The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-15

| rest at Fort Monroe, Va, has been denied CARDINAL WILLIAM MAssIA died al 1 Naples recently.
 THE Greek Government has sent to the l Powers a circular note demanding tha
 they intervene to restore order in Crete 1 Otherwise. the note says, Greece mus
 take action to protect her subjects on tn. | island against ihe Turks. CONTRARY 10 first reports. which seemed to show the triumph of Chief Mayes ana l the Downings in the Cherokee election | later developments showed that Mayes wns overwhelmingly defeated and that tht next Council will be composed almos solidly of Nationals who are in almost l every respect opposed to the pre- 'ent Chief 1 AN artillery company at Yarmouth. N | S., recently in cleaning out a ball which had been wedged in the breeeh of can.
 buildings and killing John Connor, C | workman.
 AN Italian torpedo boat and Russian corvette have arrived at Candia, Crete. EXTENSIVE forgeries of 1,000 franc notes have been discovered at Toulouse, France. The forging has been going on for six months and he notes have been exten- sively circulated. A number of persons have been arrested A large railway con- tractor who is implicated in the forgeries has escaped.
 MRS. MAVERICK, charged with poison | ing her husband at Liverpool. England, was found guilty and sentenced to death, THE prisoners confined m Fort San Jnau De Ulloa at Vera Cruz. Mexico, recently reyolted against the oiiic als. The troops on duty at the fort shot twenty of the | prisoners and quelled the uprising. THE steamship Montreal, of the Do- minion line, from Montreal to Liverpool, was wrecked recently on Belle isle. The passengers and crew were saved ALL the inhabitants, numbering forty, of small village in the Kursk province, Russia are under arrest for burning the entire village to obtain the insurance money.
 A. FRANK, owner of the schooner Black Diamond, recently seized for Illegal seal ing. proposes to prosecute 2 claim against the United States Government for the sez- ure.
 Two mines of mercury and one of anti mony have been discovered in Cuba, but are not being worked for lack of capital. PETROLEUM has been discovered in Ta- basco, Mexico, and valuable coal deposits in he State of Guerrero.
 THE American Consul at Ottawa, Ont !, has again drawn the attention of the Do- minion Government to a discrepancy in the customs tariff as regards the importa- ton of certain articles of forest products, which. he believed, should not exist
 THE trial of Gen eral Boulauger com menced in the High Court of the French Senate on the Stb
 HARRINGTON, Home Ruler, made an at tempt to assault Mir. Balfour in the Brit ish House of Commons recently. Much uproar occurred before the excited mem- Der was suppressed.
 THE wreck of the steamer Montreal in the straits of Belle Isle was due to an ice- berg, which forced the steamer aground.
 OWING to the small supply of raw sugar obtainable the great refinery at Greenock, Scotland, has been shut down.
 NJ. SPULLER, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in reply to a communication from NJ. Delyanns, the Greek Minister to Paris, says the instruction in Crete will un- doubtedly give rise to & grave question. The French Government, he says, will give the matter such attention as it de- serves.
 LEGITTME's Government has delivered to the United States Minister ST 300 as compensation TOT me SelZufe ana ueteu- ton of the steamer Ozama at Hayti. The money is on board of the Kearsarge with view to safe keeping aud at the request of the Minister, and it is subject to orders of the State Department.
 BLoNDIN, the daring tight rope per- former, has accepted n wager of fl 900 to walk on cable stretched from the Eiffel tower to the dome of the main exhibition in less than five minutes
 ON the 24th of July, Admiral Gherardi, in command of the Kearsarge, at Port au- Prince, participated in the celebration of the birthday of the Queen or Spain with . Spanish cruiser, and fired national salute of twenty -oue guns at noon.
 LETTERS received from Crete tell of the terrible condition of affairs on that island. Massacres have been renewed and several villages have been burned.
 ADMIRAL KIMBERLY reports great dis tress among the natives of Samoa, which he has parl ially relieved with ship stores.
 THE Chinese are swarming in by every Hong Kong steamer bound for Mexico. No less than sixty came a week ago, all destined for Mazatlan and Panama. They have no difficulty in crossing the frontier.
 A GIGANTIC syndicate having in view the control of the sugar markets of the world, is said to he in contemplation.