The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-05-09

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| NEWS and NOTES.
! A Summary of Important Events.
Mrs. LASerKY has engaged the Gaiety
Theater, Berlin, for the month of octo-
Der.
| HoS. VIM II. BARNUM, chairman of the
National Democratic committee, died at
| Lime Rock, near New Haven, Conn, on
the Both.
AN examination Of the pension rolls at
Washington discloses the fact that there
| are S5S pensioners drawing pensions for
| total blindness.
CoUNr HERBERT BIss.acK gave din
ner to the Samoan Commissioners and
| the members of the American and British
| legations on the 3D..
| POSTMASTER L. S. JAMIsoN of Ash
bourne, Pa, shot and killed burglar
| who was trying to break into the post
Office, on the 2Sth.
LA FRANCE says that the French Gov
ernment intends to postpone the general
| election for members of the Chamber of
Deputies until the spring of 1890.
| THE report that the North German
| Lloyds steamer Weser had arrived at
Bremen with yellow fever on board,
proves to have been entirely without
| foundation.
I ,sat IN, fl,aa Inff
| VILE Und.) peniten tiary, has fallen heir
serve. He has three relatives in the same
| institution.
| CARL Rosa, the famous opera singer,
| died in London on the 30th, Of peritonitis.
| Mr.. Augustus Harris, manager of Covent
| Garden, was summoned and was present
| when Mr.. Rosa died.
KING MALIEToA of Samoa, who was
| made prisoner by the German authori-
| ties, has apologized for the action which
| led to his arrest, and the Emperor has de-
| cided that he be liberated.
LORD LoNsDALE left San Francisco, ON
| the 10Th, for the East to meet Lady Ions
| dale on her arrival from London. He will
| stop at Victoria, British Columbia, one
QdY, ana lneu go 10 w luulpeSs
DR.. HARKE of Hamburg, Germany, a
| Lieutenant of the reserves, has been sem
| fenced by military court to three days.
| Imprisonment in a fortress for challeng-
ing DR.. Natthold, lawyer to fight duel.
CoMMANDER-IN- CHIEF WARNER of the
| Grand Army of the Republic was ban
aueted by the Department of Rhode
Island, on the ID, and several hundred of
| the most prominent men in the State were
presented to him.
MRS. KINNEHER was expelled, recently,
from the Presbyterian church at Rock
ford, ILL.,, for worshipping false Christ.
Mrs. Kinneher believes that Rev. s. j.
Schweinforth, leader of the Beekmanites,
is Christ.
Mr. BATES, Samoan Commissioner, and
Lieutenant Parker were not permitted to
enter the exhibition opened by the En-
peror of Germany, in Berlin, on the Both,
because they wore frock coats instead Of
dress coats.
THE Swiss Government has issued an
order of expulsion from the country of
Herr Lutz, an accomplice of Herr
Wohlgemuth, the Mulhouse police in
bribing Swiss.
DIR. CHARLTON, of Columbus, o., editor
of the Mason's Chronicle, the American
| Odd-Fellow and the Knight of Pythias,
dropped dead, on the 1st, of heart dis
ease, from which he had been constant
sufferer for the past year.
NEWS has been received that the brig
antine Addie Benson, which sailed from
Halifax, n. s., for Cuba in January, and
had been given up as lost was wrecked
off Venezuela, and her crew rescued by
passing vessel and carried to Norway.
MoSwINY's ''four hundred" held their
centennial banquet at Delmonico's, New
York City, on the 30th. Toasts were re-
sponded to by Mayor Cleveland of Jersey
City, Mayor Gleason of Long Island City,
Bishop Farrell of Trenton and others.
CAPTAIN ALLAN, of Brooklyn, has re-
turned home from Canada. having failed
to obtain from the Dominion Government
any settlement of his claim for the Illegal
seizure and detention of his ship by the
collector of customs at Shelburne in 1887.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES and the Ohio
centennial commissioners and their ladies
Mr.. and Mrs. Caldwell, of New York City,
and reception was held at which large
number of resident Ohioans were present.
THE Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, on the 3D., passed to be en-
crossed the Senate bill providing that
safe deposit, loan and trust companies of
that State shall not invest in farm mort
cages on land outside of New England
and New York.
THE ive-masted schooner Governor
Ames, the largest schooner afoat, sailed
from Portland, Me-, on the both, having
on board 1,S00, 900 feet of spruce and pine
lumber, valued at $4,000 This is the
largest cargo, with perhaps, one excep-
ton, ever taken by a schooner.
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THE contest over the SO, O00 900 estate
of the late b. B. Hotchkiss, inventor of
the Hotchkiss gun, began at New Haven,
Conn, on the 80. On e-half the enormous
amount involved hangs upon the ques-
ton of legal domicile, being claimed
seyerally by French and American heirs.
THE New York Bar Association ten
dered a reception, on tine 1st, to the JUS
tices of the United States Supreme Court,
distinguished array of legal celebrities
being present, including Chief-Justic
Fuller and Justices Blatchford, Field and
Strong (retired), and Ex- President Cleve-
land.
THE jury in the Hawes murder case, at
Birmingham, Ala, on the Sd, returned a
verdict of guilty, and fixed the penalty at
death. Hawes was calm, and said he
was sure of conviction in that county.
The Supreme Court will probably, on APP
peal, grant change Of venue and new
trial.
Jos. SUTTON, aged fifty-fve, and An
drew Lawson, aged forty, while return
ing home TO Vernon Center, Conn, from