The Springdale news., 1889-06-21

TEE cap drivers of Paris struck in a body, on the l3th and got a single cab could be seen on the streets.
 TIE French Government has decided to hold the general elections on September 2 and the scrutin ballotage on Octo- Der 9.
 STANhEY's agent in London is arrang- ing lecture tour for him in October. His return before autumn is regarded as certain.
 THE United States man. of war Kear- sarge sailed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on the 18th, for Port -au- Prince, with Admiral Gherardi on board
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 WHITE CAPS visited E. B. Washburn, near Three Oaks, Mich, on the 18th, cut his hair, trimmed his whiskers and com : peled him 10 put on clean clothes.
 TIE London Times of the l7th prints a letter from Ujiji which states that it was Stanley's intention to force his way from Emin pasha through the Nasal country to Bombosa.
 IN round numbers S234, 900 had, up to the 18th, passed through the hands of the clerk of the mayor of New York City for :he relief of the flood sufferers of the Conemaugh Valley.
 THE battle of Bunker Hill was cele- brated in Boston, on the 17th by military and civic parades. Tablets bearing the names of those known to have fallen in the battle were unyailed.
 TIE governments of Germany, Austria and Russia have sent an identical note to the Swiss Government asking the latter 10 deal i'll 6 more severe manner with Anarchists and Socialists.
 IT is said that an understanding has beon arrived at between England and the United States. in accordance with which no seizures of British vessels will be made in Behring Sea this season.
 AUSTRIA has sent a note to the Turkish : P orte declaring that the hostility of the Soryian regents to Austria is regarded as casus belli, and expressing the hope tbat the same will be modified.
 NEARLY 100 persons, mostly Methodist Sunday-school children, were killed in a frightful accident to an excursion train near Armagh, Ireland, on the 12th. The uuiHbtI OA houhucu i0 nut oIdiTNli but u Is large.
 THE marriage of the Grand Duke Paul. nephew of the Czar, to the Princess Alex andria was celebrated at St. Petersburg on the f6th. There was brilliant gath ering of officers and diplomats in full uniform.
 TIE Paris Temps says that Germany is treating with Belgium in regard to tue laying of cable from Ostend to Port land, Me. in order to render those coan- tries independent of the English cable companies.
 FIRE is sweeping the forests south and west of Superior, Wis, and unless the weather soon changes the loss will be enormous. Up to the 18th oyer half million dollars worth of pine timber Lad been destroyed.
 TEN members of the Washington Col bred Hod- Carriers Union wore indicted for conspiracy, on tho 10th, for threaten ing to strike against tho further employ ment of one James Reeder, who was in consequence discharged.
 THE chief cook of tho Hollywood Hotel, at Long Brpnch, was robbed recently of Si 010. He followed the thief to Montreal, where lie located him on the 1Gth. He me39 him disgorge all the money he had left (S600l and returned home.
 meeting at Marlborouy yh House, on the 17th, the Prince of Wales presiding, it was resolved to erect memorial 10 the memory of Father Damien, who devoted the best years of his life to the care of the lepers of the Sandwich Islands.
 
 THE Naval Inspection Board, of which Rear Admiral Jouett is president, has been ordered to convene at Newport, k. l., on tho 1st, to appraise the Unite! States vessels there. The board will also go to Boston and Portsmouth on similar business.
 Ir is stated that large number of tho survivors ot tho Samoan disaster arc Il charge upon the charity of thoir friends in San Francisco, owing to the red tape which interferes with the prompt pay ment of the money due them from tho Government.
 MARTIN BURKE, alias Delaney, was ar rested at Winnipeg, Man, on the l6th, for complicity in the Cronin murder on infor- nation from Police Superintendent Hub- bard of Chicago. He was boarding the Atlantic express, and had a ticket for Liverpool, England.
 THE London Times Berlin special of the l4th says that the gist of the Samoan treaty is that King Malietoa is to be reiH- stated, and the control of affairs on the islands is to be left mainly to the natives themselves. The importation of liquor and fire arms is to be restricted.
 TWELVE THOUSAND people attended the camp of the German Baptists at Harri sonburgh, Va, on the 18th. Under the rules adopted ladies are forbidden to wear any but the plainest and longest riding habits, and all members hereafter will have to give up their gold watches.
 JUDGE ANDREWS, in the New York City Supreme Court, on the 17th, rendered q decision discharging from custody Ma roney and Mcdonald. who were arrested for alleged complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin. The judge decided that the evidence did not warrant their being held. As AN offset to the recent erection of a monument to the memory of the great free-thinker Giardano Bruno, the Cath O. lie societies of Rome intend to ask the municipality for permission to erect a monument to the Apostle of Rome." St. Philip Neri, founder of the society of tfe Oratorians.
 THE Navy Department IS annoyed al the dilatory manner in which tho work on tho various Government vessels is being per- formed. The penalty of S100 per day which is now being imposed in the case of the Columbia Iron Works, of Balti- mora SepnnG Tn have no effect in b1lrry