The Russellville Democrat., 1888-07-12

h is announced that King Milan has abandoned his plans for securing c divorce from Queen Natalie, and the con- dition between the King and Queen will be that of separation. The Queen will reside abroad until Prince Alexander, the heir to the throne, who is now twelve years of age, attains his majority. The Prince will be allowed to visit his mother each year.
 THE report of Drs. Bergmaun and Gebhardt. on the malady of the late En- peror Frederick" says the Munich Auegemaine Zeitanq, of the 9th, may interest the medical profession, but it can have absolutely no political significance, as the allegation that Emperor Ere derrick could not have reigned if the existence of the cancer had been proved, is without legal foundation"
 ON the 9th the SwaAra, with General Sheridan on board, sailed seaward from Delaware Breakwater.
 BARRIsrER EDMUND LEAMY, Parnellite, has been elected to Parliament from the district of South Sligo Ireland, without opposition.
 IT is said that the Pope Is preparing an encyclical on the relations between church and state. An encyclical on the SOCldi QueSiiOn WILL ulSo DV PubAaoaSS during the year.
 Ar Indianapolis, Ind. the union print CTS are threatening to openly oppose Gen. eral Harrison's election # he does not endeavor to aid them in having the Jour- nal again placed under union control,
 IN memory of the late Emperor Fred erick the Hungarian Free Masons held mourning lodge in Vienna, Austria, on +1,o stl g,l1 Iad of oondolence were sent to the German Masons.
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 WHILE boating in the Schuylkill river with two friends, Jacob Bretz, son of the Philadelphia millionaire brewer, was drowned, on the 2d
 ON the 3d, at Trafalgar, Johnson Coun- ty, Ind, s. ". Henderson shot and killed his divorced wife, and then killed himself. The couple were divorced September last. Henderson then married another woman, with whom he was living at the time of his death.
 THE Holtenbach mine, near Wilkes barre, Pa, operated by the Lehigh x Wilkesbarre Coal Company, was on fire, on the 3d, and considerable damage was done.
 IN NeW I oIh Sli}, Ou but tGuy hhehohy Hoffman, of Philadelphia and G. c. Burk- hardt, of Brooklyn, were remanded in the Tombs police court, charged with break ing into clothing store, on the 2d, and stealing over Sl 900 worth of silk.
 ON the 2d Mrs. David Stone, of New York, jumped from window of her room, on the second floor of the fashionable Kensington, at Saratoga, in broad day light. She died, on the 3d, from broken spine. She was popular and wealthy.
 AT Bordeaux, France, the Theatre des Bouffes was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of 100000 francs. Nobody was in jured.
 ON the 2d large new stone block of stores and several other buildings in Flagstaff. Ariz., were destroyed by fire
 AT Tiffin, O., on the 9th, while John Savage was removing some decorations from across the street, he fell from a ladder twenty feet to the sidewalk break ing his arm, leg and hip, and crushing his skull. He can not recover
 SHORTLY after midnight, on the 9th, the business portion Of Lake City, Missaukee County, Mich, was destroyed by fire. The fire started in saloon, and swept every thing for two blocks on both sides of Main street. Nineteen stores and five residences were destroyed. Loss, S75,000; insurance, S7.000. The fire is thought to have been the work of an incendiary.
 A PHILADELPHIA letter. carrier named Howard II. Warren surrendered himself to a New York policeman on the 9th. He said that he had been indicted for stealing letters, and had escaped from the deputy marshal. United States Commissioner Hitchcock issued warrant for his return to Philadelphia.
 A JURY found J. E. Cutter, of Maiden, Mass, charged with shooting his brother in-law, guilty of assault with intent to kill, on the 9th.
 MANY places in Iowa were visited by cyclone on the 4th. Casualties of greater or less extent are reported from several towns. The town of Algona is said to have been blown away.
 Ar Woodbridge, N. J., Christian An derson, of Woodbridge and E. B. Ander- son, of New York, were driving across the railroad track, on the 4th, when their vehicle was struck by train and smashed to splinters. Both men were instantly killed.
 FROM the latest accounts from the re- cent great flood at Leon, Mexico, and vicinity, the number of lives lost was TOO.
 AT Cedar Rapids, Ia, Colonel Hanne- ford's eight-year old son had his right hand blown off by giant fire e-cracker, on the 4th. He thought it a roman candle.
 AT Indianapolis, Ind, on the 4th, Jake Milligan, fourteen years old, had his head blown off by the premature explosion of a lot of powder that he had placed in tin can.
 ON the 4th Martha Leffel, one of the most prominent and wealthy women in Clarke County, O., committed suicide by hanging. She was seventy-six years old.
 AT Niagara Falls, Robert w. Flack, of Syracuse, N. Y., lost his life, on the 4th, in an unsuccessful attempt to shoot the rapids In ''the Phantom" a life boat of his own construction, which Flack claimed would right itself in any sea His object in making this perilous journey was to show this, and to introduce his boat
 ON the 4th Herman Cooper, of Des Moines la, saw his son wading in the Des Moines river, and when the boy stepped out of his depth his father jumped in to save him and was drowned. The boy was rescued by others near.
 THE notorious counterfeiter, Jssnson, who escaped from the United States au' thorities in Detroit three weeks ago, was
  ronto, on the 9th.
 A TERRIBLE collision between two pas senger trains occurred at Butzbach, Pa, on the 9th, owing to q wrong order issued by an operator on the Pennsylvania rail- road. Fifteen passengers were badly hurt, three, it was feared, fatally.
 STAR PRAIRIE, Wis, was raided by thieves, on the 9th. They broke into all the stores and blew open every safe in the town. After finishing their work, they stole a horse and carriage belonging to a resident, and made their escape. They secured considerable plunder.
 ON the 9th the body of Joseph F. Rapp, with bullet-hole in his temple, was found lying upon the graves of his re- gently deceased wife and child, in St. Mary's Cemetery, on Nunnery Hlll, Allegheny, Pa
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 OLIVER BROS. x PHILLIPS, of Pitts burgh. Pa, signed, on the night of the 30th the scale of the AmalgaInated As-
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