The Russellville Democrat., 1889-06-20
THE EAST.

EDWARD w. U 'DELl1 or NeW oTks son of the New York agent of the Old Colony Line Steamship Company, suicided re- gently.
 THE Ci2armakers' National Assembly met in session at New fork on the 10th.
 REPORTS from New Hampshire detail damage done by the recent storm. At South Berwick the Berwick Academy, erected in l792, was struck by lightning, the bolt entering the school room, affect ing fifty three scholars. A great deal of damage was done to houses and trees.
 THE destitute about Lockhaven, Pa, have been generally relieved by supplies of provisions from various points in the East
 THE Engineering News, of New York, says the dam at Johnstown was faulty piece of patchwork of incompetent men. The first break occurred in 1860 after which it had been rebuilt and strength ened" for the use of the members of the South Fork Fishing Club.
 THE doctors who performed the autopsy on Mind Reader Bishop have been held in New York in $500 bonds.
 GENERAL FITzJoHN PORTER was made president of the Fifth corps at the reunion of the Army of the Potomac at Orange, N. J., and General Butterfield presented him a solid gold corps badge set with dia- monds as a mark of appreciation of his vipdication in his late unpleasantness.
 A HARRIsBURG special says Governor Beaver and his Cabinet have become dis satisfied with his scheme to take l,000, ,00J ont of the State treasury 10 pay the ex- penses of clearing away the Johnstown wreck. Offers to indorse his bonds are few and far between and he will probably try to raise enough money to pay the ex- pense by loans from citizens who will take the chance that tho Legislature when it meets in 1891 will reimburse them.
 CALVIN s. BRYCE has been chosen chair man of the National Democratic Commit ee 10 fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. ". IL Barnum,
 A SENSATIONAL story from Pittsburgh, Pa, that the Chicago Johnstown relief committee had withdrawn S27, 900 because of dissatisfaction is denied by the com- mittee.
 THE thirty-fourth biennial session of the Lutheran Church of the United States was formally opened at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th. A prohibition resolution was unanimously adopted.
 GOVERNOR HILL of New York, refused to honor the requisition for Maj oney and t Cronin murder in Chicago, on the ground that no direct charges were made.
 BY the upsetting and explosion of can of benz zine in the Bear Creek oil refinery at Coleman. Pa, the other evening one man was burned to death and four others fatally hurt. The buildings were de- stroyed.
 THE charge of criminal libel preferred Inv OiDonovan Rossa against Patrick Cas- sidy at New York has been dismissed by Judge Smith. Much testimony was drawn out, the evidence tending Ito show that Rossa had received various sums of moaey W hich had been misappropriated.
 GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania, has granted respites to Peter BaronskL who murdered two women, and James II. Jacobs, both of whom were to be hanged June 25, to October 23 It is claimed that both men are insane.
 THE opinion of well-posted people at Johnstown is that the loss of life will be between 5000 and 4,000.
 AN unknown woman between forty and fifty years old jumped into the rapids of Niagara river above the falls recently and her body was whirled over in a moment She had evidently contemplated suicide.
 A Mas. KIRoCHNoR and her grandchild were suffocated in tenement house fire in Norfolk street, New York, the other evening An oil stove exploded.
 FOURTEEN thousand people are still un- registered in the Conemaugh valley Over 2. 900 bodies have bsen recovered. There was an overpowering odor of burning flesh. How many lives were lost will therefore remain q matter ot conjecture