The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-12-06


ton on the 30th. The crowd WAS small but
select, and the goods sold readily at fail
prices.
COLONEL SToEFFEL, formerly military
| attache of the French Embassy at Berlin,
was expelled from Alsace on the Both ult
THE friends of John Bright, the English
! economist, are much panied that the Glad.
stonians have selected Lord Compton, re-
| Gently defeated in the Holborn district Of
! Finsbury, to contest his seat after his
| death, which they assume to be only a
question Of a few days.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
VAUBEcouRT, village near Nancy
France, was destroyed by fire on the 9th
! Thousands of persons were rendered
homeless and absolutely without shelter.
| A BOILER in o chair factory at Cochran
Ind, exploded on the 26th, killing viii.
| lam Bencke, John Stark and William
Matthews, Jr., and severely injuring Fred
| Bruce, the engineer. The factory was
wrecked.
OK the 27th Jaye Eye See, the famous
| gelding, owned by J. !. Case, and valued
at $4,000, was discovered in pasture al
| Hickory Ridge Farm, near Racine, Wis
The animal had stepped upon piece oi
| glass or other sharp substance, and sew.
| cred the artery Of the left hind foot, and il
| was feared he conld not recover.
GRANT MCPHERSON, Junior clerk in the
New York Post-office, appointed three
months ago, has been arrested for steal
ing letters. Nine letters were found on
his person when taken into custody.
THE wreck of the Philadelphia steam
collier Allentown has been determined
beyond doubt by the washing ashore al
Cohasset, Mass, of timbers, spars, life
preservers, steamer furnishings, chairs,
etc, marked ALLENTOWN
IT is reported that the British ship The
Douglas, Captain Belts, from Martin
Island, British America, June %, for Ham
burg, foundered off the Island Of Drexel,
in the North Sea, and that two of the crew
were drowned.
On the 27th a farmer by the name of
Delaney was murdered at Kilkenny, Ire
land
On the morning of the 29th burglars en-
tered the post-office at Chiffon, Wis, blew
open the safe and secured S104 in cash and
800 worth of stamps.
On the 9th the steamship Nacoochee,
Captain Catharine. from Savannah for
New York, with cotton and oranges, went
ashore on Core Beach, twenty five miles
were saved.
DURING a general fight which followed a
Thanksgiving orgie, amonga number of
her relatives and friends, Mary Connell,
aged forty-two, fell or was thrown from q
fire. escape of O New York tenement and
was killed.
DURING q Thanksgiving celebration by
the Hudson Guards at Manhattan Park,
near New York City, the explosion Of a
can of powder caused severe injuries to
Edward Schenck, Henry Holza3fel and
Geo. Smith, and resulted in a fire which
partially destroyed the shooting pavilion.
On the Goth John B. King, young law
student, was shot and killed near saloon,
on the streets of New Haven, Conn.
CHARLES T. WINCHELL, treasurer of
Sphinx, Oak, has left for parts unknown,
and is defaulter. A letter was received
by his deputy, on the Goth, evidently
mailed at or near st. Paul, saying that he
is short in his accounts, and had not the
courage to face the music. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
JOHN BOWMAN, the wealthy ex-brewer
of Marshall, Ia, who was recently on
joined by the United States District Court
from selling liquor in the original pack
age and fined 81 900, has been committed
to Jail for disobeying the injunction.
THE Arid Works at Titusville, Pa, were
burned on the 30th. An explosion Of gas
was the cause. Loss, S75, 600; insurance,
SCI 600.
WILL SCHRIEBER, teller of the First Ma
tional Bank of Columbus, Ind, has gone
to Canada carrying with him =, 800 of the
banks money, which he distracted from
the safe on the 2sth ult.
A DUEL between M. Paul Deroulered
and NJ Reinach, editor of the Republique
Fraacaise, took place near Paris, on the
30th ult. Pistols were used. -Four shots
were exchanged, but neither combatant
was hurt.
1T is stated that large number of reg
istered letters from Western Canada and
the United States have been missed at
Ottawa, Ont, and that there has recently
been Wholesale robbery of the mails go-
ing into that city over the Grand Trunk
railway.
THE house Of Mrs. Julius Beck, OF Plain
field, N. j., was totally destroyed by an
incendiary fire on the Both. Loss, Sll, 100.
1t had first been robbed by the incendia-
ries.
THE schooner Dallas Hill, Of st. John,
N. B., was wrecked on Heron Island in the
late storm. The crew are missing, and are
supposed to have been lost.
A GANG of Italian laborers who were
digging a trench for a sewer in Philadel-
phia, on the Both ult., were caught under a
caving bank One man was killed, anoth-
er fatally injured, and the others suffered
fractures of limbs.