The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-04-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


the production and sale of marketable
commodities has spread to Ireland an
enormous whisky trust having been
formed in Dublin. 1t is understood that
the capital involved in the pool is all
Irish.
ROBERT GARRETT ridicules the story
that he gave up his proposed Mexican
trip for fear of being kidnapped.
WHILE playing in the second act Of
"Othello" at Rochester, N. X. on the
night Of the 81, Edwin Booth was stricken
with paralysis, and Lawrence Barrett an
nounced that the audience had "probably
witnessed the last appearance of the
greatest English speaking actor"
ALL Of the Erie switchmen at Buffalo,
y. Y, went on strike, on the Cd, on ac-
count of the discharge of a couple Of
union men and the placing Of nom union
men in their positions.
PRAIRIE fires continue to lay waste
large areas of country in Dakota Terri
tory.
on the Sd John L. West, the New Or
leans embezzler, agreed to give up the
money stolen from his employer, Charles
reahney, and the charge of ''having
brought stolen money into Canada" was
COLONEL GEORGE A. WILLIAMS, re-
irel United States army officer, died at
rs home in Newburgh, N. Y, on the night
Of the 81. He was with Grant at VicEs-
ourg, and received wounds there that con-
triDuted to his death.
REV. DR.. EDWARD BEEcHER, aged
eighty five, brother of the late Henry
Ward Beecher, fell beneath a train in
Brooklyn, on the evening of the 80, his
left leg being run over and crushed.
Owing to his advanced age the injury may
have serious consequences.
TIE recent hurricane in the South Pa
ciic ocean swept over 1900 geographical
miles, embracing in its track the Hervey
and Society groups of islands. The
American ship Red Cross, from New
South Wales for San Francisco, was
driven ashore at Raratonga and wrecked.
The crew were saved.
WRECKAGE from the British ship Sua-
kim, from New South Wales for San
Francisco, has been seen at Aitutaki. 1t
Is supposed that the crew perished.
A NUMBER of the victims eyicted from
the Des Moines River lands, in Iowa,
have returned and planted crops. War
rants for their arrest have been issued.
Miss IDA MURPHY, daughter Of prom
inent physician of st. Paul, Mimi, is the
guest of Mrs. Harrison at the White
House.
9. W. GRIFFIN, Consul at Sydney, N. s.
W., and formerly United States Commits
sioner TO Samoa, says whichever party
the United States supports will be SUI
preme in the Samoan Islands. The Sa-
means like the people of this country, be-
cause the United States has never op-
pressed nor extorted money from them,
as other nations have done.
EDWARD DIETz, a Pittsburgh (Pa.) la
borer, killed Que Of his children, a little
girl three years of age, on the 80, and
then cut his own throat. The deed was
the result oe a quarrel between Dietz and
his wife.
FIFTEEN towns in Canada voted for the
repeal of the Scott Temperance act on the
4th.
GEORGE WARD, assistant postmaster at
E,mira, ~ Y, is missing, and so are the
contents Of the Office safe, supposed to
amount to $500. Ward left on night
train. and is thought to be in Canada.
lie leaves a wife and six children.
Two THOUSAND bricklayers of Berlin
struck work, on the 4th, on account of low
wages.
THE French ministry has asked the
Chamber of Deputies to sanction the
goosecution of Boulangor, aud has sub
mitted statement reviewing the Gencr-
abs career since the Commune, and
him with attempting to destroy
the republic.
L. C. GREEN and NJ. L. Ely, brakemen
on the Decatur division OF the Louisville
81 Nashville railway, we're killed. on the
ith, in a collision at Browns crossroads,
near Nashville, Tenn. Albert Finch fire.
man, was severely injured A misunder-
standing of orders caused the accident.
The two engines and sixteen ears We're
demolished.
In the Dauphin County (Pa.) Court, on
the 4th, the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph
filed an answer to the claims Of
the Attorney General of Pennsylvania in
the case brought to prevent consolda-
lion with the Western Union. They deny
that the latter company has acquired the
whole or auy part of the capital stock,
nor do they hold the telegraph line in the
State of Pennsylvania.
THE German cruiser Habicht, now at
the Cape Of Good Hope, and the gun. boat
Wolf, have been ordered to Samoa 10 re-
place the German vessels lost in the re-
cent hurricane.
A BAILIFF who had charge of a farm
from which the tenants had been eyicted
at Coleraine, County Londonderry, was
shot dead, on the 4th, by unknown parties.
AT Halifax, n. S., on the ith, Judge
Ritchie granted extradition in the case Of
Hardic, the New York forgey, and the
prisoner has been remandcd 10 await the
arrival OF the necessary papers at Otta-
va. Hardie's counsel will probably APP
peal to the Sapreme Court,
The reports to Bradstrcet's of stocks
)f wheat in store, out of farmers hands,
East of the Rocky mountains, March 80
give a total Of 30, ,638 900 bushels against
IS $50, 900 bushels on March l. 1889, aud
%, $4,000 bushels April T. 1883. Stocks of
Hour at principal points OF accumulation,
not In retailers hands, aggregate 1,sli,-
100 barrels against 1,S23000 barrels one
month ago, and l,60J,C00 barrels one year
lgo.
SETTLERS on the Des MOines river
auds, fully equipped with Wincaesters,
lrove off a United States marshaPs
posse on the ith. Fully forty shots were
ired, but no one was injured.
The British man of-war C8lliOpe, which
IAN out Of the hurricane at Apia, and for
'fAbot tnAHNg iiNAAi uAl6ttAf " 40 A'AAf AAAa
arrived at sydney, ~ S. w. No lives were
lost.
WARD McALLrsrER, Of New York, has
as secretary OF the entertaiu-
nent committee Of the Centennial oele-
5ratiOn.
THE sentence Of Dennis Knbride ~ r.
'or South Kerry 10 three months inn
)risonmeut for oftenses under the Crimes
lct. has been confirmed on appeal.
FoREIGS powers ars watching with
much conesrn the growing str Myth Of tbs
United states navy.
REV. r, K. BEEcHER, brother OF thelat5
Henry Ward Bsecher, who met with a
painful accident few days while at
20 board train, IS doing wen,
lis II foot has b On aaputat "a.
GEs ERAL BouLANGEa has been per-
iuodel by Coult Dillon ana M. Roche
ors % withhold the manifesto no medi