The Springdale news., 1888-08-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

ON the 27th Emperor William, accom- panied by King Oscar aud Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden. Prince Henry of Prussia and Court Herbert Bismarck, took an extensive drive in Stockholm.
 IT Is said that Mir. Edison has only dis posed of comparatively small part of the patent rights of the phonograph, while reserYing the exclusive right to mauufact- ure them.
 HoN. A. c. PORTER, of Indiana, will accept the Republican nomination for Governor, provided he is the unanimous choice of the State convention.
 ON the 27th the Empress William was delivered of son, at Potsdam.
 ON the 2sth the coroner in the Mitch ellstown dreland) inquest summed up the evidence against discriminating any persons for the death of John Vaudeville.
 0S the 2Sth Wm. A. Webb X Sons sta tioners and printers, of Cincinnati, made an assignment Nominal assets, S2a 900; liabilities, S25, 900
 THE Italian Ambassador to France, Count Menabrea handed to Nj. Goblet, Minister of Foreign Affairs on the 2sth, a .ote addressed to all the European Powers, notifying them that Italy had definitely taken possession of Massowah anu tHt au uihttnt lctIltOI}.
 THE application of G. H. Gamble to looate with Porterfeld scrip about three acres of land known as the ..Viilage Cemetery lot,n in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, valued, with recent improvements, at over Sl00,00Q. was rejected by Commis- sioner Stockslager. on the 2sth.
 CHARLES T. .O'FERRALL was renomiaated for Congress by the Democrats of the trir af Niry sFaf hn The convention indorsed the administra- ton of President Cleveland and also the action of Congress on the Mills bill.
 Is London, on the 2Sth, Baldwin, the parschutist, jumped from balloon at the height of thousand feet and landed safe ly. Enormous crowds were at Alexandra Palace to witness the feat and displayed great enthusiasm.
 ON the 2sth Emperor William of Ger many left Stockholm, Sweden. in the yacht Hohenzollern, bound for Cope lha- gen.
 CoRSEITs VANpERBILr and his family, consisting Of wife, four sons and two daughters, returned to New York, from Europe, on the 2Sth.
 THE centre-felder of the Worcester tMass.1 Base Ball Club Wm. R. HamiI- ton, has been sold to the Kansas Citys, and joined that team on the 50th.
 TIE Senate committee on educ ation and labor has reported favorably the Hense bill 10 Create boards Of arbitration for settling controversies and differences between railroad corporations and their employees.
 REFRESHMENTS RANDALL, it was stated on the Slst, had been greatlysbenefited by bis removal to Wayne.
 OS the Both Bartley Campbell, the dram atist, who had for some time been con- fined in an insane asylum, at Middleton, N Y, died of general paresis.
 DURING the month of September the Car will meet the Shah of Persia al Baku.
 A LONDON dispatch says that Emperor William will not only visit K ing Hum bert at Rome, but will sojourn at the Quirlnal and hold receptions al the Ger man Embassy.
 DURING his recent fishing excursion to Fire Island hundreds of bills, passed by Congress, accumulated on the President's desk awaiting signatures.
 MRS CLARA HOFFMAN, in a speech on temperance in Washington, on the oath. said that money and party were the gods CT the American people; that Congress could be bought, and that the courts were venal. She also condemned the attitude of the Protestant church on the question of temperance.
 HE funeral of Wm. Prufen, son of Assistant Secretary Pruden Of the Fxeeu- tive Mansion, occurred on the 30th The President and Mrs. Cleveland sent tele.- gram of condolence and ha:.isome floral tribute.
 
 REPRESENTATIVE FoRAs fDem.) of 0 hio. IS quoted in the Washington dispatches as saying that the next House will be Republican by about ten to fifteen ma jority. He expects that his own district and hr. Campbelps. in Ohio, will be lost to the ! emoeTats,