The Springdale news., 1889-06-21

FRANK RYAN and Frank Saddler, under indietme nt on two counts for attempting to wreck the Fort Wayne limited neal Canton, O., on April 2 and g. pleaded guilty in the Common Pleas Court at Can. ton, on the first count, and were, on the l7th, sentenced to fifteen years each and to pay the costs of the prosecution.
 JOHN GILBERT, the veteran actor, died in Boston on the 17th.
 IN the northern part of Tuscaloosa County, Ala, the citizens have organized vigilance committee for the purpose of breaking up the illicit distilleries and ar resting the men engaged in tho "meon- shine" business. The "moonshiners" are defiant and serious trouble is feared
 THE vivisectionists of London are rais- ing fierce fight against the proposed Pasteur Institute The Prince of Wales visit to the institute in Paris is bitterly resented.
 CENSUS statistics for six Welsh coun- ties show church attendance of 330,0)0 non- -eonformists and s6000 Anglican.
 THE anniversary of the battle of Wat erloo occurred on the 18th. Only five of ficers who took part in the battle survive.
 FoUR Polish miners were terribly burned by an explosion of gas in the Not tingham &5 Wilkesbarre coal mine at Plymouth, Pa, on the 17th, and 1t was thought that all wouli die.
 IN the British House of Commons. on the 17th, Mr. William II. Smith, the Gov ernment leader, announced that 1t had been decided to postpone further pro- ceedings in the matter of the Sugar Bounty bill.
 THE cab drivers strike in Paris ended on the 17th.
 MAJOR J. ". RODER, of the Fourth United States Artillery, attempted to commit suicide, by drowning at Newport, R. l., on the 18th. He was res cued in an unconscious condition.
 THE British Parliament reopend, on the 17th, after dull recess. The outlook is monotonous.
 THE Cronin case is watched with inter- est in London, and is regarded as rein- forcement for the Times.
 LAULY MALETI the only native Somoan woman in the country, is in great grief at her home in Alameda, Cal, because of the mysterious disappearance ot her hus- band, Alexander A. Willis, young Amer ican contractor and builder She fears suicide, but his friends say that be be- came hopelessly involved by large build- ing contracts, and fled to Australia.
 AN Peterborough (W. T.) special states that heavy forest fires are burning on the east side of the Cascade mountains Large quantities of fir timber have been destroyed.
 sJIMp KEENAN,, the well-k known sport ing man and packer of Jake Kilrain, died at his home in Somerville. Mass. on the night of the lGth, aged fifty-eight. MT. Keenan was one of the wealthiest sport ing men in the country.
 IN the French Chamber of Deputies, on the 17th, Vice. Admiral d'Hernoy de- clared that the men, of war now possessed by France are of an antiquated type and ought to be replaced by new vessels which shall equal in number and strength the fleets of Germany and Italy,
 THE Italian Government has joined Russia and Germany in asking the Swiss authorities to maintain a stricter sur Yeillanee over foreigners in Switzerland.
 THREE of Captain Wissmaun's steam CTS are reported to have been lost on the Bendair coast. German men, of war have gone in search of the missing vessels.
 GEORGE FILLER, for many years eusto- dian of the New York Custom House died, on the 17th at his residence in that city, aged seyenty-six.
 THE Dominion Government has in- stracted commanders of government cruisers not to overlook any infringement of the fishery regulations, but to seize any vessels found guilty of violating the law when the evidence will warrant such step. The instructions are said to be more stringent than those issued last year.
 THE Charleston (S. @ grand jury found an indictment, on the 11th, against MeDow, for the murder of Captain Daw- son.