The Springdale news., 1889-05-24


 gagged in roofing the dome of the new wheel elevator on the island at Buffalo, N, Y, the scaffold gave way, and the men fell q hundred feet, striking on the roof of boiler house. Both were fatally in jured.
 THE Parisians arc greatly annoyed at the fact that the American and part of the British section of the Exhibition re- main closed on Sundays.
 IN the British House of Lords, on the 20th, the Earl of Meath's proposal that women be allowed to sit as members of the county councils was rejected by vote of l2S to g.
 TIE people Of Creagerstown and Mid dletown, Md, have decided to hold elec- tions for their respective postmasters. | The names of the successful candidates will be sent to Washington. calling the attention of the Pres ident to the fact that they are the cholce of the people of those boroughs and requesting their ap- pointment.
 THOMAS w. KtNG, of Saratoga and New York, the author of ''The Judge," and other successful dramas, has notified Hamlin & Potter not to produce the play of ''The Spiders Web" under that title. Mr. King copyrighted a play unter that title March 10, 1888.
 HE Shah of Persia arrived on the 20th, at ROstov, Russia, where he was received by the military and the city authorities.
 THE funeral services over the remains of the dead mind reader, Washington Irving Bishop, were solemnized on the 20th, in Grace Protestant Episcopal Church. Broadway and Tenth street, New York City.
 TIE Canadian Government received cablegram from the imperial authorities, on the 20th, stating that work on the Pa cifc coast defenses will be commenced thls summer.
 IN their new plant at Passaic, N. J., on the Dundee canal, the Botany Worsted Mills Company will cover thirty acres with buildings, one of which, only one story high, will inclose one million square feet of surface.
 THE Naval Defense bill passed its third reading in the British House of Commons by a vote of 1S2 to 10l.
 CONDUCTOR JOHN ". WALSH, aged twenty-three, of the New York & New England railroad, and Fred Metzger aged thirty a letter carrier, were arrested ill Boston, on the 20th, charged with connection with the theft of the rail- way tickets recently found at the house of Samuel ". Staples, who was arrested sew eral days previously.
 TIE steamship Johns Hopkins, of the Boston line, was burned iii tho Baltimore (Md.) harbor on the night of the 20th.
 TIE trial of William E. Howard, chief of the alleged swindlcrs wbo defrauded the Electric Sugar Refining Company out of thousands of dollars. was begun, on the 20th, before Recorder Smyth of New York City, on an indictment for grand larceny in the first degree.
 TIE trustees of the Maine General Hos- pital, at Portland, have decided to erect pavilion for pati nts and residence building for the physician and superin- tendent The total expense will approx innate Sl00,0)0
 MEssRs. ROBERT BURNS. general secre- tary of the Young Mems Christian Asso- citation of London; Carl Fries, general secretary at Stockholm, and Robert Me Gam. travelling secretary for Ireland are visiting the principal cities of this coun- try for the purpose of studying American association work and methods.
 THE National Furnace at De Pere, Wis, has gone out of blast after q continuous run of fourteen months and nine days, during which it did some extraordinary work, making 4Gl tons of pig iron the week ending the lSth, and IFS tons the week previous.
 THE remains of Oswald C. Allen, the vagabond who shot his wife and then com mittcd suicide at the Jefferson School building, in Washington, were taken to Charlottesville, Na., on the 10th, and buried. Mrs Aliens remains were buried in WDsljp rtou on the 30 h.
 A woMAT named Scott and her dauch- ter, Carrie Emaker, @ pretty girl of four teen, were arrested in Omaha, Neb. on tie 10th charged with putting arsenic in the coffee of Lewis Marvin, an elderly man, for whom they were keeping house.
 BOAT in which Albert Arnold and William Doyle were rowing at Holyoke, Mass, oh the 10th, was capsized, and Ar mold was drowned, leaving wife and three children. Doyle clung to the boat until rescued by the pleasure steamer City of Holyoke.
 XAVIER and Mary Arnold, usband and wife, were arrested iii New York, on the l9h, on leaving the steamer La Cham pagne, from Hayre, France. On the woman were found gold watches and chains, bracelets and trinkets to the value of S12, 900.