The Russellville Democrat., 1888-12-20


 Madrid were imprisoned pending an in- quiry into the robbery of $240,0o0 from the Spanish Governments deposit bank in that city.
 ON the 18th meeting of the Senate committee on education and labor was held to listen to arguments by delegates to the Sabbath convention, being held in Washington, on the Sunday Observance bill pending in the committee.
 THE Supreme Court of Rhode Island has decided that bicycle is a vehicle. ON the 11th the Austrian ReichsTatn passed the Military bill by an almost unanimous vot5.
 ON the 12th official notice was sent to the passenger agents of all railroads in the West and Northwest that, at the ex- piration of ten days, passenger rates will be restored to the former basis.
 THE New York World says that repre- sentative Catholics of New York City dis credit the recent cable dispatch stating that the Pope, in refusing to bless certain medals intended for distribution in Ire land, said that the people of Ireland "seemed to prefer the gospel of Dillon and O'Orien to the Gospel of Jesus Christ"
 MOVEMENT has begun in West Vir- ginia to change the name of the State, and the subject will be brought up before the coming session of the Legislature. Kama wha, the name of West Virginia river, has been suggested as the new name of the State.
 A BILL has been introduced in the South Carolina Legislature to reduce the pension to South Carolina ex-Confederate soldiers from five dollars month to thirty dollars | year.
 A SEARCH of the cells and persons of the prisoners in the Tennessee State prison at Nashville, few days ago, revealed a whole arsenal of small arms and other appliances, which it is believed, would soon have been used against the guards in a general break for liberty.
 IT is announced that Persia has waived her objections to the appointment of Russian Consul at Meshed, and the Czar will send Consul there at once. THE news has been received that new Extraordinary Congress has been con- voked at Lima, Peru, for January 1, 1899, to consider and arrange the external debt of the country and to consider also modification which will be proposed by the Minister of Hacienda respecting the internal debt.
 ON the 18th the American Protestant
 
 Nice, France, was consecrated by Bishop Lyman. Two hundred and fifty Amer jeans and Englishmen attended the serv- ices.
 THE statement is made that Dakota is surpassed by only four States of the Union in the number of students attending agri- cultural colleges.
 THE Dakota Farmers Alliance, recently in session at Jamestown, passed resolu- tion recommending the adoption of a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the Territory. They also recommended the adoption of the Australian system of voting. IT is reported that gross frauds in the count of the vote for mayor of San Fran cisco, at the recent election, are being un-
 earthed by the recount demanded by the
 defeated anti Chinese candidate.
 UP to the 14th five applicants had already appeared for appointment as Judge of the Federal Court for the district of Florida,
 made vacant by the death of Judge Thomas Settle, less than two weeks ago. A DISPATCH from Sydney, N. s. w., says | that copious and much-needed rains have
 fallen in the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales.
 ON the 14th the French Government in- | lTOuuctQ d DllI tut SllAtllDtI OL | ties providing for q postponement for three months of the payment of the Pana-
 ma Canal Company's liabilities, including interest and the redemption of bonds. Ir is reported that the Vermillion & Grand Marais Iron Company, with cap
 ital of 5000 900, has been organized at Duluth, Minn. It is said to be consoh-
 dation of the interests of large number
 of owners of iron lands on the Vermillion | and Mesaba range, and will control from F 900 to 15,000 acres. ON the 18th the famous stallion Volun- 1 teer, the sire of St. Julien and other noted l trotters, died at the Walnut Grove farm, in Orange County, N. Y. He was thirty | four years of age.
 A CALL has been issued by the Comp | troler of the Currency for reports of the condition of National banks at the close of business on December l2. THE Radicals and Liberals scored a
 great victory, the Progressionists being l totally defeated, in the primary election
 which has just been held throughout l Seryia.