The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-04-25

An order has been granted In the equity
session OF the Illinois Supreme Court dis
solving the Brush Electric Company and
appointing ex- Mayor o'Brien, of Chicago
receiver. The company is entirely solvent
and has assets of $3.50 900.
MRS. JOSIE GURLEy, who stole little
Annie Redmond at Chicago, was found
guilty of abduction and the punishment
fixed at five years in the penitentiary.
She took the finding of the jury very much
to heart and wept bitterly.
The one hundredth birthday of Ed
ward E. Little.was celebrated in MARCEL
lus township, Cass County, Mich, recent
ly. The old man is still hale and active.
ALL the freight brakemen on the At
lantic & Pacific railroad between Winslow
and Mojaye, Ariz-, struck recently for
three men to each train.
MRS. FRANCES CARMICHAEL, of Pitts
burgh, Mich, has been acquitted of the
charge of having poisoned her husband,
preferred by him before his death.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS has respited Bill
Walker and John Matthews, Bald Knob
bers, to May 10, the day on which Dave
Walker, the Bald Knobber chief was to
be hanged.
CONDUCTOR HUGHES and Engineer Con-
a directors car at Lorenzo H.. the other
day and caused three deaths, have been
arrested and placed In the Joliet fail.
IT is reported that man named Nc
Pherson, formerly of San Francisco has
set himself up as monarch of one Of the
Aleutian islands. A revenue cutter has
been ordered TO arrest him aud turn him
over TO the civil authorities at San Fran
cisco, as during his reign" he had caused
three natives to be hanged.
A PACKAGE containing s15 900 in gold
has disappeared from the office of the
the Northern Pacific Express Company at
Branerd, MINI. There was no clew as to
who took it,
TORNADO passed over Hinkley, Ill,
on the 18Th. No one was hurt but many
buildings were unroofel
FIVE persons perished in the cabin of a
river raft boat which sunk the other night
near Burlington, Iowa. A woman in the
cabin saved her life by finding corner
not submerged where she kept her head
until the roof was broken in and she was
pulled out
WHILE attempting to ford Ephraim
creek in the Cherokee Strip on the 10th
boomer, his wife aud four children were
swept away and drowned.
THERE was a report at Purcell, /. T., on
the 10th that United States marshals had
fired into a party of boomers attempting
to ford the Canadian river and enter Okla
homa before the legal date. Seven BOOM
were wounded, two fatally, the re-
mainder, numbering thirty, being taken
prisoners. There were reports elsewhere
of serious conflicts with cattemen.
SYLVESTER GRUBB was hanged at Vim
cennes, Ind. on the 10Th for the murder of
his sweetheart September Is last.
Two small boys were drowned at Rock
willie, Ind, the other evening while boat
ing.
THE two hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the first paper mill in America
will be celebrated at Roxborough, Pa. in
September, 1889.
THOMAS NJ. DANsBY. a merchant of
Cleveland County and Reuben w. Dar-
den, planter OF Union County, convicted
in the Federal Court at Little Rock, Ark,
of obstructng the Congressional election
November 6, were sentenced by Judge
Brewer, Darden to Imprisonment for two
years and Dansby to pay fine of 1900 and
costs. The testimony disclosed that Dar-
den had driven a negro from the polls and
that Dansby had interfered with voters