The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-04-18

FIRE was discovered IN the forward
compartment of the steamship Chilian,
on the 18th, after she had cleared from
New Orleans for Hayre. Her cargo con-
sisted of 4,S00 bales of cotton and 10000
bushels of bulk corn.
AN explosion Of molten metal occurred
in Todd & Co.'s foundry at Youngstown,
o., on the 11th. Frank and Geo. Bryant
were horribly burned and their recovery
is doubtful. Six other employees were
more or less seriously injured.
ONE Of the gas wells near Tifin, o.,
which was drilled about year ago, and
developed capacity of 100000 cubic feet
daily, suddenly increased is fiow on the
18th, to 28,000,000 feet, throwing over 300
feet of the casing from the well, and doing
considerable other damage.
THE st teamer City of Chester, from New
York, which arrived at Queens town on the
night OF the 11th, reported having passed,
on April 8, in mid-ocean, the Danish
steamer Danmark, from Copenhagen for
New York. The vessel had been aban-
doned and was in a sinking condition.
She had apparently been in a collision.
Her bow stood high out of water, while
her stern was sunken almost below the
level of the sea.
THE Navy Department has instructed
the commandant of the New York Navy
Yard to furnish the custodian of the GUS
om-house with q sufficient amount of
bunting and flags to decorate the public
buildings in New York City during the
inaugural Centennial ceremonies. Sail
ors will also be provided to render as
sistance in arranging the decorations.
In recent debates in the British House
of Commons the governments position in
regard to it's alliance with Germany to
suppress the African slave trade has been
sharply criticised. 1t is asserted that Bis
marck is simply using England's infiu-
ence and prestige in the East and in Africa
to help repair some of the blunders made
in those quarters by German officers and
representatives.
THE court, in the Western Union Tele-
graph Company's application against the
New York City Subway Commission, de-
cided against the Western Union on the
18th.
THE house of w. 2. Wood, two miles
from Clayton, Ca, was burned to the
ground early on the morning of the 18th,
and Mrs. Wood and her five children were
burned to death. Mr.. Wood, who is a car
penter, was absent from home. The fire
is supposed to have been communicated
to the house by burning leaves.
OVER 700 hands were thrown out Of
work by the destruction of the Planet
Jute Mills, Of Brooklyn, on the 18th.
In concluding his address before the
Parnell Commission, on the 18th, Sir
Charles Russell said the court was tryin g
the history of the Irish revolution, and he
asked for it fair and generous consider
alton.
LYMAN E. KNAPP, of Middlebury, VT,
was, on the 18th, appointed Governor of
Alaska; James p. Luse, of Dakota, to be
register of the land office at Rapid City,
Oak, and Thomas NJ. Reed, Jr., to be reg
lister of the land Office at Seattle, w. I.
AT four o'clock, on the morning of the
18th, an attempt was made to blow up
Jerry DriscolPs saloon in Dublin Gulch,
Mont. A couple of sticks of giant powder
were placed under the building and ex-
plodsd by fuse, badly wrecking the
building. Two men, who were sleeping
in the store, were slightly injured. A
man named Tom Mccarthy, who had a
grudgc against DrisSoll, has been arrest
ed.
A MAN supposed to be Salzman, who
murderously assaulted Mrs. Muller at
Iryington, N. j., few weeks ago, was
captured near Barnegat, on the 18th, and
taken to Newark for Identification.
w. II. II. SMITH has been appointed
chief clerk of the naval bureau of steam
engineering, vice Julius j. Feeks, re-
signed. Mr.. Smith was the immediate
predecessor of Mr.. Feeks, and went out
after service of twenty three years in
the bureau.
THE Secretary OF the Navy has referred
to board consisting of Chief Constructor
Wilson, Engineer in Chief Melville and
Captain Howison, the application of the
Union Iron Works of San Francisco for
an extension Of time under their contract
for the construction of Cruiser No. 8.
DURING thick fog, on the morning of
the 18th, the steamer Conanicut running
from Newport to jamestown, r. l., ran
ashore on the rocks in the outer harbor,
making a large hole in her. The passen-
gers were landed in the tug Fairy. A
wrecking schooner went to the assistance
of the disabled steamer.
On tho 11th fifty three hundred emil
grants sailed from Bremen and Hamburg
for New York.
A CYCLONE struck the mining town of
Beidler. o., on the 18th, demolishing six
dwellings. William Lewis twelye-year
old daughter, was caught in the ruins and
fatally injured. Others were badly hurt.
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