The Russellville Democrat., 1889-09-19
THE EAST,

 facturer, committed suicide at summer hotel near Gloucester, Mass, the other day. He had been erazsI by Roman fever.
 E. R DUNN, ex-president of the Maine Central railroad, died at Wateryille, Me, recently, aged eighty-seven.
 Two women perished in McArdle's four story rag warehouse at Albany, N. r., which caught fire on the 95b. Several others were more or less hurt. The loss vas s40,00o.
 THE Democrats of New Jersey have nominated Leon Abbott for Governor.
 THE eighth National Encampment Sons of Veterans met at Paterson, N. J., on the 10th.
 IT is denied by the men on board of the Maid of the Mist that Steve Brodie went over Niagara Falls as he alleged.
 TWENTY SIX cases of scarlet fever are reported in the coored orphans home in Allegheny City, Pa.
 HON. $. S. Cox succumbed to his attack of malarial fever on the 10th.
 OCEAN storms played serious havoc along the coast adjacent to New York on the 9th and 10th. The pleasure resorts sSsre the worst sufferers.
 J. ORDwAY. aged eighty, a well-to-do farmer, of Concord, N. H., who had farm for sale, was induced by alleged pur- chasers to draw S9, 5D0 from the bank and when the rol bers found they could not get him into game of cards, a revolver was used to persuade him to give up his money. He did so.
 TIE great Thomas iron works at Hoken- dagua, Pa., has been sold to an English syndicate for 8, 300, 900 cash.
 THIRTY acres of land near Plymouth, Pa settled aIarminsiy recently. Several mules in the mine underneath were killed and the workmen lost their tools.
 ABRAHAM II. HAPPEN, of the Twenty tRrth Assembly district, has been elected Grand sachem of the Tammany Society in place of sheriff Flack, resigned.
 CHAuscEY Nj. DEPAw has returned from Europe.
 EUGENE D. MANN, editor and proprietor of Town ToSies of Nav York, has been secretly arrested and locked up in the Tombs h default of S5 900 bail on m in- dictment for criminally libsling Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton in an article on the Robert Ray Hamilton case
 Ar Buffalo, N. Y, Dr. Bartlett finished his effort 10 beat Dr. Carver's record of tTeaking GO, GOO glass balls by rife shots in
 
 HE P eeaix Woolen Mills Company of East Greenwich, R. L, have offered to compromise with their creditors at 25 cents on the dollar.
 ALDERMAN CHRISTIAN GoETz of New York City. has been acquitted of the charge of having bi ibed voters at the last eeeton.
 JosTPH MA1z an Italian fruit vendor of New York City, in trying to clean a gutter in front of his place, caught a live" electric light wire in his hands and was instantly killed.
 MRS C, H DuNsFoRn. the wife of a leading citizen O, Reaoing, Pa, died the other Goy after being thu own into spasms while laughng heartily at theatrical performance. Her artificial teeth were missed and n post mortsm examsnation developed the fact that she had swallowed them They were found lcdg d in her stomach.
 THE business part of Danby. N. T.. burned the other day. Cause. no fire ap- parstuS Loss S45t0h
 FIVE hundred miners at Ciar on and Gear Run, Pa, lave struck for an ad- vance The strike was in co-operetion With the striking miners ,f Adraiu and Watson.
 HoN, A. E ToUzALIy, of Chicago, pres dent of the Chicago, Burlington & North Sn railway, died at Bennington, Vt, re- gently. He had been out of health for some time.
 F. W. GEsswEIN, the millionaire im- porter anu manufacturer of jewellers snppiies and tools, was shot dead at New York recently by Christian Dehle, an old eerman- who said he committed the crime because Gesswejn had robbed him of his patent and left him penniless.
 cArTLE disease either Texas fever or black tongue, is reported ravaging the nerds near Scoudale, Pa.