The Russellville Democrat., 1888-07-12

Ar Wooster, O., five poisoners in the county jail escaped, on the 1st by prying of tho bars and gaining entrance to the corridor, where the floor was pried up and an opening made to the cellar. A STRATEGIC railway, to connect many artillery and cavalry depots of Russia, will be constructed in the southwest im- mediately. The cost will be 100000 roubles.
 AN investigation into the complaints made by Chinese merchants at Victoria, B. C., that the Chinese interpreter was in- terfering with the emigration of Celes- tials, has been ordered by the Canadian Government.
 ON the 30th, in the case of Mrs. Steele against the St Paul City Railway Com pany, in which she claimed $50 ooG dam ages for injuries sustained in the Shelby avenue cable-car accident in St. Paul, Minn., January 27, jury awarded her S1,000.
 TIE scale of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Association was signed by the Union Iron works of Carnegie, Phipps & Co.,, of Pittsburgh, Pa., employing :, 900 men, on the 2d.
 THE report that the French syndicate which controls the output of the Calumet and Hecla copper mines at Marquette, Mich, is about to close down for time, is denied. The syndicate simply holds contract limiting the output for three years.
 ON and after January i, 1889, the Eng fish and French Governments will work jointly the submarine cables between France and England The tariff will be twenty centimes word A direct cable between Liverpool and Havre will be es- abolished under the arrangement. IN Italy the Liberal successes in the municipal elections have alarmed the Vatican. The Pope, who proposed in- tervention by the clergy, will counsel them to abstain from interference in future elections.
 Ar Calcutta the subscriptions for government loan of f3,000,0OO amounted to twice the sum required.
 THE varna- Rus tchuk railway has been purchased by the Bulgarian Government.
 IT has been decided by the Brewers Union to renew the boycott on the lager beer breweries of Brooklyn.
 CONSIDERABLE alarm is felt at Canton, Mass, because of a typhoid fever epi- demic in that place. Over fifty cases and two deaths had been reported up to the 9th The Kinsley Iron and Machine Com pany Works have been shut down because of the illness of the employees. It is sup posed that the disease has been caused by cess- pool drainage into a well.
 IT is said that the projected bridge across the Hudson river at New York City is designed to be the largest in the world. the middle span being 2,850 feet long and the end spans 1, 800 feet. Gustaye Linden thai, the designer, says that Brooklyn bridge will be of small consequence in comparison with it.
 GENTILEs and Mormons united to cele- brate the Fourth of July at Salt Lake City, Utah.
 SEVERAL Berlin papers, on the 9th, de- nounced as forgery the letter asking Herr Won Puttkamer to resign, and as- sert that it was written by Liberal, whose writing has been identified. They admit however, that the letter was signed by Emperor Frederick,
 A WEALTHY jeweler of Philadelphia, named Joseph Muhr, telegraphed from Long Branch, on the 9th asking the New York police to send detective to Long Branch, as an attempt was being made to kidnap him and send him to an insane asylum and take away his money.
 A FEW days ago John Curtis, late of Little Hooking, O., but now residing at
 
 &5 Co.'s Express to his brother at Little Hooking. When the package arrived, it was found that the end had been cut, the II oney extracted and the envelope filled with pieces of paper about the size of the bills.
 AT mercantile conference held in Birmingham, England, on the eth, com mittee was appointed to examine and re- port upon the projected ship canal from Liverpool to Birmingham.
 AN organization has been effected be- tween influential representatives of drug gists, the milk and lemonade dealers and fruit stand proprietors of Pittsburgh, Pa., the object of which is to make parts of the Blue Laws" of 1T9i so obnoxious, through their strict enforcement, as to secure their speedy repeal.
 AN audience of 2,500 Cincinnati people was treated to disgraceful exhibition of kicking by the players of the Athletic Club on the 9th. Umpire Doesher fined Pitcher Weyhing S200, and Larkin and welch Sl0O each. Tebeau, Keenan and Fennelly were each fined S25. Immedi- ately after the game, Doesher telo- graphed his resignation.