The Russellville Democrat., 1889-10-10

gone out on strike,
THE election Of Carter Republican cam
5;dofs for Congress from Montana, is
conceded by we'll Uniformed Democrats.
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A TEMPEST prevailed on the Black sea,
on tbe 2d. and number of Turkish ves-
se1s we're sunk involving great loss Of
life.
THE Russian Government is organiz-
ing an expedition to go 10 Tibet, in the
spring, osteusibly for purposes Of ex-
plorauon.
THOMPSON TuBBs was shot through the
~,-ain and instantly. Killed by the acci-
dental discharge of a gun in the hands
of Harry Thomas, while shooting at
mark at Glens Falls, N. Y, on the Sd.
THE grand jury at New Orleans in
o1iired into the State bond scandal on
the 1,t, and returned a number of indict-
mertg. among which was supposed to be
one against ext Treasurer E. A. Burke.
ENRIQUE DEvtLLA, Colombian Consul
at New Orleans died in that city of yell
low fever, on the Sd, two days after his
arrival. The Board OF Health Of New
Orleans SAYS there is no cause for alarm.
Fx-GovERNoR JOHN A. MARTIN of Kan
sas died. on the ID, at Atehison, from
complication Of diseases. lie was the
first Governor of that State to pass away,
lhe other eight being still in good health.
AFANuLY Of travellers out of money,
sicl, and almost starved TO death, were
found in the woods near Piechen, o., on
the Goth, by a party OF hunters. They
were rescued and taken to the county in
frmary.
E. A. BURKE, ex-State Treasurer of
Louisiana, sailed from Liverpool for
New York, on the Sd, on the steamer
Teutonic but upon the arrival OF the ves-
sci at Queenstown he disembarked and
xeturned to London.
Two men we're killed and two fatally
injured by the uniimely explosion OF a
charge Of dynamite in the Calumet and
Heola mines at Houghton, Mich, on the
Sd. Several other miners were injured,
some Of them seriously.
AaERicAN and English residents in
Vienna have founded an Anglo American
medical society TO afford assistance to tho
large number Of students from England
and America who go TO that city every
year to huish course in medicine.
F. C. BAKER, representing Victoria, b.
sc. in the Dominion Parliament has re-
signed his seat owing to his inability to
secure redress for those of his constitu-
ents whose vessels had been seized by
United States cruisers in Berhing Sea
oy the evening Of the I'd Secretary of
State Blaine entertained the delegates to
the Three Americas Congress, all the
members Of the Cabinet and other dis
tinguished guests by a grand banquet at
the Normandie Hotel in Washington.
Two express trains running in oppo-
site directions between Naples and Fog
gia, Italy, on the Both, came into collision
while running at a high rate of speed
through tunnel. Twenty carriages
we're wrecked and fifty persons killed or
injured.
INCOMPLETE returns from all counties
in Washington save Douglas, Okanogan,
San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish and Stew
ens, give the Republican candidate for
Congress ,629 majority. The whole Re-
publican State ticket is elected by ma
iorities not far from these figures.
THE citizens permanent relief commit
tee Of Philadelphia, which has charge OF
the Johnstown flood relief fund, voted,
on the 4th, to appropriate SO, 900 to the
Philadelphia Red Cross Society, to be
tnsed for the camp hospital at Johnstown,
and 100000 to the State food relief COM
mittee.
GENERAL BoULANGER will leave Lon
don and take up his residence on the Isle
Of Jersey. 1t is said that this change
Is due to his desire to reduce his ex-
penses, as the persons who have been
furnishing him with financial support
have refused TO continue to supply him
with funds
In the fight at Portsmouth, Englsnd
to regain possession of the boat Never
sink, in which he crossed the ocean
Captain Lawler knocked one man down
with crow bar, shot another and
emptied his revolver at the other three,
He was thon disarmed and handed over
to othe police.
THE steamer Corona, of the ouachita
Consolidated line, exploded her boilers
at False River, nearly opposite Port
Hudson, La, on the Il, causing the loss
d the steamer aud nearly fifty lives.
The Anchor Line steamer City of St.
Louis happened to be near by, and her
crew saved many lives.
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THE tin-plate mill at the Pittsburgh |
fPa.) Exposition was put in operation, |
on the 3D. under the supervision OF w. G. |
Cronnemeyer secretary OF the American |
Tin-Plate Association. Perfect plates |
we're turned out and experts who exam |
ined them claim they are equal, il not |
superior, to those manufactured across |
the water.
JUDGE NEY, Of Waterloo, Ia, in i'm |
posing sen tence, on the 30th, upon NJ. T.. |
billings, convicted of manslaughter in |
the first degree remarked that had he |
been juror he would have voted for ac- |
quittaL He then pronounced upon the |
prisoner the full limit of the law. Bill |
ings was convicted of the murder Of |
county Attorney Kingsley at Waverly, |
la, in December, 1887.
InR public debt statement issued from |
the Treasury Department, on the 1st
shows decrease IN the debt amounting |
70 Sl3. 6oj,094 during the month Of Sep
tember. The total debt, less cash in the |
treasury, was Il O70, ,055 $50 and of this
amount 1862 9iS, 502 is bonded indebted
ness. The ynet cash or surplus in the |
treasury is $40 .54i 42s or about three
millions more than mcnth ago.
IHE Democracy Of Massachusetts, on
The "a, nominated Hon. VIM. e. RUSSELL
OF Cambridge, for Governor; for Lieu
ienant-Goyernor, John W. Coreoran, OF
sellnton; for Secretary of State, VIM. M.
Osgood. Of Boston; for Treasurer and
Receiver General, +. b. Mum. Of
Aoyokc; for Auditor, d. T. Trefery, of
harbleheadi for Attorney General,
Elisha B. Maynard, OF Springfield.
PRISONER IN the Maryland peniten-
nary became suddenly insane, on the
atn' ana, picking up a heavy scanning,
sleshed around at everybody. He struck
Alellow- prisoner two terrible blows on
tle mead and then ran up 10 the fifth tier
~ me prIsOn md dashed himself down |