The Springdale news., 1889-06-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

D Miss Lester, the principal of a school at Devices, shot the woman and threw her dead body out of the window and then committed suicide.
 INTENSE excitement prevailed in Paris. nn the Ith, over the latest seizure of Boulangist documents, which are said to be extremely compromising in their nature.
 THE latest reports from Crete show that complete anarchy reigns on the isl- and. Murders and outrages of all kinds are of daily occurrence, and go unpun- ished.
 THE Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin railroad, which runs through section of country in Michigan that has not yet ra- covered from the disastrous forest fires Of several years ago. has been sold at mortgage sale for $50. 001. The pur- chaser was W. H. Murphy, who repre- sented the hondholders.
 HE municipality at Cork. Ireland. on the ath, passed resolutions expressing sympathy with the sufferers by the Johns- town floods.
 TIE Pope has received letter from Emperor Francis Josef of Austria ex- tending to His Holiness his sympathy in the affair of the Bruno statue
 QUEEN VICTORIA accompanied by Prin- cess Victoria ot Prussia, left Windsor. on the 7th, for Balmoral.
 A FIRE broke out, on the 7th, among the bales of cotton which had been taken from the Cunard Line steamer Scythia and placed on the dock at Liverpool. Sixty bales were damaged by fire and water.
 JOHN D. MILES tendered his resigna- tion, on the sth, as a member of the Cherokee Commission. It was accepted
 MR. AND Mas. CHARLES SoSStJoRy. old and respected citizens, were knocked senseless, ,on the 7th, by an electric current while they were returning from La Porte, Ind. to their country home during q severe thunderstorm. Mrs. Sounii8rH can not recover, but the old gentleman rallied, and the physicians think he may live.
 TIE sixth annual commencement of the Brazil (Ind.@ High School occurred on the might Of the 7th. The class numbered fourteen, of whom twelve read essays.
 STEWART SMITH of Her Majesty's ship Conus who fled from Halifax, N S., re- gently, being guilty of forgery and em- bezziement in connection vita his vessel accounts, was arrested iu Boston on the 7th.
 FIRE at Livingston, Ala, on the 7th. destroyed fifteen buildings on the est side Of the public square; loss net stated
 4 PRIVATE telegram from Bellefante. Pa, says over a million dollars damage was wrought by the storm in Center County. \ large number of lives were lost also.
 SUICIDES have become alarmiugly ire quent in Vienna of late, no less than forty three eases Of self murder having been reported for May.
 Mas. J0HY WANAMAKER and child, with several other members of the Post master-GeaeraPs family, arrived in N aV York, on the 9th, on the steamer L4 BretagHe. from Havre. They met oa board by Mr Wauamaker.
 HARRY HEFFRIGHr engineer. was in stantly killed, and Lincoln Post, fireman. fatally injured, on the sth, by their engine going over an embankmeat, eight miles west of Huntingdon, Pa. Hefrightis body was literally roasted, and Post was terribly sealded.
 THE center board lugger- -rigged yacht Paradox, built to compete with tue Amer ican yachts. was launched into tide-water at EastbaUrae, Euglaad. on the S.h. amid the cheers of large crowd of peo- pie. She is of sixty tons measurement seventy feet long twenty feet beam. aul draws niue feet of water. Yachting ex. perts are enthusiastic over her.
 THE Washington Sunday Herald, of the 9th, declares upon trustworthy informa- tion that the dam to the Georgetown dis tributng reservoir is in precariOus con
  disaster like that which devastated the Conemaugh Valley.
 PART of the coutr button of Columbus. O.. to the stricken people of the Gone maugh Valley consisted ef hundreds af pails, in each of which were packed half-dezeH each of plates. cups, saucerss knives, forks, tablespoons; one dozen tea spoons, one vegetable dish, pound e tea and coffee, with a large sized coff .e- pot tied on the outside.
 SINCE April r, 1sSs, tn Treasury Dc partment has purchased bonds amouat- ing to Sl46 4oa, 800 at a cost of >l64 o10 aa3. The s56. 543 20 4s purchased cost S72 6iI. 967, and the >s9 S6j, s)0 45ss cost S97, ,26a, ,9z6
 GENERAL THOMAS RossER delivered a speech before the Confederate Memorial Association at Staunton, Va, on the Sth. + their virtue and patriotism. and de. nouneed the Northern troops as bounty jumpers and h'relings, who fought S)r pelf. plunder and pay.
 WILLIAM B. YoUNG, aged twenty eight, of Oakdale, Pa., member of Company C, Fourteenth Regiment, committed sut- eide in his tent at Johnstown. on the 9sh, by placing the muzzle of his rife against l,1l laF 4afa ha ff-it Despondency caused by a slight illness, and doubtless intensified by a nights guard duty among the gloomy ruins, is the only known cause of the soldiers act. He was a farmer, and leaves a widow and two children.
 IN the French Chamber of Deputies, on the sth, Count Albert de Mum, a member of the Right, repeled the advances mada by NJ. Ferry toward peace between church and state i'll France, and attacked M. Ferry IS man the mention of whose name caused the country to shed tears. Count de Nun was franucally applauded by the Right.
 TIE visit of Governor Beaver to Johns town, on the 9th, gave renewed hopes to the stricken people, and on all sides tbs action taken was favorably commented on
 CARDINAL GANGLAuBER, Archbishop of Vienna, who sustained stroke of apo plexy recently, is recovering.
 BENJAMIN F. ALLEN, of Iowa, was. Oil the 10th, appointed special agent of the General Land Office.
 THE fast express train on the Lehigh Valley railroad was thrown from the track at Sugar Notch, Pa, on the 10th. The cars were all telescoped, and two of them crashed into frame house which stood near the track. the occupants of which had a close call. The escape of the passengers from instant death was mirac- ulpUS