The Russellville Democrat., 1889-09-19

Ash coal mIne near bolueD, SDts, recently from an abandoned shaft Ten miners were drowned.
 DIE PAROLE, the Anarchist organ at St. Louis, was sold by auction recently for SIS 90.
 THE stage from Orovillc to Quincy, Cal, was stopped by highwayman in Bid wells canyon recently. The express box was taken and two passengers relieved of their possessions.
 TIE National Firemen's convention met at Kansas City, Mo. on the 10th.
 IN the Washington Democratic State convention Samuel Wheelwright, of Ta- coma, and Thomas Griffith, of Spokane, were placed in nomination for Congress. Griffith was nominated on the first ballot Ex- Governor Eugene Semple. of Tacoma, was nominated for Governor by acclama- ton.
 CHINESE highbinders are creating panics among the Celestials of San Fran cisco There are said 10 be thousands of them living by blackmail
 THE Burton building on Van Buren street in Chicago. recently burned and just rebuilt. has been destroyed by fire. Loss. S50.000
 THE nephew of Averll, the man lynched some time ago with Cattle Kate" in Wy oming died suddenly recently. The cor oner found every evidence that he was poisoned.
 THE approximate gross earnings of the Atchison railroad system for August were g. BIT S71, against S2, 505, 904 for the same period in 1888.
 THREE boilers in the California sash, door and blind factory nt Oakland, Cal. exploded recently, killing four men out right and injuring several others, two probably fatally. Two others were sup posed to be buried in the ruins.
 THE Michigan peach crop is very short and very little fruit is being shipped. Saugatuck, which last year shipped 10 GOO baskets n day, this season sends out from 300 to 1000 baskets, Hardly a peach can be found along the Kalamazoo river. App ples are not so scarce and one packer has contracted to furnish 10000 barrels to an Eastern firm.
 Our of PA veniremen in the Cronin trial up to the 11th three remained in the jury box. Attorney Forrest was arrested for the rape of the wall paper in the Carlson cottage.
 A PLATE of burning sulphur set in a window of Thomas A. Logan's house in Cincinnati to drive out mos osquitoes caused
 
 NEARLY all the packers in the flint glass houses in the Ohio valley have struck for an advance in wages.
 THE first snow of the season fell at Hope, Dak.. on the 18th.
 CHARLES F. GRIFFIN Secretary of State, Indiana, has been elected Commander-in- Chief of tho Sons of Veterans, succeeding General Abbott.
 BY collision at Miller City, O., the other day, two freight locomotives and fifteen fruit cars were wrecked and both engin- eers injured.
 THE coIored Baptist convention at h. danapolis, Ind, was much stirred up by the indignities to which five of the minis ters were sL bjected near Boxler Ga, where number of white men roughly ejected them from the railway car.
 JOHN SLOAN of In Annapolis, has been elected preside of the National Railway Roadmasters' Association.
 THE old wooden war.sh ? Iroquois, which was recently extensively repaired at the ship yards at Mare Island, Cal, could not develop more than eight knots an hour on q trial trip
 T. P. GILwIcKs, grand keeper of records and seals of the grand lodge of Knights of Pythlas of Mis- ssouri. and Paul Pittman, deputy circuit clerk Of Mason County, H., were drowned at the Copperas creek lock east of Canton on the Illinois river the other night. They were members of a fishing party.
 FIVE Chinese from Mexico were arrested in San Diego, Cal, for coming into this country without authority.
 THE troubles of E ie and Garfield miners near Denver, Col, have resulted in blood shed, one man being shot dead and another fatally beaten.
 A. H. WATsoN's plumbing shop in Chi cago was wrecked one employe fatally injured and several persons more or less hurt by flying missiles the other day by a gas explosion.
 THE verdict of the court t-martial cash iering Colonel Fletcher, of Fort Omaha, has been set aside on the grounds of per secution and conspiracy. This leaves the prosecuting officers in a bad fix. A PROPOSITION frowning down trusts was presented to the Wy oming Constitu- tional convention recently. Several chap ters were adopted. measure restricting the formation of new counties was in- dorsed.
 SUIT for SIT 900 indemnity money ha. been begun in San Francisco against Dong Tsing, the Chinese Consul.