The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-03-15

ON the 4tb new Panama Canal Lottery

4 ON the Ath new ran anna 1bflal I1otteFy
Loan bill was introduced in the French
Chamber of Deputies.
| A WINNIPEG special says that It Is
stated positively that the Dominion
Government will go on with the Sault
! Ste. Marie canal, and that work will actu-
ally be commenced this year.
THE ordinance passed by the Board of
| Aldermen of New York City for the issue
| of $3.50 600 in bonds for soldiers monu-
! ment In that city, has been pronounced
unconstitutional.
In Eastern Roumelia an emeute has oc
| cdrred and forty officers have been arr
rested on the charge of high treason.
| On the 9th dispatches from Massow ah
! Abyssinia, stated that the Italian posts
had signaled that their entire line was
confronted by the enemy.
| On the It'll the sharpest shock OF earth
quake felt in California for eighteen years
was experienced.
On the 7th the tally sheet trials at
Columbus, o., were brought to sudden
stop by the non.appearance of Allen 0.
! Never, a witness. His disappearance
created excitement bordering on sensa-
! tion.
! OK the 7th it was stated that the new
/ Chinese treaty would be signed in few
| DAYS by Secretary Bayard and the Chi
nese Minister. 1t is absolute inhibi-
| tion against the Importation of Chinese
/ contract labor.
! On the Tth the Massachusetts, Senate
passed. a resolut ion providing for biennial
| State elections.
| OK the 9Th the annual report of tho
Pennsylvania Railroad Company was
made public showing n net income for the
year 1887 Of S7,7sS 1886
/
will not cross the Atlantic to participate
in the jubilee racing on the Clyde.
On the 7th the passenger brakemen on
the Pittsburgh, Tort Wayne & Chicago
railway were granted an advance in
wages of from thrty-two to thirty five
cents trip equivalent TO about six dol
1 lars per month. The advance was en-.
tirely unexpected.
| OK the Sth the board of direct ors of the
/ Iowa circuit met at Cedar Rapids, and
| fixed the dates for the seasons races as
! follows: Cedar Rapids-June 49, %. in.
elusive; Marshall ltown--June 20, 30:
/ Council Blufs-July 3 6. Purses will be
| offered the same as las year.
| OK the Sth the bill for submitting The
| fifth (prohbitory) amendment to the peo.
pie with view to its possible repeal was
| defeated in the Rhode Island House of
Representatives, where it originated, by
/ a vote of 36 to 80.
| On the sth match was shot at Dayton,
! o. between AL Bande, of Cincinnati
and Rolla Heikes, of Dayton, 100 live
pi geons each, 500 sde Hurlingham
rules, Bandle winning by score of 81
to s4.
1T is reported that the German papers
which published the premature announce
ment of the Emperor's death are to be
! prosecuted.
| AT their meeting on the evening of the
| Sth Americus Assembly, No. 519 Knights
/ of Labor (railroaders), adopted resolu-
tions indorsing the action of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers on the
Chicago, Burlington s. Quincy road, and
| pledging them support, and also urging
! upon all true Knights to remain away
| from the road.
On the 9th the Paris police seized a
quantity of scandalous placards rehec-
/ ing upon the dead Emperor, which were
being sold by street hawkers on the
| boulevard. The newspapers, without
exception, denounced the sellers of these
offensive prints, and demanded their
severe punishment The press comments
on the death of the Emperor were all dig
nified in tone and unanimous in expires.
| sons of regret.
! II. X. SHURBER, of New York, president
of the United States & Brazil Mail Steam
ship Company, appeared before the
| House committee on post-ofiices and post
roads on the 9th, and appealed for justice
in the matter of remuneration for carry ing
| the mails. He showed that his company
| received but moiety of the compensa-
! tion allowed to transatlantic steamships
| for the same service.
AT Phillipsburg, N. j., the puddlers at
the Oxford Iron Works, who had been on
a strike for two months against reduc-
| tion, adjusted their difficulties with tho
| company on the 9th, after sustaining
! loss vf wages of $4,000
BUSINESS failures for the wee, ending
the 9th as reported by r. G. Dun & Co. /:
/ For the United States, 195; for Canada,
! 5S; total, 253 us compared with go for
the corresponding week of 1887
| RUssIA's first steps in regard to the
! Bulgarian question appear to satisfy pub
| lie opinion, but favorable issue of the
crisis is considered impossible unless the
| Powers take speedy measures.
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