The Russellville Democrat., 1889-01-31

CHARLES AUGUSTUS BILLINGS SHEPARD, of the firm of Lee & Shepard, Boston, died on the 25th aged sixty. For more than forty years he had been conspicuous ly identified with the publishing business, and was widely known through out the country.
 A MEETING of the National Council, to be held at the Ebbitt House, Washington, on Saturday, March ?, at a. m., has been called by General Charles K. Grosvenor, president of the National Union League.
 TIE farewell banquet of Lord Mayor Whitehead of London to Minister Phelps at the Mansion House was great affair. l In his speech Mayor Whitehead said En- 1 gland wanted to do her best to maintain ] friendly relations with America. l ROBERT STEWART MENzrEs, NJ. P. for the East division of Perthshire, Scotland , l died on the 18th. He was a barrister, and | only thirty one years of age. CRINEs AND CASUALTIES. l AT Roderberg, eleven miles from Bos- 1 ton, Robert Horrfeldt was, on the Fist, shot and killed by John Freeman. The | cause of the shooting was that Horrfeldt 1 demanded the payment of twenty eight 1 dollars which Freeman owed him for l pasturing horses.
 l ON the night of the 20th the Detroit 1 tMich) Slave and Heading Company's l main building was destroyed by fire, and l James E. Middleton, the watchman, was 1 burned to death. The loss by the fire, l which is believed to have been of incen- | diary origin, was S30, 900.
 1 ON the 20th Chas. Van Valla, aged nine l years, of Fort Plain, N. Y., died from in- 1 juries said to have been inflicted on him 1 by Ephraim Failing, the village school l teacher.
 l JOHN REDMOND, a Lake Beauport (Can.) | farmer, who was beaten with an iron bar l by two unknown men Christmas Eve, 1 died from his injuries on the 20th. l THE verdict of murder rendered by the l coroner's jury against the solicitors l Dudgeon and Emerson, has been quashed by the Dublin Court of Queens Bench. l ON the night of the 2lst Rev. Thomas l Marcy a snperanuated Methodist clergy man, who lived with relatives at Newton, Mass, for several years, committed sui eide by shooting. He was ffty-fye years old.
 l A LIFE-sAvTNG patrolman found two l bodies between the third and fourth cl ifs, near Scituate, Mass, on the 22d. The heads of both were missing. There is no i | belonging to the schooner Norton, which was wrecked in the recent gale.
 Ar Vineland, N. J., the residence of l Daniel Downey was discovered to be on | fire on the 22d. Neighbors rushed to the scene, and upon breaking in the door found the body of Mrs. Downey upon the floor horribly burned and disfgured. She was about sixty years of age.
 THE grand jury at Birmingham, Ala, after ten days struggle, on the 22d re- turned three separate indictments against 1 Dick Hawes for murder in the first de- gree, charging him with the wilful and malicious murder of his wife, Mrs. Emma Hawes, and daughters, May and Irene.
 ON the 22d the sheriff of Wiuona Coun- ty, Minn., forced open the safe of Self field, the bankrupt St. Charles grain dealer; and found seventy-fotir cents in it's cash drawer.
 JOSEPH FORD, who shot and killed Nellie 1 O'Connor in New York City OF December i, 15, has been sentenced to twenty years' } imprisonment.
 ! ON the 2ftha duel was fought between NJ. Cornudet, member of the French | Chamber of Deputies for the Department of the Grouse, and M. Chaproulland, an editor. The latter gentleman was wound ed. The duel was the result of quarrel growing out of the candidacy of General Boulanger.
 EDDIE GUERIN, alias George Graham, an
 American burglar, at the request Of the French authorities, has been conveyed to 1 Lyons from London, bound and closely guarded. He is accused of stealing 500,0 ,00t francs from the Bank of France.
 ON the 25th James Bradburn, brake. man on the Michigan Central railroad met horrible death at Auburndale, a sub- urb of Toledo, o. He was engaged ir coupling cars loaded with lumber. As the cars came together he was caught by pro- jeoting blanks, and his head was com pletely severed from his body.
 ON the 25th Edward Fry, alias Williams colored, was hanged at Marietta, Ga., fol wife murder.
 A MAN was arrested at Madrid, recently just as he was about to throw petarC into the Minister of Justioe's office.
 A CRANE working ladle con tainine l seven tons of molten steel at the Crew Railway Works, in England collapsed ant fell into a pit on the 9th. The molten
 steel was scattered in all directions like flying bullets. Twenty persons were in jured. The building was unroofed.
 ON the night of the 24th, an unsuccess- ful attempt was made to rob the Con- necticut River National Bank of Charles town, N, II. Two brick walls surround ing the vaults were torn away by an ex plosion, but the granite vaults proved i'm penetrable. An attempt to drill the stee ! locks also failed,
 Ar Wade Station, N. C., on the 24th George Brewington, q crazy negro, en- tered the house of Miss Charity McAl' f.. club the aged occupant, While he was striking her, Sandy McAllister, hel l nephew. came in and shot Brewington ir the head killing him instantly. The old woman died of the injuries she had sus- tained.
 AFTER desperate struggle with party of would be rescuers the rioters arrested at Corrick -on-S Sur, Ireland, on the 2tth 1 were lodged in Clonmel jail the same night.
 As the result of the hatred engenderet toward the whites by recent German out rages upon the natives, Rev. Brooks, au ! English missionary, and sixteen of his
 assistants and followers, have been mas sacreed near Saadani by some of the coast tribes of Zanzibar.
 ON the night of the 2lth seven building,
 at Athens, Tenn. including the First Ma
 tional Bank, the post-office and Masonic
 Hall, were destroyed by fire. Loss about S30,00o.
 MISCELLANEOUS. | RECENTLY the custom house employees at Matamoras, Mex, received half 8 months pay for the first half of Septem- Der, 1888. The government is now in debted to them for four months pay.
 ON the 2lst the United States steamer
 Vandalia left the Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco, bound for the Samoan
 Islands, the present seat Of warlike dis ] turbance.
 erable excitement was caused over q 1 White Gap warning received by the grand jury. The notice, which was prepared in
 the usual style, was tackled over the door