The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-13
coNonrssMAs soorr, of Pennsylvania,

nomination for reelection to Congress rendered him by the Democrats, on the 9th.
 A WASHINGTON dispatch says that the carly resignation of Secretary Whitney is looked for among high Government officials.
 ON the eth Dr. H. B. Deals was horse- whipped by Dr. McKone, Q rival hospital physician, at Washington,fo for criticism of the latter's treatment of hospital cases.
 THE President signed the Naval Appro- priation bill on the 7th.
 A GERMAN squadron has been ordered to Athens to salute King George on the twenty fifth anniversary of his acces- sion to the throne of Greece.
 THE announcement of the betrothal of the Duke of Sparta, the son of King George, to Princess Sophie of Prussia, has filled Greece with joy.
 AFTER his attack at the Gilmore Gar den meeting, on the 9th, Judge Thurman slept well all night, and awoke much TO- freshed in the morning
 MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE was reported seriously i'll at her summer residence in Sag Harbor, N. Y., on the 7th. She is in her seventy seventh year.
 OWING to Teemer's inability or nnwill ingness to secure backing for e race with Wm. O'Connor, of Toronto. Ont, the lat ter claims the title of champion of Amer ica.
 ON the Tth Sec y Lamont refused to affirm or deny tn atement credited to x-Representative Burleigh, of New York, that President Cleveland had determined to modify his position in regard to re- duction of the tariff to conciliate the pro- tectionist wing of tho Democratic party.
 ON the 9th Minister Denby telegraphed from Pekin, China: Treaty postponed for further considerations"
 PRESIDENT HILL of the St. Paul, Min- neapolis & Manitoba railroad, knows ho " to do the right thing. He made his daugh- ter Mary, who was married, on the 9th, to MT. Samuel Hill, of Minneapolis, wed- ding present of S200, 900.
 ON the 9th General Horace Eldridge a prominent Mormon, aged seventy two, died at Salt Lake City, mourned by three wives and numerous posterity.
 CRIMES AND CAsUALTIEs.
 IT IS reported that forty -six people were drowned and 1S0 houses destroydd in a recent inundation at Mayossgori, caused by terrific storm at Tokushima, in the province of Ava. on the 4th ult.
 NEAR Dummy Light, Lake Erie, Captain Henderson of the schooner Colonel Cook and his wife were drowned, on the 4th, by the capsizing of their boat in which they were about to leave ,the schooner, which had sprung leak
 ON the 3d H. A. Gillner, farmer living near Columbus, Ind, was arrested on the charge of forging the name of wealthy farmer, Levi Boyer, to two notes amount ing to $450 It is said that Gillner's for geries will exceed $l,00).
 BERNARD RExRoTH, who claimed to be a soldier under Napoleon In his campaign in Russia, and to have participated in the disastrous retreat from Moscow, died, on the 2d, in the Lehigh County tPa) Aims House. He had been peddler in this country for fifty years. Ar Tiffin, O., practical joker painted sleeping man, face with marking paint, few days ago. Tho caustic in the mixture burned deep lines in the mans face, and may cost him his eye sight
 IN a mad panic at Coney Island, N. Y., on the night of the 3d, at the de- struction by fire of the pyrotechnic spec tacle of the great Fire of London," q number of persons were trampled under
 
 IN a collision between two expr ess trains between Marseilles and Turin, France, on the 9th, twelve persons were killed and large number injured, many of them fatally.
 WHILE making a frantic effort to save her children from her burning home, a Mrs. Grant of Winnipeg, Man., was burned to death, on the 4th.
 I ffo nt,nI >rfh pni1 T.. ing Association, of Cincinnati, is said tc more, which he has spent in fast living. He has fed.
 FIRE destroyed the greater portion of the village of Cattaraugus, N. Y., on the 9th.
 IN Jackson County, Ind, on the 9th, 6 threshing- machine boiler exploded on the farm of Wm. Bennett, causing the death of three men and the serious injury of five others.
 SEvENTY-FI FIVE men were thrown out of employment by the burning of the Dewey Slave Company's factory, at Hoyt's Cor ners, O., on the 5th.
 GENERAL WILLIAM TERRY, the cOm- mander of the famous Stonewall brigade at the close of tho late war, was drowned, on the night of the 5th, near Wytheville va., while attempting to ford creek in s buggy. The creek was swollen by recent rains and swept the horse from his feet.
 PRAIRIE fires have caused great damage in Edmunds and McPherson counties, Dak. The fire burned strip twenty Ave miles long and three miles wide. A large number of farmers have lost their entire crops and farm buildings.
 PHILIP A. HUBER, who stole S29, 900 from the Adams Express Company at Sanbury, Pa, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment.
 WHILE attending travis on the Grand banks Duncan McDougall and John Tib' betts, of the crew of the schooner F. A Smith, were lost. on the 7th, by the cap. sizing of their boat.
 OS the night of the 9th young mar named George Schon was instantly killed by jumping from a moving train at Ls- compton, Kas.