The Springdale news., 1889-11-22
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 the bridge gave way letting the house through and carrying with it James Pot ter and his son and c. r. Redenberg, all of whom were seriously injured.
 PRESIDENT HARRISON arrived at Chase, Md. on the 18th, where, as the guest of the Bengies Point Club, he spent two days in duck shooting, killing large number Of birds.
 TIE official count of the vote in Ohio for Governor shows: Campbell (Dem.), 379, 424; Foraker (Rep.), 36S, ,551. Camp bells plurality, To- s73 Helwig (Pro.), 26, ,040.
 TIE Paris Precurseur asserts that France has declared her intention to withdraw from the Latin Union unless Belgium and Italy recall the excess of five-franc pieces of their issue now cir culating in France and Switzerland.
 AN attempt was made at Galesburg, H., on the 14th, to burn the residence of Attorney G. A. Lawrence. It is sup posed to have been the work of White Caps"
 AN explosion occurred in the royal powder factory at Hanau, Germany, on the l4th, killing eight persons and in- turing twenty-three.
 MRs. BERTA MILIMAN. wife of w. H. Millman, commercial editor of the Min neapolis tMinn.) Tribune. was aSphyXi- ated by gas on the 14th. She was suf- ferer from catarrh and could not smell the escaping gas which came from an unused pipe.
 MAJOR GRANDE, of the Italian army, has been appointed counselor to King Menelek of Abyssinia
 JOIN JACOBSON, wife and six children were poisoned, on the 14th, by some miscreant, who threw paris green in the well. They will all recover.
 A FALSE report was tclcgraphed from Mississippi City, Miss, on the 14th, re- garding the health of Jefferson Davis.
 ON the 14th Henry P. Devol, an in surance agent was arrested at Memphis Tenn, and taken to Topeka, kas.. where he is wanted on the charge of embczzle ment.
 EIGuT THOUSAND tons of steel rails at S35 per ton, delivered, were sold by an Eastern Pennsylvania firm, on the l4th, for spring delivery.
 JOSEPH H. BREsNAHAN, post-office clerk in New York City was, on the 18th, held in S2, 800 bail for robbing the mails
 QUEEN AMELIE of Portugal, daughter of the Count of Paris, was delivered of son on the 18th.
 Two freight trains on the Virginia railroad collided at Russian Branch. opposite Bull Run battlefield, on the 18th, killing Engineer Eastcrs, of Madison Run, and Fireman James of Springfield, and fatally wounding Fireman Evans of Alexan- dria
 TIE editor of the Magdeburg Tage- blatt has been sentenced to six weeks for insulting Rrince Bis marck.
 EX-ARCHDUKE JOHN of Austria has de cided not to take up his residence in England, as was reported to be his in- tention.
 PRIVATE telegrams received in Amer ica and England, on the 18th, from Rio Janeiro announce the outbreak of revolution in Brazil, but give no partic- ulars.
 THERE was a terrific explosion in the pyrotechnic factory of Mamie & Ro- maine, at Petersburg, Va, on the 14th. Six thousand pieces of fireworks were destroyed and three Italian workmen were fatally burned.
 NJ. CHRIsTIrICH, formerly Scrvian Min ister to Germany, has disappeared from and the few persons compris- ing his friends fear that he has com mitted suicide. while the many who de spise him fear that he has not.
 TIE consumption of horse flesh in lieu of beef is daily increasing in Berlin, and it has become almost impossible Tor the butchers to procure sufficient verita- ble beef to supply the demands of those who are able to pay the almost fabulous prices which the commodity commands.
 TIE frequent manifestatio of dis content among the gas stokers and other of the London Gaslight Com pany of late has led the company to ad- init zoo of it's employees to the enjoyment of share of the profits of the company the medium of a cooperative system, the condition imposed upon the men so benefited being that they shall agree in writing, in consideration of their participation in the profits, that they will have nothing 10 do with strikes or labor organiza tions.
 THE Bavarian Government has de- cided to re-admit the clergy of the Re demptorist order to Bavarian territory and the exercise of their functions under certain restrictions.
 TuE Sultan of Turkey, on the 18th, issued an trade granting amnesty to all prisoners in Crete confined for political or semi-political offenses, This action is said to be result of the recent visit to the Turkish capital of Emperor Will jam of Germany.
 ANOTHER female writer, Miss Eliza beth Bisland, started overland for San Francisco, on the 14th, with the inten- tion of travelling around the world in an opposite direction from that taken by Nelly By. She will leave San Francis co for Yokohama on the 2lst, and ex poets to reach New York City in seven