The Springdale news., 1889-06-28

DR. CARL BorrIcHER, director of th Royal Museums of Berlin, died on th s2d.
 THE North German Lloyds Steamshi, Company have decided that their steam CTS will hereafter discontinue calling a Southampton.
 A GENTLEMAN by the name of Middle ton, from Washington D. C., is in Rich mond, Va, buying and taking options on all land upon which Robert E. Let surrendered his army.
 RUSSIA has occupied Deer Island. 1T Corea, as a coaling and naval station There is a Russian man. of-war there, ant nobody is allowed to land or leave with out a permit from the Admiral.
 WILLIAM F. HOWARD, who was convict ed in New York City in the Electric Sugar Refining case, was, on the 2lst, sen. tenced to nine years and eight months Imprisonment in the States prison.
 HENRY A. CASSIDY, who was convicted of setting fire to the Catholic Protecto- rate at White Plains, N. Y, some weeks dsbs Nds, Oh tlc ASu, seuItnCbu tn sixteen years in the State prison at Sing Sing.
 SECRETARY TRACY ordered a court of inquiry to investigate the circumstances c anected with the grounding of the United E ates ship Constellation, to meet at the Norfolk Navy Yard on the 21st.
 J. A. HoUcK. aged twenty mine, a teller of the Traders National Bank ot Balti more, Md, committed suicide by hang ing on the night of the 22d. He was suf- fering from an attack of nervous pros- tration.
 THE new Masonic Temple at Pittsburgh, Pa, was formally dedicated with inn pressive Masonic rites at high noon on the 2th. The officers of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania were present and con- ducted the ceremonies.
 OWING to the recent assignment of George Calder, Jr., owner of the Fulton Cotton Mill at Lancaster, Pa. operations in the mill were indefinitely suspended on the 20th. Three hundred hands were thus thrown out of employment.
 A LARGE number of weavers have left the Blackstone (Mass.) mills during the past two months, their complaint being that they can not make sufficient wages to support themselves. Many looms are now stopped on that account.
 THE flood devast tated city of Johns- town, Pa, was visited by another calam- ity on tae 24th. Fire destroyed twenty five or thirty buildings, and at one time threatened to make clean sweep of all that had been left by the flood.
 
 DR. R. ". H. DUNCAN, of the steamship Colon, was, on the 20th. taken from the residence of Captain W. H. Thompson, Ne. l73 Hancock street. Brooklyn, to quarantine, the Health Board having pro- noonced his case one of yellow fever.
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 TES dynamite cartridges were diseov- cred in the basement of the hospital of Harvard College on the 24th. The fuse had been lighted but had failed to burn. The bombs contained enough of the ex- plosiye to have destroyed the whole uni versity.
 GENERAL SIMON CAMERON, of Pennsyl- vania, was stricken with paralysis of the right side on the 20th and left in crit ieal condition. Wayne MacVeagh, and Mrs. MacVeagh and Mrs. Halderman, his daughters, are with him at his home in boHeBdi opTluSs.
 THE Ciyil-Service Commission, which has been on tour of investigation among several of the larger post-offices through out the West, has issued a report in which the postmaster at Milwaukee, Wis, is severely censured for violations of the Civil, ,ys@rvice law.
 A PoRil}gN of the Manningham mills in Bradford cEngland. was destroyed by fire, on the night of the 22d, involving a loss of f50,000. Two fremen were killed by falling walls, and several others were injured A number of workmen in the mills were also injured.
 THE coroner's jury Investigating the circumstances connected with the recent frightful railway disaster near Armagh, Ireland, returned a verdict, on the 2lst, holding five of the officials of the railway responsible for the loss of life and charging them with manslaughter.
 MARTIN BURKE, the Winnipeg "sus- pect," was positively identified, as one of the Civilians brothers," on the 21st by the expressman, Martinsen, of Chi cago, who hauled the furniture to the Carlson cottage, who picked him out of a crowd of fifty persons without hesitation.
 
 A CONSCIENCE contribution, amounting 10 S130, was received at the Treasury De- partment, on the 18th, from lady in Philadelphia. Her letter accompanying the remittance stated that the money was for the payment of customs duties on goods which she had smuggled into the country.
 THE National Steam Fitters' Associa- tion closed it's annual session in Boston on the 20th. The election of an executive board, revision of the constitution, con- sideration of the auditors report and formulation of plan for education con stituted the principal business of the days session.
 JUDGE RICHTER of New Orleans, on the 21st, granted the motion in behalf of the State to make perpetual the injunction restraining the Cotton Oil Trust from ex- ercising any of the privileges and fran chises Of a corporation within the State of Louisiana. The application for a re- ceiver was denied.
 A TELEGRAM from Sparta, Greece, an- nounces that the inspector of antiquities in the old Laconian town of Pharis has unearthed some ancient tombs containing objects of Greek art in gold, silver and precious stones, all of great value. The historical museums of Athens are being enriched almost daily.
 PRES IDRNT AND MRS. HARRISON, Dr. Scott and Postmaster General Wana- maker attended the Beadle Presb ter ian at I "a