The Springdale news., 1889-08-16
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS From the Republic
 Fifteen skeletons uncarthed near Peoria, III.
 Minister Egan presented to the President ofChiI.
 Fire at Fort Wayne, Ind. caused loss of Sl60,00O.
 About 5O,000 women voted nt the Kansas school election.
 A Dakota Canal system costing S4. 100000 is talked of. Dallas, Tex, IS to have I S50,OOO confederate monument. Lightning caosed sl5,OO0 worth of damage at A Algona, To.
 Pearls found Tn clans in the Su- gar River near Albany, Wis.
 The sugar trust extending its combine to the worlds supply.
 The coke strike In Pennsylvania believed to be near a settlement.
 The Chinese swarming into the United States by way of Mexico.
 Parnell IS badly broken in health and will take rest for a year.
 A Pasteur rabies treatment hos pital to % established at Chicago.
 Alter September l there will be two State inspections of gram in Missouri.
 The discovery of rich gold mine in the Maove Desert, Cal, IS reported.
 The Minnesota and Dakota wheat crop will aggregate about 9O,000, ,000 bushels.
 A movement Is on foot favoring Gen. Alger for commander-ih- chief of the G. A. R.
 Mineral lands about Joplin and Webb City, Mo-, bought by a veal thy syndicate.
 J. Frank Collom of Minneapolis, Minn., confesses to forgerles aggre- gatlng S267 900.
 An electric motor at Laural, Ind, reaches the wonderful speed of two miles minute.
 The absurd story that Jessie James is still alive is fully refuted by St. Joseph citizens.
 Gen. Henry Dupont, the we'll known powder manufacturer, dies at Wilmington, Del. Gen. Grandson F. Royston, of Arkansas, is dy.ng at his home in Hampstead county.
 Spokane Falls citizens are pre- pairing to build brick and stone buildings on the burned district.
 One of the attractions ofthe State Fair at Sedalia is to be 2O-mile race with female jockeys
 A Portland (Ore.) railroad man declares that the loss It Spokane Falls will not exceed S5,000,0O0.
 A mammoth skeleton, supposed to be that of mastodon, has been un earhed near St, James, Neb.
 Prof. Upham predicts that the great dry period of Dakota IS at all end and the wet period near.
 The Chesapeake and Ohio shops will be removed from Wheeling to a point near St. Albans, w. Va.
 The wheel and the Farmers AL liance of Alabama have consolidated with total mem bership of l62, 900.
 The survIvors of the Chatsworth railway horror celebrated the ami versary of that disaster at Peoria.
 A Georgia railroad l2 miles long has been abandoned and the road bed and the rolling stock is going to ruin.
 The cases of Berry and Miles, al- legged murderers of Nat Kinney, the Bald Knobber, in court at Spring field.
 Texarkana, Ark. IS excited over the visit ot strage Englishman who dumped two iron-bound chests into the rlver
 The situation Tn the Pennyslva nia coke regIon is still unsettled, and officers are there to keep the Hungarian strikers orderly.
 Mrs. Andrew Wallace of Phila- delphia died trohl the effects of burns resulting from her husband rowing a lamp at her.
 A daughter of Henry McMullln, an Illino's farmer. has developed from puny girl into 285 pound woman at the age offs.
 New York politicians think that Gov. Hill is scheming to become United States Senator preparatory to fight for the Presid ncy.
 Johr Yeldell, the colored praech- CT, was acquitted of the charge of murder by South Carolina jury composed entirely of white men.
 The result of the Cherokee cleo ton shows that neither the Mayos nor the Downing par ty will have a majority in the next Council of the Nation.
 The potrified remains of man of the Stone Age are said to have been found in cavern ofthe Aspen Mountain, m Colorado, opened by q mine blaS'.
 The Interstate Commerce Com mission is investigating insurance and benefit schemes, rules of pro- motion and methods of discipline among employees.
 The three children ot T. B. Crocker and boatnan named John Bergenstein perish on an ex p!oding naphtha launched at Buffa