The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

ON the 30th, Congressman Carlos French was elected a member of the National Democratic committee to represent the State of Connecticut, in place of William II. Barnum, deceased.
 By the fall of a roof in the Wyoming coll1ery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Com pany at Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the 29th, John ShedlocE, miner, and Hungarian laborer named Sudown, were instantly Killed.
 A SLIGHT earthquake shock occurred on the Isle of Wight on the 31st
 Ar Vhe sitting Of the Parnell Commis- sion, on the 31st, Mir. Reid, of the Parnell- ite counsel, stated that inquiry had re- suited in the finding of thirty books be- longing to the National League which would be produced in court.
 JOHN GREEN, the English pedestrian, has succeeded in beating Weston's rec ord of walking 5000 miles in one hundred days, by walking one hundred miles more in the specified time.
 DR. s. F. MOORE, late Surgeon General of the Confederate army, died suddenly, on the 3lst, in Richmond Va.
 TIE Navy Department has determined to equip each of our naval vessels with a complete diving apparatus. A sub- marine diver i5 also to be detailed as part of the complement of each vessel i'll com mission.
 TIE silver wedding of the Count and Countess of Paris was celebrated in En- gland, on the 30th, with garden party. The Prince and Princess of Wales and q large number of persons of high rank in cluding the full group of Orleans Princes, were present.
 Two explosions occurred in the factory of John Peach, at Randolph, Mass, on the 3)th, wreckiug a heavy iron machine used for prickiug heels, and kindling a blaze which, however, was speedily ex- tinguished. IL is thought that dynamite bomb was thrown in through the factory window.
 TIE striking miners at Aix-Ia Chap pello, Germany, on the 3lst, agreed to re- sume work, pending definite settlement of their grievances under truce which is to extend two months.
 A CABLEGRAM was received in London, on the 3lst, from General Hippolyte, the insurgent leader of Hayti, saying that he l. I defeated President Legitime, capt. ured Port au- Prince, the capital of that country, and proclaimed himself Proyi- sional President.
 TIE deal which has been going on for some time looking to the purchase by the Northern Pacific of the great Northwest Central railroad is practically settled This will mean the opening up of the en- tire Canadian Northwest.
 TIE citizens of Bayard, Ia., are excited over the discovery If another biz artesian well, which bids fair 10 rival the famous spouter at Belle Plaine.
 SECRETARY TRACY is vigorously pur- suing his policy, declared at the beginning of his administration, of pushing to rapid completion tho naval vessels now under construction or authorized to be built.
 Mss EMMA JENKs, daughter of Geo. A. Jenks, a BroOkyille (Pa.) solicitor, will wed Congressman Beni. F. Shiyely, of Indiana, June l1. Mrs. Grover Cleve- land will be bridesmaid, and the ex-Pres- ident will be a guest. Pittsburgh will give the late occupants of the White House a grand reception.
 IN the British House of Commons, on tne 3oth, Sir James Ferguson, parlia- mentary secretary t. tho Foreign Office, denied the reports from Victoria, British Columbia, that three men-ofwar in the Pacific had been ordered to proceed to Behring sea.
 MR. NIsETTELLY, the well-known book seller of London, has been sentenced to three months Imprisonment for publish ing Hola's novels.
 TIE Roumauiau Senate has voted 15, 100000 forins to complete the tortifca- tions of the country.
 A TELEGRAM from Mount Auburn, Ia., gives brief particulars of a White Cap outrage near there, on the night of the 30th. in which a number of persons were fatally injured. The victim was a farm CT whose barn was burned down, and who, being driven out by the flames, de- tended himself with pitchfork, wound ing several White Caps.
 TUE dead body of man, about fifty years of age, was found in one of the rooms of the Central Hotel in Cincinnati on the 3lst. From letters and papers found among his effects, his name is sup posed to be J. $. Elder, of Troy N. N.
 JOHN LAwLER. manager of the Bally- mena branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, and Mir. Murray, the assistant manager, were shot dead on a road just outside Ballymena on the 3lst
 ONE of the great est disasters known to any age and the most appalling that has ever visited this continent occurred, on the 3lst, in the valley of the Conemaugh river in Pennsylvania, when the already swollen stream was reinforced by the waters of a reservoir, nearly four miles long, a mile and quarter in width and with depth in some places of 100 feet which, bursting it's bounds rushed down the river like a tidal wave mountains high, and almost complete ly oblterated ithe city of Johnstown and the towns of Conemaugh, Wood vale, kernville, Cambria City and others, entailIng loss of many millions of dollars, and sacrifice of human lives variously estimated at from eight to if teen thousand. From one to two thou sand bodies, living and dead, were burned on pyre of drift wood, consisting of houses, cars, logs, etc., covering many acres and held iu place by a stone bridge below JohnstOwn.
 THE central part of Johnstown, Pa., is as completely obliterated by the late flood as if it had never had foundation. The river has made its bed upon the sites of the dwellings, and a vast area of sand, mud, gravel and furrowed ground marks the old channel. It is doubtful if it is possible ever to reclaim what was once the business portion of the city. The river will have to be returned to it's old bed i'll order to do this, and that is an en- gineering feat hardly possible.
 THE maximum height attained by the Susquehanna river, on the 1st, was ? feet 10 inches above low water mark, 26 inches above the point reached by the greatest food on record before.
 THE London Times and Telegraph say the Valkyrie's victory, on the .lst, shows that she is the best English yacht.
 TIE Chesapeake & Ohio canal was so badly damaged by the late floods that it will never be used again.
 THE weather crop bulletin for the week ended the lst shows rather unfavorable effects from rain and cold.
 JOHN D. SPRECKELs, president of the Oceanic Steam ship Company, states that New south Wales has renewed it's con- tract with the company for one year to carry the Australian mails, which the Ca nadian line of steamships was seeking to obtain. The government of New Zealand has not joined in the contract, owing to the failure of the United States to share i'll the expense equally as heretofore.
 THE resignation of F. NJ. Stockslager, Commissioner Of the General Land Office,