The Springdale news., 1889-05-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL .

Ahh " dg ue iIpn " OTkS, or 1lICSDurRD, ] Pa., will probably remain closed for some
 tune, as the Amalgamated Association
 has sustained the demand of the puddlers
 for one dollar extra per ton for making a
 certain per cent. of Bessemer iron. About
 four hundred men are out. l TIE German Government has arrested
 a number of Frenchmen at Soultzmatt, Alsace on charge of treason.
 TIE Olphcrt evictions in Ireland on the | 24th, were characterized by desperate re-
 sistance on the part of the tenants. Dur 1 ing one of the many melees, Police h. 1 spector Duff was severely wounded, and | several policemen and bailiff5 were pain
 fully scalded by hot water thrown upon
 them by the inmates of various houses. | Fourteen persons were arrested. THE Lord Mayor of London received | Captain Murrell of the steamship Mis- souri and his officers and crew at the | Mansion House, on the 24th, and present. | ed them with testimonials for their 1 bravery ill rescuing the passengers of the | sinking steamer Daumark. A letter
 which had been received from Prince
 Bismarck was read It was highly lauda-
 tory of Captain Murrell and his men.
 THE Bellows Falls (Minn.) Times build
 ing and a number of stores were burned early on the morning ot the 26th. Loss, | $31,000.
 | CARVE HE, PHIPPs & Co.,, of Pittsburgh, Pa, have just finished two steel plates,
 each nine inches wide, 1S0 inches long and ! three inches thick, weighing nine thou sand pounds each, asld showing sixty | thousand pounds tensile strength Krupp,
 of Germany, was first asked to manu- facture the plates, but was unable to pro-
 duce them.
 COUNT IGNATIUs has been appointed
 assistant Minister of the Interior of Rus sia.
 ASSISTANT SECRETARY TICHENoR has
 affirmed the decision of the collector a t
 New York in assessing so-callcd vinegar
 as wine. The importers claimed that the liquid when shipped was vinegar, and
 must havo changed to wine during the voyage.
 A LARGE meeting of persons in favor of
 the Sugar Bounty bill was held in London
 on the 2fth. Mr. T. Richie, president ot tho Local Government Board, was pres ent and attempted to address the meet ing, but was hissed and hooted until he
 was obliged 10 leave the building. A resolution was passed denouncing the government.
 KING IIUMBERT and the Prince of Ma pies started on their journey home from Berlin on the 2Gth. There was a large crowd at the railway station to witness their departure.
 TIE Aged Workmen's Insurance bill was passed in the German Reichstag on the 2ith. The bill provides that a small monthly amount be deducted from the wages of all working people, the money thus collected to be laid aside for in surauce against old age and sickness. The state adds to the insurance fund a sum equal to onc-third the amount col lected.
 TIE warden of the Hudson County (N.
 J.) peuitentiary, at Snake Hill, discOv-
 cred plot, on the 24th for q general de- livery of couvicts confined ill that insti-
 tuition. The cells and persons of five long term prisoners being searched, files, | knives, saws, drills, pair of compasses and a key which readily unlocked the cell
 and corridor doors, were discovered. The culprits were placed ill close confinement on bread and water.
 THE German Reichstag adjourned on the 2ith
 TIE shah of Persia arrived at St. Petersburg ou the 2ith. He was received | by the Czar and Czariua, by banquet ill the Winter Palace, at which the Shah sat
 at the Czarina's right. The Czar offered
 toast iu honor of his guest and the | Shah responded by toastiug the Czarina.
 TIE concert at the Academy of Music
 in New York City on the night of the
 2Gth for the benefit of the family of the
 late civil justice, Michael Norton, realized l $190O0.
 TIE Ordnance Bureau of the Navy De-
 partment has completed two of the ten
 inch steel breech-loading rifles for the
 monitor Miantonomah. These arc the
 largest and most powerful guns yet turned out for the navy.
 REV. JAMES II. HARDING, formerly chancellor of the Diocese of Connecticut
 died, on the 2Gth, at St. Francis Roman | Catholic Orphan Asylum, New Haven,
 where he had lately acted as chaplain.
 He was eighty-one years old. l A FIRE at Lubbock, Germany, on the
 2Gth, dstroycd several extensive ware | houses filled with cotton and flax. The loss is estimated at fs0,000 MR. ROBERT McLANE, the retiring
 American Minister to France, sailed for l New York on the 26th. His wife and
 daughter will remain in Paris for the | present.
 | AN adjourned meeting for the purpO SC
 of completing the organization of q New | England educational society was held at | Boston oil the 18th. The report of the | committee on organization was read and | all amendment adopted that the pro- posed association be made national ip
 character.
 THE Dominion Government announced | ou the 25th, that an order in council had | been passed reducing the clearance fees l charged on American vessels entering | and leaving Canadian ports on the great | lakes to fifty cents for vessels of any ton-
 nage
 | SIR. JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE will return to
 England, iu July, for the purpose of bring l ing Lady Pauncefote and daughters to | Washington.
 | IT has been decided at the Navy De- l partment that the remains of the inventor 1 Ericsson shall be taken back to his native 1 land in National ship, and it is under | stood that the Chicago will be selected | for the duty.
 l A SPECIAL from Pomona, Cal, says that | Dwight w. Lord, cashier of a National bank at Omaha, who arrived at Pomona on the 25.h Clalms to have been robbed on the santa Fe train between Nee- dies and San Bernardino of $500 in
 money and 5000 iu notes, which he car ried in his sachel.
 THE north bound train on the Rich
 mond X Petersburg railroad ran into the
 rear end of lumber train, on the 25th, | six miles from Richmond, Va. The lum- Der train was on side track, and not clearing the main track, the mail train | plunged into it. Several trainmen wore injured, but no passengers. J. G. CLARK, of Boston, has presented
 to the Maine State College his herbarium one of the finest in the country, contain : | ing about thirty thousand specimens. It
 was collected by the late Rev. Joseph
 Blake of Andoyer, Mass, and was pur-
 chased by Mr. Clark for S10000. | ELEVEN business houses in Dublin, Ga,
 were consumed by fire on the 26th. Total
 loss, $l0,0O0. Only o-e of the firms car : 1 ried any insurance.
 COUNT MEMABREA Italian Minister to l France, called upon M. Spuller, French
 Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the 21th,
 and assured him that King Humbert had
 never intended to visit Strasburg while
 the guest of Emperor William, as had | been reported.