The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

ullU Lt0lIfIIt DIdL OL AcAlCO VIII meet at Fort Worth, Tex, some time this month.
 ALI. tho London papers, of the 3d, con- taned leaders deploring the disaster at Johnstown, Pa, and sympathizing with America.
 Ar Tancytown, Md, Mrs. Charles Me Fadden and Miss Maggie Moore were drowned, on the 1st, while attempting to ford stream during the flood.
 Mss CLARA BARTON went to Harris burg, Pa, on the 2d, to supervise the work of the Red Cross Society in TO- Heying lhe distress at Johnstown.
 AT the meeting of the General Assem- ply of the Presbyterian church in Belfast, Ireland, on the Sd. tho moderator took occasion to strongly denounce home rule.
 THr President did not attend church, on the 2l, but was busy all day arranging with Governor Beaver by telegraph for the relief of the stricken districts ill Pennsylvania.
 TEN mines, employing six thousand men, will be indefinitely shut down on account of the floods in the Conemaugh valley, the pumps being under water and the pits mostly flooded.
 THE President, oil the 3d, appointed Chas L. Knapp, of New York, Consul General of the United States at Montreal, and Alex. J. Reed, of Wisconsin, United States Consul at Dublin.
 OY the lst the United States revenue cutter Richard Rush, under orders to proceed to Behring sea to protect the seal fisheries from illegal sealers, left San Francisco bound for the North.
 HENRY O'BRIEN, tine defaulting treas- nrer of the Catholic Knights, of Colum- bus, Ind, returned to that city, on the night of the 29th, and surrendered. He was penuiless and worn out with tramp ing.
 Tnr Times counsel, assisted by the counsel for Mir. ParnclI, began, on the Sd, all inspection of the private letters of the latter The correspondence covers pe- riod of six years and comprises 5000 let ters
 THE public debt statement for May showed a decrease iu the debt for the month of rs TOP s71.3O; decrease since June 3, 1858, 972 GS3 10j.4). The total debt, less cash in tho treasury, was ST., G92, ,902 55l.l9.
 THE mayors of all the principal cities in the country and in many Of the smaller ones, issued proclamations or otherwise called for concerted effort to render aid to the stricken people of the Conemaugh Valley in Pennsylvania.
 \ PROTOCOL has been drawn up by the Samoan Commissioners which will be signed if favorable answers are received from Washington and London. No fur ther meeting will be held until the forth coming instructions arrive.
 IT was recently announced that sick ness prevented King kalakaua oe Hawaii from going to the Paris Exposition. It is learned from good authority that His Majesty, although desiring to pay visit to the exposition, lacked the necessary funds.
 THE National capital had stream halt mile wide flowing through its heart, on the 2d caused by d big rise ill the Po tomac. Immense damage was done to Government property, and it was feared that the famous Long bridge would suc cumb.
 TIE silver miners in the Ural mount aims of Russia, struck, on the 3d, and set Ou utt illc LOuSto OL luC litlAtStIo III Ekatorinburg. The factories adjoining were also set on fire and seven persons, who were in the building, were burned to death.
 COLONEL JOIN c. HASKELL of Colum- bia, $. C., was, on the 3Jth, elected the member of the National Democratic com mittee from South Carolina. Colonel Haskell is member of the Legislature, and one of the most prominent lawyers of the State.
 SECRETARY BLAINE, on the 30th, sent long telegram to Minister Reid, at Paris, demanding an immediate investigation of the matter of the arrest and alleged ill., treatment of three American ladies at Mentone, France, and insisting upon an ample apology.
 IT was expected, on the 3d, that the pro- tocol 10 be drawn up by the Samoan con- ference would be signed by the repre- sentatives of the three governments con- cerned on the Sth. The commissioners were then preparing to take their de- parture from Berlin.
 PREPARATIONS for the triennial con- clave of Knights Templar next fall are going forward at Washington with some rapidity. Advices received from the va rious communicates throughout thecoun- try indicate that fully 50,000 Masons will be in line the day of the parade.
 To add to the horrors of the situation in the devastated district in Pennsylvania, ghouls in human form set about robbing the dead of jewelry, etc. The fact coming to public knowledge vigilance committees were formed, and summary punishment was meted out to a number of the mis- creants.
 NELL $. O'BRIES, JR., of Nashville, Tenn, for many years reading clerk of the Lower House of Congress, was run over while crossing the track of the Louisville X Nashville railroad in Nash vile, on the 2d, and instantly killed His body was ground almost beyond recognition.
 THE London Times Berlin correspond ent reports that the American Commis- sioners to the Samoan Conference have had a tough fight for the assertion of the principles for which they contended, and that the convention, when concluded, will show that their labors have not been with out success.
 GOVERNOR HILL of New York issued a proclamation, on tho 2d, calling the att tenton of the people of that State to the disaster which had befallen the inhab- itants of large section of Pennsylvania, and invoking the efforts of citizens and organizations toward relieving the conse- quent distress.
 ON the 31st Postmaster-G General Wana- maker appointed a commission to iu- vestigate and report upon the condition and needs of the New York City Post-of- fee. This commission is the result of conference recently held between Post master Van Cott and the officials of the Post office Department.
 CAPTAIN c. HENRY WITTHAUs, promi- nent citizen of New York City, mem. Der of the Old Guard, the Leiderkranz Society, the Press Club and other organ tzatoas, snot himself dead after re. tnrniug home from the Decoration pa.