The Russellville Democrat., 1889-01-24

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 steamer City of Boston, from New Yorl
 to Liverpool, Miss Maggie Gale, of Al.
 bany, N. r., committed suicide by takins
 rat poison, and Mir. II. Blondon died in al attack of delirium tremens. 1 ON the 14th two of the men who took tn
 places of the forty striking weavers 3
 the Monument Mills, in Housatonic
 Mass, were attacked on their way hom6 1 by fifteen masked mon, and beaten untl l insensible.
 l THE Santa Monica Hotel, at santa Mol l iea, Cal. was destroyed by fire on he 1 15tn.
 A FEW days ago, while shooting at | Buckeberg, Emperor William accid nt- ! ally wounded bystander. His Mai,sty 1 expressed his regret at the occurrence, and invited the injured man to call 1pon | him when he had sufficiently recovered l from his injury.
 | HARRY TAYLOR, circus employe. killed | Henry Borthwick at Springfield, Mass, 1 last June, by blow of his fist in quar- ! rel about reserved seat He ecaped, 1 but was arrested, on the 10th, in Pliladel- 1 phia.
 1 RECENTLY band of White Caps at | tackled the house of a man namd Harp
 in Robeson County, N. C., and 1egan to fire through the windows. SeveIal of the | inmates were wounded, and Mrs. Harp l was killed.
 | A NUMBER of New York jew,lry firms l have been feeced of amounts aggregat- ing S75,0o0 by aman claiming tr represent A. M Egbert, of Cincinnati, to whom they sold goods on credit. The good were aft erward shipped to Europe, lut a large portion of them were seized el route. A I N1. 18th, says information has ben received ! by Governor Lowry that m'b law con- tinues to exist in the soutern part of Noxubee and the northern eart of Kem- per County, and that neglo cabins are being destroyed by incendisry fires. Over forty families have been dryen away and their cabins burned.
 ON the 18th a party of leyenue officers returning from a raid on illicit stills in the North Carolina mountains, were fired upon from ambush by mo,nshiners. Sev eral men were wounded and a prisoner was rescued.
 ON the 18th thirty pers,ns were killed in an explosion of fire damp in the Hyde colliery, near Manchest,r, England.
 ON the 1Tth Mrs. c. A. Ralph, of Sioux City, la, arose from the dinner table, picked up revolver md blew out her brains. The woman WIS in ill-health and Respondent because of loss of property in England, where until recently she and her family resided.
 THE case of Engaeer Cook, charged with causing the Mud Run (Pa.) disaster, has been postponed until March, when all the railway empbyes concerned will be tried at once.
 Ar Trinidan, Col, m the 18th, a deputy United States marshal arrested John J. Burton, alias J. Warren Miller, on charge of having d.frauded the Govern ment of Sl,113 whiL postmaster at Royal City, Ind.
 CAPTAIN RoBEpr MILLS of the oyster schooner Chicko,a, Baltimore, Md, has been found guiltyof brutally beating his dredgers, and sentenced to Q fine of $500 and one year in itil.
 ON the 18th the jury in the Ridenour murder case at Winchester, Va, were out one hour and brought in a verdict of not guilty. Immediately loud cheers arose from the great crowd assembled. Ride- nour had preyipusly been twice convicted and sentenced to be hanged.
 THE Ohio Stfe Board of Pardons unan- imously votedfo ask Governor Foraker to commute thei isentence of Mrs. Mary L. Garrett, sentmced to be hanged January 25, to imprisonment for life. in the peni- tentiary. .nsexak x k
 oS the nnolniasSf FIT Srsy will jams, of Gxt 1n5l. Was shot twiSsx11 k1fHhd killed, in a ef N 1e'6f cards, at Bedford,
 EaxnGxs AUSTIN, for twenty years 7o66k Keeper for Bussey & Mcleod, of Troy, N. Y., has absconded, with $10,000 of the company's money.
 DURING an attack on the German mis- sionary station at Tugu, Zanzibar, re- gently, the insurgents messacred four German missionaries, one of whom was a woman. Three missionaries fell into the hands of the Arabs and are held for ran som. One of the prisoners is woman.
 ON the 18th a cotton warehouse on the Liverpool docks was burned, extailing a loss of S250,000.