The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-28
RUssELLvLLE, co. ARK, THURSDAY MARCH 18ss
HERR PAL1rscHAK has been appointe,

HERR PALITsCHAK has been appointed Austrian Consul at New York to succeed Hugo Fritsch.
 THE question of opening the Oklahoma lands to settlers by the Presidents procla- nation is being urged by Secretary Noble and discussed by the Cabinet. Meanwhile the President hesitates, because of the danger of the Indians getting liquor too easily under existing conditions. A strin- gent order against trespassers has been issued to the troops.
 A NEW YORK CITy street-car horse at- tackled with blind staggers, on the 22d, jumped through the plate-glass window of Broadway clothing store. He was soon afterward shot by policeman.
 THE spread of the native insurrection in East Africa has been checked, and the German Company is collecting duties in the harbors occupied by the rebels.
 HON. STANLEY MATTHEWS, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died in Washington at five minutes past ten o'clock on the morning of the 22d.
 LIEUTENANT-G GENERAL CoRvETo, Italian Under Secretary for War, has been chal- lenged to fight duel by Signor Cavilotti, member of the Chamber of Deputies. The affair grew out of personal dispute.
 MR. REDMoND's motion in the British Commons, on the 22d, to reduce Attorney General Webster's salary was rejected by a vote of 2s6 to 206.
 THE position of Supervising Architect of the Treasury has been rendered to James H. Windrim, of Philadelphia.
 THE aged widow of the late Cyrus W. Field received fracture of the shoulder blade in fall at National City, Cal, on Al. A. s. e.
 THE Congregational Church of Dubuque, Ia., will celebrate its semi- centennial in May next.
 TUNIs LABBE, the Paterson (N. J.) la- borer, who barbarously cut up his young wife and is now in jail awaiting trial for murder, has confessed the bloody deed. He took her life while in fit of jealousy. He says he is glad he killed her, and wants to hang as soon as possible.
 JAMES N. TYNER, on the Fist, assumed his duties as Assistant Attorney General for the Post-Ofice Department, relieving Judge Bryant
 TIM AND PETE BARRETT, the murderers of Street. car Driver Thomas Tollefson, in Minneapolis, Minn., July 26, 1887, were hanged on the 22d.
 THE livery stable belonging to Gordon & Warner, at Newport, Neb., was burned on the night of the 21st. J. B. Gordon, one of the proprietors, and eight horses perished in the flames. The fire is sup posed to have been of incendiary origin.
 THE famine which prevails in the prov ince of Shan Toong, China, is reported to be increasing daily. iThe number of deaths from starvation is appalling, and many persons have committed suicide to escape certain death in a more painful form.
 l ,s.1 70 .l.@ Co among the Russian families near Park stone, Dak. Although more than a score of deaths have occurred, the afflicted families have refused to employ phy- sicians.
 SIOUX CrTY ' will hold its annual corn festival this year as usual.
 DR. WILLIAMS, of Mount Carmel, Pa., was, on the 22d, reported in a critical con- dition from blood poisoning caused by the bite of child Suffering from diph- theria, whose throat he was examining.
 THE President on the 22d, com- muted the death sentence pronounced against Albert Green (colored), of the District of Columbia, to imprisonment for life.
 CHILD of Edward Dunbar, of South Bend, Ind, has died, and two others are at the point of death, from eating nor phlne pills, which they found on the floor.
 THE American pilgrims left Rome for Alexandria, Egypt, via Naples, on the 25th. They will reach Palestine in Holy week.
 PROF. R. .. BISHOP and wife, of Oxford, O., celebrated their golden wedding on the 2lst
 HENRY VILLARD's proposed electric light trust is said to have fallen through.
 A REDUCTION of five cents per ton in coal miners wages in the Pittsburgh and Hooking Valley districts has been ordered, to take effect May ?.
 CHARLES NJ. HENDLEY, for many years official stenographer at the White House, has been appointed private secretary to Secretary Wihdom.
 THE City Hall building at Dover, N. H., containing the police station, city clerks office, county commissioners office, regis ter of deeds, police-court rooms, alder manic and council chambers, offices of Board of Assessors, Board of Supervisors and city messenger. High School Cadets armory and the City Opera -House-the last with seating capacity of 1,000-was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 22d.