The Russellville Democrat., 1888-03-01


York City grand jury.
THE hotel keepers of st. Louis have been
requested by Mayor Francis TO refrain
from engaging rooms TO outside parties
until satisfactory apportionment has
been made for tho National committee
men and State delegations.
AT Cincinnati Judge Sage, of the United
States Circuit Court, has refused an order
to remove Ben Z. Hopkins from the coun-
ty Jail to his home where he might die
surrounded by his family stating that ii
was the duty of the court to execute the
law and protect the general public. rath
er than to cons ider the comfort of indi-
viduals.
The President il is said, favored the
selection of Chicago for the location of
the Democratic National convention, and
said il must not go to San Francisco. This
antagonizsd a majority of the committee,
and Frisco, seeing that her chances were
gone, swung to St. Louis under the lead
er ship af Mr.. German.
On the oath Rev. VIM. Key lord, of the
South Jersey Baptist Conference was ac-
quilted of the charge of assault, preferred
by Miss Carrie Pharo.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the night of the 10Th a dastardly at
tempt to blow up the handsome freight
house of the Reading Railroad Company,
at Shamokn, Pa, was frustrated by the
ign ORANGE of the dvnamiter.
AT Baltimore, Md, the killing of Cap
tain Whitehurst, in the battle with the
police boat Folly, on the night of the 18th,
has caused intense excitement in portions
of the city where he was vel and favor
ably known. The coroner's jury failed to
n a.. ,l.fI. fo- h tz Iaoth
On the 21st Rebecca Lester was arrested
in Cincinnati, charged with an attempt to
poison the wife of her paramour.
On the 2lst the city marshal of Carbon,
Ind, shot and killed miner while trying
to quell disturbance.
On the 21st the body Of Valentine
Gulcher, German. was found near Grand
Island, Neb., riddled with bullets.
OK the 21st Miss Jessie Bryant, daugh-
ter of wealthy farmer living near Louis
vile, Ky., took "Rough on Rats" by mis-
take for quinine and was soon corpse.
On the 21st burglars entered the Office
of the Burlington 81 Missouri River pas
senger depot at Nebraska City, Neb, They
failed to break open the steel cash box,
and secured but little of value.
On the morning of the 2lst Dennis Nc.
Graw and his wife, of Lama, o., were
found dead in their bed from the effects
of natural gas.
APRIL has been fixed upon for the ex-
ecution of Luther J. Shaffer, of Lock
Haven, Pa.
THE English and American students at
the u University of Berlin met on the 22d
for the purpose of forming club exclu-
sively of students of their own nat tionali-
ties.
CHARLES WINGARD and his niece, Miss
Anna Fox, an eloping couple from Mon
roe, Mich, were arrested and placed N
Jail at Alliance. O., where they commit
ted suicide on the morning of the 22d.
A coLoRED hero of Paducah, KY,
named Tom Burdette whose boat sprung
a leak in midstream while crossing Bee
creek, on the 22d, jumped into the water
and succeeded in saving his passengers,
Mrs. Hays and her child, but lost his own
| life in the noble work. He leaves widow
| and four children. for whose benefit a
| fund is being raised.
On the 23d Lewis Moore, colored, who
was hanged at Atlanta, Ga, made a con-
fession of his crime on the scaffold, and
said that whisky was the cause of it.
On the 23d the President and party Wis
| tied the Florida Exposition at Jackson
| vile, and ere much pleased with the ex-
hibits and the attention paid them. The
public were excluded during the visit
| On the 23d Governor Jackson of Mary
| land signed the death warrant for j. b.
| Biscoe, the colored youth who murdered
Captain Dixon on his sloop on the Poto-
mae river. He will be hanged on Friday,
| April 81, at Leouardtown.
| On he 23d Thos. Denham, formerly a
wealthy ce-cream manufacturer and
4 ..tfs ~ lxrn hnt
himself dead. Dissipated habits had
ruined him, and he was in despondent
| condition.
| On the path at Terre Haute, Ind, Will
lam N. Monroe, in jumping from a NOV
| ing Vandalia train, was fatally injured.
| His home is at Knightstown, Ind.
| On the oath Charles Holton, the young
son of c. c. Holton, of Chicago who was
accidentally shot on the % by his
brother, Ethan Allen Holton, died of his
| wounds.
! MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 20th "A ruling OF the Supreme
| Court of the United States in effect de-
| fers for the present the execution of the
| sentence of death pronounced upon
! Brooks, alias Maxwell, the SLAYER of c.
| Arthur Preler. in st. Louis in 1885
On the Goth the sugar trust investlga-
tion was begun by the New York State
Senate committee in New York City. Hem
| ry Havemeyer, one of the parties to the
compact, and John Z. Parsons. counsel
| for the trust, were examined. They gave
their testimony grudg ingly, but disclosed
the fact that the prices of sugar had been
! forced up by a twenty five per cent. fall
ing off of production.
On the 20th the New York Produce Ex-
| change decided to make formal complaint
TO the Inter State Commerce Commission
of discrimination by the trunk lines
against seaboard cities in favor of West
ern cities in the matter of through freight
rates. They adopted resolutions that, if
not checked this discrimination would
ruin the seaboard commerce.
On the 21st the weekly Y statement of the
coal tonnage of the Philadelphia & Read
| ing Railroad Company showed a total Of
80. 160. II tons, a decrease of 80, $40. 1S from
the tonnage of the corresponding week
! last year.
On the Goth i'm was stated in the House
of Commons that agricultural values in
Great Britain had shrunk f42 100000 in
1885, and could not now be less than ESQ.,
100000. Thousands Of acres of land had
| gone out of guilty alton, greatly increasing
idleness and reducing wages.
The Financial Ne9os of London insists
that the Canadian Government should
secure control of the Canadian Pacific
railroad.
OK the 2lst St. Louis merchants sub
scribed over one thousand dollars for the
relief of cyclone sufferers at Mount Ver-
non. Ill.
1T is reported that the recent ag citation
of the wage question by the employees of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
resulted in an advance, on the mileage
basis, that will put $3.50, eco into the hands