The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-10-17
OCTOBER


secure a bribe from the Ontario Canning
Company at Buffalo, N. Y. and was
fined $50 and sent to Jail tor thirty days
for doing so, was, on the 10th, declared
insane. and released from Jail.
THE double-track railroad bridge of
the New York, Providence & Boston
railroad across the Thames river at New
London, Conn.,, was formally accepted
aud opened TO traffic on the 10th. Spe-
cial trains from New York and Boston
carried hundreds Of prominen. citizens
and railroad men to witness the cere-
monies. The bridge supplants ferry
boat which had hitherto carried trains
across the Thames.
THE Republican State convention of
Nebraska held at Hastings, on the 10th,
passed unanimously a resolution in
dorsing Chicago as the place for holding
the Worlds Fair in 1892
The Pennsylvania State Board Of
Health has issued a proclamation de-
claring diphtheria to be epidemic in the
city of Carbondale, and Mayor Kelly has
issued his edict calling upon the citizens
to at once place their properties in q
healthy condition. Some of the UNDER
takers have refused to further endanger
the lives Of their families by handling
the bodies OF the dead.
DENVER, Col, was, on the 10Th, chosen
as the place of the next Knights Templar
triennial conclave, which Is to be held
on the second Tuesday in August 1892.
TIE factory of the Induratcd Wire
Company at Watertown, Mass, was
partly burned on the 10Th. The buildings
contained q considerable amount Of
stock. which was also destroyed.
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Syracuse Forging and Gun Works, at
Batavia, and inventor of the new Baker
gun. died at his home in that village, on
the 10th, of consumption.
Hon. SAMUEL j. RANDALL left his sum-
mer home at Wallingford, Pa, on the
10TH for Philadelphia, accompanied by
Mrs. Randall and his two children.
TIE business failures occurring through.
out the country during the seven days
ended on the nth, as reported to r. G.. Dun
& Co., numbered, for the United States.
1s2, and for Canada, 32 or a total of 81 4 as
compared with 206 tue preceding week
and 1872 the week previous. For the COR
responding week last year the figures
were 227, representing 1893 failures in the
United States and 35 in the Dominion Of
Canada.
way sail ed for New York from Liverpool,
on the 11th, by the steamer Umbria.
JUDGE AMBROSE MoNETT, of New York
City, who was indicted in connection
with the Flack divorce case, has had a
dangerous relapse, and is very seriously
ill at his home. Four physicians were in
consultation over the sufferer on the 1lth
A COLLISION betweeen two freight
trains on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
at Fredericktown, o., on the 11th, caused
bad wreck. About twenty cars and two
engines were thrown from the track.
A second freight dashed into the rear of
the first south bound train before flag
man could be sent back. The trainmen
escaped by jumping.
Two children at Lima, o., were bitten
by mad dogs on the 11th. Frank Bogart,
a boy of eight years, was the first victim,
and suffered intensely. The other was
a two-year -old child of John Lindeman.
1t was not badly hurt. Both dogs were
captured and killed.
AxTELL. the three-year- old stallion,
with the running horse Farmer John for
running mate, at Terre Haute, Ind. on
the 11th, beat the three-year- old record
(2:13a4) held by the California filly Sun
old, and lowered it Ii seconds. This
performance beats the record for STALL
ions at all ages. Axtell was subsequently
sold 10 Chicago syndicate for Sl05. 900.
THE two commissioners appointed by
the United States and Venezuela for the
settlement Of claims against the latter
country, have chosen Hon. John L.
Findlay, of Baltimore, MI, as the third
commissioner.
THE match trotting race at Fleetwood
Driving Park, N. Y, on the 11th, be-
tween Belle Hamlin and Harry Wilkes
was won by Belle Hamlin in two straight
heats. Time, 2:l6% and 2:19s.
THE dwelling OF Patrick Daily, at
DAVIS Switch, Pa, was burned, on the
10TH and his wife and three sons, aged
thirteen, eleven aud nine years, respect
lively, were roasted in the flames. The
accident was caused by an explosion
of natural gas, caused by the careless
ness of Daily, who was himself also
badly burned.
A CONFERENCE concerning the admins
tration OF the customs service at New
York was held at the Treasury Depart
ment, on the 11th, between Secretary VIM
dom, Assistant Secretaries Batcheller and
Tichenor, Collector Erhardt, Appraiser
Cooper, Surveyor Lyon and Chief Tingle
of the special agents division.'