The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-06-13
PERSONAL ANo GENERAL

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Pennsylvania railroad, near Sellersville
Pa, on the 4th.
THERE are fears expressed that tn,
foundation Of the Washington Monument
at the National Capital may have been
seriously damaged by the recent inunda.
ton, and careful examination will bt
made.
FATHER DAWN, o Catholic priest, was
murderously assaulted and badly in.
Jured. at the scene of the Johnstown dis
aster on the 4tb, by q Hungarian Will
whom he demonstrated for robbing the
| bodies of the dead.
The late flood in the west branch of the
| Susquehanna was unprecedented Every
bridge on the river from Sunbury tc
| Cleartield, Pa, was washed away.
THE various funds established in Phila
delphia for the relief Of the sufferers in
the Conemaugh Valley had reached to.
tai Of over $500, 900 on the 4th.
For the first time in the city's history,
the Democrats of Norwich, Conn, made
a clean sweep, on the Sd, electing their en-.
| tire municipal ticket, with the exception
OF second sheriff, by o majority of over
800
THE Charleston Is. c. News and
Courier, of the 4th, says: 1--WE have
learned to know what timely help means
IN season of disaster and distress, and
we at least should give without waiting to
be asked"
THE Garibaldi Legion and many other
| Italian societies of New York City made
their annual pilgrimage, on the Sd, to the
house on Staten Island In which Carl
! baldi once lived.
| PRESIDENT HARRISON presided at the
meeting held in Washington, on the 4th
to raise money for the relief Of the food :
stricken districts of Pennsylvania, and
made an eloquent and impressive speech.
Ten thousand dollars was subscribed be-
fore the meeting adjourned, and still
| more valuable subscriptions of food and
clothing were donated, by merchants of
the city, for immediate dispatch.
THE report, circulated on the 4th, of the
loss of 10000 lives in China, turns out to
have been a misunderstanding. A Chi
nese firm in San Francisco who received
the news OF the Pennsy lvania disaster,
made the facts known to their country
men, who, in circulating the story, trans
| ferred the scene to China.
In Claiborne County, Tenn, Marion Nc
Carthy ambushed and killed John Pierce,
on the 4th, after quarrel over pay for q
| hired horse.
| THE Massachusetts Legislature, on the
4th, passed the resolution appropriating
$4,000 for the Pennsylvania sufferers.
OK the 18th the coast guards at Skib-
| bereen, Ireland, picked up the log book
| of the British steamship Danish Prince,
| Captain Potts, which sailed from Swan
sea on May %, for Montreal, and there
! are fears that the ship foundered in the
heavy weather which prevailed off that
| coast.
| 1T is asserted that the Vatican is be-
| coming seriously alarmed at the position
| which Russia has recently assumed of in
| terposiug objections to the continuance
| of Catholic missions in the Balkan States.
JOSEPH CRABBs, vice president of the
| City Bank of Wabash, Ind, was adjudged
| insane on the 4th.
INSTRUCTIONS were issued from Ottawa
| Ont, on the 4th, to release the captured
! American schooner Matte Winship, upon
the American Consul giving security for
| value.
THE English syndicate has bought the
| the Ballantine brewery at Newark, N. j.,
the second largest N the country.
| On the 9th, President Harrison appoint
| ed John Vigneaux, q Democrat, United
| States marshal for Western Louisiana.
| He was recommended by Louisiana Re-
| publicans for his efforts in protecting
negroes from violence in the November
election.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. suffered loss of
| 100000, upon which the insurance was
| but light, on the 9th, by confagration
which consumed every thing for ap area
| of five blocks, bounded by Hawk street on
| the west, Adams on the north, Selay on
| the east and Greek oIfthe south.
AN extensive fire occurred at Biloxi,
Miss, on the night of the 4th, resulting in
the destruction Of twenty five buildings,
at loss of $4,000, upon which there was
but $40, 900 insurance.
BELATED Pennsylvania railroad passen-
| gers, the uncertainty of whose fate had
caused much anxiety, arrived in Pitts
burgh on the 9th. Their experience had
been one of hardship and exposure. The
| journey from Altoona was made via
Ebensburgh. From the latter point to
Johnstown the journey was made in
wagons.
LORD SALISBURY entertained Prince
Albert Victor at dinner on the evening Of
the 4th. Mr.. Lincoln, American Minister,
was among the guests.
GEORGE C.. EATON, OF Cincinnati, n
nephew OF President Harrison. died at
Asheville, N. c., on the 5th, of consump-
ton, aged thirty-fve. The remains were
taken TO Cincinnati for interment.
d. b. Dyer was elected mayor of Guth-
rie, Okla, at the election on the 4th, beat
ing A. V. Alexander by 800 to 800.
Mr.. PORTER, the new United States
Minister to Italy, presented his creden-
tials on the 5th.
A NEWLY MARRIED couple were found
in the ruins OF the Johnstown Method
ist Church. where the ceremony that made
them one had just been performed when
the fatal waters overwhelmed the struct-
ure. They we're so tightly clasped in
each others embrace that they had TO be
buried together. The minister, together
with nearly all OF the guests, escaped.
JUDGE SULLIVAN, of the California Su-
perior Court, has set July is for hearing
the motion Of Sarah Althea Terry to APP
point receiver for the Sharon estate,
and refuses to recognize the injunction
from the United States District Court.
Up TO the 5th Pittsburgh's donations for
the food sufferers OF the Conemaugh
Valley in mOnSy and goods, amounted to
quarter Of a million dollars.
AMONG those believed to have been
swept away by the food in the Cone
maugh Valley, we're "Blind Tom," the
well-known pianist, and his manager,
who left Pittsburgh on Friday morning
for Johnstown, and have not been heard
of since. 1t is thought they were both
drowned. Being strangers, and one of
them a colored man, it is more than likely
that il their bodies were recovered they
were unidentified.
THE post-ofice authorities report that
none OF the mail sent through the flooded
district was lost. Even that sent TO
Johnstown escaped.
PoRTIoSs OF the wreckage OF the Cone
maugh Valley began to pass Cincinnati
on the 9th. Not much Of il was caught,
and nothing OF interest or value was
found
THE Marchioness de Chesteler, belong
ing to one Of the oldest Of the noble fam