The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-11-21

Millman, commercial editor of the Min
neapolis Mimi Tribune, was asphyxi-
ated by gas on the 14th. She was suf-
ferer from catarrh and could not smell
the escaping gas which came from an
unused pipe.
MAJOR GRANDE, Of the Italian army,
has been appointed counselor to King
Menelek Of Abyssinia
JoHN JACOBSON, wife and six children
were poisoned, on the 14th, by some
miscreant, who threw paris green in the
well. They win all recover.
On the 14th Henry 2. Devol, an in
surance agent, was arrested at Memphis,
Tenn, and taken to Topeka, Kas. whore
he is wanted on the charge of embezzle-
ment.
A FALSE report was telegraphed from
Mississippi City, Miss, on the 14th, re-
garding the health of jefferson Davis.
EIGTIT THOUSAND tons OF steel rails at
$35 per ton, delivered, were sold by an
Eastern Pennsylvania firm, on the 18th,
for spring delivery.
JosRpH II. BREsNAHAN, a post-ofllce
clerk in New York City was, on the
f5th, held in 800 bail for robbing the
mails.
QUEEN ANELIE of Portugal, daughter
of the Count of Paris, was delivered Of
son on the 18th.
Two freight trains on the Virginia
Midland railroad collided at Russian
Branch, opposite Bull Run battlefield,
on the 18th, killing Engineer Casters
of Madison Run, and Fireman James
Murphy, of Springfield, and fatally
wounding Fireman Evans, Of Alexan-
dria.
THE editor of the Magdeburg Tage-
blatt has been sentenced to six weeks
imprisonment for insulting Prince Bis
marck
PRIVATE kilograms received in Amer
lea and England, on the 18th, from Rio
Janeiro announce the outbreak of
revolution in Brazil, but give no partic-
ulars.
Ex-ARcHDUKE JoHN of Austria has de-
cided not TO take up his residence in
England, as was reported to be his in
tention.
THE Bavarian Government has de-
cided to re-admit the clergy of the Re-
demptorist order to Bavarian territory
certain restrictions.
The consumption of horse flesh in lieu
of beef is daily increasing in Berlin,
and it has become almost impossible for
the butchers to procure sufficient verita-
BILE beef to supply the demands of those
who are able to pay the almost fabulous
prices which the commodity commands.
THE frequent manifestations of dis
content among the gas stol1ers and other
employees of the London Gaslight Com
pany of late has led the company to adj
NIT roo of its employees to the enjoyment
Of share Of the profits of the company
through the medium of cooperative
system, the condition imposed upon the
men so benefited being that they shall
agree in writing, in consideration of
their participation in the profits, that
they will have nothing to do with strikes
or labor organizations.
Nj. CHRsTITIcH, formerly Servian Min
lister to Germany, has disappeared from
Belgrade, and the few persons compris-
ing his friends fear that he has com
mitted suicide, while the many who de-
spise him fear that he has not.
THE Sultan of Turkey, on the 18th,
issued an trade granting amnesty to all
prisoners in Crete confined for political
or semi-political offenses. This action
is said to be result of the recent visit
to the Turkish capital of Emperor Will
lam of Germany.
ANOTHER female writer, Miss Eliza
beth Bisland started overland for San
Francisco, on the 18th, with the inten-
tion of travelling around the world in an
opposite direction from that taken by
Nelly BY. She will leave San Francis
co for Yokohama on the 21st, and ex-
poets to reach New York City in seven
ty-five days.
SPEAKING of the probable result of
the late election on Prohibition in Iowa,
George Dobson, the leading Republican
candidate for Speaker of the House Of
Representatives Of that State, says II
do not think there is any prospect for
repeal. The Republicans have a work
ing majority in the Senate strong
enough, / am sure, to avert the disas-
ter. Prohibition is the settled policy of
the State and of the Republican party"