The Springdale news., 1889-05-24

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 THE striking stone masons of Pitts bursh, Pa, returned to work. on the 10th, al the old wages, pending arbitration.
 TIE NJ uicipal Council of Berlin voted 15) 000 larks for the expenses of enter taining King Humbert during his visit to that city,
 FRENCH papers unanimously compli- ment Miss Sybil Sanderson, the Ameri- can prima donna, upon her success in Masseuet's new opera.
 WM. MCEwAN, one of Lord Lonsdale's men, arrived in New York City, on the 2l st with four Eskimo dogs used by Lonsdale in his Northern trip.
 TIE largest oil well in Ohio was struck at North Baltimore on the l7th. It filled I s9)- barrel tank ill an hour. Land in the town is held at enormous prices.
 FRANCIS BARTON, the wealthy French man who disappeared from his hotel in New York City, and for whom the police were looking, was found safe and well in Philadelphia on the l7th.
 DURING the week ended on the 18th the Treasury Department disbursed $l1 ,3S0, 010 on account of pensions, thereby ex- haustins the appropriation for the cur rent fiscal year, amounting to $s2, 150, 900. LORD SALISBURY has conveyed his thanks to the American Government for its congratulations on the escape of the Calliope from the fate of the German and American vessels in the hurricane at Samoa.
 TIE Essex Club os Boston, of which pr. Geo. Lering is president, gave a farewell dinner on the 18th, to that gentleman upon the eve of his departure to assume his duties as United States Minister to Portugal SHANGHAI advices are that the claims for damages growing out of the Chee- Foo riots have been settled. The English and Americap flags have been again hoisted and the Chinese troops have sa- luted them.
 BoYD N. MILLER, who was at one time au engineer on the New York, Lake Erie & Western railway, obtained verdict for ~3o,0o0, damages against the company at Mansfield, O., on t4e 18th, for injuries received in wreck.
 HUNDREDS of the striking miners at Es- sen, Germany, have, at their own request, been sworn in a. special police iu order to keep their fellow workmen from riot ing and thus spelling their hopes of the mine owners conces ion.
 AMONG the passengers on the steamship City of Paris, which sailed from New \ ork for Liverpool on the 15th were Robert T. Lincoln, the new United States Minister to the Court of St. James, his wife, two daughters and son.
 4I,o National Tube Works at McKeesport Pa, struck, on the 1Gth, for a ten per cent. advance in wages About six thou sand more of the company's employees threaten to join the strikers. CHIEF ENGINEER L. HARRIS, who was on the Naval Examining Board to test the cruiser Charleston, but who became ill on the voyage from San Francisco to Santa Barbara, and was incapactated for duty died on the night of the 10th.
 e ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER has au- thorizcd the United States marshal of Arizona to offer a reward oi 500 each for the arrest anl conviction of the pal ties who attacked and robbed Paymaster Wham near Fort Grant on the 11th. FANNIE DAVENPORT, the actress, and MT. Melbourne Mcdowell, leading man in her dramatic company, were married privately by Rev. Charles H. Eaton D. D., pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, in New York City,on the 18th. Ix tbe shock of earthquake which was felt in California, on the 19th the vibra- tion lasted two minutes and sixteen sec onds according to the registers of the in struments at Lick Observatory, and were from north 10 south. They were very slight. HENRI ROCKFORD was arraigned at the Nine-street (London) police court, on the 20th, charged with assaulting the artist, Pilotel, on the 18th, on Regent street. The magistrate bound NJ. Rochefort in the sum of fl50 to keep the peace for six months. SUIT involving the title to property worth SiD,000 GOO in San Bernardino COun- ty, Call, has been brought by the Water loo Mining Company of Milwaukee, Wis. To fest the validity of John S Does pat ent to Oriental Mine, No. ,, iu the Calico mining district. THE principal publishing houses of London are apparently vieing with each other in their eagerness to obtain the right of publishing the history of Lord
 
 houses cabled him magnificent offers for the prospective book.
 TIE steamer Rockton arrived at San Francisco from Apia, Samoa, on the 20th, bringing eight officers and l50 men of the Nandalia and twelve officers and three hundred men of the Trenton. Admiral Kimberly, ten officers and seventy-fve men remain at Apia.
  IT is hinted that Attorney General W. II. H. Miller will probably be appointed Justice of the Supreme Court, vice Mat thews deceased, Secretary Noble to be- come Attorney General and Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson to become Secretary of the Interior. WoRKMEN excavating beneath where an old house had just been torn down in the southern part of the city of Columbus, O., on the 17th, discovered a quantity of gold ] and silver coin \ miserly old woman formerly owned the place. It is thought at least Sl0 000were dug up. AN exciting but bloodlcss renconter took place in Regent street, London, on the 18th. between NJ. Henri Rochefort and the artist, Pilotel, in which the former drew q revolver and the latter proved himself an excellent sprinter until stopped T and captured by the police.
 ON the 10th Mayor Hardings procla- nation ordering all saloons, drug stores and cigar stands in Fort Wayne, Ind, to close on Sunday went into effect, and for the first time for over quarter of a century not a drink was obtainable in that eity under any pretense.
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 TIE Bulgarian Government has decided that it will no longer pay the Roumelian tribute 10 the Porte, and has so notified the authorities at Constantinople. The Ottoman Government will appeal to the Powers to take cognizance of this delib- crate violation of the Treaty of Berlin.
 HAYWOOD PAUL, a young millionaire of Philadelphia, who recently graduated at Harvard, and who became insane while arranging for his marriage to young lady of Boston, and for whose apprehension