The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-07


 achusetts Tariff Reform League attended the first monthly dinner of the league al Boston on the ssh.
 ABOUT 100 of the prisoners in the Bos. ton House of Correction refused to go tC work on the 27th, and were locked up and placed on short rations.
 A BILL pending in the California Legis- lature provides the death penalty for train-robbers who cause loss of life in the pursuit of their nefarious calling.
 ELEVEN young women were killed and their bodies burned beyond recognition in an explosion followed by fire in a squb factory, at Plymouth, Pa, on the 25th.
 FULLY 1000 colored emigrants from North and South Carolina and Virginia passed through Birmingham, Ala, dur ing the week ending March l, en route West.
 IN an interview in St. Petersburg, on the 18th, Count Iswolski stated that an agreement between the Vatican and Rus sia in regard to Poland would be reached shortly.
 ONE THOUSAND masses for sixpence is the inducement offered to New York Catholics for contributions to the erection of new church to St. Joseph, at High gate, London.
 MR PARNELL was reelected chairman and Mir. Justin Mccarthy vice chairman at the Parnellite meeting in London on the 25th. The whips and secretaries were also elected.
 THE statutes of the Catholic University to be erected at Washington, D. C., were printed in Rome, on the 27th, prefaced by Papal brief in which warm eulogy is paid to America.
 MR. BLAINE has formally resigned his position as delegate to represent Maine at the centennial of the inauguration of Washington, as President, to be held in New York City in April.
 DR. T. H. HAYS, graduate of a Balti- more medical school, has been appointed permanent medical officer of the Bangkok (Siam) Hospital, which is under the im- mediate care of the King.
 THE eight-year- old son of ". L. Free- man. of Grand Rapids, Mich, while try lng, on the 25th, to see how long he could hold his breath, ruptured blood-vessel and died in few minutes.
 
 THE question of removing the capital of New Mexico from Santa Fe to some more convenient and inviting town, situated on the main line of railroad, is being agitated all over the Territory.
 GOVERNOR HILL of New York was pre- sented, on the 25th, with handsome set oS resolutions by the Albany Typograph- teal Union for his assistance in securing the State printing for Union printers.
 LUKE EMERSON, the Missouri horse- dealer, who emptied his revolver into a crowd in London a short time ago, hit ting two men, was arraigned for the sec ond time, on the 26th, and again re- handed.
 THE present House of Representatives expires by limitation on the 4th of March. The Senate, being continuous lhdy, can remain in session at will, for inc con- hrmafion of appointments and other ex- ecntiye business.
 NINE persons were killed and large number seriously injured by the plunging of the St. Louis express through a bridge near St. George, Ont, on the 27th. The accident was caused by the breaking of Q locomotive tire.
 TIE widow of Wm. L. Marcy, merlber of President Folks Cabinet and Se,'re- tary of State under President Pierca-~in both of which positions he greatly distn- guished himself-died in Paris, on the Ath, aged eighty-six
 TWENTY persons in one neighborhood in La Porte County, Ind, have been at- tackled with trichinosis, and most of them will die. All are Germans, who, at a christening recently, ate pork which bad been improperly cooked.
 TIE registry offices at Alexandria, Fgy Jt were burned, on the 2sth, and the registtfs of assessment and taxation of the city and othor important records were Ge- stroyed. It is expected that much conl't- sion in finances will ensue.
 NJ. CLEMESCEAU intends to present bill in the French Chamber Of Deputies to render present deputies ineligible for re- election, in order to disabuse the public mind of the idea that they retain their seats from personal motives.
 PRoF. F. srASHoPE oRRIs has been granted ny the board of trustees of Princeton tN. J.) University leave of ab- sence for one year to enable him to accept a call to be resident director of the Amer ioan Classical School at Athens
 RICHARD PIGorT committed suicide at Madrid, on the evening of the lst. Officers were just on the point of arresting him at the Hotel des Ambassadeurs, at the re- quest of the Foreign Office in London. He was registered as Ronald Ponsonby, the initials thus conforming to those on his saohei.
 TIE great silver vault of the Treasury Department at Washington is full. It contains S66O10,0)0. It was intended to hold Sl0O 600, 600, but the substitution Of wooden boxes for canvas bags, made nee- essary by the rotting of the latter, caused by dampness, reduced it's capacity by Sll,000 GOO ...
 THE marriage ceremony of the Emper' or of China at Shanghai, on the 26th, was a gorgeous, though exclusive affair. The splendor surrounding the ceremony and the vast sum expended in carrying out the programme Is in marked contrast to the fact that millions of people are stary- ing in the provinces. .N
 J. C. CLARKE, aged fifty years, cashier of the Union EXeavating Company of New Orleans, committed suicide, on the morn ing of tue 25th. by shooting. He was to have been married the same evening 10 a young lady aged eighteen. A hasty e1- animation of his accounts show ed short age of several hundred dollars.