The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-02

AT Sharon, Pa, the stove works Of B Duncan & Co. have been closed by the sheriff to satisfy q judgment of 5000 The works have been running steadily for three years. About one hundred men will be thrown out of employment by the failure.
 ARRANGEMENTS have been made with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, says United States Treasurer Hyatt, so as to have by the end of the month sup ply of one, two and five e-dollar silver cer- tificates sufficient to meet in part the present heavy demand for small notes i'll business centers.
 THE late Norquay Government defal- cation in Manitoba is said to amount to over S5c0, GOO.
 CN the night of the 25th two persons died of starvation in Bellevue Hospital, New York: Peter Flynn, aged sixty-six, who deliberately starved himself to death, and Francis Steffenbach, aged seventy, who was without food and too proud to ask for aims. They were too far gone to recover before their condition was dtscov- cred.
 THAT the effect of the government to secure a loan is to raise funds for a war like object is denied by Russian papers.
  Glass Works of Wheeling, W. Va, was ended by the decision of the arbitrators to whom it was referred in favor of the operatives.
 ON the 25th the celebrated trottng stallion Happy Medium, valued at $50, ,00o, died at Lexington, Ky He was foaed in 1863. Thirty nine of his get have records of 2:30 or lower. He was owned by Gen eral ". T. Withers.
 THE official announcement is made by the German War Minister that 2S0, ,009,00o marks is the amount of the new military loan needed.
 ON February 16th special elections are to be held in Manitoba, in order to allow the new Ministry to secure, if possible, the indorsement of their cons tituents.
 FOR the twelve months ended Decem- ber 3l, 1887, the total value of the imports of merchandise were SI0S, s07,3 ,311, against S663, 429, 1S9 for the same time in 1SS6 The values of exports for the same periods were ST15, ,32o, ,053 and $713, 40d, 021, respect lively.
 ON the 2eth the Freeman's Jo,rnal of Dublin, printed a three-column list of prosecutions and convictions had under the Coercion law since it was passed in Ireland. It is rather a startling array to look at, when one remembers that the Coercion law has been in progress only about nine months.
 FoR the year 1887 the balance of trade with the world was in favor of the United States to the amount of S6,5l3,64T.
 THE delay in the payment of their claims against the Government has greatly exercised the Choctaw Indians.
 ON the 27th another contingent of Irish leaders were convicted under the Grimes act.
 ON the night of the 27th the first storm ing of the third Ice Palace at St. Paul, Minn., was great success. The weather was beautiful and mild, the thermometer marking 25 deg. above.
 ALL oyertures of compromise coming from the Dominic Government at Otta- wa is rejected by the new Ministry in Manitoba.
 ON the 27th Judge Colt, in the Federal Court at Boston, decided that the prepa- ration of punched strip of paper for use in the orguinette is not an infringement of musical copyright.
 ON the 27th four hundred minors em' ployed at the First National, Bonnie and Iron King mines at Ironwood,. Mich, struck for three months back pay. All mercnanJi nave reiuseu to LuTnlsH tut men with groceries and provisions.
 ALARM is professed by the Engl ish I a pers the gigantic sums asked for the new German Military bill, and say war or financial disas ter, or both, confront Germany.
 A DECISION has been arrived at by the Swiss Bundesrath to expel Hunt and Schroeder, the alleged German police spies, without further proceedings. It was proved at the trial that Schroeder has been paid fifty dollars month by the German police.
 ON the 27th reports from various points in New England show that all railroads are suffering much trouble in the opera tion of the trains, owing to snow-drifts. The storm has been the seyerest ever known. The highways are blocked and snow -plow and engines are stalled.
 ON the 27th Mrs. Meckie L. Rawson, was arrested in Chicago, charged with complicity in the attempted assassin ton of her banker husband by her son, and was released on bonds of S3, 00O She ridicuIes the indictment, and claims it is the outgrowth of an attempt to force her to compromise the divorce proceedings against her husband.