The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-15
THE EAST.


 THE United Brooklyn, N. Y, Brewing Company has been incorporated with a capital stock of g, 200, 0C0.
 IN making a trial trip off Newport R. l. the United States war ship Atlanta broke part of her machinery and was sent to New York for repairs.
 FIVE of the most extensive coal mines in Illinois have been con nsolidated under the name of the Illinois Coal & Coke Com pany. It is proposed 10 build new city in connection with the company near Peoria, to Do named Reed City. The com . pauy is capitalized at S10, 000, 900.
 E B. WILBER has been expelled from the Buffalo (N. Y.) Merchants Exchange !, on charges of appropriating grain after it had been sold.
 THE New York Sun has given S10,000 toward the 1892 Exposition fund
 THE property of the R verside & Osw e go Mills Company, owning extensive worsted mills at Oswego Falls, Oswego County, N. Y, has been attached for Sil20 900. The mills employed ], GOO hands.
 THE National Electric Light Association, in session at Niagara Falls, \. Y., passed resolution calling upon the Gov ernor and Legislature to repeal the law for the execution of murderers by elec- trieity.
 MRs. EDMUND PENDLEToN, of Bar Har- bor, Me, relative of Mrs Pendleton Bowler, reported captured by Italian brigands, states that she has been in con- stant correspondence with Mrs. Bowler and has no information of the capture
 IT is reported that the wool firm of Brown, Stees 6 Clark, of Boston, is finan- cially embarrassed. Tho firm is Gideon P. Brown, who is treasurer of the River side & Oswego Mill Company, Edward Stees and Amaza Clark.
 BEEN $. ALLEN, president of the Forty second Street Car Company, New York. has been arrested for forging certificates of stock for about 700 shares. The amount of his defaication is stated to be Sl25, 900 or SlS0,G00 The money was probably sunk in worthless fire escape patent.
 TIE Penn yvania Republican State convention met at Harrisl urg on the 7th and Senator Delameter was elected per- manent president. Henry K. Boyer was nominated for State Treasurer
 BY the explosion of a naphtha engine on pleasure boat at Buffalo. N Y., on the afternoon of the ' h, the four children of Mr. Crocker, the owner, and a man named Rugensteiu, lost their lives
 A DISPATCH has been received at New York police headquarters from Detective Phil Reilly, dated Panama, announcing that he had given up all hope of recaptur- ing Bushnell. the defaulter and that he was on his way home alone.
 TWENTY EIGBT United States soldiers recently deserted the barracks at David's Island, near Rochelle, N. Y.
 TUE finding of bodies at Johnstown, Pa, !, Is yet daily occurrence. The body of a fifteen year-old girl was found on Locust street, near the business part of the town. At a meeting of business men it was de- cided to heartily support Messrs. John Thomas & Sons in their suit against the South Fork Fi hing Club
 TIE coke strike, according to a report from Everson, Pa., ended in favor of the men, who obtained an advance averaging about % Ter cent.
 TIE Columbus Iron Company, og Lan- caster, Pa., recently posted notlce of an increase from S3,50 to S3 & for pudding and other wages in proportion, thus keep ing the promise made four months ago that when trade grew better they would advance wages to tho old standard.
 TIE President and party arrived at Bar Harbor, Me, on the Sth. He was warmly welcomed aid was the recipient of much ovation while en route from Washington. AN explosion of natural gas occurred at Pittsburgh, Ia., on the afternoon of the 9yh. Two mn were killed and many se- yerely injured. The accident was due to the bursting of a pipe by compressed air. WHILE a cHl oose containing Conductor Otto Sanders Brakeman Mark Chris man and William Garren, was lying on sid ing of the Lehgh Valley railroad, at Penn Haven Junction, Pa, an engine dashed into it, wreckilg the caboose to splinters, killing Garren and fatally iniuring Christ man.