The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-23

f
 ON the 14tb the Clyde steamer Seminole, | from Jacksonville, Fla, for New York, which was detained at Quarantine for over thirty hours, was released, and all lowed to proceed to her dock The health officer reported no symptoms of fever on | board.
 THE amount appropriated for the in- | crease of the navy by the House Naval 1 Appropriation bill IS $5, 760,000. A LONDON dispatch states that it Is said | that the London Times counsel will claim that as the Times neither oolds property | or resides in Scotland, tho Scottish courte have no jurisdiction of the Parnell libel | suit.
 ACCORDING to advices from Victoria, B- | C.. the reports of Indian troubles on the | Skeena river have been greatly exagger. ated.
 DECISION has been rendered by the l Supreme Court of Washington Territory | that Woman Suffrage in that Territory is unconstitutional.
 i THE nun icipal authorities of Charles | ton, s. C., on the 18th, ordered a rigid en- l forceraent of quarantine regulations
 against all Florida points. | ON the 10th and 17th the International executive Sunday -school committee were l in session at Chautauqua, N. Y. | ON the 18th, what appeared to be a | dynamite bomb of the Chicago Anarchist l pattern was picked up in front of the Cin- cinnati Freie Presse. 1 ALL Pullman cars on lines south of | Savannah, and all sleeping cars belong l ing to that company which had been in l Florida in the past twenty days have been sent to the shops for fumigation. | Iy Central Iowa railroad traffic was im- peded and vast amount of damage done l to property by recent storms which as- sumed almost the proportions of water 1 spouts.
 | A NOTICE was issued by the Pennsylva-
 mia Railroad Company on the l6th, an-
 nouncing an advance on it's Western lines | in dressed beef and livestock rates to the | East.
 | IT is said that the proposed prosecution l of the notorious White Caps of Harrison l County, Ind, is frowned down by the peo- 1 pie of the communities in which tae out | laws raids have occurred who declare | that worse evils exist in tho $ tate claim l ing the attention of the Governor, and l that criminal cases in that county are | almost unknown.
 WHILE Inspe ctor Steers and number
 of New York City policemen were march | ing in the funeral procession of the late l Captain McDonnell, on the 16th, they l were overcome by heat, and the parade I was abandoned.
 | THE Western Associated Press held It's | annual meeting in Detroit, Mich, on the | 18th. An entirely satisfactory condition l of business was reported. | PERMANENT injunetions against forty seven Dubuque Ua.) saloon keepers | were ordered by Judge Lincoln on the | 16th. Tho defendants will appeal to tho | State Supreme Court.
 | REPORTS received from thirty -nine
 towns in Northeastern Nebraska, show
 that the small grain is bad failure. 1 ON the 17th four new cases of smallpox and several suspected cases were report | ed at Buffalo, N. Y.
 l UPON investigation the Inter- State | Commission failed to find any sufficient 1 reason for a change in the rates com | plained of by the B par d of Trade of Lin | coln, Neb., against the Burlington & Mis-
 souri River Railway Company and tue | Missouri Pacific Railroad c ompany.
 ON the 11th it was reported that the
 French employers had determined to of | fer an advance in wages in order to cad
 the great strike in Paris. TUE general feeling in Jacksonville, l Fla, on the 1Ith, was growing more cheer- | ful every hour, and it is believed that the
 energetic measures taken toward disin- | lection have been successful, and that
 the yellow fever is now under control.
 AROUND Montpelier Ind, the farmers l are panic stricken, owing to break, on
 the 17th, in powerful gas and oil gusher
 we'll which saturated the fields and out
 standing crops for half q mile around
 with oil. It is believed that the striking
 of a match would fire the whole district. l IT is reported that the Sultan of Zanzibar
 has officially transferred the administra-
 tion of the coast line to the German com pany, whose flag, jointly with the Spl- tan's, has been raised over fourteen ports.
 THE English Conservatives, 1t Is report
 ed, contemplate raising a fund to guarea
 tee the London Times against loss ill it's
 defense of the Parnell suit
 TIE anti French tone of tho remarks | of Emperor William at Frankfort on the
 Oder, receive very unfavorable comments
 from tho English press.
 AT the close of business, on the 1Tth,
 the surplus in the United States Treasury
 was S113, ,000,00o