The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-06-13

Johnstown, Pa, has been recovered, and
reveals the fact that forty -four of the
guests and employees of the hotel lost
| their lives in the late food.
INTENSE excitement prevailed in Paris,
on the 7th, over the latest seizure OF
Boulangist documents, which are said
10 be extremely compromising in their
nature.
QUEEN VICTORIA, accompanied by Prin-
cess Victoria Of Prussia, left Windsor,
on the 7th. for Balmoral
In response to a communication from
the municipal authorities of Edinburgh,
Scotland, asking him to name day on
which he could accept the freedom of
that city. Mr.. Parnell has written that he
will be able to visit Edinburgh on July 20.
THE striking seamen aud firemen in
Liverpool, on the It'll accepted the terms
offered by the shipmasters, and resumed
work.
1T was stated, on the 7th, that Governor
Beaver would call an extra session of
the Legislature to take action for
the relief of the food sufferers of the
Conemaugh Valley. General Hastings
says the State Of Pennsylvania ought to
appropriate two million dollars to aid in
the work of rehabilitating Johnston and
the other devastated towns of the Cone
maugh Valley.
THE London Times in an editorial ar ii.
Gle says: "While thankful for our own
immunity from calamities of material
greatness like the Johnstown floods and
the Seattle fire, we can not forget that in
sorrow and suffering, which make the
whole world akin, our American brethren
are entitled to special activity and SYM
pathy from ourselves"
AN English schoolmaster named K neel-
ing, while travelling on the Northwestern
railway, on the 7th, with his sweetheart
Miss Lester, the principal of school at
Devices, shot the woman and threw her
dead body out of the window and then
committed suicide.
LATEST accounts from the confagration
at Seattle, w. T., on the 9th, place the
loss somewhere between 81 100000 and
10000, 900.
WIN. WHITE, the counterfeiter recently
arrested at Waterloo, Ia, with large
amount of 'tgreen" in his possession,
pleaded guilty in the United States Court
at Fort Dodge on the 7th. Judge Shiras
promptly sentenced him to two years in
the State penitentiary and imposed
81 900 fine. This was Whites second Of
fense.
THE Pope has received letter from
Emperor Francis Josef of Austria ex-
tending to His Holiness his sympathy in
the affair of the Bruno statue.
THE Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin
railroad, which runs through q section of
country in Michigan that has not yet re-
covered from the disastrous forest fires
Of several years ago, has been sold at
mortgage sale for $500, 900. The pur-
chaser was W. H. Murphy, who repre-
sented the bondholders.
The municipality at Cork, Ireland, on
the 7th, passed resolutions expressing
sympathy with the sufferers by the Johns
town foods.
THE latest reports from Crete show
that complete anarchy reigns on the ISL
and. Murders and outrages of all kinds
are of daily occurrence, and go unpun-
ished.
THE Katrina again beat the Shamrock
in the race at New York on the 7th.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CHARLES SoNNIJoRN, old
audl respected citizens, were knocked
senseless, on the 7th, by an electric current
while they were returning from La Porte,
Ind, to their country home during
severe thunderstorm. Mrs. Sonnijorn
can not recover, but the old gentleman
rallied, and the physicians think he may
live.
THE sixth annual commencement of the
Brazil (Ind. High School occurred on tn e
night of the 7th. The class mum bered
fourteen of whom twelve read essays.
STEWARD SMITH of Her Majesty's ship
Comus who fed from Halifax N. s., re-
Gently, being guilty of forgery and en-
bezzlement in connection with his vessel
accounts, was arrested in Boston on the
7th.
FIRE at Livingston, Ala, on the 1th,
destroyed fifteen buildings on the est
side of the public square; loss not
stated.
A PRIVATE telegram from Bellefonte,
Pa, says over million dollars damage
was wrought by the storm in Cente
County. A large number of lives were
lost also.
SUICIDES have become alarmingly fire.
quent in Vienna of late, no less than
forty-three cases of self murder having
been reported for May.
A FIRE broke out, on the 7th, among the
bales OF cotton which had been taken
from the Cunard Line steamer Scythia
and placed on the dock at Liverpool.
Sixty bales were damaged by fire and
water.