The Springdale news., 1889-06-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


 THE North German Lloyd steamer Trave, from Bremen to New York, sank the Russian schooner David in the North sea on the 18th. The Trave rescued the schooner's crew and landed them at Southampton on the 14th.
 THE will of the late Carl Rosa, of Lon- don, has been entered for probate. The instrument makes bequests aggregating f7s,000.
 THE steel torpedo depot ship Vulcan was launched at Portsmouth, England, on the 18th. She is the largest vessel the British Government has ever built.
 LORD ADELBERT PERRY CECIL, the evan gelist, who was drowned at Pieton, Ont, on the 18th, was brother of the present Marquis of Exeter and distantly related to Lord alisbury.
 THE Iowa State Normal School gradu- ated ffty-three students, on the 18th, a gain of twenty over last year.
 A CALL for Territorial convention in Oklahoma has been issued, signed by Mayor Dyer of Guthrie and committee of citizens. The convention is to begin at Guthrie, Wednesday, July IT.
 VIM. SIMPLE, the we'll know dry-goods merchant of Allegheny City, a., died on the 14th, aged sixtytwo. Mir. Semple had been engaged ill the dry goods business i'll Allegheny since 1sis, and was largely interested in a number of railroads, banking institutions, etc. He had amassed a fortune of about s, 900, 900.
 KING LEOPOLD of Belgium is seeking to interest American capitalists in the development of railways in the Congo country.
 THE Prince of Wales, ,on the 18th, visited the British American Home in Paris, SUD- ported by the Christian societies. He ex- pressed himself as highly pleased with the institution, and particularly eulogized Mrs. Lewis, through whose instrumental ity the home was founded.
 THE Lord Provost of Edinburgh has re- fused to confer the freedom of the city upon MT. Parnell on the occasion of the visit of the Irish leader in July. The sen- for magistrate present at the ceremony will therefore oficiate.
 A BANQUET was given. on the evening of the 18th, by the executive of the Paris Ex- ibition. Among the 350 guests were sev- eral Cabinet ministers and many diplo- mats. General Franklin, the American Commissioner to tue exhibition presided. THE Comptroller of the Currency, on the 18th, declared a second dividend of ten per cent in favor of the creditors of tine Fi- delity Bank of Cincinnati, making in all thirtyfive per cent on claims proved amounting to s, 833 29S. The bank failed June 20, 1887.
 ADvIcEs from Malone and other points in New York as far east aS Champlain, say that the report of the powder explo- sion at Brookville, Ont, on the 1fth, was distinctly heard at those places.
 THE ship-builders in Great Britain have never been SD busy as at present. They are so hard pressed that mauy of them are absolutely refusing all orders for new vessels.
 A SCOTLAND YARD detective is said to be in New York watching developments in the case of the murdered Dr. Cronin and the men under arrest there charged with complicity in the crime.
 PATRICK A. WARD, president of the Irish. American Republican Club of h. dianapolis, and prominent Clan-na- Gael man, committed suicide, on the 18th, by taking prusslc acid.
 THE period of mourning prescribed for the late Emperor Frederick of Germany expired on the 14th.
 TIE fatalities resulting from the Ar magh Qreandl railway disaster, reached
 
 the number lost in the wreck of the Fay bridge several years ago, which hereto- fore ranked as the most terrible in the history of the United Kingdom by two.
 ON the 18th. Edward Crawley and an- other man known as the "Australian," were burned to death in fire at Lead vile, Col, which resulted from E drunken orgie.
 THE New Hampshire Republican caucus chose W. E. Chandler as the party nom- iuce for United States Senator on the l3h.
 JOHN JARRETT, of Pittsburgh Pa, the newly appointed Consul to Birmingham, England, accompanied by his wife and two sons, sailed from New York on the 1Tth.
 COLONEL WILLIAM $. COLLIER, retired died in Washington, on the 10th, aged forty-nine years.
 THE anniversary of the death of Elm peror Frederick was commemorated by divine services in the Friederickirke at Potsdam on the 18th. All the members of the royal family and the Imperial Ministers were present. The favorite hymns of the late Emperor were sung by a choir and the Emperor and Empress laid wreaths upon the tomb.
 LAWRENCE BARRETT sailed for Europe on the 18th.
 WILLIAM CHLDs, the wealthiest farmer in Braxton County, W. Va, was assaulted by his hired man Thomas Prunty, on the 10th, and beaten to death with a hand spike, The murder arose from a quarrel about Prunty's work.
 THE execution at Wilkesbarre, Pa, of Red Nose Mike, one of the murderers of Mcclure and Flanagan, is set for the 25th.
 TWENTY THOUSAND school children as sembled in the grounds of the Smithson ian Institute, on the 10th, to witness the distribution of gold medals awarded by the Washington Post for the best com positions upon given subjects. One prize was provided for the scholars in each grade, and ?, 900 compositions were en- tered in competition.
 THE Shah of Persia arrived at Amster dam, on the 18th, from Cassell On the way he stopped at Essen and was shown through the extensive gum works of Herr Krupp.
 Mas. J. T. BAGGEs, wife of the sheriff of Boone County, W. Na., was accidental ly shot by her son, on the 18th, and died in few minutes.
 Mas. ELIZABETH TYLER and her baby were burned to ueatn, on the nl9nt or the t5th, by the explosion of coal oil lamp at their home in Raynersville, Anne Arundel County, Md.
 THERE is a scheme on foot for laying a cable between Honolulu and San Fran cisco.
 TIE contributions through Governo Beaver for the Johnstown sufferers up tC the 10th aggregated about S700,0 1000.
 thTnn crh Ligonier, Ind, on the 16th, tearing down shade trees and unroofiug and demolish- ing houses along its path.