The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-05-16
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TEN miners were killed by falling car
in the William colliery, near Middleport,
Pa, on the 9th.
THE jury in the Kemmler murder trial,
| al Buffalo, N. Y, after being out eighteen
hours, returned a verdict on the 10th,
of murder in the first degree. Sentence
was deferred.
ASA MATTHEWS, of Illinois, has been
appointed First Comptroller of the Treas
ury.
Ir is understood that company Of
American and Canadian capitalists,
headed by Mr. Carnegie, contemplates
laying a new cable from Nova Scotia to
the Irish coast.
NOTICES were posted, on the 10th, of a
reduction of ten per cent. in the wages of
all employees Of the Dickson Maunufact-
uring Company of Scranton, Pa, to take
effect May Is. The reduction affects
about nine hundred men.
UNITED STATES SENATOR BROWN, OF
Georgia, who has been lying at the point
of death from malignant dysentery for
several days, has rallied somewhat, and
his physicians think he will recover.
MEMORIAL day was observed at Charles
ton, s. c., with the usual ceremonies at
Magnolia Cemetery, where the Confeder-
ate dead are buried. The attendance was
very large. The ceremonies included re-
ligious exercises and the decoration of
the graves by the young ladies of the
Confederate Home.
ITALY declines to surrender Vitelie and
Boyino, the murderers of Paymaster Nc
Clure, near Wilkes barre Pa, but will try
them in that country if evidence is for
warded.
1T is reported that Sir Charles Russell's
fee for acting as counsel for the Parnell-
ties before the special commission was
f10,000.
on the 10th three miners were killed
aud several wounded in O conflict with
soldiers at Bracket, Germany. The strik-
ers had gathered in large body aud re-
fused to dispense when ordered. The SOL
diers thereupou fired on them.
A DISPATCH from Zanzibar states that
an officer and two seamen belonging to
the German cruiser Schwalbe were killed
at Bagamoyo, on the East coast of Afri-
ca.
JAPANESE papers express the fear that
the United States steamship Palos, which
left Tieh- -Tsin for Shee-Foo early in the
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has been lost
A SUDDEN wind and rain storm. resem-
bling cyclone, swept over the Potomac
valley near Point of Rocks, seventy
miles above Washington, on the 10th.
Twenty five men working on a railroad
trestle spanning the river were blown off
into the water, sixty feet below.
A GENERAL strike of the Nottingham
(Euplapl1 lara
JOHN P. SALISBURY, Secretary of State
of Delaware, son of Willard Salisbury,
Chancellor of State and ex-Unlted States
Senator, and the nephew of ex-senator
Eli Salisbury. died at his home in Dover,
Del, on the 10th, of heart disease, aged
thirty-six years.
THE funeral of Count Tolstoi, late r us
sian Minister of the Interior, took place
on the 10th. The Gear, who was present
has donated the sum of 100000 roubles to
Countess Tolstoi, and in addition q yearly
pension of Q. 900 roubles.
THE retirement of Miss Kate r. Drexel,
of Philadelphia, to convent is said to be
only temporary. She intends to devote
her life to the education of Indian aud
colored children.
GENERAL CLINTON B. FIsKE denies the
statement that he had said that he would
not be a third-party man next fall. He
says he is still carrying the Prohibition
flag on the highest summit he can reach.
THE first prosecutions in Cincinnati un-
der the recently passed law against
bucket shops began on. the 10th.
THE strike OF the car~drivers at Prague,
Austria, is ended, the tramway company
having, on the 10th, yielded TO the de-
mands of their employees.
THE site of Fort Sisson, formerly Fort
Wadsworth, Mimi, has been transferred
to the Interior Department. and viii be
disposed Of under the provisions of the
act OF 1884. The tract comprises four
townships adjoining the Sisson Indian
reservation. 1t will not be offered until
surveyed and appraised by the commits
sion.
IT is believed that Captain Wissmann's
victory over the natives at Bogomayo
marks the collapse of the emeute on the
East coast of Africa.
A DISPATCH from Bochum, Westphalia,
says that the firing by the military, on the
night of the 9th, was the result of blum
der on the part of the officer commanding
the troops, who mistook a number OF
passengers coming out of railway sta
ton for rioters. The strikers made no
demonstration.