The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-11-07

farmers are said to have joined the
Patrons Of Husbandry since last May
and are reported to be preparing for re-
lentless war on monopolies and trusts.
THE Illinois Supreme Court has de-
cided that the recent annexations Of
Chicago are valid.
THE great new steel bridge over the
Ohio river at Cairo, ILL.,, has been tested
and finally thrown open to traffic. 1t Is
two miles long, while its approaches are
twice that length.
TWELVE inches of snow fell at Dem
yer, Col, on the 20th
WHILE Mrs j. Ellis was out driving
at Denver, Col, the other evening her
team ran away and collided with a cable
car. She was thrown completely over
the car, landing on her head on the
track on the other side. Her skull was
fractured and she was fatally hurt
Dir. p. McKISNEy, the deposed head
physician of the order of the Modern
Woodmen of America, has published o
statement at Rock Island. H., accusing
Head Counsel Root of paying fraudu-
lent death claim.
j. j. GRATy, the workingmen's candi-
date, has been elected mayor of Streat-
or, H., by good majority.
RoBBERs at Pierre, ID. t., who had
secured considerable property, tried to
ship it the other day, but the police
were notified and nine men were ar
rested.
ONE of the large boilers of the Bel
laire blast furnace at Bellaire, o., ex-
ploded recently with terrible force,
cracking two other boilers in the main
battery and wrecking the boiler room
The damage was $500, ,o00.
CnrEF MAYEs favors an immediate
sale OF the rights OF the Cherokees in
the Strip. This change of front is due
to Secretary Mobiles recent letter.
THE Pan-Americans visited Kansas
City on the 30th. They were shown the
sights and banqueted. They expressed
themselves as well pleased with every
thing.
l.. j. NEwALp, who absconded from
Chippewa Falls, Wis, several months
ago with 100000, has been located in
Brazil
THE profits of gang of Pacific coast
opium smugglers are put at 100000.
A COAL. train on the Illinois a. Indi-
ana Southern road was ditched by q
broken rail at Sullivan, Ind. Engineer
William Evans, OF st. Louis, was in
stantly killed. An unknown tramp was
fatally hurt.
THE boiler of a steam threshing en-
CINE exploded sixteen miles east OF
Grafton. Oak. Israel Sheppard, the
owner, was instantly killed, Engineer
Crittenden, his fireman and another
man were badly wounded.
JUDGE DEWoLF, of Helena, Mont,
has sustained the motion of the Demo
Gratis and issued peremptory order to
have the canvassing board make returns
of the tunnel precincts.
A CHICAGO paper says that Canadian
Pacific line of six steel freight and pas
senger steamers viii be running be-
tween Chicago, Milwaukee and Glad
stone and Owen Sound before the season
of 1890 is far advanced.
Coal. sheds at Chicago belonging to
the Lehigh Valley Company burned re-
Gently. Loss, $4,000.
THE Oshkosh (Wis.) Mutual Insur-
ance Company has decided to go out oi
business because of unfavorable rulings
by the State Insurance Commissioner.
MAYOR POM OF San Francisco vetoed
the ordinance imposing license OF
$4,000 year on athletic clubs where
glove contests are held.
PRIVATE dispatches from San Fran
cisco report the loss il the Arctic ocean
of the whaling steamer Lucretia, OF
New Bedford, Mass.
THE Indians of the Wind river reser-
vation, south of the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park, were reported suffering for
want of food.
THE reports of destitution in North
Dakota were said to be greatly exag'
gerated, and while there were some iso'
lated communities in need of assistance
the statement that ''over hundred
thousand people were in want" does the
State an injustice.
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