The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-07
RUssEILvILLE, POPE CO., ARK, THURSDAY MARCH [

| IHE nea0lesS body or John Matte1n, an 1 Italian, as found by the New Orleans police, on the 27th, hidden in the garret of tenement house on Bienville street. He | is supposed to have been the victim of vendetta.
 J. ". GRIFFITHs, ayoung man employed | in real estate office at Omaha, Neb., quarreled with Henry Flowers. colored porter at the Kelley Hotel, on the 27th, | and, drawing revolver, shot and killed him. He claims to have acted in self defense.
 GEORGE FOSTER, of Tuscaloosa, Ala, a widower of two years, shot himself dead on his wife's grave on the 27th. WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT's steam yacht Alva arrived at Nice, France, on the 27th.
 A DOZEN iremen were buried under falling floor at fire in Milwaukee, Wis, on the night of the 2Sth. All were quite seriously, and two or three fatally, in- jured.
 THE Opposition press of Mexico have ceased their attacks upon the financial policy of the government since Senor Dublan, in whom they have implicit con- fidence, has resumed control of fiscal af- fairs.
 IT is reported that the Car is scandal ized by the irregular lives of his brothers, and has ordered Grand Duke Vladimir to- resign his commandership of the guards.
 THE inevitable crank turned up at Wash ington, on the 1st, having urgent business with the President elect. He variously styled himself General Judge II. Davis," 1.-The Great North American Basso Pro- fundo," "The Welsh Bard" and "The Lion Soloist of America.u
 TIE Gprnan S,IpplenoaO ol-yny asfi. mate of 12, 492, 304 marks will be raised by loan provided for by bill introduced in the Bundesrath on the 1st.
 STEINETz, the champion chess player, played simultaneously against nineteen persons at Havana, Cuba, on the 2Sth, and won all the games.
 OF the eighteen forts designed to sur round Bucharest Roumania, eleven are ready to receive their armament of Krupp guns, which are now arriving.
 THE family of Ernest Hudson, consist ing of himself, wife and seven children, were drowned while attempting to ford creek near New Earl, Tenn, on the 27th.
 Two thousand furnacemen of the Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company's furnaces at South Pittsburg, Tenn, struck, on the 1st against reduction of ten per cent. in their wages.
 IT was reported at St. Petersburg, on the lst, that the Afghans were advancing upon the frontier from Herat, and that the Enir of Bokhara was preparing to attack them. Russian new spapers are filled with ar- ticles advising war.
 MR. ". K. VANDERBILT, of New York City, is seeking to lease for the season the Duke of Sutherland's London resi- dence.
 fha O2fb fined in the Charleston (W. Val jail to recover from the effects of protra4ed spree, cut his throat with piece of glass broken from his cell window, inhicting probably fatal wounds.
 JOHN W. LINcK, the Republican mem- Der of the Indiana Legislature, who struck Mir. Willard (Dem.) under the impression that the latter had insulted his colleague, was, on the 2Sth fined $50 and suspended for the remainder of the session.
 ON the 2Sth two thousand furnace men in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, in Ohio, accepted a ten per cent. reduction in pay.
 AN increase in the public debt, amount to $6, 443,334 occurred during February.
 ON the 2Sth, John Kramer, of Des Moines, Ia., suicided with strychnine.
 MRS. AsPELMrRE, aged fifty, of Creston, la., was frtghtfully burned, on the 2Sth, while tempting to light fire in a gaso- line stove.
 ANTHONY LAREE, who has only been in this country four months, fatally stabbed his nineteen year r-old wife at Paterson, N. J., on the 1st.
 Ar the State oratorical contest at Mount Vernon, Ia.. on the 28th, o. K. Patrick, of Parsons College, won first honors; G. c. Stookey, of Iowa Agricultural College, second, and E. s. Anes, of Drake Uni versity, third. The State contest will be held at Grinnell, Ia., in May.
 'PoP" LLOYD, whose true name was Thomas Vim, and who was said to have been buceaneer in the old days, was buried from the Jerry McAuley Mission, New York, on the 2sth. He was very wicked man and was converted at the Mission about four years ago and had been fixture there ever since.
 HENRY ANGLES, the fireman on the St. Louis express, who was injured in the wreck at St. George, died at his home in London, Ont, on the lst.
 H. F. TAYLOR, the attendant who killed a patient in the insane asylum at Pontiac, Mich, in selt-defense, recently, was &C., quilted on the lst.