The Russellville Democrat., 1889-10-31
TnE places Of tho striking switchmen

THE places OF the striking switchmen
on the Louisville & Nashville railroad
at Evansville, Ind, were rapidly filled
by men from East st. Louis, who were
attracted by the offer of five dollars per
day and board during the strike, and
guaranty of permanent situations after
the trouble is over.
THE election for member of Parlia-
ment for Brighton, England, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Sir Will
lam Tindale Robertson, who recently
committed suicide, was held on the 25th,
and Mr.. Gerald Loder, the Unionist can
didate, was elected, receiving 1872.
votes. Sir Robert Peel. Giadstonian,
received 4,625.
THE relief work of the American Ma
tional Red Cross in the Conemaugh Val
ley ended ON the 9Th, and on the 25th
Miss Clara Barton, the president, and
her corps OF assistants left for their
respective homes.
KING OrTo, the insane monarch Of Ba-
varia, is in precarious condition. He
is unconscious, and only at irregular in
tervals are his physicians able to ad-
minister nourishment.
WHILE the steamer Cephalonia, which
sailed from Liverpool, on the 24th, for
Boston, was off Holyhead, one Of her
boilers exploded, and the vessel was SO
badly damaged that she was compelled
to return to Liverpool for repairs. Her
second engineer and four firemen were
severely injured.
SAMUEL GoMPEIs, the wcll-known la
Dor advocate, was nominated, on the
25th, for State Senator by the County
Democrats of the Seventh New York
district.
A FORCE of one hundred men began
work, on the Gath, in Stoney creek chan
mel, Conemaugh Valley, searching for
the dead and removing debris. Thirty
five bodies were removed from the
trench to Grandview Cemetery on the
first day, eleven of them being identi-
fed. The work is in charge of local
contractor, and every thing will be done
by Johnstown people.
THE gross earning of the Union Pacific
railroad, whole system preliminary
statement), for September, were 81, 993,
52S; increase over the same month last
year, 1858, 1876. Net earnings, 81, 800, ,240;
increase, S231, ,S95. For nine months to
September 80, gross earnings, 22,072,
030; increase, Sl33, 705. Net earnings,
50, 064, 058; increase, S703, $50.
THE announcement was made at OF
tawa, Ont, on the 25th, that the I'm
veto the Weldon Extradition bill passed
last session, request the Dominion Gov
ernment not to put it in operation until
the United States Senate takes action in
regard to the extradition treaty negoti-
ated some years ago.
THE Spanish Government has been as
sured by the representatives of Chilli and
the Argentine Republic that those coun-
tries are not at all disposed to agree to
any proposal on the part of the United
States for Zollverein.
JOEL BARLOW MooRHEAD, we'll
known iron manufacturer and capitalist
of Philadelphia, died, on the 25th, aged
seventy-seven years. He was interested
in various railroad, canal and other en-
terprises, and was the largest holder of
stock of the Monongahela Navigation
Company of Pittsburgh. His fortune is
estimated at S3,000,000. He leaves
widow and four children.
THE French General ., Chabron, died
in Paris on the cath.
In continuing his speech before the
Parnell Commission in London, on tho
25th, Mr.. Davitt said that it was Mr..
Parnell and not he (Davitt) who formed
the Land League in America.
JOSEPH S. BoNNEY, aged sixty-two,
well-known inventor of Lawrence,
Mass, shot himself through the heart
with revolver on the 25th. He was a
prominent Mason and Odd Fellow.
SETTLERS at Fort Pierre, across the
river from Pierre, S. D., are greatly dis
turbed over the report from the Interior
Department that they have no recogniz-
able right to their holdings and will be
compelled to vacate them.
VIM. NEvIrT was fatally injured at
GAINESVILLE, O., on the 25th, by the pre-
mature explosion Of cannon that was
being fired at political meeting. Both
arms were blown off and both eyes de-
stroyed, and he was so badly hurt that
recovery is impossible. A subscription
was raised for his wife and two chill.
dren.