The Springdale news., 1889-11-15
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mormon High Priest, was arrested at Payson, Utah, on the 7th, charged with murdering Mrs Harp and her son. Geo. Jones. The Gentilcs say it was a church murder.
 Two HUNDRED butchers in Berlin have been thrown into bankruptcy by portation of cattle.
 A REPORT has been received in Ianzi- bar that the second division of Dr. Peters force is rctreating toward the coast. It failed to effect junction with the first division.
 MME. ARNoIDsoN RossINGoI, the prima donna, contracted at MontreauX, on the 7th, to give fifty representations in America under the management of Nr Strakoseh, for which she is to re- ceiye 250, 900 francs, Mr. Strakosch also paying the travelling expenses of the lady and her suite of eight persons.
 NEAR Delhi, N. Y.. on the 7th, a young son of Amasa Smith, while at- tempting to kill a cat, shot and instantly killed Louis r. Ogi1vie, aged six years, FATHER McFAppEN., the priest of Gweedore, Ireland. will visit America at an early date.
 TIE American ship Cheseborough, Captain Ericsson, from IIiogo for New York, has been lost off the Northern coast of Japan. Nineteen of her crew were drowned.
 CHARLES l.. SMITH, night telegraph operator at Wharton, Okla, was shot and killed by bandits, at one o'clock on the morning of the 7th. Before expir- ing he crawled to his instrument and notified the train dispatcher at Kansas City of his inability to act further.
 A ROY, supposed to be Willie Dickin- son, of Bessemer, Mich, who so mystc- riously disappeared about eight years ago, and for whose recovery standing reward of s, GOO is offered. has been found in the Boys and Girls Home in Los Angeles. Cal.
 JUDGE MERwIN, of Utica. N Y., on the Sth, granted a motion to vaeate the order of arrest of Contractor Sullivan for connection with the Assembly cell ing fraud, but dcuied similar motions in the cases of Smith and Andrews.
 STATE TEEA sURER HART of Pennsyl- vania died at atHarrisburg at fifteen min utes past twelve o'clock on the morning of the 9th,
 LORD BRAssEY, op the Sth. wrote letter to the master lightermen of Lon don, concurring in the contention of Cardinal Manning and the Lord Mayor of London that the masters are bound by the Brassey agreement to concede the demands of the men.
 FRANK SoIHFH the crranppr fnaOcipr of Fargo, N D., has gone to Canada with S15,000 in cash, leaving debts amounting to from S1 7.00o to S20. 000. se- cured by property worth less than S3,- GOO.
 TIE President, at 10:40 a. m. on the sth, issued his proclamation admitting Montana to Statehood. The document is similar in form to those admitting the Dakotas.
 CAROLINE DONOVAN, of Baltimore Md. aged forty-six years, has given Sl00, GOO to Johns Hopkins University to found a chair of English literature
 FIVE of the crew of the steamer Au- gusta Victoria were locked up in the Hoboken (N. J. jail, on the 9th, for mutiny They refused to dc duty on
 
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 COLONEL WM. CAssIUs GoopL0E. of Lexington, Ky. died shortly before noon, on the 10th, from the effects of the wounds received Tn his encounter with Colonel Swope.
 X COLLISION between freight and gravel train occurred five miles west of Altoona, Pa, on the Sth. Njne men were killed and about fifteen injured, number of them fatally.
 THIRTEEN loaded coal barges sank in the Ohio river. twelve miles from Park ersburg. W. Va, on the sth, involving a loss of S30. GOO
 TIE steamship QueenSmore, from Baltimore for Liverpool. caught fire off the Irish coast, on the Sth, and burning low, sank off Mizen Head.
 TIE Standard Oil Company, on the Sth, purchased the Globe refinery of Pittsburgh, Pa. the Freedom (Pa. re- tinery and the Craig pipe line to the Washington G'a.l oil field. The Globe refinery is one of the largest in the country and being independent has al ways been a big thorn i'll the side of the Standard.
 PETITIONS were presented to the city clerk of Boston, on the sth, for an entire recount of the vote of the city for State officers.
 c. HUDSON SMITH, pastor of the Pill grim Church of Dorchester, Mass. whose mysterious disappearance last spring, subsequent discovery in San Francisco and return to his pastorate in the fall formed fruitful theme of gos- sip and wonderment, has again disap- peared, without giving any intimation of his intended departure or leaving any clew by which to trace him.
 lN the German Reichstag, on the 7th, the Anti-Socialist bill was, after heat ed debate, referred to a committee.
 LEVIN r. HALL and his sister, society people of Somerset County, Md, who were convicted on October of incen- diarism, were both sentenced, on the 9th, to ten years in the Penitentiary. Miss Hall was sentenced while. she was