The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-29
THE EAST,


 THERE was a strike of the workmen em- ployed by the Allegheny (Pa.) County Electric Light Company recently. The company had engaged new men at lower wages, and this caused the strike.
 IT is stated in New York that 70,000 Arabs are preparing to come to this coun- try if twenty who arrived recently are passed through the customs department. THE New York Democratic convention will be held at Syracuse October l, for the purpose of nominating candidates for State offices.
 GILMAN H. KIMBALL, of Middleton, Mass, died of hydrophoba recently. His agonies had been subdued by hypodermic injections.
 THE Keystone Furnace Company, of Reading, Pa, has assigned Assets, S200 . 000
 THE Wauregan cotton mills, of Rhode Island, have suspended. The mills were capitalized at 5000, 600. The liabilities were Sl, coo, 000 with assets, according to the company, of S2, o00, oo0
 Ar the annual meeting of the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in Boston all the old directors were reelected, and President Agassiz presented a plan for tunneling to Lake Superior for water.
 WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, the new Min ister to Berlin, recently visited Secretary Blaine at Bar Harbor, Me.
 TIE Reading iron works, which failed some months ago. will resume in all it's departments in a short time under the management of the railroad company. Two thousand men will be employed.
 IT is thought the leather firm of w. F.. Johnson & Co, of Boston, which failed recently, will be able to pay 50 cents on the dollar
 BY collision on the Erie road near El- mira, N. r., recently two trainmen were badly scalded and much damage was done. Several passengers were slightly injured.
 THE oil refinery at Alleghany City, Pa, was burned recently. Loss, S225, 00o The fire started with an explosion.
 THE creditors of the La May Company, of Lynn, Mass, dealers in stoves, hard- ware etc, have accepted 6 secured offer of 50 cents on the dollar payable in nine months.
 Two steam yachts, the Wide Awake, of Beaverton, and the Jessie Lang, of Phoe- nix. coliided at the junction of the Oswego and Seneca rivers near Syracuse, N. Y., recently. The Jessie Lang sank and all on board, about twenty five persons, went into the water. All were rescued by the Wide-Awake except Miss Clara Van Wormer, of Phoenix, who was drowned CONCERNING the rumor that a settle- ment and compromise had been effected in the Flack divorce case ex-Judge Full lerton, of New York, says there is nc truth in the rumor.
 A WARRANT has been issued for the ar- rest of Gideon Brown, of Boston, on g charge of larceny. He is in Montreal and says he will return to Boston in few days and settle up his tangled business affairs.
 ABRAHAM BROWNING. first Attorney General of New Jersey under the new Constitution adopted in ls45, died at Cam den, aged eighty -one years.
 THE New York Metropolitan Museum ol Art has just acquired several pieces o work of great archaeological and artistic interest from Italy.
 By an explosion of fire e-damp in colliery No. 2 of the Delaware & Hudson Cana Company at Scranton. Pa, the other day five men who were repairing the damage done by cave in were fearfully burned A GRoCERYMAN named Luca, of Brook lyn, N. Y., was recently murdered by { DutE ar named McEiWalnb Wbolh ue ShhBh robbing his store.
 WHILE ex-Governor Rohie, of Maine was walking near his farm the other day he was attacked with whip by two Frenchmen.
 THE four murderers of women Patrick Paekenham, Jack Lewis colored, James Nolan and Ferdinand Carolin, were banged in the yard of the Tombs prison at New York, on the 23d
 NEGOTIATIONS are in progress to pur' chase the extensive woolen mills of James Lee & Sons, of Bridgeport Pa, by an En- glish syndicate.
 JIMMY HOPE, the famous bank robber has been discharged from the prison al Auburn, N, r., his time having expired He left or New York.
 CHARLES A. DANA, editor of the New York Sun, who first conceived the idea o holding a Worlds Fair in America 1T 1892, has been chosen president of the New Horkis Worlds Fair Committee.
 BARNUM's circus train was wrecked near Watertown. N. Y., on the night oi the 22d. A number Of the animals were killed, the loss being S40,O00,