The Springdale news., 1889-05-17
PERSONAL AND GENERA :.

ury.
 REPRESENTATIVE LAIRD, of Nebraska, who has been ill for several months, part of the time ill very critical condition, is recovering slowly.
 NOTICES were posted on the 10th, of a reduction of ten per cent. in the wages of all employees of the Dickson Maunufact- uring Company of Scranton, Pa., to take effect May 15. The reduction affects about nine hundred men.
 UNITED STATES SENATOR BROWN, of Georgia, who has been lying at the point of death from malignant dysentery for several days has rallied somewhat, and lis physicians think he will recover.
 MEMORIAL Jay was observed at Charles ton, $. C.. with the usual ceremonies at Magnolia Cemetery where the Confeder- ate dead are buried. Tho attendance was very large. The ceremonies included re- ligious exercises and the decoration of the graves by the young ladies of the Confederate Home.
 ITALY declines to surrender Vitelie and Bovine, the murderers of Paymaster Me- Clure, near Wilkes barre, Pa, but will try them in that country if evidence is for warded.
 A GENERAL strike of the Nottingham England) lace-w orkers is imminent.
 ON the 10th three miners were killed and several woanded in conflict with soldiers at Bracket, Germany. The strik- CTS had gathered in a large body and re- fused to disperse when ordered. The sol diers thereupon fired on them.
 A DISPATCH from Zanzibar states that an officer and two seamen belonging to ba To Scl,x IaI at Bagamoyo, on the East coast of Afri- ca.
 JOHN r. SAULsBURY. Secretary of State of Delaware, son of Willard Saulsbury, Chancellor of State and x-Umted States Senator, and the nephew of ex-Senator Eli Saulsbury. died at his home in Dover, Del, on the 10th, of heart disease, aged tbirty-siX years.
 \ SUDDEN wind and rain storm, resem- bling cyclone, swept over the Potomac valley near Point of Rocks, seventy miles above Washington, on the 10th. Twenty-Five men working on railroad trestle spanning the river were blown off into the water, sixty feet below.
 THE funeral of Count Tolstoi, late R us : sian Minister of the Interior, took place on the 10th. The Czar, who was present. has donated the sum of 20),0)0 roubles to Countess Tolstoi, and in addition a yearly pension of 6 0)0 roubles.
 TIE quarterly whipping al New Castle, Del, on the llth. was remarkable in the number of lashes laid on by the sheriff, who struck 215 blows on the backs of twelve men. Three of them received forty lashes each for highway robbery.
 THE first prosecutions in Cincinnati un- der the recently passed law against bucket-shops began on the 10th.
 JAPANESE papers express the fear that the United States steamship Palos, which left Tien-Tsin for Shee-Foo early in the spring, and has not been heard of since, has been lost.
 TIE retirement of Miss Kate R. Drexel, of Philadelphia, to a convent is said to be only temporary. She intends to devote her life to the education of Indian and aolored children.
 IT is reported that Sir Charle Russell's flee for acting as counsel for the Parnell ites before the special commission was fl0,000
 GENERAL CLINTON B. FIsKE denies the statement that he had said that he would not be a third party man next fall. He says he Is still carrying the Prohibition flag on the highest summit he can reach.
 TIE strike of the car-drivers at Prague, Austria, is ended, the tramway company having, on the 10th, yielded to the de mands of their employees.
 THE site of Fort Sissou, formerly Fort Wad swor.h, MiDn., has been transferred to the Interior Department, and will be disposed of under the provisions of the net of lsei The tract comprises four townships adjoining the Sisson Indian reservation. It will not be offered until surveyed and appraised by the commis sion.
 Ir Is believed that Captain Wissmann's victory over the natives at Bogomayo marks the collapse of .he emeute on the East coast of Africa.
 A DISPATCH from Bochum, Westphalia, says that the firing by the military, on the night of the 9th, was the result Of blun- der on the part of the officer commanding tie troops, who mistDok a number of passengers coming out of a railway sta ton for rioters. The strikers made no demonStra
 IN the trial of the Driggs- Schroeder rapid-fire six pouuder gun which took place at Annapolis, Md. on the l2th, Lieutenant Driggs, the inventor of tho gun, and the naval attaches If the Ger man and Japanese legations at Wash ington, were present. Nineteen shots were fired ill one minute, and sixty rounds were fired in four minutes and twenty seconds.
 LIEUTENANT HENRY N. ScHAEFFER, of the United States Navy, died at the Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, on the 1lth, from dropsy.
 GENERAL BorLAYGER says that if the French Government proloaSs the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Gill next year, the action will be blow touniversal suf frage, and every Frenchmau ought to protest against such course. He nti- mates that he will be heard from if the government takes such action.
 TIE trial trip of the cruiser Charleston, on the l1th, proved a failure owing to the heating of one of the high pressu slides, temporary defect which can cas- fly be remedied
 IN the six day go.as-you- please pedes- trian contest at Madison Square Garden, in New York City which ended on the night of the 11th, seven men scored over 800 miles and participated iu the gate re- ceipts, Herty leading with 35) miles.
 Ex-CoNGREssMAN LYMAN N. BASS died at the Hotel Buckingham, in New York City, on the 11th, of consumption and heart failure. He was fifty-four years old, and was formerly a partner of ex- President Cleveland.
 THOMAS A. EDISON has entered a com plaint in equity iu the United States courts of New York against F. Gilliland an electrician, and a lawyer namcd Tom linson for the recovery of S2500l), which he claims they have wrongfnlly convert ed to their own use out If the proceeds of the sale of stock of the Iison phono- graph.
 HERBERT SKINNER, Q gunner in the British Marine Artillery service, has fall- en heir to E530 0oC in money and large landed property in Hereford.
 EN-BASKER JAMES D. FISH walked out of Auburn (N Y) Slate prison, at ten miuutes past nine o'clock on the morning of the llth, free man.
 TIE C2ar has appoiutel M. Dlrnoyo as Minister of the Interior to succeed inc late Count Tolstoi.
 TIE Booth Barrett Company dedicated the New California Theater,in San Fran cisco, on the 18th.
 MR. WmTELAw REID, the new United