The Springdale news., 1889-05-10


 in aid ot the Hahnomann Hospital closed on the fth. The receipts amounted to about >40000
 AN examination of the pension rolls al Washington discloses the fact that there are &5S pensioners drawing pensions for total blindness.
 COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK gave din- ner to the Samoan Commissioners and 1he members of the American and British legations on the n.
 ST. MARK's Reformed Church. three miles southeast of Gettysburg Pa,, cele- brated tho centennial of the congrega- tion's formation on the ith
 LA FRANCE says that the French Gov ernm mt intends to postpone tho general election for members of the Chamber of Deputies until the spring of 1890.
 THE report that the North German Lloyds steamer Weser had arrived al Bremen with yellow fever on board proves 10 have been entirely without foundation.
 THE French. American residents of Bal timore, Md, on the 5th celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the re- union of the States General at Yer Saiilcs, in l7s9.
 DR. fIARNE, cf Hamburg, Germany, a Lieutenant If the reserves, has been sen tenced by military court to three days Imprisonment i'll fortress for challcng- lng Dr. Natthold, lawyer, to fight a duel. "A SUBCOMMITTEE of the Samoan con : ference has been directed to devise and t f X: l. order may be established in Samoa, to- gether with adequate guarantees for maintaining it.
 CohMANDER-IN CHIEF WARNER. of the Grand Army ef the Republic was ban quoted by the Department of Rhode Island, on the 21 and several hundred of the most prominent men iu the State were presented to him.
 THE Swiss Government has issued an order of expulsion from the country of Herr Lutz, Gil accomplice of Herr Wohlgemuth, the Mulhouse police in- spector who was recently expelled for bribing Swiss.
 TuE indicted members of the Jersey City.N. ] ., Board of Public Works, Messrs. Kern, HIliard, Watt and Reynolds, com monly known as the Big Four" were placed on trial, on the 9th, charged with malfeasanc9 in office.
 NEWS has been received that the brig autine Addie Benson, which sailed from Halifax, Y. s, for Cuba in January, and had been given up as lost was wrecked off Venezuela, and her crew rescued by passing vessel and carried to Norway.
 
 EN- PRFSTpFN IT AYES and Ohio centennial commissioners and their ladies were entertained at dinner, on the 1st, by Mir. and Mrs. Caldwell, of New York City, and a reception was held at which a large number of resident Ohioans were present. THE Department Of State has been in formed by our Minister at Paris that tho French Government. in reply to a request, had cheerfully granted permission for the thirty marines sent out for that purpose to guard the American section of tho ex- bibition.
 TIE Commandaut of the Boston Navy Yard has been directed to fire National salute at sunrise, on June r., the anniver sary of the battle of Bunker Hill, and, should he consider it proper and expe dient, to direct the marines to take part i'll tue parade.
 
 IRA W. HOPKINS, of Maiden, Mass, whoso coat, containing personal doeu ments, was found in the railroad wreck at Hamilton, Ont, is safe at home. He in tended taking the ill-fated train at Chica- %, but missed it. His trunk, however, went forward.
 THE Massachusetts House of Repre- scntatives, on the Sd, passed to be en- gros ed the Senate bill providing that safe deposit, loan and trust companies of that State shall not invest in farm mort gages on land outside of New England and New York.
 THE body of NJ. R. Silber, who hired small boat at Portland, Ore, and went out in it was found, on the 5th hanging to the mast of the boat with a bullet hole i'll the head It is supposed that Silber was killed by smugglers or pirates, but the affair is mystery.
 TIE contest over the SIP, COG, 900 estate of the late B. B. Hotchkiss, inventor of the Hotchkiss gun, began at New Haven, Conn.,, on the 3d. On ne-half the enormous amount involved hangs upon the ques ton of legal domicile, being claimed severally by French and American heirs. TIE New York Bar Association ten- dered a reception, on the lst, to the Jus tices of the United States Supreme Court distinguished array of legal celebrities being present including Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Blatchford, Field and Strong (retired) and Ex- President Cleve- land.
 THE jury in the Hawes murder case, at Birmingham, Ala, on the Sd, returned a verdict of guilty, and fixed the penalty at death. Hawes was calm, and said he was sure of conviction in that county. The Supreme Court will probably, on ap- peal, grant change of venue and a new trial.
 THE naval review at Spithead has been fixed for July 27. The Queen will view the maneuvers of the fleet from the deck of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and the Emperor of Germany and his brother, Prince Henry, will witness the scene from his imperial yacht Hohen- Zollern.
 MIR. R. T. REID, Q. C.. is featuring in London on his plan for the better housing of the poor. He wants to give the County Council the power to build dwellings for 100 0o0 people i'll different parts of Lon- don, and to raise the money for the pur- pose by tax of one penny to the pound on Al rents.
 THE new steel steamship Manitoba, which is being constructed at Owen Sound, Ont, for the Canadian Pacific, was launched, on the 9th, and will be ready to sail in six weeks. She is the finest steel steamer ever built in Canada, and is the largest steamship afoat in fresh water.
 TIE executive committee of the Repub- lican general committee of Kings County, N. Y., withdrew the distribution of Fed eral patronage from Hon. Frank Wood ruff, on the 9th, and appointed Messrs. John A. Nichols, Ernest Nathan, ". H. Lsaycraft and Jesse Johnson as an ad- yisory committee on patronage.