The Springdale news., 1889-01-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

ON the 26th the failure of Douglas Henry was announced on the New York Stock Exchange. He has no outstanding con- tracts.
 THE death of General Louis Melikoff, the well-known Russian officer, is an- nounced. General Melikoff was born in 1924.
 ON the 26th Hon. H. B. Smith died in Elmira, N. Y., at the age of sixty-two years. He was an ex-Congressman and ex-Justice of the Supreme Court.
 NOTICE of contest on Representative Barnes Compton of the Sixth Maryland district, for his seat in the Fifty first Con- gross, has been served by Sidney E. Mudd. MT. Mudd's grounds of contest are intimi- dation and fraud.
 CAPTAIN J. s. HOLMES, who was burned to death at the destruction of his boat, the John H. Hannah, at Plaquemine, La., on the night of the 24th, was native of Plymouth, Mass.
 WHILE rummaging over old papers in a trunk, recently, Mrs. Anna Boss, of All legheny City, Pa., came across three deeds which call fer GOO acres of land in the heart of Philadelphia. The case has been placed in the hands of lawyers.
 SENATOR BECK, of Kentucky, is improv ing in health and enjoying tho hospitality of friends in Savannah, Ga.
 Mss ANNIE c. GARRETT, daughter of the late James and Ann Garrett, of Ches- ter County, Pa., died at Milan, Italy, re- gently.
 THE Legislature Of Idaho Territory is considering more stringent measures for the overthrow of the influence of the Nor mon church in Territorial politics.
 ON the 27th Martin Sullivan, life pris- oner in the Massachusetts State prison, was liberated, having been pardoned by the Governor and Council, after serving twenty seven years.
 IT is reported that President w. B. Strong of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company intends to resign his position at the annual meeting next spring, on account of impaired health.
 CAPTAIN SLoCUM recently arrived at Washington, from Brazil, South Amer ica, bringing his wife and children jour- ney of 5000 miles in little boat of his own construction no bigger than an ordi- nary pleasure sail-boat. The gallant little craft, which weathered several se- were storms, was called La Libertad.
 THE announcement Is made that H. c. Atwood for six years United States Con- sul at San Domingo, has been dismissed in disgrace from his position, on account of having retained possession of money intrusted to his keeping by the San Do- mingo authorities to be forwarded to New York.
 IN 1885 one Hathaway, Canadian, was Imprisoned at Ft. Mckinney, Wyo., charged with being deserter from the United States army. He brought his case to the notice of the British Government, which has succeeded in obtaining for him from the United States an indemnity of $1,OO0.
 ON the 2sth the Honorable Miss Corne- lia Elizabeth Pruttie, second daughter of Lord Dunalley, was killed while hunting at Kilber, near Nenagh, County Tippe- rary, Ireland. While riding at full speed her horse stumbled and she was thrown from her saddle. Her feet became entan- gled in the stirrups, and she was dragged a considerable distance, head downward. When her horse was finally stopped she was dead.
 THERE is rumor in Vienna that the Car is disposed to become reconciled to Prince Alexander of Battenberg, late Prince of Bulgaria, and the report is con- strued that Russia will advocate his re- sumption of the Bulgarian throne.
 THE announcement is made that the re- count of votes in the San Francisco city election, though giving O'Donnell, the h. dependent candidate, 300 additional votes, confirmed E. B. Pond, Democrat in his election as mayor.
 ON the 2Sth Charles Shaw Lerfevre, Wis., count Eversley, died in London, aged nine- ty-four years.
 GENERAL HARRISON has taken out life- insurance policy for S10,000.
 IT is said that Minister Phelps will re- main in London for some time after the banquet to be given him by the LordMay or on January 24.
 THE statement that Dr. Alexander F.. Mcdonald, the celebrated specialist and expert on insanity, has become insane is denied by Dr. Bond, the medical director on Blackwell's Island.
 A CONVENTION to form State constitu- tion, and to memorialize Congress for ad- mission to the Union was called to be held at Ellensburg, w. T., on January 8.
 ON the oath scores of letters and tele- grams were received at Hawarden, con- graduating MT. Gladstone on the occasion of his seventy ninth birthday. Most Of them expressed earnest wishes for his early triumph in the fight he is making for home rule for Ireland.
 IN his late encyclical letters, the Pope thanks God for the cancellations which his jubilee brought to him.
 THE Wurtemburg ministry, it is said, persist in their opposition to the return of Jackson, Woodcock and Hendry, the Kings American fayorites.
 THE health of the King of Wurtemburg is reported poor.
 THE Servian Skuptschina elected M. Tauschanovies as president, and NJ. Popo- yics vice president
 ON the 30th the Pope attended the Te Deum in St. Peter's Church at Rome, in celebration of the close of the jubilee year There were 50.000 nersons in at