The Russellville Democrat., 1889-07-25
GENERAL.

1 THE International Socialist Congress
 was opened in Paris on the 10th with lss
 French and 1s9 foreign delegates. Of the l latter s2 were Germans, and included eleven members of the German Reichstag. TIE Pail Mall Gazette says that Wis., count Dunloe, aged twenty, the heir of the | Earl of Claneardy, has been married to | Belle Benton, a music hall artist
 THE proposed international salt trust | will have a capital of S20 010,0O0. l TIFF ship Premier from Santos has ar
 lived at Saguenay, in the Gulf of St. Law renee with yellow fever on board.
 THE counsel for Parnell have withdrawn from Judge Hannen's Commission.
 THE body of a fearfully mutilated wom- an was found in Castle alley, White-
 chapel, London, on the 10th, evidently the
 work of Jack the Ripper" l SIX THOUSAND lives have been reported | lost by further floods in China. | GENERAL BoULANGER has been inter- viewed concerning the indictment found l against him in Paris. He declares that l the statements made in the indictment are a tissue of falsehoods. 1 HoUsEs were violently shaken and | much damage done on the isle of Arran l and the mainland of Scotland on the 17th. l THE first seven clauses of the Grace | British bondholders' contract with Peru l have been approved by the Chamber of | Deputies of that country and the accept anee of the entire contract is now thought 1 to be assured.
 A CRANK recently shot at the Emperor of Brazil It Rio de Janeiro without effect. | TIE demands of the engineers of the l Pittsburgh & Western railroad for an ad-
 vance in wages were acceded to and the
 threatened str ke was abandoned. IN the British Hou of Commons MT. l Gladstone agreed to compromise the mat 1 ter of award to the royal family, under 1 the terms of which the Prince of Wales is
 to be allowed fl0,000 Q year as a substi- 1 ute for all the claims of his children. l THE anniversary of the death of ex- 1 President Juarez was celebrated through- 1 out Mexico oh the 18th by imposing dem onstrations of the Liberal party In the capital there was an immense procession
 and considerable excitement among the people. A bitter factional feeling pre-
 vailed and yells, Death to Conservatism"
 and "Death to the clergy" were heard 1 everywhere. There was no serious dis 1 order.
 THE Egyptian Government has notified 1 the French Government that the latter's refusal to accept the conversion scheme
 will cost Egypt G200 0J0 yearly. l Two hundred houses were destroyed by l fire at Constantnople the other day. | THE Irish team won the Eicho challenge l shield al Wimbledon with score of 6s9;
 the English, 16s4; Scotch. 1G-6. | THE rumor that Jay Gould was prepar-
 ing to buy the Chicago 6 Alton was de- l clared to be q Wall street fake. i RUMoRs were prevalent in Europe that 1 the widow of the late Emperor William ! of Germany had joined the Catholic l Church.
 THE Cologne Gazette publishes a dis 1 patch from St Petersburg stating that the l Czar has expressed the intention of meet ing Emperor William on the German 1 frontier. The C2ar is averse to going to l Berlin.
 NJ. RoUvIER, the French Minister of Finance has dismissed five treasurers
 general (collectors If inland revenue) for being active members of the Boulang- erist party.
 MRS JoHN A. LOGAN returned from Eu- rope recently on the steamer Trave.
 THE Tory candidate was elected in
 Mary clone, London, on the 19th receiv-
 ing 2,570 votes to his opponents 2,0S6
 CHAIRMAN WALKER, of the InterSta commerce I1allHd5 ASsotiatioHi nus is-
 sued a new decision restoring rates on
 bullion and ore from Pueblo and Denver
 to Missouri river points to the former basis of s and S4 respectively.
 MR. PARNELL addressed SC, 900 of his fol-
 lowers at Edinburgh, on the 18th, and was received with great enthusiasm.
 A MAN supposed to be Jack the Ripper
 was arrested in the Whitechapel district on the morning of the 20th. He had just killed woman and had the knife on his person with which he had committed the deed.
 BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended July IS numbered 203, compared with 205 the previous week and
 22s the cores sponding week last year.