The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-29
GENERAL

estimates of an incraased production in Brazil proved too much for the bull clique in the coffee market and prices fell one- half cent a pound.
 THE revenue cutter Rush is reported to have captured two more British schoonsrs in Behring sea. American sealing schoon- CTS were also boarded anR ordered to quit the Behring sea waters.
 THE Eiffel tower at Paris was struck by lightning recently and slightly damaged.
 THE Argentine Republic has invited the United States Government to participate in an international cattle shaw at Buenos Ayres next April.
 ARRESTS of Socialists are reported zn Austria Alarming reports of the extep- sive ramifications of the movement ware afloat in Vienna.
 E. c. HILL, president of the Nation al Floral Association, and companion. dur ing a recent trip to Europe were refused admittance to Germany because they were supposed to be spies. They were arrested and maltreated.
 THE Turkish Government has decsied to increase the forces in Crete to 3o,0O0 sol- diers.
 DISPATCH from Montenegro says that famine is threatened, owing to the fail- ure of the crops, and that epidemic dis ease is now extensively prevalent. ADvICEs from Apia report the return to Samoa of ex-King Malietoa and other ex- lies. They were warmly welcomed by the natives. The German Consul informed Malietoa that he was at liberty to do as he pleased.
 Two arrests have been made at Berne, Switzerland, in connection with the re- cent Anarchist circular attacking the | Bundesrath.
 THE United States steamer Ossipee is 1 anchored in Hampton roads. The Ossipee has just returned from Hayti. THE Abyssinian General, Ras Aluls, TO- gently advanced to Godofelassi and made | overtures for peace. General Baldissers, commanding the Italian expedition, re- jected his proposals and advanced upon | Ras Alula, compelling him to retreat be- | yond the river Blesa. PLANS for two new cruisers have been | nearly completed by the designing board. One is to be built on the plan of the En- | glish war ship Warspite and another after 1 the design of a Spanish cruiser. A SENSATION has been caused in Aus | tria by the disclosure that Prince Sul- kowski, who was until recently confined | in the aristocratic insane asylum at Doeb- l ling, on being pronounced sane by the | professors, sought to secure again the | control of his estate, but found that there was absolutely nothing left, his wife dur | ing his confinement in the asylum having l squandered the Princes fortune. | THE British bark, Onaway, which sailed | from Philadelphia June 5, for Bilboa, with a crew of fifteen men and 124, ,234 gallons of crude petroleum. valued at SS 956, is be- | lieved to have been lost, as nothing has been heard of her since she passed out the | Delaware capes.
 THE British steamer Alene, from West | India points, reports that on August the | American schooner Lizzie May, while at | anchor at Jacmel, was run into by the | Haytien man-of- war Toussaint L'Ouver- | teure and had large hole stove in her 1 starboard bow above the water. 1 CATE CHANG PING, the Chinese laborer l who tried to break the validity of the Scott Exclusion law but failed, has been l sent back to China 1 THE sentence of Mrs. Maybrick was com- muted to penal servitude for life. Two Pennsylvanians were arrested re- | gently on their return from Europe for trying to smuggle jewelry and other
 goods.
 IT is reported that Mir. Parnell will
 soon visit America for the benefit of his ] health
 THE German imperial party arrived al
 Metz on the 23d and received an enthusi-
 astic welcome.
 THE new Government dry dock at the navy yard at Norfolk. Va, will be finished
 September l9 and that at New York No.
 vember |
 THE Empire and Phoenix Touring mills of St Catherines Ont, burned the othel
 morning. The Empire mills was one Q
 the finest and largest in Canada, ant
 was erected only few years ago at [
 cost of nearly $l0O, 600.
 THE London Press Association says tina
 the English Government has intimated t the United States Government willing
 ness to negotiate a SC clement of the Beh ring seat matter and now await the Amer
 ican Governments reply.
 A WARRANT against Gideon r. Brown
 the absconding merchant of Providence
 has been issued from the Crown office il | Montreal.
 BUSINESS failures (Dun's geport) for thu
 seven days ended August 22 numbered
 206 compared with 213 the previous weel
 and 2l4 the corresponding week of lar | year,