The Springdale news., 1889-05-03

tlIC SNipoiICi ptD' Et, were uIlNpn dSHoIt of Michigan Island, Lake Superior, during the gale, .n the 24th, and sunk. THE Government of Switzerland has de- cided to try the Zurich bomb makers in the Federal Forum and not in the Can. tonal Court
 A TERRIBLE disease, which resembles typhus fever. has broken out in Anagawa. ken, Japan. Of sixty-four cases forty ended fatally within twenty-four hours after the first attack. Doctors attribute the disease to bad rice.
 ON the 26th Colonel Dudley received a dispatch from MT. Van Pelt, in which the latter says that the famous letter from Colonel Dudley to himself must have been opened in the post-office at Anderson, Ind. MT. Van Pelt states that no one in Anderson, outside of the post office of ficials, knew that he had received letter from Colonel Dudley.
 THE Supreme Court of Indiana, on the 26th, reversed the decision of Judge How land, and held that the act authorizing the temporary loan of Sl 400, 900 is consti- tutional. Under this decision, it is be- lieved there will be no difficulty in nego- tating the loan, and the calling of an ex- tra session of the Legislature will not be necessary.
 TIE Supreme Court of the United States adjourned, on the 26th, until May l3.
 TIE American steamship Alliance was cut nearly in two in a collision, in the Willimette river, near Portland, Ore, on the 25th, with the British steamship Dan- ube. No lives were lost.
 A FARMER of High Bluff, little settle ment near Winnipeg, Man., while in fit of despondency over financial difficulties, on the 25th, killed his eight-year- old daughter and fatally wounded his son with an axe, and then committed suicide by cutting his throat.
 THE Connecticut House passed a very stringent bill against oleomargarine on the 26th.
 THE theory of the defense in the Hawes murder case, at Birmingham Ala, is that Fanny Bryant killed Mrs. Hawes for her money, and her accompllce, man named Thompson, who resembles Hawes, killed the child and disappeared.
 IT is expected that the Spanish Govern ment will shortly sell at auction f40 000, 900 worth of woodlands belonging to the state in order to cover deficit in funds, and to build railroads, canals and high ways, and tC establish rural loan banks.
 TIE steamer China arrived at San Francisco, on the 26th, bringing Shanghai news to March 30 and Yokohama to April B. There is no check to the famine, and the death rate is increasing despite the relief afforded by foreign missionaries, who are sending urgent appeals to Shang hai for money.
 RUMoRs are again current of the illness nt Nipa.a,- I nT ('bipa is now stated that he is so seriously in- disposed that he can scarcely articulate distinctly. His death would be a great blow to foreigners, as he has opposed the growing party that is against the develop ment of all European trade.
 TIE Marquis de Mores will leave Ton quin soon for Paris, as the French Gov ernment has ordered that nothing be done about railroad building there until sanctioned by the French Government. This will delay railroad construction for fully one year.
 ACT.R DAROLL, who was reported to have mysteriously disappeared from New York City, after returning his manuscript part to the Casino, recently, is at his home in Providence, R. l., threatened with nervous prostration.
 ARCHBISHOP GROSS left Portland, Ore, on the 18th, for Rome.
 THE fund which is being raised in the city of Hamburg for the families of the German sailors who lost their lives at Samoa in the recent hurricane amounts to twenty thousand marks. It has been for warded to Prince Bismarck.
 THE damage to the property of the tramway company and to private proper ty in Vienna during the recent strike dis turbances is estimated at 10000 tiorins.
 RECENT heavy storms have destroyed the crops in the Goerlitzen district of Si- lesia. Five persons were killed by light ming.
 BENJ. LINDSAY, founder of the New Bedford (Mass.) Daily Mercury, died, on the 26th, aged eightyfour years. ' VIM. M. CLEMENTS, manager of the Bal int ore x Ohio railroad east of the Ohio ivar resigned on the 3Gth. J. T. Oiell, orr,e, sv general manager of the Chesa- ,aaLe S, uipio, will manage all the Baiti- pora & obi9 lines. It is not known who rin succeed cinements.
 Mas. FLossIF DE MARCO, aged eighteen, ,hot herself deaGl in New York, on the ,6th, owing to des ptondency at her child ess condition. She was married fifteen months ago to a railroat contractor. The husband tried to commit 'ulclde on learn ng of her death.