The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-05-23
II is stated that the Turks are massa-

creing Christians on the frontier OF Mon
tenegro.
MrSNEsorA's Drunkards' law has gone
into effect. 1t provides that whoever be-
comes intoxicated by voluntarily drink
ing intoxicating liquors shall be deemed
guilty of the crime of drunkenness, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by fine and Imprisonment.
THE Terra Central Sugar Grinding
Factory, at Manzauillo, Cuba, was burned
on the 18th, loss, 100000.
The British House Of Commons, on the
18th, rejected Mr.. Labouchere's motion TO
abolish hereditary sittings in the House
of Lords.
THE Pope became suddenly indisposed
on the nth.
AN Anarchist Republican conspiracy
has been discovered at Succia In Valencia,
Spain, among the peasants. The plot was
to seize the town, on the 18th, and sack
the houses of the wealthy. The police
and soldiers arrested a number OF the
conspirators. Firearms were found in
their possession and many also had pass
ports to South America.
THE reports of the committee of the Sa-
moan conference on the questions of
land tenure and the government of the
islands were presented TO the full body
on the 18th. The latter report was APP
proved with the exception of a few de-
tails which were left over for discussion
at the next meeting of the conference.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Com
pany's depot warehouse at Norfolk, Va,
was burned,on the 18th. The loss on the
building and freight is estimated at 500, :
000 The building, O wooden structure,
was nine hundred feet long. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
THE late Duchess of Cambridge left an
estate valued at about f220, 900. Most of
her fortune was devised to the children
of her daughter, the Duchess of Teck.
OK the 10th Stewart Brothers Packi ng-
house, at Council Bluffs, Ia, was burned,
with quantity of cured m eats. Loss,
100000; insurance, 500, 400.
THE manufacturing company occupy
ing three large wooden mills at Kensing-
ton avenue and Huntington street, Phila-
delphia, indefinitely suspended on the
18th. The concern employed about three
hundred men. Competition in trade and
low prices were the causes. The liabili-
ties will reach nearly $3.50, 900; assets,
100000.
A DISPATCH from Breslau, Germany, of
the 18th, says that conflict occurred
between the military and the strikers
near there. The troops fred upon the
strikers, killing number of them.
JUDGE JOHN IL. MILBURN, of the st.
Mary's County Orphans Court at Leon
ardtown, Nd, was struck by lightning
and killed on the 10th.
GEORGE HowERY, wealthy farmer of
Shelby County, Ind, was arrested, on the
10Th, and taken to Rushville on warrant
II, L. hi.
who passed over 500 in counterfeit fives
and tens in the latter city.
THE worst hail-storm that ever visited
Central and Northern Iowa was expert
enced on the 1Gsh, lasting but two or
three minutes. Many of the stones were
larger than hens eggs. They cut the
leaves and small limbs from trees, dam
aged vegetation, and caused great loss to
greenhouses aaid windows.
A CONFERENCE of Austrian aud Hun
garian sugar merchants was held at
Trieste on the 18th. Resolutions were
adopted urging the government to with
draw from the London sugar bounties
convention.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER ad
dress ed over three thousand of his Phila-
delphia employees on the evening of the
18th. He talked to them for over half an
hour, receiving frequent outbursts of ap-
plause. The occasion was the second an
nual distribution of the profits of the
immense establishment among its en-
ployes.
THE delegates to the Presbyterian Gen.
eral Assembly in New York City were
rendered a reception, on the night of the
10th, at the Metropolitan Opera House by
the Presbyterian Union of that city.
There was music, luncheon and speaking.
Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania and
others delivered addresses.
A SERIOUS fight occurred near Beverly,
W. Va, on the 18th, among about forty
Italian laborers on the West Virginia
Central railroad extension. Three men
were shot and badly wounded; two were
severely stabbed, and others were cut,
beaten, bruised by stones etc.
THE Parnell Commission resumed its
sittings on the 18th. Father O'Donovau,
of Tully, ireland, testified that the Moon
lighters of that place were opposed 10 the
National League.
NELSON COLBERT (colored) who mur.
dered Philip Wentzel, superintendent OF
the Columbia street-car stables in WASH
kngton, in October last was hanged a
the Dis trict Jail on 18th.