The Springdale news., 1889-05-17


 GENERAL WILLIAM S. HARVEY, the noted Indian fighter of past generation, died at Orlando, Fla, on the 9th, aged eightynine years.
 THE United States steamship Dispatch, with the President and party on board, returned to Washington from trip to Fort Monroe on the 18th.
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 TWENTY-FIVE acres of small buildings at Moreand, a suburb of Chicago was swept by fire, on the Sth, and seyenty- five families rendered homeless.
 TuE Civil-soryice Commission organ ized on tho 18th, by electiug Commissioner Lyman president of the commission. All the commissioners were present.
 TIE Supreme Court of the United States, on the 18th, affirmed tho validity of the law excluding Chinese laborers, known aa the Scott Exclusion act.
 MR. JoHy DILLON and his associates, Messrs. Deasy and Esmoude, have beon received at sydney, \. 5. w., with great enthn,iasm. Their meetings are crowded.
 Ar two o'clock on the morning of the 12th, the Leudon police raided the Field and Adelphi clubs and surprised and ar rested a large number of titled and other gamestors.
 TuE Fudlay (O) Goblet Works, said to be the largest e5 establishment of the kind in the United States, were burned, ou the 9tu, throwing 300 persons out of employ ment. Tine total loss is $l25,00)
 WALKER ELAINE stated, on the 10th, that there was absolutely no truth in the publisAel report that the Danish Govern ment mad protested against the appoint ment oE MT Enander as Minister to Den mark.
 THEODORE WILDMAN, of New York City. who was secretary Of Typographical Union No. from 1881 to 1SSS, is said by an expert who has examined the books to be between ~G,0)0 and H1,0)) short in his accounts with the Union.
 THE Edward Rall Shoe Company, of Boston, has assigncl. The corporation was organized in loS7 under Maine laws, and with capital stock of >250,000. The cause of the assignment was an attach ment by a small creditor.
 CoLoNEr. F. (. LovGLAND has been app pointed 10 succeed General Siegel as pen sion agent in New York. Colonel Love- land formerly held position as special agent in New York City, but Was dis missed by Commissioner Black.
 JUDGE MATTHEWS, who succeeds Judge Durham IS First Comptroller of the Treasury and M.. II lston, who succeeds MT. II yatt as Treas Irer of the United States, entered upon the discharge of their respective duties on the 18th.
 IT is stated that th police raids on the Adelpai and Field clubs of London were prompted by the father of one and the mother of another of the persons arrest ed, with view to enabling the latter to escape the payment of their gambling debts.
 FoRrY-s SIX of the striking street car drivers of Rochester, N. Y., united in petition, on the Sth, 10 be taken back into \ the employ of the company, thus prac- tically ending one Of the longest and most expensive strikes in the history of that city.
 \ SUIT against Adam Badcau cx-Con- sul r. lIaNasa, who figure Us q claimant for compensation as thu alleged author of Grants Memoirs, has been fled in New York by the Government to recover money which i' is claimed Bad 4au appto- pllatea while ir ofice
 THE scotch h-Irsh con sress at Columbia. Tenn., closed, on the llth, after tblu6s had been voted to Mayor Pillow of Col umbia, and the encouragement was made that all who want to joiu the Scotch-Irish ; Society of America should address 4. C. Floyd, Columbia, Tenn. EMMA ABBOTT, the prima donna, has contracted with q Philadelphia firm for . f, 1nf It1- Ina ar,j ! Wetherell, to cost ,Sl,00) 1t will be erected at Gloucester. Mass, and will be fifi.- four feet high anl composed Of va riouS species of marble.
 TIE last performance of the theatrical firm of Robson & Crane took placeat ;he Star Thcatcr, New York City, on the llth, "The Henrietta" being the play. The house was thronged During the even- tug each was made the recipient of many handsome floral tributes.
 THE body of Thomas Downs, a promi- nent Democratic politician, who had been mysterously missing for more than week, was found floating in the lake at Cleveland O., on the Sth. Inability to procure employment i5 supposed to have cansed him 10 commit suicide.
 PUBLIC PRINTER PALMER took charge of tho great Government printing office on the 18th Mr. Benedict, his predecas- sor, quietly bade many of the employees good-bve, aud took his leave, while MT. palme we up most of the day to shak- ing lsna with his employees.
 NEWS was received, on the 9th, that Rev. Father Damien, who for the past sixteen years had devoted himself to lahors among the lepers at Molaki, Hawaii, died at kalawa, April 10, of leprosy, contracted in the performance of his duties. Ho was a Belgian by birth. THE Comptroller of tho Currency, on the 9.h, forwarded to San Francisco divi- dcnd cheeks amounting to S2S1,50o for the payment of the first dividend Of sixty five per cent. on claims proved against The California National Bank of San Francisco which failed December r., 1sSS. FIRE in tho hold of the steamship Ru- gia, from New York for Hamburg, en- dangered the safety of the passengers and crew for over two days, but was fin ally eHtinguished by turning steam into the burning compartment, and the yes sel put into Plymouth ill safety on the 12th.
 
 SECRETARY NOBLE has directed that a prompt and thorough investigation be made of the reports that settlers are un- lawfully entering the Sioux Reservation ill anticipation of a favorable result of the pending negotiations for accession by the United States of part of the Sioux lands.
 Ar Tokio, Corea, April 13, one hundred constables beat man named Boku to death because he had paid the entire tax levy of his village, the people being too poor to pay it. The enraged townspeople thereupon attacked the constables, kill ing number of them and wounding the survivors.
 WHILE James Smith was on trial in Kansas City, Kas., on the charge of bur- glary, on the 11th, he suddenly drew a m m