The Russellville Democrat., 1889-10-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IS the Catholic congress in session at
 Munich, Germany, comprising 6,000 dele
 gates, resolutions were adopted, on the
 24th, expressing sympathy with the Pope in his trials aud declaring that the digni-
 ty of the functions of Christ's Vicar de-
 manded tho restoration of his temporal power. The Pope telegraphed his bless ing upon the labors of the congress. LATEST advices from Crete are that tue
 Mussulman outrages upon Christians
 continue. Numbers of Christians are fleeing Co the mountains. Their cattle are poisoned and in many cases stolen. WHEN the name of Henry Seybold, the clerk who embedded S30,00) from the Bank of Wheeling, Wa, was called in the Circuit Court, on the 2fth, there was no response. The sheriff was ordered to take all possible steps to re- arrest Seybold, aud the prosecuting attorney to proceed against Seybold's father, who was on his
 bond for Si, 900. Seybold is said to be in Canada.
 THE American, Bailey Allen, arrested in London for jewel robbery, was, on the 24th, convicted aud sentenced to twelve years penal servitude.
 THE rumor of Miss Margaret Blaine's engagement to Mir. Walter Damrosch is confirmed.
 THE boiler in Fritz Bros.' saw mill | near Berlin, Pa., burst on the 2ith, kill ing John Fritz, Edward Fritz, Oliver
 Ross and David Baker all young men of that vicinity. Two mon named Brant
 were badly hurt, but may recover. ON the 24th the Secretary of the Navy approved bills for the eighth payment on the cruiser Philadelphia, being built by
 Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia, amount ing to s121,500. The amount due was | S135, 600, but there is re servation of ten l per cent.
 | THE Secretary of the Navy has ordered that the Pensacola, now at New York, be
 made ready for sea by October 10, to con- vey the Solar Eclipse expedition to St. Paul de Loanda, West Africa. THE Catholic Congress, in session at Munich, has demanded the readmiss ion | of the religious orders to Germany. MRs. J. C. ANDERSON, colored, of | Springfield. O., aged forty-five and the l mother of sixteen children, is said to have eloped with a young man, twenty | five years old, of Xenia, by the name of | Evans, who leaves young wife. | THE Mobile & Ohio railroad Company offers q, 900 reward for the arrest and | conviction of the men who robbed the | train near Bucatunna, Miss, on the 18th. l The leader of the train robbers is be- | lieved to be Rube Burrows, desperate well known in the northern part of the | State.
 VICE PRESIDENT MORTON has written to l Mayor Hart of Boston stating that he
 would have been glad to have visited l Boston with the President in August, but | the clerk of a Washington hotel detained | the invitation until late in September. A THEArER in Mantua. Italy, was de- | stroyed by fire on the 18th. Two work | men were burned to death. The fire is
 said to have been of incendiary origin. | A school teacher of Odessa. Russia, named Souse, committed suicide. on the
 25th, whereupon his widow became in | sane and killed her five children. She | threw the bodies of three of the chil- | dren out of a third-story window, and | taking the other two in her arms, jumped | from the window and was instantly killed. | THE Mobile & Ohio south bound mail | and passenger train was boarded by I thieves at Bucatunna, Miss, on the 10th, l who secured S2, 700 from the express mes | senger's safe and a pouch full of regis | tered mail matter. They overlooked S70, . | 900 belonging to the Government. | FoRT GAY, Cabell County, W. Va., is in | possession of toughs. On the 25th they stoned the house of Elliott Nester. when | he fired on them. They then made tue | mayor issue warrant for Nester's ar- | rest, and he was dragged out of bed at | two o'clock in the morning and beaten | almost to death. The mayor dismissed | him, whereupon the gang beat the mayor, ! who resigned. The gang has terrorized | the whole town.
 | TIE Temple of Heaven, at Pekin. | China, containing the great throne ot | the Sacred Dragon, has been destroyed | by fire.
 IT is said that New York proposes to | erect a tower that shall surpass the won- | derful Eiffel Tower of Paris. as a trump | card in the deal for the Worlds Fair. It | is designed to be 1,2)0 feet high, $50 feet l in diameter at the base and 100 at the
 summit, and will cost about S2, GOO 00l PARTY of six tourists and their | guides, while ascending the Bavarian | Austrian Alps, on the 25th, were precipi- tated into Q raviLe aud all were severely l injured It is feared that none of them
 can recover.
 A COLLISION occurred, on the 18th, be- tween wild cat engine and caboose | filled with forty workmeu on the Phila- | delphia & Baltimore railroad, near Clay
 mont Del. Twelve men were injured. As F.. II. Gale, Miss Gale and Miss | Gleason, a niece of Mir. Gale, were start l Ing out from Greeley, Col, to his ranch
 near Hardin, ou the 25th, their carriage | was struck by freight train. Miss | Gleason was ins tantly killed; Miss Gale l fatally injured, and Mir. Gale slightly | hurt.
 MR. LENG, Liberal, was on the 25th, | elected to the vacant parliamentary seat | for Dundee Scotland, without opposition.
 A NUMBER of quarrymeu employed on | Mir. Parnell's estate at Arklow, Ireland, | threaten to strike in order tO compel the | substitution of a local Nationalist for the | present agent of tho estate who is ob- noxious to the employees.
 ON the 25th Major General Dan Harvey | Hill, C. S.. died at his home in Charlotte, | x. C., aged sixty eight years. He was a native of South Carolina; was graduated | from West Point in 1872 and served with great distinction in the Mexican war. THE Government of Holland has abol a l ished the shipping tax on vessels passing | through the North Sea canal. A RUSSIAN captain has just made bi- | cycle journey from KoynO to Paris, via | Berlin and Brussels, in thirty four days. 1 THE estate of the late coachman of the | Prince of Wales turns out to be worth l 50.00l
 TIE Paris newspaper PAutorite states that there is project on foot to secure a full amnesty for Henri Rocheforb the | ouondam Anarchist and present fiery | opposition editor and Bouluugist. TIE man. of-war Emerald arrived at | Halifax, N. s., on the 25tn, with the sur | givors of the British man-of-war Lily, recently wrecked of Labrador with the | loss of seven lives.
 l WILLIAM IRWIN and his helper, Po- | lander, were suffocated, on tho night of l the 25th, in aa abandoned working in Lawrence & Browns colliery at Mahanoy l Plane, Pa, by black damp.
 AVERY l.. RAND formerly of the firm