The Springdale news., 1889-04-26
HE Bijou Theater, in Melbourne. Aus


 tralia, was destroyed by fire on the 22d.
 NJ. FLoQUET and his wife, together with the French embassy at Rome, were guests at a banquet given by Premier Crispi on tho e2d.
 THE Civil Service Commission issued a general circular, on the 22l embodying a fund of information to persons contem- plating an examination fer appointment to the 5000 positions of tho Railway Mail Serv1ce. It requires that applicants for examination shall be citizens of the United States, not under eighteen or over thirty five years of age. Veterans of the war may be examined without regard to age.
 THE resignation of Judge Durham First Comptroller of the Treasury, was ac- cepted by Secretary Windom, on the 22l, to take effect at once. Judge Durham re- turns to his home in Kentucky.
 WITH the consummation of the pro- posed application of rules to the Railway Mall Service, there will be 270)0 offices in the departmental, customs and postal service under Civil Service rules.
 LORD BROwNLow, on the s2d, denied the statement that he had accepted the posi-. tion of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and emphasized his denial by declaring that the place had never been offered to him.
 THE riots growing out of the strikes in Vienna were renewed on the 22l. The strikers attacked and smashed several tram cars, and were charged upon by the cavalry patroling the streets. Many of the mob were wounded and about one hundred were arrested.
 THE largest show of horses ever held in the East, if not in the country, opened in Boston, on the 22d, and interested in it some of the best known horsemen and owners of horse flesh. The most noted trotting, saddle and coach horses in that part of the country were included in the list.
 Mn. CHARLES A. N. CoNYBEARE, NJ. F., was summoned, on the 22d, to appear be- fore magistrate at Falcarragh, Ireland, to answer a charge of conspiring with others to obstruct the operation of the Coercion act.
 THE Car, on the 22d, ordered Baron de Mehrenheim, Russian Ambassador to France, to return to Russia and remain there during the Paris Exhibition unless the French Government shall urgently request his retention in Paris.
 THREE popular meetings were held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 22d, at each of which resolution was passed pro- testing against the presentation of the freedom of the city to Parnell.
 REAR ADMIRAL GILLGS reported by tele- graph to the Navy Department, on the 22d, that the Tallapoosa had been made the temporary flag ship of the South At lantic station, and is now at Ascension. The Richmond is at Montevideo and the Alliance at Colonia.
 GENERAL CROOK, II. $. A.; Hon. Charles Foster, of Ohio, and Hon. William War ner, of Missouri, were, on the 221, ap- pointed by the President a commission to negotiate with the Sioux Indians for the surrender of certain lands under the act approved March , last
 IT is estimated that over 10000 people rushed into the promised land of Okla homa on the 22d.
 THE acting Comptroller sf the Currency on the 22d, appointed George McNeir, of Minneapolis, Minn., receiver of the First National Bank of Anoka, Minn., which failed April last.
 THE Journal Skobran of Belgrade de- clares that ex-king Milan has become a monk in Jerusalem, with a view of ulti-
 
 all the Servians.
 Ar the Manchester Easter steeple- -chases and hurdle races, the Lancashire handi : cap steeple-chase plate of 1,0)) sove- reigns, was won by Magic, owned by the Prince of Wales.
 THE Pope celebrated mass in the hall of the Consistory at Rome, on the 22d in the presence of large number of strangers. At noon His Holiness received the visit ing and resident prelates and several other distinguished persons.
 Ir is stated that seven Cardinals will be created at the coming Consistory at Rome.
 ON the 22d Postmaster General Wana- maker made the following appointments: Paul Vandervoort, of Nebraska, to be superintendent of mails at Omaha, Neb and Henry A. Thomas, of Massachusetts, to be superintendent of mails at Boston, vice Peter q. Hughes, resigned.
 FIRE in the Boston &c Albany railro ad freight yard at Boston, on the 22d caused $27 900 damages.
 Mas. ALVINA A. PIERCE died of heart disease at Dover, N. H., on the 22d. She was ffty-seyen years old and weighed i52 pounds.
 feated in Massachusetts, on the 22d, by q majority ranging from 35,000 to 10000 Boston gave 10000 majority against 1t.