The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-27

when ne started
 l REPRESENTATIVE KILGoRE, acting chair- man of the House committee on enrolled l bills, delivered the Chinese Exclusion | bill to the President on the 20th. | GENERAL WALTER c. NEwBERRY has been appointed postmaster at Chicago. | THE bill creating Department of Ag-
 riculture, and providing for Secretary | of Agriculture, was passed by the Sem ate on ths 21st
 | THE announcement has been made of the death Prof. Jamieson, the Belgian
 naturalist, at Banglas, on the Congo river. 1 EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has l confirmed the election of Prof. Harrack | to the chair of church history st tho Brit | ish University in Berlin. This action Is
 regarded as blow to the extreme church | party.
 SENATOR SAWYER, of Wisconsin, states ] most positively that when his present l term of office expires he will not be a
 candidate for re- election. | IT is stated by prominent New York Democrat that the registration in New | York City this year will be over 25o,000
 and that fully 240, 900 votes will be boiled
 on election day.
 THE death of William Warren, the CO.,
 median, occurred at Boston, on the Fist. GRIMES AND CASUALTIES. l ON the 17th Michael Hussey was ar- | raigned in Brooklyn on the charge of
 murdering Edward Barry, whose body was found on the track of the Bath Beach
 & West End railway. His examination was set for the 27th.
 A CASE of witch burning is reported to have occurred recently among the Mojave | Indians in California The victim was Q | tr~I,& oId ANDREW J. CLARK, of Washington, ac- cidentally discharged rife, on the 16th, the bullet striking Q nine- year-old coll ored boy standing on the street. and kill | ing him instantly. Clark was arrested. A GERMAN named Ludwig was arrested in London, on the 18th, suspicion point l ing to him as being tho perpetrator of the | recent awful murders in Whitechapel. IN Glasgow, Scotland, the Irish inmates of the Emigrants' Home broke out in a | riot on the 18th, and wrecked the house. Sixty-five of the rioters were arrested. | fifty-two of whom were sentenced to a months imprisonment ON the 17th three men were seriously | injured and the building badly wrecked | by the explosion of some dynamite caps | in the burning warehouse of the Republic
 Iron Company. in Republic, Mich. THE body of a German gendarme, with | bullet hole in the head, was found on | French territory on the 18th. It Is thought that the man committed suicide, but an l investigation will be made. THE First Presbyterian Church at New Brun swick, N. J., was destroyed by fire, on the 18th. Loss, 35,000; insurance, S31, : 1 800.
 NEAR Berlin, Wis, the cranberry ware- l house on Mackett's marsh, containing | 2,500 barrels of berries, was burned on | the night of the 18th. A wANToN attack on an incoming passenger train on the Chicago &s Alton road was made by Chicago hoodlums on of coals and stones was thrown through the car windows, and many passengers were seriously injured. JUDGE FAIRALL, of Iowa City, Ia., sen- fenced Wm. Orcutt to ten years in the penitentiary, on the 20th, for attempting to wreck a train for purposes of robbery on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway near that city year ago.l Two CoLoRED men assaulted a we H. dressed stranger on the streets of h. dianapolis, Ind, on the night of the 20th, fatally injuring him with blows with a | piece of iron. A slip of paper, with "William MoGill, New York" written on it. was found in his pocket. AT Newark, N. J., during political meeting in the Bellevue Avenue Rink, on | the night of the goth, the music gallery | fell, injuring eleven men and boys, some of them seriously.
 CONRAD SToRz, prominent business | man Of Jeffersonville, Ind, was found dead in his room at hotel in Scotts burg, | on the 20th. His throat was cut from ear | to ear, his pockets turned inside out, and | his money gone. The officials are in 1 doubt whe ther it is a case of suicide or
 murder.
 MIsCELLANEOUs. | GUESTS to the number of about one l hundred sat down to the banquet ten l dered to the Triennial Congress of Amer | ican Physicians and Surgeons in Wash- | ington on the 17th.
 THE Vienna FremdeRbtan says that the Bismarck Kalnoky meeting will reaffirm | the complete accord between the funda-
 mental policies of Germany and Austria | Hungary.
 THE National Association of ex-Union | Prisoners of War met at Indianapo- ! lis, on the 18th, in annual session, with 1 full representation of delegates. Gen.  | Williams of Washington, Chaplain Me- Cabe and others were present camp | fire was held at night ALBERT REIss proprietor of a large cotton printing mill at Liesigg, Austria,
 has failed. His liabilities are 1000, 900 | forins. All of the Vienna banks are in- | yolved.
 THE German press approves of tho new infantry regulations initiated by the late Emperor Frederick.
 A BIG boom is reported in mining
 claims at Camp Castle, Mont Prices oi ground advanced one thousand per cent | in week.
 THE Grand National Curling Club As- sociation of America held it's twenty second annual session, in New York, on | the 10th. The next meeting will be at AL bany.
 ON the 17th the New York State Labor | conference opened in Harmony Hall,
 Troy.
 FIFTY Germans were recently expelled | from France on suspicion of their being | spies.
 | THE maneuvers of the Russian naval 1 fleet will begin in the Black sea toward
 the end of September. | ALL trains on the main line and branches of the Bangor & Portland (Pa-
 railroad were abandoned, owing to wash | outs, on the 18th.
 REPORTS from Petosky, Mich, Nance | Iona, Walton, Leroy, Traverse City, Reed City, Big Rapids and Howard City, on the 18th, stated that long looked tor
 rains had come, and the forest fires were l dying out.
 | TEE election of officers of the Sovereign | Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, in session
 at Los Angeles, Cal, occurred on the 18th. The officers were reelected, except
 Deputy Grandsire Underwood, of Ken
 lucky, was made grandsire, and Chas. M. B usby. of North Carolina, deputy. | A SYNDICATE composed of English and
 German capitalists is trying to secure
 cortrol of all the breweries in Philadsl- | pbia There is unlimited capital in the