The Russellville Democrat., 1889-07-11
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


 WM. JOHN LANE, Member of Parlia- ment for Cork Ireland, was arrested, on the lst, on the charge of melting the peo- pie to adopt the plan of campaign. He was conveyed to Tipperary for trial.
 By the explosion of boiler on the 1st, at the works of the Asphalt Paving Company o, Wilkesbarre, Pa. the en- gineer, John Boyle, was blown fifty feet in the air and killed.
 THE State commissary department at Johnstown, Pa, was, on the 2d, turned over to the citizens.
 TIE ship carpenters of East Boston on what is termed 'new work" struck, on the 1st, for niue hours work aud ten hours pay.
 FRANK MORRIS, of Cleveland O., en- tenced to hang July 10 at the penitentiary, has been granted a communication of sem tence to imprisonment for life.
 FIFTEEN THOUSAND workmen struck at Brunn, Austria, on the 1st including all the bakers in the city.
 J. c. CHASEY, of Indiana, was, on the 2d, appointed assistant attorney in the Department of Justice, in the place of E. J. May resigned.
 ON the 1st, in New York City, detect ives arrested Reynolds Timson, of Mil- waukee, Wis, for the alleged larceny of SG00 900 worth of watches there. Timson was turned over to Detective Kelly. of Milwaukee.
 MRS. CHARLES FISCHER, wife of mer- chant tailor of Brazil, Ind, while kin ding the kitchen fire. on the 1st, was hor- ribly burned by the fire igniting the coal oil ln the can. causing an explosion. Prompt relief was summoned, and she may recover.
 SECRETARY BLAINE and Walker Blaine have gone to Bar Harbor, Me-, where the former will remain until September President Harrison contemplates paying the Secretary a visit some time in July.
 NAVAL CADET HERBERT L. DRAPER, of Ellsworth, Kas., who was recently admit ted to permanent duty as an Ensign, has been made a Second Lieutenant and as- signed to duty in the Marine Corps.
 ACTIVE operations commenced at the Norfolk Navy Yard at the beginning of the new fiscal year, and several hundred mechanics and laborers were put to work. The working force is to be increased to 1,500 men.
 W. J. LEEcHMAN, aged seventy years, died at his home in Centerpoint Ind, on the 1st., from the effect of snake bite.
 
 the lungs. For many years he was a practicing physician.
 FIVE weeks ago Dr. Knowles, Indiana State Veterinary Surgeon, killed two horses belonging to a man named Eads, at Carlisle. Eads himself was suffering with glanders, and word has been re- ceived that he had died from the disease.
 DANIEL AJAUvEIS, twenty-three years old who is police officer in New York City, attempted to end his life while on his way to his post of duty by shooting him. self in the right side. He was removed to the hospital a prisoner. He is believed to be out of his mind, and will probably die.
 THE official vote of the recent election in Pennsylvania as received and con- puted is as follows: For the prohibition amendment, 296, TT; against, 4si 6i4; ma jority against, 1sS,027. For the suffrage amendment abolishing the poll-t qual- ification, 1S3, 37l; against 420, ,323; majority against, 236,952.
 CARDINAL GIBBONS has received beau- tiful present from Pope Leo KILL It is a large golden and richly -jeweled osten- sOrium, and was sent to the Cardinal as a souvenir of the Pope's jubilee.
 A PASSENGER train on the Norfolk X Western railroad went through washed out culvert, near Roanoke, Va, at 1 :05 a. m., on the 2d. The entire train, con- sisting of locomotive, baggage, express, smoker, passenger and two Pullman cars, was piled up in heap of wreckage which immediately caught fire from a gasoline lamp and burned, together with a large number of dead and wounded passengers and train hands pinioned in the debris.
 THE German officers in the service of China are about to resign.
 Ar his own request, Colonel John c. Parke, of the Engineer Corps, superin- tendent of the West Point Military Aead emy, was, on the 2d, placed on the retired list of the army. Colonel Parke had served forty years as an army officer.
 THE members of the Cherokee Indian Commission left Washington for their homes on the 2d. They will go to the Cherokee country about the 25th.
 THE Norwegian ministry resigned on tue 2d.
 MR. THOMAS J. MORGAN, of Rhode Island, the new Commissioner of Indian Affairs, arrived in Washington, on the 2d, to take charge of the Indian Office.
 DESTRUCTIVE water-spout broke over Altoona, Pa, and vicinity, on the night of the 2d, and several persons were pros- trated by lightning during the storm. ELI MIX, the coroner who has been in the fatality which occurred on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad few miles north of New Hay- en, Conn.,, on the 29th, handed his report to State's- Attorney Doolittle on the 2d. He finds that the accident was caused by the criminal carelessness of Thomas a section boss. TIE Chautauqua (N. Y) Assembly opened its sixteenth annual session on the 2d.
 TIE tenth annual meeting of the League of American Wheelmen was be- gun at Hagerstown, Md, on the 2d. THOMAS MCBRIDE and Alex. Hart were killed and several other per sons were injured by the bursting of an immense steam bleaching vat in the Lyons Ia.) paper mill on the 2d. FoUR business blocks at Hailey, Idaho, were destroyed by fire, on the 2d, causing a loss of SJO0,000. THE belief existed in Paris on the 2d that a Cabinet crisis would result from the charge made by Nj. de Cassagnac in the Chamber of Deputies that NJ. Theve- not, Minister of Justice, was the accom- plice of Nj. Meyer in the Credit Mobilier frauds, for connection with which M. Meyer has been sent to prison. Some ex- citement was accustomed. TIE British Cabinet has decided to ap- point committee on royal grants, to deal with the whole subject of grants to members of the royal family from tue imperial treasury. The powers of the committee in fixing amounts in cases where they recommend appropriations of public money will be limited. TIE veterans of the Second Connecticut Light Artillery, Battery B, dedicated their monument at Gettysburg on the Sd. IL is of granite ten feet high. FREDERICK DOUGLASS called on the on the Sd, to thank him for his appointment as Minister to Hayti,