The Springdale news., 1889-04-26

NO. ?. STAFFORD, Publisher NEWS AND NOTES.
 A Summary of Important Events,
 IRE Bank of France, on the 2ist, de- rlarcd dividend of forty francs per share.
 SIR JULIAN PAuNcEFoTE, the new Britt ish Minister to Washington, arrived on the steamship Etruria on the Fist.
 FOUR men were killed in fight between Chickasaw police, boomers and cattle. men on the borders of Oklahoma on the 18th.
 IT is asserted in Berlin that the German Government intends, after the Reichstag is dissolved, to prosecute the Socialist Deputies,
 TIE Slav News, paper printed in Pittsburgh, Pa., has been inhibited In Austria, and can no lenger enter that country.
 THE steamer Missouri, with part of the passengers of the Danmark, arrived at the Delaware breakwater, Philadelphia. on the night of the 2lst
 fT is said in St, Petersburg that the Czar is in state Of extreme nervous excite ment produced hy his constant dread of attempts nron his life.
 THE United States ship Thetis, Com. mander c. H. Stockton, sailed from San Francisco, on the 20th. for her regular summer cruise in Alaska.
 VIM. O'CoSNoR has cabled an accept ance of the challenge to row Searle, the Australian oarsman, for E 50o side, on the Thames, in September.
 SEVERAL Russian officers connected with tho artillery service have been ar rested in connection with substantiated charges of plotting against the life of the Czar.
 FIVE steamships landed 3,293 steerage passengers at Castle Garden, New York City, on the 21st. Thirty five Arabs and Greeks were detained at the Garden as paupers.
 THE Cimarron and Canadian rivers in Oklahoma are swollen and running with great force, and it is predicted that many boomers will be drowned in attempting to ford them.
 FAMINE prevails in the villages of Bi ckse and Bistritz, and in the Waag river district in Hungary. Hundreds of people are starving and many deaths have al- ready occurred.
 TIE report ! yellow fever had re- appeared at Jad9 9nville, Fla, was posi- lively controdicted, on the 18th, by Dr. Mitchell, president of the Duval County Board of Health.
 PRESIDENT HARRISON, on the 17th, in- formed prominent applicant for a con- sulship that he would not be able to con- sider any applications for consulships for three or four weeks,
 EIGHTEEN inches of snow fell at Veta Pass, Col, on the 18th, There was snow all over Southern Colorado, but out on the plains 1t melted as fast as it fell. A good grazing season is assured.
 MR. ASHwoRTH, British Vice Consul at Castellamare, Italy, was found, on the 22d, at the foot of the precipice overlook ing the Bay of Naples nt Nico Equense. It is believed thathe committed suicide. REYNOLDS BRos., of Toledo, O., on the l9th, shipped eleven cargoes of corn, ag- gregatlug 5)0,000 bushels, to Liverpool. Tue entire fleet left together. This is one ot the largest shipments of grain ever made from that port.
 EMPEROR WILLIAM will go to Stuttgart, on June p next, to offer his congratula lions to King Charles of Wurttemberg at the jubilee celebration to be held on the twenty fifth anniversary of King Charles accession to the throne.
 NEARLY 900 immigrants were landed at Castle Garden, on the 18th, from the steamers Thingvalla, Helvetia and Italy. The steamship Bothnia, which was signaled off Sandy Hook, also had a num- Der of immigrants on board.
 c. N. GREEN, travellng passenger agent of the Bee Line, who returned to Kansas City, on the 18th, from trip through Oklahoma, says he found more than five persons for every claim. ready to cross the line at moments notice.
 OK the 17th, Assistant Secretary Bussey of the Interior Department, rendered three decisions in pension cases in which the question of line of duty" was in- volyed. He followed the principles laid down in the case of Brokenshaw.
 THE will of Mrs. w. E. Vanderbilt Allen, daughter of the late Commodore Vanderbilt, bequeathes the estate, valued at $5,0o0,00O, Ill six equal parts, one to each of her five living children and one to the children of her deceased son.
 PRESIDENT MENEz has published a let. ter in which he declares that the Govern ment of Colombia will not renew the De Lesseps concession when it expires in 1892, and that the government hopes the United States will finish the canal.
 THE one hundred and fourteenth anni- versary of the battle of Lexington, Mass, was celebrated on the 18th. Salutes were fired and all church bells rung at sun . rise. About two hundred persons par took ot an old-fashiOned breakfast, served in Massachusetts Hall.
 FRED RYAN, a son of the newly -ap pointed Minister to Mexico, has been ar rested at Los Angeles, Cal, charged with obtaining S225 on a draft on his father, which the latter refused to honor. The
 
 old, and has led a wild life.
 POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER, Secretary Rusk, Assistant Postmasters- General Clarkson and Hazen and Rail- way Mail Superintendent Bell attended a reception to the Postmaster General ten dered by the Union League of Philadel- : phia on the night of the l7th.
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 THIRTYTwo packages of prepared opium, valued at 5000, found concealed in the steamship Oceanic, which arrived at San Francisco recently from China, were seized by customs officers on the 22d. Twenty thousand dollars worth of opium was seized there during the month.
 THE President, on the 2lst, approved the recommendations made by Secretary Noble that certain tracts of land In Okla homa be reserved, as they heretofore have been, for military purposes, as con- templated by order of December 20, 1885,