The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-05-16

THE President, on the 7th, appointed
Arthur L. Thomas, Governor; Elijah
Soils, Secretary of State, and Ellsworth
Daggett, Surveyor General, of Utah.
= THE Findlay (O.) Goblet Works, said to
be the largest es establishment of the kind
in the United States, were burned. on the
9th, throwing 800 persons out OF employ
ment The total loss is s125.0oO.
WALKER BLAINE stated, on the 10th.
that there was absolutely no truth In the
published report that the Danish Govern
ment had protested against the appoint
ment Of Mr. Eudnder as Minister to Dem
mark.
THE indicted members Of the Jersey
City,N. j., Board of Public Works, Messrs.
Kern, Hilliard, Watt and Reynolds, COM
. monty known as the "Big Four" were
placed on trial. on the 9th, charged with
malfeasance in Office.
REPRESENTATIVES OF the Scotch Irish
citizens OF the United States met at Col
umbia, Tenn, on the sth, aud organized
the Scotch Irish Association. ExGov-
ernor Proctor Knott OF Kentucky, deliv-
cred the opening address.
THE Interior Department. on the sth
Instructed Inspector Picker, at Oklahoma
City, Okla, to notify settlers that sales Of
town lots by town-site companies or other
private individuals or organizations are
worthless under the law.
THEODORE WILDMAN, of New York City,
who was secretary of Typographical
Union No. from 1884 to 1898, is said by
an expert who has examined the books to
be between 5000 and 5000 short in his
a0cOuRts with the ITuiOn
THE Edward Rail Shoe Company, Of
Boston, has assigned. The corporation
was organized in 1887 under Maine laws,
and with capital stock Of $3.50, 900. The
cause Of the assignment was an attach
ment by small creditor.
COLONEL F. G. LovELAND has been ap.
= pointed to succeed General Siegel as pen
sion agent in New York. Colonel Love-
land formerly held position as special
agent in New York City, but was dis
missed by Commissioner Black.
HENRY GEORGE consoles himself for the
Indifference of the masses in the United
States by the attention which he has re-
ceiyed in Great Britain, where the halls
have proved to small to hold the audi
ences that nightly flock to hear him.
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Falls, to replace the one carried away by
cyclone last winter, was opened for
travel on the 7th. The bridge, which was
commenced March 81 is 120 feet long, II
feet wide and 1877 feet above the water.
THE Department of State has been in
formed by our Minister at Paris that the
French Government, in reply to request,
had cheertly granted permission for the
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to guard the American section of the ex-
hibition.
FoRTY-sIx OF the striking street car
drivers Of Rochester, N. Y, united In
petition, on the Sth, to be taken back into
the employ of the company, thus prac-
tically ending one OF the longest and
most expensive strikes in the history of
that city.
: THE Commandant OF the Boston Navy
Yard has been directed to fire National
salute atsunrise, on June II, the anniver-
sary OF the battle of Bunker Hill, and,
should he consider it proper and expe-
dent, to direct the marines TO take part
In the parade.
Ira w. HopKISs, OF Maiden, Mass,
whose coat, containing personal docu-
ments was found in the railroad wreck at
Hamilton, Ont, il safe at home. He in
tended taking the Inflated train at Chica-
go, but missed it. His trunk, however,
went forward.
A SUIT against Adam Badeau, exCon-
sui to Havana. who figured as a claimant
Tor compensation as the alleged author Of
Grants Memoirs, has been filed in New
York by the Government to recover
money which it is claimed Badeau appro-
priated while in office.
EMMA ABBOTT the prima donna, has
contracted with a Philadelphia firm for a
monument TO her late husband, Eugene
Wetherell, to cost $4,000. 1t will be
erected at Gloucester, Mass, and will be
ffty-four feet high and composed OF va
rious species OF marble.
, The body of Thomas Downs, a promi.
nent Democratic politician, who had been
mysteriously missing for more than
week was found floating in the lake at
Cleveland. o., on the sth. Inability 10
procure employment Is supposed TO have
caused him to commit suicide.
IT is expected that the President will
soon be called upon to dscid dispute
between the Interior Department and the
Clvil-Service Commission as 20 which is
entitled to dispense the patronage Of the
Census Bureau, numbering three thousand
clerks besides local superintendents.
NEWS was received, on the 9th, that
Rev. Father Damien, who for the past
sixteen years had devoted himself to
labors among the lepers at Molah
Hawaii died at Kalawa, April 10, Of
leprosy, contracted in the performance of
his duties. He was a Belgian by birth.
THg Comptroller OF the Currency, on
the 9th, forwarded 10 San Francisco divi-
dend checks amounting TO S2s7, 1903 for the
payment OF the first dividend OF sixty
hve per cent. on claims proved against
the California National Bank OF San
francisco, which failed December II, 1888.
THE naval review at spithead has been
Fixed for July q. The Queen will view
the maneuyers OF the feet from the deck
OF the royal yacht Victoria and Albert
and the Emperor OF Germany and his
brother, Prince Henry, viii witness the
scene from his imperial yacht Hohen-
zollern.
AT Toxic, Corea, April 13, one hundred
constables beat man named Boku 70
death because he had paid the entire tax
levy OF his village, the people being too
poor 70 pay it. The enraged townspeople
thereupon attacked the constables, kill.
ing a number Of them and woundlng the
survivors.
THE apportionnient Of the 100000 Bp-
propriated by the last Congress for dis
tnbution among the National Guards Of
the several States, was made by the War
Department on the sth. New York re-
eeiyes $4, l73; Pennsylvania, SIS, 4S7;
Ohio, S2l, ,ss3; Illinois, $40, $50 aud the
other States smaller amounts.