The Springdale news., 1889-05-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events,

h ouAil'fy CT important Events,
 MAYOR GRANTS Rapid Transit bill wa passed by the New York Senate on tn 26th.
 THE Bank of France, on the 21st, de ciared a dividend of forty francs pel hare.
 >aF Empire Condensed Milk Compan, '6 New York City and St. Johnsville, N N-. failed on the 23d.
 RUSSIA will send delegates to the ma rine conference which meets at Washing .ton on October 16 next.
 THE Rhode Island Legislature adiourne, sine die, on the 26th, after killing the bil to regulate medical practice.
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 AN explosion occurred in the France peth colliery at Durham, England, on the 24th. Five persons were killed.
 AN Austrian imperial decree has beer issued dissoiving the Provincial Diets ant ordering new elections to be held. !, .I,-,-r.>>oLDr BROS. large barns at BosT Humboldt County, Ia., were destroyed x.h fire on the 24th. Loss, $S,0O0; insurance $27tO.
 THE funeral of Stanton Blake took place from Kings Chapel, Boston, on the 25th Rev. Prof Francis c. Peabody, D. D., oi Harvard College, officiating.
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 THE land agent at Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, says the telegraph people there pay no atteEtion to Government mes. sages, as tbey get more money from com mercial and press business.
 ONE HUNDRED Sioux Indians are en route to the Paris Exposition with "Buf- falo Bills Wild West" Red Shirt, Rocky Bear, No Neck and Medicine Horse are aIiOng the noted chiefs of the party.
 THE municipal council of Vienna, on the 24th, decided that the tramway (street- carl company must forfeit 5000 of its securities and S50,000 penalty each day until unlnte crupted traffic was resumed.
 THE semi-annual meeting of the Amer jean Antiquarian Society was held in Boston on the 24th. The secretary re ported the acknowledgment by Rt. Hon. w E. Gladstone of his election as mem- her of the society.
 ON the 26th Second Assistant Postmas ter-General Whitfield directed the estab- hshment of a messenger service from Guthrie to Lisbon, Okla, a distance of thirty-tive miles, the cost not to exceed g. 900 per annum.
 HIRAM N. MILLER, eX-county treas urer of MarlQu County, Ind, Superintendent Williams of the poor farm and several others were arrested on the 24th, charged with voting challenged paupers at the presidential election.
 MR. CHAMBERLAIN, on the 2ith, speak ing at Birminghara, said he was confident that the government before appealing to the country, would develop its Irish plans, and it would doubtless obtain a fa vorable verdict at the polls.
 THE earth over the Boston mine at Plymouth, Pa., operated by the Delaware X Hudson company, caved in, on the 26th, cSHsing the colliery to become flooded, and throwing 600 people out of work until the water can be pumped out
 A KANSAS man named Stevens was shot and killed in the presence of his wife and four little children on a claim near All fred, Oklahoma, on the 2ith. The mur- derers fled, and the unfortunate widow walked to Alfred with the news.
 OPPOSITION to the Canadian Pacifc.rail- road has led to the formation, in British 7t .y3n' hia, of the Trans Continental Rail- lloa.si , aa, tho eT,Qy with capital of S50OoO,- n,ev'Ins lp,dat Scno, by prominent British Co., 0"i'"'s s70'' glish capitalists.
 ;. ' ,u N Cn.-..-.---ss.'s -s,z -.'s i' ,ky.. lrR. R. r. BrsH's schooner yacht Cor I enet, in which it's owner left New York for tour of the world about year ago, | and .or the safety of which some fears have been felt, arrived at home on the 18th, and dropped anchor off Staten lsl- anG PnILETus F. DoRLoH, the celebrated caterer of Fulton Market New York, dled, on the 24th, at his summer hotel, Dorlon Point, Conn. He was prominent and active member of the Fat Mems Associa- tion, and many times elected its presl- dent.
 MRs. GROVER CLEVELAND has rented the cottage of Rev. Percy Browne, at Marion. Mass. Sor the coming season. The house <. one-story Queen Anne, and is located next to the summer home of R. w. Glider, editor of the Century Magazine.
 THE owners of the steamer Missouri were, on the 24th, notified by the New York agents of the Thingvalla line that payment will be made for the cargo which was thrown overheard from the Missouri to make room for the Danmark's passengers.
 TIE Lincoln (Neb.) Branch of the Irish Ma ional League rendered banquet to Hon. Patrick Egan, the newly appointed Maister to Chilli, on the 25th. Over three htxdred plates were laid, and numerous responses to toasts were made by prom inent citizens.
 CAPTAIN HAMILTON MURRELL of the steamer Missouri, who gallantly rescued 730 human victims from the sinking steamer Danmark, was made the subject of a spontaneous ovation in Philadelphia on the 23d. In the evening he was ban- quoted by the Sons of St. George.
 FRANK MILLER, of West Union, la., was convicted, on the 24th, in the United States Court at Dubuque, of using the malls for fraudulent purposes. His method was to write letters to parties, offering green goods at a discount, and, after obtaining the money, giving blank paper in return.
 FIVE men in their coffins and one ma. niac in irons were carried north frora Oklahoma City on the 26th. The dead men had died natural deaths-that is to say nature had given way under the hard- ships encountered, and none of the five deaths were directly at the hands of fel- low men.
 THE recent letter of Prince Regent Luit- hold to Dr. Von Lutz, Bavarian Minister of Worship and Public Instruction, dehn- ing his understanding of the status Of Catholic educational institutions, has caused a great deal of annoyance at the Vatican, and will probably result in a protracted correspondence.
 TIE members of the Farmers Institute of Miami County, Ind, have joined hands with the Peru Und.) Board of Trade ID the erection of a flax mill and binding .u;,,a factory the obiect of which IS tC