The Springdale news., 1888-11-02
TOPICS OF THE DAY. News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Y, memory of Erastus Brooks and Geo. W. Schuyler, charter trustees of Cornell University.
 THE New York Herald published spe- cial dispatch. on the 18th, from Los An geles, Cal. indicating that the now fa- nous letter sent to Lord Sackville West was written by Chas. F. Lummis, former ly city editor of the Los Angeles Times, who is at present in Mexico.
 THE divorce secured by King Milan of Servia causes the civil-list allowance to Queen Natalie to stop. The Queen has, however, a large, private fortune.
 QUEEN NATALIE it is reported will shortly go to St. Petersburg as the guest Of the Czarina.
 LArE advices from China arc 10 effect that the Chinese Tunes, commenting on the Exclusion act, says China must adopt retaliatory measures and exclude Ameri cans. The feeling against the American Minister IS strong.
 ON the 26th brief meeting of the Cab- inet was held, devoted to a further con- sideration of the Sackyille letter.
 ON the 26th Mrs. James C.. Blaine, Jr was prostrated at the New York Hotel, New York City, with nervous affection and hysteria, said to have been the result of worry over her disagree ement with her husband and his family.
 MRS, MIRA BEALs was awarded a yer dict Of S3), 09) damages in@her suit, i'll Boston, against Dr. Augustus Thompson, Of Lowell Mass. on the 18th.
 THE board Of trustees of Cornell Uni- versity has appropriated 5000 from the permanent funds of the university for the erection of chemical laboratory. Hiram ". Sibley, of k Rochester N. Y., was elected trustee in place Of the late Hiram Sibley.
 oN the 18th the letter from an unknown correspondent at Pomona, Cal, to Lord SackyilleW West was made public, and shows that British Ministers, unlike birds. can be caught with chaff.
 KING MILAN Of Seryia has settled 1.0))- 0o0 francs upon Queen Natalie, and has agreed to permit his son to write to his mother three times each week.
 A LOUISIANA mtser named Patrick skelly, was picked up on Park Row. New York City, with S16,o00 in his pockets. He mad deprived himself of proper nour- ishment and was suffering from partia paralysis and showed signs Of softenins of the brain.
 ACCORDING to the annual message of Governor West of Utah the partial union of the Mormon and non- Mormon elements in that Territory is with a view to secur- ing admission as a State.
 ON the 2Sth Rev. James Fleming died at Troon, Scotland, aged ninety six years. He has been minister seventy years, and conducted religious services to the last. He was the author of numerous theological works.
 IT is said that a very urgent telegram was sent by the Secretary of State, .l-,. tDl. the British Foreign Office. containing a demand for Lord Saekville's recall or for his reprimaud and an apology.
 WHEN the President and party arrived in Washington on their return from the Business Mems demonstration in New York, on tue 27th only the railroad off cials and two newspaper reporters Were in the depot to greet them.
 OS the 2Sth Mary Anderson, the actress, and Charley Mitchell, the pugilist, sailed from Queenstown for New York on tue steamer Umbrla.
 Ox the 2sth Princess Helene died al Arolson. the capital of the principality Of Naldeck, Of which her hus band, George Victor, is the reigning Prince.
 TIE President has extended clemency 10 Lieutenant Colone, Fors ythe and First Lieutenant Alexander T. Dean. of the Fourth Cavalry, from sentences of dis missal to tosuspensiou.
 MR. JEREMIAH SHEEHAN, Member Of Parliament for South Kerry, Ireland, was arrested, on the 21th. for conducting a meeting of Lord Kenmare's tenants. He was offered his release on bail if he would promise to make no speeches pending his trial. but the offer was refused and he was taken to Tralee jail.
 ON the o-th EY- MiniSta T.o Washington, and accompanied by Baron Bertholdi Henle, of St Peters burg Rus sia, called upon the Secretary Of State.
 DISPATCH says that the Lille (France) Echo du Word states that the president of the Geographical Society of Lille has re- eeived news from Africa that Henry N. Stanley has been massacred, with all his expedition, excepting two men.
 4 CIRCULAR letter, alleged to have been sent out by firm of brewers of " abash Ind, to their customers. urging saloon men 10 fight the Republican party, has been made public
 SPENCER BAIRD NEwBURY and Rush C. Hawkins, cf New York, have been ap- pointed by the Pres ident assistants 10 the Commissioner General to the Paris Ex- position.
 Oy the asth Secretary of War Eadicott returned To ashington from New York
 REFRESHMENTS MCMILLEN, of Tennes- see, le,t Washington. on the 29th, for h. diana, where he will engage in the cam- .palgn.
 FRED GaBHARDr and others nave brought suits against the New York, Lake Er ie 65 Western railroad for damages aggregat- ing >19l, ,o00 for horses and other property destroyed in the Shoola (Pa,) wreck last summer
 MR. WILLIAM HENRY SMfTH, the gov. ernment leader in the British House ot