The Russellville Democrat., 1889-09-26
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

knots an hour for four hours. At seven ty revolutions she mode at the rate of 16 5-100 kuots for one mile. The weather conditions were somewhat untayorable. the wind being strong and the sea choppy
 KEssLER & SoN, hat manufacturers of Reading, Pa, who recently failed for ss5 000, settled with their creditors for forty cents on the dollar, and have re- sumed operations under the name of the Reading Hat Factory. They employ seventy hands.
 MR. CAMPBELL's proposition to the Wyoming Constitutional convention, on the 17th, to submit the question Of wom- an suffrage to the people caused lively debate The universal suffrage plank will, 1t is thought. go into the constitu- tion.
 TIE two hundred employees of the Phil adelphia smelter at Pueblo, Col, struck, on the 17th. for continuance of eight hour instead of twelve-hour shifts. The managers claim that when the eight hour shift was introduced last June it was with the understanding that the twelve hour shift would be resumed Sep tember 15.
 THE New Jersey Republicans nominat- ed Grubb for Governor. The platform reaffirms the National Republican plat form of 1888 and expresses confidence in President Harrison.
 VIM. WATKINS. chief of police of Par sons, Pa, mining town three miles from Wilkesbarre, while on the watch for burglars, on the 17n, fell asleep on the edge of the platform of the Delaware x Hudson depot, and was instantly killed by a fast freight train.
 MR. DODGE, the statistician of the Agricultural Department, who recently return ed from trip to tine arid lands of the West, has prepared a statement in regard 10 the reclamation of lands in the arid region, which will appear in the September report of the Department
 THE London News Company on the 17th received letter from Jack the Ripper stating that he would soon commit an- other murder.
 THE strike on the Atlantic 6 Pacific railroad at Albuquerque, N. M., ended on the 18th.
 VIM. B. WEBB, ex-Secretary of Mon- tana, appointed in 1885 by the President, has been arrested for embezzlement. He is short $i 900.
 TIE yacht Leo has been lost on Lake Erie with nine lives. SeTeral bodies have been washed ashore. The lost were prominent citizens of Lorain, o.
 SECRETARY WINDOW has requested the resignation of James Kimball, Director of the Mint.
 THE surviving members of ten Indiana regiments held reunion at Columbus, beginning on the 17th and continuing sev- eral days. A sham battle was one of the features.
 Ar nf in his coming visit to India, is expected to arrive at Bombay on November 9. He will visit Hyderabad, Travancor and Bangalore.
 THE New York City Worlds Fair site committee are understood to favor the selection of the 425 acres including the northern part of Central Park from Ninety Sixth to One Hundred and Tenth street the vacant land north of the park between Fifth and Eighth avenues, all of Morningside Park, all of the Blooming dale lands and all or part of Riverside Park
 YALE's '93--the incoming freshmen class-was formally mustered into the ranks, tn the night of the 18th, by tue SophomOres, who, 1j) strong, met the Freshmen on the grammar school grounds, and after a hard struggle hustled the newcomers all over the lot
 Mas. ELIzABETH s. MCCLELLAN, widow of Dr. George Mcclellan, and mother of General George B. Mcclellan aud Dr. John II. B. Mcclellan, the distinguished surgeon, died, on the 18th, at the resi- denoe of her niece, Miss Rebecca COxe at Drifton, Pa. She was ninety years of age.
 A PROVISION of the Wyoming Constitu- ,l,ta hot in that State shall be able to read the docu- ment framed by the Constitutional con- vention.
 FRANCIS COLEMAN was struck by the eastern express on the Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona, Pa, on the 18th. and instantly killed, his body being horribly maugled. He got of a freight train standing on the siding to avoid arrest and stepped in front of the express. He was painter from Baltimore looking for work He leaves Q widow and nine children.
 J. W. PAYsoY, of Hyde Park, Boston. the world renowned artist-penman, chief author of the Payson, Dunton & Scribner copy pybooks, and the man who first gave the students of America scientific anal ysis of script writing died, on the l7th aged seventy -four. He received many medals in his life time for superior work with the pen.
 JAPANESE papers received by the steamer Gaelic, on the 18th, place the total number of persons drowned in the floods of August 20 in the city of Waka- yoma and in the districts of Minami- Muro. Higashi- Muro. Nishi- Muro and Hidaka at TO- 600, and the number Of per- sons receiving relief at 20, i2i.
 TIE Society of the Army of the Cum berland met at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 18th.
 THE fourth annual convention of the National Trade District of Miners and Mine Laborers of the United States be- gan at Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the 18th. An aggregate membership of 5000 was rep resented
 SECRETARY TRACY was informed, on the 18th, that the contractors for the cruiser Charleston, the Union Iron Works of San Francisco. were ready to turn that vessel over to the Government without asking for a further official trial. The vessel failed to develop the requirements of the specifications, and will be accept ed with loss to the contractors, who must pay penalty for the failure.
 TIE grand parade of the l. 0. o. F. aud Patriarchs Militant at Columbus O., on the 18th, was two and half hours in passing a given point and the number Of men in line exceeded twenty thousand being divided into three divisions, with large military array.
 POSTMASTER GENERAL WASAMAKER has invited propositions from artists, de- signers and others for improved desigus of postal cards. The designs should be according to the artists idea of fitne ss, and bidders can submit one or more de- signs as each sees ii.
 MR. PARNELL will make a number of political speeches iu Wales bef0ge the close of the present recess of Parlia- ment.
 THE freedom of the city of Dublin was presented to Lady Sandhurst Stansheld on the 20th.
 THE derelict Norwegian bark Eliza