The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-21
RUSsET.LvILLE, THURSDAY MARCH 2l 1s89
WALTER TOWNSEND, a prominent attor

WALTER TOWNSEND, prominent attor- ney of Lakewood, N. J., died suddenly, | on the 18th, of heart failure, aged sixty | four years.
 l AUGUST TRANTo, of Holt, Mich. ,has been sentenced to prison for life for the mur- der of old Mrs. Stochal. THE Cabinet met at half-past twelve o'clock, on the 18th, and was in session for two hours.
 | PKKHAMs Sc KUENzEL's immense wool, en mill at New Bremen, O., was burned on the 18th. Thirty men were thrown out; of employment. Loss, S30,000; partly in- sured.
 QUEEN NATALIE will shortly make ap- | plication to have the divorce obtained | from her by her husband through Metro | politan Theodosius annulled. RUSSELL HARRISON is said to be can- didate for the United States Senate from the new State of Montana. He>will leave | for Montana as soon as all important Montana appointments have been made. | PHELPS, the youth who robbed the Nor wood (N. Y.) Bank recently, has been de- clared insane by the physicians appointed to examine him, and taken to the Utica asylum.
 s. V. McDUFPrE, who is oontesting the election of Lewis W. Turpin in the Fourth Congressional district of Alabama, was waited upon by three men in Camden, | Wilcox County, where he was taking esj- dence, and warned to leave within forty eight hours or suffer violence. The local Democracy would not guarantee his safe- | ty, and he left. The affair has created in- tense excitement NJ. DIX FREYcINET, French Minister of | War, has assumed the office of Minister of Marine, made vacant by the death of Admiral Jaures. M. de Freycinet will retain the position until a new Minister is appointed.
 DISASTROUS floods are prevalent throughout Galicia. Several towns and many villages are submerged. IT is reported that Justice Matthews, of the Supreme Court of the United States, will resign from the Supreme Bench, and that Judge Gresham will be appointed his successor before the present term of court expires in May. The report, how ever, can not be verified.
 AN explosion of fire- damp took place in colliery near Mines, France, on the 10th, by which eleven persons were killed and six wounded.
 THE assertion that Austria is preparing to make war upon Servia is officially de- nied.
 Ex-PREsIDENT CLEvEHAYD denies hav ing applied for membership in the Buffa- To (N. Y.) Athletic Club.
 ARTHUR CYPRED, of Peru, Ind, was fa- tally shot by the discharge of his own gun while hunting, on the 14th.
 UNDER the new law of Louisiana, the members of the police force of New Or leans hold office for life, or during good behavior.
 THE Inman Line steamer City of New York mads her last trip from Liverpool in six days, fourteen hours and six min- utes.
 THE Barrett boys, under sentence to hang March 22 for the murd CT of Tollef- son, the Minneapolis (Minn.) street-car driver, have confessed
 THE War Department has given large order for munitions of war at the Alle- gheny (Pa.) Arsenal.
 HoN. JOHN BRENNAN, of Sioux City, Ia., has been offered and declined the office of Consul at Barcelona, Spain.
 A YOUNG colored woman named Cora Hawkins was stabbed and almost instant ly killed in Washington, on the 14th, by her husband, Benjamin Hawkins. The murder Is said to have been inspired by jealousy. Hawkins was arrested
 AN open switch caused collision be- tween east and west-bound freights on the Manitoba road on the 10th. Twelve cars of wheat were wrecked and the en- gInes damaged. The engineers and ire- men saved themselves by jumping.
 Ar the election in the Remington divi- sion of Lambeth, England, which took place on the 18th, Mir. H. Mark Beaufy, the Glaistonian candidate, received 4,O69 votes, and Mir. Hope, Conservative, 3, 439. The Gladstonians regard this as the most important victory their party has yet achieved, as the Irish issue was the only one brought forward in the canvass.
 YoUNG & CoLBURN's blaming mills, at Pokomoke, Md, were burned on the 10th. Loss, S25, 900; fully insured.
 FEARS of hostilities between Austria and Servia have had dampening effect on the London Stock Exchange.
 VIM. KRULIscH, the young boy who was indicted by the New York City grand jury, on the 14th, for murder in the first degree in killing Drug Clerk Weschring, pleaded not guilty, on the 18th, ,sand was remanded for trial.
 THE ship Governor Robie, from Japan for Portland, Me-, stranded near Bidde- ford Pool, was foated on the 18th, and proceeded in tow for Portland.