The Springdale news., 1889-02-15

l IHE bill increasing the Euperor's do- nation has been adopted by the Budget 1 eomm!tte" Of the German Dfrt Herr Nlrchpw and Richter disseuted from the l action Of the committee. | tEoHGE ]. GAHooS, the fourth victim of 1 the recent boiler explosion at Lincoln, 1 Neb., died on the sth. Two others may 1 die.
 IT is announced that Vice President. l elect Morton, not being able to get into 1 Prof. Bells residence, which is to be his l Washington home for the next four 1 years, by inauguration week, has leas ed l ile residence No. 151s H stre ct in which to entertain his friends at that time. l SPECIAL from Cloversdale. \. Y. says. "Roads just opened 10 Pine Lake There 1 is no truth in rumors of the drowning of seventeen men by teams breaking through 1 the lfe oh SaeaHAaga river several days ago. No lives were lost" THE recent storm in Canada is pro- noaneed by railroad men as one of the worst they have eyer experienced. Trains were all more or less delayed and pas sengers suffered from cold and hunger
 THERE are fears of a revival of the trouble between the non-citizens and off eers of the Chiekasaw Nation oyer the ! struetions to put out all non citizens who refuse 10 pay the tax, and the non- citizens have organized to resist.
 A SENSATION has been caused in Ottawa, Ont, by the discovery that the proprie- tors of the Windsor & Annapolis railroad ] IH Nova Scotia secured, on misrepre- sentation to the customs department, \ refund ef ss,Gon, on importations of con- struetinn material te which they were not entitled.
 TIE managers of the Metropolitan Opera house of New York City have de- elaed to continue giving performances of German opera next spring.
 RAILWAY traffic was interrupted and tho telegraph wires were proStrated through oat England, France and Germauy,on tho 10th. by terrific snow-storms accompanied by high winds.
 IT is reported that the Lamoo Islands have been proclaimed as a German pos session. The new Sultan Of Vitu i5 strongly opposed to the eneroachmeHts of Germany.
 TIE Zanzibar insurgents still retain possession of KilWa Lindi The ransom ing of the German prisoners was due en- tlFely to the mediation of French mis- sIo8aries.
 TIE Chicago team was defeated by the Ait-AmeEicaHs in a game Of base ball played in Cairo, Egypt, on the 9th.
 ON the 9th the strike of the engineers on the Minneapolis tATinn.1 Motor Line was compromised and declared off, the company reiustatine discharged engi- ueers and "hostlers," :" bat refusing the in- crease ot ten cents a day. The company was f7Eee5 to make these concessions by a t44+E#zl =f If all tl4 .,- emploves ia the city.
 GN the 1RtA tHe United States man-of was Mahicu left the Mare Island Navy Yard. at Sau Francisco for Panama
 l GREEK who has just arrived at Cairo, Egypt, from khartoam. reports that Senu7si had taken Fl 0beid, and that the Mahdi is alarmed.
 ON tbe leth the first yestibulo train from New Orleans arrived III the City of Mexi- eo. IL made the run in seventy three haars An immense crowd gathered at the depot to witness tue arrival of the traiH
 THE local operators at Mount Carmel, Fa., report an improvement in the an thta5.te c5al trade Two thousand men resumed work i'll that district eH the llth.
 NASHIN6ToN's birthday will be eele- hrated by the American residents of the City of Mexico.
 \ SGMBEEat judicial appointments were confirmed in the Senate ou the 1lth.
 OS the llth the House committee on public lands directed a favorable report en the bill to provide for the sale of the Fort Laramie Military Reservation, Colo rado and Wyoming, to actual settlers. ON the 1lth earthquake shocks were felt 1 at Bolton and Manchester, England.