The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-28

HE Russian General Nel1doH has been | ordered to attack Abdurrahman Khan of Afghanistan if he approaches the Rus | sian frontier.
 THE President has approved the Territo rial bill admitting North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington Terri tories.
 THE wife of the comedian Toole died in London on the Fist. MAX BERNSTEIN, of Berlin, candidate for rabbinical orders, was sentenced to three months Imprisonment, on the 22d, for drawing the blood of Christian boy. IT is stated that Prince Alexander of Battenberg will shortly be married to Mile. Leisinger, an opera-singer of con- tinental reputation, and will thereafter reside in Italy.
 THE Cologne Gazette says the report that Morocco has ceded territory to Ger many for eoaling station or for any | other purpose is unfouhded. SIX inches of snow fell in Georgia on | the Fist, the heaviest in many years. ON the Fist Governor Leslie of Montana signed the Hunt Gambling bill, which in effect forbids the licensing of any gam | bling games other than faro and round table poker.
 THE authorities of Kilkenny jail, on the 22d, forcibly removed the hair and beard of MT. J. l.. Carew, NJ. F., convicted on the Fist and sentenced for four months.
 JACOB RosEMoRE, of Cincinnati, stabbed himself to death with penknife on the 22d.
 A CONSERVATIVE member of the Cana dian Parliament will shortly introduce resolution authorizing the Dominion Gov ernment to purchase the Eastern States of the American Union.
 THE fire and marine insurance compa- nies of Pennsylvania report a very un- profitable years business for 1888.
 A WARRANT, on information, has been sworn out before United States con- missioner, at Indianapolis, Ind, against Colonel w. W. Dudley. An officer start ed for Washington on the 23d to serve it.
 Ar Wheeling, W. va., on the 22d, Nell son c. Hubbard held giant fire cracker in his hand until it exploded. His first two fingers were subsequently, amputat- ed. He was also very badly injured about the abdomen, but will probably recover.
 A DUEL was fought, on the 22d, between M. Polak and M. Bestegul, secretary of the Mexican Legation at Paris. The former.was wounded.
 MORE than forty per cent. of the resi- dents of the village of Huppaye, near Verviers, Belgium, are prostrated with disease of the nature of typhus fever.
 OIL producers and speculators are fight ing the proposed Pennsylvania law taxing oil and gas leases.
 THERE seems to be little doubt that in the Flathead Lake region, in Montana, near the Canadian line, an Indian upris- ing is imminent. The Koolenai, and not the Flatheads, as at first reported, is the warlike tribe.
 PLANTER MoDEsro RUIsE, who was capt. ured by bandits in the Remidos district, Cuba, has been released on tho payment of ransom of $50. GOO.
 A SMALLPOX epidemic is reported as raging in Richardson County, Neb.; also at the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation. Council Bluffs has quarantined with arme guards.
 THE inaugural committee on public comfort report ample resources for the entertainment of all visitors to Washing ton at reasonable charges.
 WAsHINGToN's BIRTHDAY was very gen. orally celebrated throughout the country.
 THE French press generally gives the new Cabinet 0 cool reception.
 ALL Ireland is exasperated at the long sentences imposed on Mr. O'Brien, who HACKS HOW Ouly lWO lIOHtilo OI spcnullS d year in prison.
 THE investigation of penitentiary man. agement at Pittsburgh, Pa., culminated in the dismissal of Hospital Steward Maharneke.
 THE Ohio Inter- -Denominational Sab bath convention met in Columbus on the 22d. The purpose is to secure a better ob- servance of the Sabbath.
 .IfpGF DIfDIFY kENNEDY cOmmittel suicide in New York City on the 2lst.
 A DETROIT (Mich.) school dis covered case of smallpox among her pupils, on the 21st, and promptly locking the doors, sent for physician and com peled every one of her two hundred schol- ars to submit to vaccination.
 A BOILER of the Blue Jay mine at Butte, Mont, burst, on the 2lst, and narrowly missed killing five men, all of whom were injured.
 WILLIAM KREcK, of Lauras station. Pa., in a freak of insanity, on the Fist, while being conveyed to an asylum handcuffed, threw himself in front of a railroad train and was badly injured about the hands and head.
 FIRE destroyed the Methodist Church at Cumminsville, O., on the 2lst Loss, SlO,- GOO; no insurance.