The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-08
THE EAST.

A CYcLoNIC storm of rain and wind al Boston on the 29th uprooted trees, plowed furrow fifteen feet wide long distance and threw water cut of the Chicopee river fifty feet high. Streams rose rapidly.
 E. H. ROLLINS ex-United States Sena- tor, was reported i'll at the Isle of Shoals, N. H. He was unconscious and failing perceptibly.
 THE Cramps and all the other Delaware river ship builders deny the story from San Francisco that they are negotiating for ship yards in British Columbia.
 BACHELOR & Co, boots and shoes, of Boston and North Brookfield, failed on the 3Oth with liabilities of S1, 000,00
 McKEAN & APPLETON, shoe manufactur. CTS at Salem, Mass, have made an assign ment with S75,000 liabilities.
 TWENTY FIVE seamen of the bark Little Ohio. of New Bedford, Mass, perished when that vessel was wrecked in the Behring sea, October g. last year. The remaining eight survivors were brought to Alaska by the Thetis.
 NEWARK, South Orange, Bloomfield Millburn, Plainfield and other towns of New Jersey have suffered seriously by floods.
 THE boiler in the mill of John Flanagan
 q other day, killing Johua Amber and fatally injuring George Schofield, son of the engineer, and James Stewart. Two others were seriously injared.
 GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania, has honored the acquisition of the Gov ernor of South Carolina for Rev. F. F. Flemon, the colored preacher accused of murder in 1884
 HEAVY rains were reported in Pennsyl- vania and Virginia on the 30th and 31st. Overfiowing rivers and creeks caused the stoppage of many mills and the derange- ment of railroad travel.
 SULLIVAN the pugilist was arrested at New York on the 3lst on a requisition from the Governor of Mississippi, ap- proved by the Governor of New York.
 Ex-SEEAToR E. IL ROLLINS, of New Hampshire, died on the 3lst
 THE will of the late Charlemagne Tower has been admitted to probate at Philadel- phia. He leaves all his estate in trust for his family. His estate is said to be worth many millions of dollars.
 THE National Bureau of Engraving" 1" of Philadelphia, large lithographic printing establishment is hopelessly in- volved. Its material has been ordered for sale.
 THE Massachusetts Republican State convention has been set for Boston, Sep tember 26 Ex-Governor Robinson will be the presiding officer.
 ABRAHAM FINKBoNE, aged twenty-six, accused of arson, hanged himself in the Jail at Reading, Pa, the other night.
 THERE was n cloudburst at Watkins Glen, N, T., on the lst.
 TIE latest effort of Ives and Staynor, the Cincinnati, Hamilton x Dayton rail- road manipulators, to secure release from the New York jail has failed.
 TIE Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company has voluntarily increased the wages of it's puddlers ffty-fve cents day.
 W. J. JOHNSON & Co. leather dealers of Boston, have assigned with S55. GOO direct and Sl7O, 900 contingent liabilities. The assets are said to be ample.
 FIVE hundred striking Italian railroad laborers near Pitts sburgh, Pa., recently en- gagged in a riot Two were killed.
 TIE rainfall in the Pennsylvania coal regions was very heavy recently and a number of collieries were compelled to shut down. The streams were greatly swollen and the majority of the oollieries in the Mahoning valley were drowned out
 THE New York Graphic is again in trouble Reporters and clerks are clamor- ing for salaries. A syndicate, headed by Steve B. Elkias, was supposed to own it. TIE memorial commemorating the land- ing of the Pilgrims was dedicated at Plymouth, Mass, on the 1st
 WILLIAM AwL, cashier of the freight department of the Lake Erie road at Pitts burgh, Pa. is missing. His accounts are being investigated, and it is currently reported that there is a big shortage.
 TIE Bancroft mil at Media, Pa, whose product was handled by Lewis Bros & Co, the bankrupt dry goods merchants ot Philadelphia have been seized by the sheriff and advertised to be sold at auc- tion.
 A SOUTH BOUND train on the Delaware & Hudson went through an open switch at Kenwood Junction, N. r., recently. ihomas Conniff, a passenger. was killed and Eve persons were more or less injured. A cLoUDBURsT on the 1st did consider able damage al Watkins Glen, N. Y.
 bF collision between a freight and passenger train at New Britain, Conn, the other morning one express messenger was fatally injured and three other train men hurt, while both engines and several ears were wrecked.
 ABOUT Q third of the coke workers oi the Councils, iile region in Pennsylvania ere on 3 strike for higher wages