The Russellville Democrat., 1889-06-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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 new supply. This was done in several | places.
 WITH the exception of the blooming
 and wire mills, the Cambria Iron Com- | pany of Johnstown, Pa., stated, on the
 18th. that they were ready for work in all departments. The large number of men at work will be permanently retained in
 the employ of the company.
 THE fishing schooner Elmer r. Wright reports that, on the 16th, when sixty miles | off Chatham, Mass, and in 0 thick fog she lost dory containing John Shaugh- messy, single, native of Cape Breton, and l Eugene Burden, of Wellheet, Mass, who leaves a wife and two children. The men were picked up by the Italian barge Chi | oggio and landed at Boston. 1 THE forty-third annual meeting of the | Association of Medical Superiutendents of American Institutions for the Insane, | was opened at Newport, R. l., on the 18th. | TIE Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul ! Railway Company, on the 18th, recorded a mortgage in the county clerks office at | Chicago for Sl50001O00 to the United States Trust Company.
 BENJAMIN FOSTER and Robert Smiley were drowned near South Brothers ! Island, New York harbor, on the night of the l7th, by their ow-boat coming in contact with sail- boat and capsizing. JOHN l.. LANES, the professional fat man, died at his home in Elmira, N. Y, on the night of the 17th. He was un- doubtedly the heaviest man in America, weighing at his death 6i0 pounds. He was born in England, and was about forty years of age. He was a blacksmith, and worked at his trade up to three years ago.
 THE jury in the case of w. E. Howard of New York City, rendered a verdict, on the 18th, of guilty of grand larceny in ob- taining S6,500 from the Electric Sugar Company by false pretenses. Sentence was deferred.
 AT Gastein, Germany, on the 18th, monument to the memory of Emperor William l. of Germany was unvailed.
 WILLIAM E. CHANDLER, Republican, was reelected United States Senator from New Hampshire on the 18th.
 THE announcement made, on the 18th, that President Harrison intended to ap- point Rev. Nj. R. Meminger as postmas- ter at Charleston, S. C., caused much comment. Mir. Meminger is a son of c. G. Meminger, who was Secretary of the Treasury of the confederacy.
 GEO. RYER, of Indianapolis, secretary of the Western Shooting Association, while out hunting, on the 1sth fell from a fence and accidentally discharged the contents of his gun into his chest. He died instantly. He was once German Methodist preacher, but had become a disbeliever. His family are distinguish ed and wealthy.
 ELABORATE preparations are making for laying the foundation stone of q statue of Emperor William l. at Metz, on the 30th, which ceremony will be per formed by the Kaiser.
 LATE dispatches on the morning of the 18th stated that a destructive fire was rag ing in Jersey City, N. J., and that the en- tire fire department had been called out The fire menaced manufacturing and ship ping interests.
 THE New York Central freight house at Buffalo, N Y, was entirely destroyed by fire on the 18th, A number of the iu- mates were severely burned, loss, abo ut Si5,0O0
 ON the 10th Attorney General Miller received the resignation of George A. Allen, United States attorney for the Western district of Pennsylvania.
 W. H. DERBY, former cashier of the Mutual District Messenger Company of Boston was, on the l9th. sentenced to three years Imprisonment for embezzle- | ment.
 LIE Ndtloudl AsSOCAullOu bL BpLOft Manufacturers of the United States as- sembled in semi-annual convention at | Saratoga, N F., on the 18th, with seven ty-fiye delegates in attendance.
 THE graduating exercises of Smith Col l lege, at Northampton, Mass, took place l on the 19th The graduating class num- bered fifty young ladies from different | sections of the country.
 THE Paris SoIiel says that the German l Government has made a demand upon l France for compensation for the arrest | of the alleged German spy Lechmer, who | was captured near Belfort on Whitsun- day. The French officials declare that 1 the documents found on the person of l Lechmer abundantly justified his arrest.
 SENATOR HENDERSON, of Nebraska, who | has long drawn pension for gun-shot l wound received during the civil war, has | discovered that under the law he is en- titled to an increase of pension with s. | 900 arrearages.
 EDWARD B. Cox, a well-known politi- | elan and bOok-keeper of New York City, | was committed to the Tombs, on the 10th, l 10 await the action of the grand jury on a | charge of embedding Si00). Cox's pee ulations extend over period of three | years.
 
 rejected the appealof the Central Stamp i ing Company of New York for the allow | ance of a drawback on imported tin plates used in the manufacture of various | articles intended for e1portation.
 THE mayor of Belfast, Ireland, cabled | to General Hastings at Johnstown, ou the | 18th to draw upon him for the sum of | fj00 as an installment of the citizens re- lief fund for the Conemaugh flood suffer- CTS.
 THE second section of mail train No. !, | west bound, on the Pan Handle railroad | was wrecked on the 18th, while pasings | Now Cumberland Junction, two miles east of Steubenyille, o. Two persons | were killed outright and eight injured, | four of them seriously.
 THE Senate committee on Indian af- fairs, of which Senator Dawes is chair man, will start West early in July to re- sume its investigation into the conduct of | Indian traders.
 MR. THOMAS POWER O'CoNNoR testified before the Parnell Commission, on the 20th, that the turning point of tho agra rian struggle in Ireland was the rejec ton by Parliament of the bill to com tenants for the improvements made upon their holdings. Disturbances began, and the tenants were to combine.
 THE management of the Nottingham colliery of the Lehigh x Wilkesbarre Coal Company, on the 20th, discharged all the POlanders and Hungarians em- plOyed in the mine, to the number of nearly three hundred. A notice was also posted that in future none but English speaking and experienced men would be employed.
 TIE monument at Omoroy, Japan, to the members of the officers and crew of the American corvette Oneida, sunk in Tokio Bay,in 1sT0 was strewed with how- CTS on Decoration Day by detail of vet erans from the flagship Omaha
 FIRST LIEUTENANT 0. M. CARTER, of the