for insubordination. IN Blackford County, Ind, blowing for
 fall wheat has almost ceased on account
 of continued dry weather, but indications
 are good for Q large yield of buckwheat. ON the night of the 9th a general frost prevailed on low lands throughout
 Cheshire County, N. H.
 CHICAGO, St Paul. Pittsburgh and New York capitalists, 1t is said, have formed a rice trust.
 THE latest news from Jacksonville, Fla, continues to be the worst news. The yellow fever Is spreading rapidly. THE Sauerkraut Trust said to have been organized in St Louis, to control
 the trade in that commodity, is the latest
 thing In trusts. The pickel- makers are
 thinking of following suit THE number of new cases of yellow
 fever reported at Jacksonville, Fla, for
 the twenty -four hours ending at six o'clock on the 9th, was forty six, with ten | deaths.
 ON the 9th an entire family was found dead in house at Bayard, Fla, ham, let on the Jacksonville & St. Augustine railroad. It is not known what caused their death.
 A DECREE, removing the quarantine upon all vessels arriving in Panama from Chilli, and giving free pratique to all, has
 been issued by the Governor of Panama THE spinners in tho Narragansett mill at Fall River. Mass, wont on strike on the 9th, against working overtime to make up 6 few lost moments. AN inquiry has been ordered by the French Government into the reported transportation of slaves in dhows carry ing French colors. Should the reports prove true, the authorities are deter H.. Jn< <.|
 the French flag by Arab slave traders JACKsoSvILLE (Fla refugees will not be allowed to enter Tennessee without
 clean bill of health. THE remains of forty-six citizens who fell in the revolution of 1SiS were recently exhumed at Schemnitz and reinterred iu | a large metal coffin in the Central Ceme- tery.
 UP to the 7th the State Department had
 received no intelligence of the alleged attack by natives on the American Con- sulate at Canton, China. CONSIDERABLE damage was caused by
 heavy rains, on the night of the 9th, in Sioux Falls, Dak., and vicinity. SOME boys were chased by crocodile,
 which had evidently escaped from inn prisunment while swimming in the Hud
 son river near Troy, N. Y. The reptile
 
 was captured.
 ON the 7th Mayor Hewitt of New York received $f, ,06o.35 in subscriptions for the | aid of the fever-stricken inhabitants of Jacksonville, Fla PoRrIoNs of Massachusetts and Vcr-
 mont were visited by destructive frosts
 on the night of the 9th. Ice formed in the former State.
 | IT is reported that the epidemic of dys . entery at Presque Isle, Mich, which has
 been raging for weeks past, with over 200
 cases and eight deaths, has about ex- hausted itself.
 A RESOLUTION favoring the exclusion from Great Britaia of semi -pauper immi- grants, unless they are skilled workers of some kind, was passed in the Trades Con- gress, which assembled at Bradford, En- gland.
 ON the 7th thirty silk weavers who ar- | rived at Castle Garden were detained for examination under the Contract Labor law.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has formally awarded the contract for the erection of the Brooklyn Post-office to Bernard Galligher for $S60,000.