The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-15

 BY the running away of horses at- tached to bridge street car at Cincinnati the car was wrecked on a stone approach | to the bridge and the driver fatally and 1 four ladies badly hurt DEFECTIVE KILLER. in connection wiih | the Crc min case, claims that Montreal has been the hotbed of the conspirators and the place where the plot to assassinaie | Cronin was arranged; he also says one of the suspects is in Montreal and will soon be arrested.
 THE committee to report on the books of E. H. Stedman, county treasurer. of Des Moines, Iowa, report deficit of $lI, 300. THE finding Of the dead bodies of Ollie Jones' his wife and two other persons was | reported from Corvallis, q small town in Butterrot valley, in Western Montana. A young girl, who had been shot in the hip was also found on Big Hole mountain. All of them had been shot in the back ON the night of the 9th the Rio Grande Western train No 3. known as the Modoc was held up near Thompson's Springs by train robbers. Efforts to break into the express car failed, and they secured only about S1, coo and some jewelry from the passengers.
 A LOSS of about S150, 000 was caused by fire which started th9 other night in A. c. TreDtman's building on Calhoun street, Fort Wayne Ind.
 THE arbitration committee of business men, to whom was referred the wage dis pute in the Streator GID coal fields, rem dered decision, fixing the price to be paid workmen at 72K cents a ton. The demand of the miners was for 80 cents
 THE name of the young lawyer, charged with extensive forgeries on John s. Blais- sell, a millionaire of Minneapolis, was J. Frank Collum, of the firm of Redwood &5 Collum.
 CHARLES FRANCIS SERVICE, of Spring field, Mass, has been appointed superin- tendent of the Haskell Institute, at Law renee, Kan. Mir. Meserve is a graduate of Columbia University, Maine. GREAT excitement prevails at Albany, Wis, from the finding of pearls in the Sugar river in clam shells. Some have been sold as high as S100.
 OWING 10 the opposition of proprietor Warren F. Leland, of the Leland, House, Chicago, to the extension of the Chicago Exposition building along the lake front, the exhibition and fat stock show this fall will wind up the annual displays,
 THE Wisconsin Central passenger train
 
 Falls early on the morning of the s h.
 THE annual convention of the American Catholic Total Abstinence Society closed at Cleveland, O., on the Sth. Rev. J. M. Cleary, of Wisconsin, was elected presi- dent.
 A DETERMINED effort is being made in Chicago to abolish the illustrated police newspapers.
 CHEE GONG, a Chinaman. was hanged at Portland, Ore, recently for the murder of Lee Click, a fellow countryman, two years ago.
 THE alleged epidemic of dysentery at Warsaw, Ill.,. is officially reported not nearly so serious as correspondents at that point have made it.
 LAWYER FRANK COLON the forger. has been placed in jail at Minneapolis. It is said that l12 of the forged notes were ahoat.
 THE book bindery of John Anderson & Co., in Chicago was damaged by fire the other morning 10 the extent of S25. 900.
 GEORGE DUNCAN BRYsoN. a Montana murderer, was hanged at Boulder the other day. He had killed his mistress.