The Springdale news., 1889-02-22

TIE Park Hotel, of Hartford, Conn, collapsed at five o'clock on the morning of the 18th, wrecking the entire fye-stery front and burying fifty of the sleeping guests in the ruins heaped up in the cellar. The debris immediately took fire, and many of the victims of the cataS- trophe were burned. Up to , a. m. of the l9th eighteen dead bodies had been recovered; ten persons had been taken out alive and sent to the hospitals, and four were known to be still in the ruins. The accident is supposed 10 have been caused by the explosion of a boiler.
 JUpGE EpGERroN's reply to the Presi- dents note aismissiug him from the Ciyil- Service Commission was made public on the 18th. It is a caustic criticism of the Presidents course from an ultra Democratic standpoint. He attributes the defeat Of the party 10 Mr Cleyeland's subseryieney 10 the MagwumPs.
 TIE Willard School building, in West Quincy, Mass, WIS totally destroyed by fire on the 17th. Loss, S2f,0oo; no insur- auce.
 TIE Baptist Church at Fairfield, la, was destroyed by fire, on the 17th, at loss of SI5,090.
 THE Fremont House at Owatonna. Minn., "t'' 3SNti 'N tu bN lire ttEtN OH tiIG llui IL ing of the 17th. The inmates escaped with a loss of personal effects.
 NJ. SoNGEoN, French Senator for the Department of the Seine. died on the 18th.
 ON the 18th Emperor William gave an audience to Prince Bismarck. The con- ference between them lasted long time.
 IT Is reported that at the coming ses- sion of the British Parliament the govern meut will propose defense loan of fi00, o03o70. The proceeds of the loan will he devoted to the construction of twenty meu-ot-war and fifty cruisers and to in- creasing the number of torpedo boats.
 MR. J0HS BRIGHT, the English states man. suffered another relapse on the 18th.
 \ DECISION was handed down in the Appeal GoHrt of London, on the 18th, up- holding the electric light patent of Edison X Swan against the Holland aud Anglo American Brush patents, thus reversing the decision of the lower court.
 0N the 18th the President approved the act in relation to dead and fallen timber an Indian lands.
 A TELEGRAM Was received at the Navy Departmeuf,on the 18th, from Rear Admi- ral Belku8p, Gommandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, saving that the United States steamer Nandalia ar rived at Honolulu February ?, and Was to sail for Apia, Samoa, on the 7th. All were well on board.
 NJ. DE FREYeINFT has declined 10 join the new French Cabinet which NJ. Moline is attempting to form.
 THE London papers place no credence in the report that Henry NJ. Stanley has beeu killed, as published by the Paris Petit Journal of the 18th.
 57. E# +t. stone estate at Hawarden. Mr. Herbert Gladstone says that the eyietions are per- fectly compatible yith all reasonable up- holding of the cause of Irish tenants He says the Irish have acquired q right ia their holdings which does not exist ia En- gland.
 TIE correspondent ef the Paris Petit Journal at St. Salvador, in the Congo Free State. says that a courier has arr rived at that place from the Vest coast, wh9 states that report is current there that Henry Nj, Stanley wa, killed in fight with the natives near dangambe. The courier reports that several iustru- meuIs which hava hceu identified as be- longing to Stanley have been sold by the natives.
 TIE London Post of the 18th, comment- ing upon the "European war cloud" and tae visit Of the Duke of Cambridge to Spain. 1iwelIs upon the necessity of keep ing Gibraltar and Malta impreguabe and Lit hints at the sending Of heavier and better guus to srongholds.
 HE St. Petersburg Gazette oe the 18th publishes letter from Bolhora, dated January l9, which relates that besides Ishak Khan aud his followers. Sultan Murad Khan and 5900 families of Afghan Esabks have crossed the frontier aud en- tered the Bokhafan service.