The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-30
Acconprra to the New York .Tribun1,s

OtthWA COfroSpOuueut tue 1Fo5iueuJs message to Congress recommending the enforcement of the Retaliation act against Canada causes moro surprise than alarm in the Dominion.
 THE President has detailed Captain Geo. $. Anderson, of the Sixth cavalry, to witness the maneuvers of fthe Third corps of the French army.
 MIKE KELLEY, the famous catcher of the Boston Base- Ball team, has signed to go to Australia this fall with Spaulding's team of ball players.
 WHILE admitting that the plan outlined by President Clevelandis Retaliation message would entail great losses to Canadian interests, particularly to the transportation companies, Canadian Gov ernment officials protest that no recent action on,the part Of the Dominion Gov ernment iustifes the severe measures proposed by the President.
 A LETTER of warning, sent by the, oto- rious "Wbite Cap'' organization to Homer B. Davis, one of the witnesses in the prosecution of members of the gang in which theyN threatened to whip, him to death or hang Him if he appeared.against st the accused, was made public by'Deputy Prosecutor Mount of Tipton County, Ind, on the 23d. Davis,' appeared against the mem and they were convicted.
 MR. ERAsTUs VIVIAN expresses the opinion of the Presidents message, called forth by the rejection of the Fisheries treaty, that 1t js ameasure of party policy simply, rendered unJustifable by the great liberality with which tCanada has, during the past two! years, interpreted the treaty rights of the United States.
 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 FIRE destroyed Bentiey's chafr factory and saw-mill at Traverse City,i Mich, to- gether with fully 300,o00 feet ofs dry hard wood lumber. on the 20th.
 ON the 21st Daniel Murray and John Essex, mem bers of the Tipton County, Qnd.) "Wbite Capp gang. were fined twenty -four dollars each and costs for whipping Omer Davis on the night of June 20.
 AT Cincinnati, while preparations were being made for the nupsials of the young est daughter of Michael Wilson, on the 2lst, the eldest sister went to another part of the house and cut her own throat dy- ing instantly. Tho wedding was not post poned.
 ON the Fist Daniel Ly onS, the murderer of Athlete Quinn, was ehanged in the Tombs yard, New York City. He met his fate in a calm and collected manner.
 A coLoRED girl named Cora Williams preferred charges, on the 2lst against 8 colored woman of Youngstown, O., for the murder of peddler' about. a year ago, whom she compeled the girl to help her bury, and then terrorized into si- lence.
 AT the Washington Navy Yard, on the 22d, three men were moving carboy of vitrlol, when it lliand the fluid was scattered over them. 'J. J. Cooksey was badly burned about the hegs.
 BENo ScHUMAN, 0 carpenter of Buffalo IN. Y, suieided with Rough on Rats" on the 22d.
 OFF Fort Point Cal. on the 22d the steamer City of Chester was run into and sunk by the steamer Oc eanic. Forty-four lives were lost.
 ADvIcEs from China say that Spanish priest was attacked by mob of natives at Antigue, and that his companion, a Spaniard, fired upon the would-b be assas sins and killed fifty of them
 Ar Minneapolis, Minn., Geo. W. Gates, book keeper for Hugh Kirkwood, dealer in agricultural implements, was arrested on the 22d on a charge of embedding about 5000 from his employer. Mir. Gates says the alleged discrepancy is simply the result of bad bookkeeping.
 AT Delano. Minn., the ten-year -old son of Mrs. John Pearson fired upon and drove of party of tramps who were de- manding money and food of his mother. Two of their number fell before the little hero's deadly aim.
 ON the 24th Miss D r. Lucy c. Mosier. of Fitchburg, Mass, was found guilty of criminal malpractice causing death.
 Plrs farmer living ten miles west of Tracy, Minn., was shot through the head and killed by an unknown assassin who fired through the window of the dwelling of Henry Slever with whom Lufkin was spending the evening.
 IN Los Angeles, Cal. Arthur W. Dick ems, novelist was found dead in a second-rate lodging house, on the morn- ing of the 23d. He left letter assigning as the cause of suicide weariDesss and poverty.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 IN the regatta of the New York Yacht Club, on the 20th, the Volunteer won, beating the Puritan by hours and 90 minutes.
 As there was not quorum present at the meeting of the Western Base Ball
  business was transacted.
 RECEIVER WELLER of the defunct Ma tional Bank of Dubuque, Ia, estimates the assets of the concern at S250, 900, and the liabilities at S450,000, a very great re- duction from the first estimates given out.
 IT is reported that the authorities at the Canadian capital fully corroborate the statement of Secretary Bayard concern ing the effect the rejection of the Fish cries u eaty would have on the existing modus vivendi Licenses to American fishermen would be respected until their lapse, but their renewal next season is matter of policy which will not be de- cided until the next session of Parlia- ment
 ON the Fist the Congressional immigra- ton investigation committee adjourned it's sitting in New York City, to recon vene in Boston.
 REPORTS regarding the wheat crop of Russia show that the prospects for sum- mer wheat are promising, and that the yield of winter wheat will reach the average.
 IS response to Mir. Edmunds' resolution of ina uiry, the Department of Justice sent to the Senate on the 20th, the corre- spondence relating to the appointment of deputy United States marshals in New York during the election of 1886. and for the coming presidential election.
 Ar Hamburg, sixteen crocodiles, just arrived from Africa, escaped from the hold of the steamer, on the 20th, and made their way to the river, to the great consternation of the inhabitants residing along it's banks.
 ALEX. GIBsoN. of St Johns, N. B., is reported to have made half a million dol lars by a single bond-sale transaction.
 GENERAL HOWARD telegraphed the War De Dartment on the 2Oth from San Fran