The Russellville Democrat., 1889-10-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Lexington, N. c., last fall, was captured,
on the night of the 18TH at Greensboro
and taken to Lexington, where he was
hanged to o tree on the outskirts OF the
town on the following night
THE three mile sculling race between
Matterson and Bubear in England, over
the Thames course, on the 14th, was won
by Matterson, who led from thestart and
finished eight lengths ahead.
THE three breweries of Indianapolis,
Ind, --Schmidts, Seiber's and the Maus
establishment-were sold, on the 10Th, to
an English syndicate. The considera-
tion is unknown.
JUDGE GIDEON G. MOODY, of Deadwood,
and ex-Congressional Delegate Frank
Pettigrew, Of Sioux Falls, were nominated
for United States Senators on the first bal
lot on the 10Th, by the Republican eau
Gus of the South Dakota Legislature.
THE schooner Laura L., loaded with
stone, capsized in the East river, New
York on the 18th, and three Of the crew,
James Hutches, William Jackson and
Alexander Christie, were drowned.
ARGUMENT was begun in the Supreme
Court of New York City, on the 18th, on
the application Of the electric light COM
panies to make permanent the injunction
restraining municipal Interference with
their wires. The companies claim that
until sufficient accommodation is pro-
vided in the subways the wires must be
permitted to remain overhead.
The Omaha tNeb.) Street Railway
Company, on the 18th, purchased the en-
tire system of the Omaha Motor Com
pany. The price paid was 5000, 0O0
This gives the consolidated company a
monopoly of the business in Omaha and
the operation of seventy five miles of
road.
THE river Livenza, in the northern part
of Italy, has overflowed its banks, caus-
ing serious damage all along its course.
THE first Legislature OF South Dakota
was organized at twelve O'Clock, noon, on
the 18th. S. E. Young Republican, of
Minuehaha, was elected Speaker. At
seven o'clock. both houses being organ
lied, the members assembled in front of
the court house to witness the Inaugural
tion Of the Governor, judges of the Su-
preme Court and othes State officials.
THE County Commissioners OF New
Haven, Conn, on the 18th, decided to fix
the price Of liquor licenses for the ensu-
ing year at 500, an increase of $50 over
last years license fee.
THE convention of the State Republican
Temple Opera House, at Newark, on the
18th, and was largely attended. Nearly
every Republican club in the State was
represented and many organizations
were present in body.
CHINESE laundries and tho flannel
shirt were the questions which occupied
the attention of members of the Laun-
drymen's National Association conven-
tion at Buffalo, N. ", ON the 18th.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York, visited
the Piedmont (Ga.) Exposition on the
18th. w. p. Hill, president of the Young
Mems Democratic League, welcomed the
Governor for the league; Mayor Glenn
for the city, and Governor Gordon for the
State. Governor Hill responded briefly.
In difficulty at Dothen, Ala, on the
18th, between the town authorities and
some draymen who refused to pay a city
license, two draymen were killed, while
two marshals were shot, one of them
fatally.
ABOUT six hundred. delegates from all
parts of the United States attended the
seventeenth annual convention OF the
Carriage Builders National Association
at Syracuse N. Y, on the 18th.
THERE were no new developments, on
the 18th, in the Silver Bow County Mont
contest save that, instead of the Republic
cans getting in their entire delegation,
they only get six members; but that
number is sufficient to overcome the
Democratic majority shown on the face
of the returns.
The American Association baseball
championship was decided on the 10Th,
in favor of the Brooklyns, the st. Louis
Browns losing a game to Cincinnati, and
thereby falling into the tureen and
rendering the playing OF postponed
games of no avail.
THE Navy Department has been in
formed that the new cruiser San Fran
cisco will be launched at the yards of the
Union Iron Works in San Francisco on
the goth.
EDWARD o. LEEcH qualified as Director
of the Mint on the 10th.
1T is now generally believed among
Philadelphia shipping men that Captain
Rial and his crew OF eleven men on the
German bark Duppel have been lost
The Duppel is more than three months
out from Liverpool with cargo of salt.
A COLLISION between two trains on the
Burlington & Missouri River railroad at
Gibson, Neb., few miles from Omaha,
on the 10Th, resulted ia injury to at least
fifty passengers aud the complete demo-
lition of two engines, chair car aud
combination car
JUDGE DEvISs. of Boston, on the 10th,
refused a writ of habeas corpus TO
George Francis Train asked by his at
torney on the ground that his client was
non comp0s menus.
WHILE five men were digging large
we'll at Trinidad Col, on the 10th, the
walls caved in killing two white men and
a negro.
BARON FITZGERALD, a Lord Of Appeal
n-ordinary In Ireland, died in Dublin
on the 10th.
THIRTY persons were injured in a
frightful railway accident at Brussels,
on the 10th, caused by failure Of the
air-brakes the traiu running with great
speed against the buffers at the end OF
the line.
The Railway Telegraph Superintend-
ents' Association began its annual ses-
sion at the Ebbitt House in Washington,
on the 10th, George G. Kinsman, of the
Wabash, presiding. number Of new
members were admitted.
OWING to the depressed condition OF
the coal trade nine colleries of the Phila-
delphia a. Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany, at Pottsyille, Pa, employing near
ly 1000 men and boys, have been tenn
porarily suspended.
JUDGE IRWIN, OF the Marion County
Und.) Criminal Court on the 10th, de-
oided the Dressed Beef act of the last
Legislature to be unconstitutional
AUGUsTE ARcHAMBAuLT, farmer lly-
ing near Montreal, Can, who was sup
posed to have died, was being buried, on
the 14th, when a groan was heard from
the coffin. The casket was opened, and
the man was found TO be alive. He was
taken home, aud has chance for recov-
cry. His illness was typhoid fever.
WHILE Madame Janauschek was being
driven to the theater in jamestown, n.
Y, on the evening Of the nth, she was
thrown from her carriage, and though
not seriously injured, suffered from the
severe shock.
ITNTTrp STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY