The Springdale news., 1888-08-10
nn the aa 2 windstorm in the town Q,

ON the 2d windstorm in the town of Lake, near Chicago, did considerable damage to buildings in course of erection. SIX cottages, just nearing completion, were wrecked, entailing loss of slo,oOo, and many sheds. fences, small barns and trees were blown down. ON the 2d the arrangements for a we'd ding between George Blair and young lady of Berlin, Wis, were all knocked in the head by the prospective bridegroom, who at the last moment decided in favor of morphine rather than matrlmony. Latest reports say he may recover.
 THE 3d was the last day of the Good wood (England) race meeting. The feat- ure of the programme was the race for the Goodwood stakes, a handicap of twenty soyereigns each, with $500 added, which was won by Stourtead, Clancuttan second, Fea1ty third.
 AT Marquette, Mich, number of men working in the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railway shops and on the line of the road, were laid of, on the 2d, pre- iminary to turning over the line to the Canadian Pacific, which has secured con- trol of 1t.
 OS the Sd the National Plumbers con- vention, in session in Boston, adjourned
  as National district W. F.; Richard O'Brien, of Washington, secretary and treasurer, and John W. Dougherty dis trict NJ W
 Ar Leicester, England. Temple won the twenty mile bicycle championship race, on the 4b. He also beat Howell in five mile race.
 ON the 3d, Orr of the Brooklyn Base Ball Club, was laid off as captain, and suspended without pay, by Manager Byrne, until he gets ready to play. He reported sick, on the 2d, was excused, and then went to ConeY Island.
 IMPORTATION has been received in Rome that an immense amount of damage had been done by volcanic eruptions on the Lipara Islands. No details had yet come to hand ID to the 4th as the telegraph lines were destroyed.
 AT Hastings, Neb., fourteen year old colored boy resisted arrest on the 5th, shooting and probably fatally wounding Policeman Baleomb and wounded a rail- road employe named Clark. He was final ly captured.
 IT has been demonstrated by detectives that the death of Joseph Richardson, in the woods near East Falmouth. Mass, was caused by strong drink and expos- ure, and not, as was suspected, by foul play at the hands of his brother Phineas,
 IT is said that the lameness which over took the great race horse, The Bard, in his race with Firenzi, on the 2d, will per manently disable the animal.
 THE sea serpent was sighted by Captain Deloray and the crew of the sloop Mary Jane, on the ith, off Point Judith. The creature was seventy five feet long, as big around as a barrel, with large eyes, and jaws five feet long and studded with six-inch teeth.
 ON the 9th Oscar Moeller, who abducted the New York heiress, Elsa Elias, from Germany, and was captured on board the steamer Ohio at Queenstown was ar raigued at the Bow Street police station, London. When charged with abduction, Moeller said that the girl had write n him asking him to accompany her to America to see her brother and guardian concerning her estate. He was remand ed for one week.
 THE striking navyies and the police of Paris renewed taeir conflicts on the 9th.
 ON the 6th it was decided to bury Gen. eral Sheridan's remains at Arlington Na- tional Cemetery on the tth.
 ON the 9th the second general meeting VI hA4Nas NtAAH AHAFe i7 tY t'a'7t'toA 'tAS proposition to form a confederation, was held in Minneapolis, Minn.
 AT Brooklyn the strike of employees of the Crosstown Railway Company ended, on the 9th, the company agreeing to rein state the two men who had been dis Charged for bringing car in ahead Of time.
 TIE European Union of Astronomers announces the discovery, on the 3d, oi Eneke's comet on it's present return, al the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Rope.
 AT the War Department General Sheri- dauis desk remains as he left it when he was taken sick. The chairs about the roo1l have not been disturbed for two mouths.
 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was not in- forfled of the death of General Sheridan until the 9th, when the news was deliv- cred to him at Oak View.
 ON the 9th the British Government as- sented to the Paruell Commission bill, empowering the commission to cause the arrest and punishment of recalcitrant witnesses.
 ON the 9th the Joegins timber raft was sighted between Cape Cod and Race Point, making about three miles an hour against strong tide.