The Russellville Democrat., 1889-10-24

THE German Government has begun
the construction of four new iron -clads
at Stettin.
SECRETARY PRocToR has decided that
the charge of one dollar a day for the
subsistence and care of an officer in an
| army hospital is reasonable, and that
the distribution of the money collected,
giving one-fourth OF the amount to the
attendants and the remainder 70 the hos
pital funds, is a proper one.
THE building of a mineral palace at
Pueblo, Col, has been contracted for at
the cost Of $3.50, 900. When opened 1t will
contain gems and mineral specimens
from the mines of that State the wealth
of which will be enormous. The exhibits
are to be permanent.
THE Workingmen's Federation Of Mu-
mich has petitioned the Government to
forbid all work on Sunday.
BUSINESS block at Reading, Mich,
was burned on the 10th; loss, $4,000.
RIvESBURG's packing -house. two miles
from Carbondale, Pa, was totally
wrecked, on the nth. by the explosion of
boiler. Several men at work in the
place were severely injured, two Of them
fatally.
DEvAU's pawn shop at Bridgeport,
Conn, was entered by burglars, on the
| night of the 10th, the safe blown open
and valuables 10 the amount Of several
thousand dollars were stolen.
THE labors of the Red Cross Society in
| the devastated Conemaugh Valley are
about completed, and the society will
within few days withdraw from scenes
which have been unparalleled in the his
tory of that society.
r. Al a.
secretary to the First Assistant Post
master General, resigned on the 18th.
He took the place to help his father out
in the rush of his early correspondence,
| and left to finish fitting for Harvard.
BUFF ALo, N. Y, was chosen as the next
place of meeting OF the National Street
Railway Association, which closed its
sessions at Minneapolis, Minn., on the
18th.
THE Albany County IN. " grand jury
made their presentments, on the 17th,
and were discharged. Not word was
| said about the Assembly ceiling case, al
though three sealed indie tmepts were
handed in. AS to the nature of the iu-
dictments nothing could be learned, but
it is not believed that they are against
any of the ceiling conspirators.
THREE cases of smallpox were re-
ported to the Board of Health of Boston,
on tho 18th, being the first for more than
year.
sCAFFoLDING forty eight feet high.
used in erecting stand pipe at the Beth
lehem (Pa.) Water Works, fell, on the
18th, carrying with it nine men. The
foreman, George Worman, was killed;
George Murphy and Cornelius McGetti-
gan were fatally, and six others severely
injured.
ADvIcEs from the High Commission
er's Office at London state that there has
been another arrival at Deptford, En
gland, from New York of animals sue-
fering from pleuro- pneumonia.
CARDINAL HAYNoLD, of Vienna, who Is
celebrating the fiftieth anniversary Of
his admission to the priesthood, has re-
ceived from Emperor William OF Ger
many very fiattering autograph letter
congratulating him upon the jubilee an
niversary.
Two THOUSAND miners In the district
about Charleroi, Belgium, struck for an
increase on the 18th. The men assumed
threatening demeanor. aud the author
tiles asked for troops to be sent from
Brussels.
THE Italian Government has refused
to accept Washan Effendi as Turkish
Ambassador to Rome, and has notified
the Porte to that effect.
On the 18th Rev. DR.. Thomas Frederick
| Davies was consecrated Bishop of the
Episcopal diocese of Eastern Michigan.
The ceremony occurred in st. Paul's
Church in Philadelphia, of which DR..
Davies was pastor for many years.
THE Government of France is discuss
ing the project of doubling the strength
of the Sixth Army Corps with head
quarters at Nancy, and is also intending
to double the railway facilities from
Lille and Lyons to the Besancon 'front.'
ier. This action is to be taken in view OF
the increase by Germany Of her garri-
sons in Alsace.
THE first game OF the worlds cham
pionship series between the New York
and Brooklyn Base Ball clubs was
played at the Polo grounds In New York
City. on the 18th, and resulted in VIC
tory for the Association champions by
score of II TO 10.
THE Legislature of South Dakota met in
joint session, on the 18th, and proceeded
to canvass the vote for United States
Senators. They declared Gideon G.
Moody aud r. Frank Pettigrew the Sena-
tors, and amid rousing cheers adjourned
until January next.