The Springdale news., 1889-06-14
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 THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
 EDWARD HANLAS. the oarsman. ar rived in San Francisco from Australia on :the sth.
 THE Johnstown flood.sunerers, fund being raised in Paris amounted, oa the 9th, to $l0,000.
 TIE business portion of the city of Seattle, W. T.. was practically wiped out by . great confagration on the evening e. t.ie 6th
 TIE cotton mills in ofen5ars. Baden, were destroyed by fire, on theGth. fnvoIy. Ing a loss of S00,010 marks, Several work men were killed.
 IS hole on the site of the Harlbut House, in Johnstown, forty-seven bodies. supposed to be those Of guests, We're dis covered on the sth.
 TIE sale to the English syndicate of the Ballentine brewery interest in Newark, N. j., has been eonsummated, the price agreed upon being S51o9, ,000.
 NEW YORK detective who went from the Paris Exhibition to Berlin, had hls pocket picked there on the 6;h He lost 4':s money and valuable papers.
 DISASTROUS floods are reported from different parts Of Bavaria with consider able destruction of property. The crops were ruined in many localities.
 TIE National reunion ot Elks was 10 have begun at Pittsburgh. Pa. on the 9th. lhe reunion has been postponed until July l6, owing to the disaster at Johns- tow,I.
 IRE Matte Winship, detained at Hail. fax by the Dominion authorities, fur nished bond, on the 6th. and commenced getting ready to sail for the mackerel grounds.
 TIE June report Of the Departm ent of Agriculture indicates a slight reduction h the area of the cotton planted ou the Atlantic coast, and an increase west of Alabama.
 TIE mayors fund in New York City for Johnstown had reached. on the 6.h. >lt..ooo. and the Chamber Of Commeree taRd >42.0J0. Other funds are also in- sTeasing rapidly,
 FotR HUNDRED telegrams were received al the Vatican deploring the unvaiiing of th- Bruno monument. All of the Am bassadors accredited to the Vatican met h the Pope's chapel on the 9th.
 k coburn, Pa, there is not one good hease left standing as tue result of the re- cent storms. The total loss will aggre- gate fnlly S3oo, ,001. The valley k strewn Niih bodies of all kinds of animals.
 rftr ,5+i.-,,-, .,..,...- . sf5- oiis, Minu., on the 9th, voted 10 send 2.ooo barrels of flour to the JoHustown suffer CTS. The order was divided aM8ug all fhe nils so as 10 hasten shipment.
 THE returns issued by the London Board ot Trade show that tine imports during the month of May increased f443o and the exports increased q 060.0J0 as compared with the same month last year. TIE advocates of high license in Mary land are making gallant fight in favor of the movement in that State. Contrary to fheir usual custom the Prohibiiiou- ists are lending their aid to the measure. 4 FIRE in the village of Libousch. near R1tborI, in Prussian Silesia, on the 5th, destroyed l0j houses, including the vil- lage church and viearage. Seven han- dred of the villagers are rendered home less.
 WM. MILLS the 100-yards sprinter, who lived al Watertown, Mass, ani who has record of l0'4 seconds was last heard frQm in Johnstown, jazt before the disas- ter.there, and it is thought he is among the victims.
 CAPTAIN WIssMAxs has bad another en- gagement with the Arabs, in which the latter were completely routed. He has also destroyed their village of Saadani. Windji. Captain Wissmauu's casualties were trifliug.
 FATHER TAHNEY. Catholic priest, celebrated mass in Patrick Matthews side yard at Johnstowu, Pa, on the 9th. Many of those present shed their first tears over the disaster iu res ponse to the good priests touching remarks.
 k the joint session of the New Hamp- shire Legislature, on the 9th, David C. GoodeH, Republican, was elected Cover nor of the State, receiving l6s votes 10 ll5 for Charles Amsden. Democrat The Inauguration took pla~e on the 9th.
 IT is reported that the Shah Of Persia during his late visit to the Car entered into secret treaty, temporarily annex Ing the northern portion of Persia to the Russian empire. in the event of a certain contingency happening, which is defined iii the treaty.
 TIE New York Commercial- Advertiser, of the 9th, says deal Is being arranged ben een the County Democrats and the Republicans, with view to increasing the strength of the Republicans in the Legislature and busting Tammany from control of the city.
 THE tribesmen of Morocco, who are in rebellion against the authority of the Sul- tan, have captured Prince Hamid, the heir to the throne. and killed several of his escort The rebellion Is spreading very fast The Sultan is very much iucensed, and is raising an army to crush 1t.
 HENRY GEORGE B0 BURKE, staff engineer on the British man -of-war CalHope, has been promoted to be fleet engineer in recognition of his services on the Calliope when she steamed out of the harbor of Apia during the hurricane that destroyed the American and German yes- sels.
 TIE Nord Deutsehe Allegemeine Zei- tung, of Berlin, in an editorial, on the 9th, on the Johnstown floods, closed with call upon German generosity i'll aid Of