The Springdale news., 1889-05-31


 been appointed Consul at Prague, Aus 'tria.
 ADJUTANT- GENERAL DRUM, having at tained the age ofssixty. y.two, was, on tn 2Sth, retired from the army.
 THE sixth batch of assisted emigrants cighty-fve in number, started from En gland for Canada on the 24th.
 TIE Czar has sent special messenger fo the banished Grand Duke Constantine recalling and reinstating him as Genera Admiral of the Navy.
 TIE Attorney General has rendered al opinion that National banks can not bt organized under the law, in Oklahoma in its presentunorganized state.
 A cAvE-IS occurred in Merthyr- -Tydvil Wales, on the 23d. One miner was killed and fifty eight were temporarily en- tombed, alive but were afterward res. cued.
 MR ROBERT T. LINCOLN, the new Amer. ican Minister 10 England, arrived in Lon- don on the 22d. He was cordially greeted by the members of the American Lega- ton aud others.
 
 A. E. AVER & Co.,, stock brokers of Worcester, Mass, made an assignment on the 23d. Liabilities, S50 GOO; nominal assets, 500O. Dull business is alleged as the cause of failure.
 TIE President, on tho 25th, attended . Grand Army Memorial service at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church 1n Washington. The Presidents pew, iu which General Grant used to sit, was TO served for him..
 COLEMAN PITTS, postmaster at Pomona Westmoreland County, Pa, was arrested, on the 2jth, by Inspector Coghill fer rihing registered letters. The discovery of the thief was accomplished by means of decoy letters.
 WILLIAM RoAN RCFFIN, great grand son of Thomas Jefferson, and we'll known throughout the country as a successful stock raiser and turfman, died, on the 27th, at his home in Chesterfield County, Pa, aged forty-four.
 THE Amalgamated Association, on the 24th, decided that the hammer men of Oliver Bros. & Philips, at Pittsburgh, Pa, were discharged for just cause, and v settled the trouble there.
 M FAURE, member of the French Cham Der of Deputies, withdrew, on the 27th, the questions regarding the reported treaty between France and Hayu that he intended asking the government during the discussion of the budget.
 TIE executive officers of the committee ~r n. h.. ! L.. dispIeased over the action of the Presi- dent in remitting the fine of Sim Coy, of that city, who is serving term i'll tE9 penitcntiory for cleo ion frauds.
 RUSSELL HARRISON is considering an offer from W. J. Arkell to take an active part in the editorial direction of Frank Leslie's Weekly. The climate of Mon- tana does not agree with Mrs. Harrison, and she is anxious to move to New York. THE English Conservatives are organ izing series of meetings to offset the effect of MT. Gladstone's Whitsuntide speeches. Speakers will go to each of the places where Mr. Gladstone delivers addresses and speak on the following day.
 TIE Supreme Court cf ohio, on the 22l, decided the case of the State against Henry s. Ives and George II. Stayner, who were on trial for swindliug the stock holders of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &y Dayton railroad, in favor of tie defend ants.
 TIE mayor Of West Superior, Wis. on the 23d, closed all the saloous in that city in anticipation of trouble between strik- ing coal-heayers and the new men inn ported to take their places. The new men are working under strong police protec- ton.
 THEODORE WILLIAMS, of Norwalk, O., is looking for Frank $. Randolph, a false friend for whom he cashed five thousand dollars in notes that proved to be worthless. Tho parties alleged to have given the notes say they never signed them.
 ON the morning of the 27th every ore handler in Marquette Mich, struck for an increase iu pay. Nearly three hun dred men went out. 4 big fleet of ore carriers, with a capacity of l2,0)0 tons, was tied up. The men demanded S1. . per day.
 AN At1t AfAoiiCp III ASoN III ~NtN l VI h, oil the 27th, Robertson, the mind readers regular physician, testified that he had often seen Bishop in catalepsy when he seemed dead. Witness would not have performed the autopsy so sooh as it was done.
 SECRETARY PROCTOR, who returned to Washington, on the 25th, from joint visit 10 his home at Proctor Vt, and to West Point, left again for his home. on the 27th on receipt of q telegram stat Ing that his son was seriously ill with the measles.
 CASHIER GEORGE JEssUP, of the Scran- ton (Pal City Bank was placed under arr rest, oil the 25th, charged with embedding S135,000. The directors also decided to close the bank, placing it in the hands of an assignee until its condition can be as- Certaincd.
 IN the Howard trial in New York City, on the 23d, President Cottrll of the Elec- tric Sugar Company, who was the first witness. described how Freunds and Towards experiments, with apparently marvellous results had led him and others 10 put their money into the company.
 THE bill restoring tho punishment of flogging with the cat-o' nine tails, and authorizing its .infictiou upon burglars convicted of having dangerous weapons in their possession, has passed its third reading in the British House of Commons, and its passage in the House of Lords is assured.
 MARTIN YAGENs, of Little Falls, N. Y., who. on the 2jth, celebrated his hun dredth birthday, was a soldier of Yelling tons army, and fought under him at Waterloo. He retains a vivid remem- brance of the great battle, and his mind is remarkably clear. He came to this country in lSi0
 TIE findings of the court of inquiry appointed to investigate the case of Passed Assistant Paymaster Henry J, Smith, of the Essex, whose disappear ance from taaat vessel in the latter part of April caused quite a sensation in naval circles, were received at the Navy Depart ment on the 27th.
 AT the last session of the Samoan con ference the German delegates claimed indemnity for losses to Germans caused by Klpg Mataafa. The American dele
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