The Springdale news., 1889-04-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

always turned his face against any thing savoring of corruption, died, on the i9tf, from a cancer of the throat, similar to that which csused the death of ex-Presi- dent Grant
 IhE rush of emigrants from the south western part of Ireland is so great as to alarm the authorities fer the future of that region. The country is being rapidly depleted cf it's population. and there is really no inducement to be offered for people to remain.
 TIFF Canadian Oatmeal Millers' Asso- ciation, embracing over fifty mills, dis solved, on the 10th, on account of depres sion in trade.
 A COMMITTEE of Grand Army officers waited upon the President on the 18th, and asked him to attend the reunion of the Army of the Potomac at Orange, N. J. The President informed the deles gation that he could not possibly be pres. ent.
 E. T. AVERY, the Treasury Department agent who investigated the complaints Concerning the partly finished public building at Binghamton, N. Y., made a lengthy report to the Secretary of the Treasury, on the 18th, in which he states that great deal of the work Is poorly done and that deviations from the speci. flcatiOns have been made.
 SECRETARY NOBLE, on the 18th, ap- pointed John H. Timple, of Ohio, prin cipal examiner of land claims and con- tests ill the General Land Office.
 THE music halls and dancing saloons of London are having hard work to renew their licenses under the new County Council. The old Board of Works granted licenses in a free- and easy style, but the council is Investigating and refusing applications for licenses in a manner quite appalling to the petitioners.
 THREE children of Nathaniel Powell, of Miners Mills, Pa, died, on the 10th, with i'll few hours of each other of typhoid fever.
 THE will of the late W. J. Syms, the millionaire speculator and contractor oi New York City, bequeaths $35O0Oo tc Roosevelt Hospital in that city, MR. GLADSTONE scarcely ever misses taking long daily walk, even violating the injunction of his physician to indulge in his favorite pastime and exercise. MARSHAL ToM NEEDLES went to Guth- rie, Oklahoma, on the 18th, and was given the privilege of sleeping in a tent by the United States officer in charge of de- tachment of troops which had arrived only few hours previous. THE Dolphin arrived at Singapore, India, on the 18th, and sailed the follow ing day for Bombay, stopping at Colom- bo. All on board were well. JAMES WILLIAM WHrrELY, of Grove Hill, Ala, was, on the 18th, appointed to a cadetship at the Military Academy. Guy Seldom Painter, of Titusville, Pa, and Geo. Vidmer, of Citronville, Ala, were appointed alternates.
 WHILE Easter services were in progress at the High Street NJ. E. Church, in New ark, N. J., on the night of the Fist, a large congregation being present, a boy in the gallery shouted Fire" three times, causing a panic One woman was in jured in the crush. The boy was ar rested.
 THERE were two cases of sun-stroke ill Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 18th, neither of them serious. The thermometer regis tered S7 de grees.
 THE celebrated Goldman will case, at Boston, was amicably settled, on the 18th, Mrs. Kimball, whose relations with Mir. Goldman were alleged by Mrs. Goldman to have given her undue influence over the testator, accepting $l5,0O0 instead of the bulk of the estate, as provided ill the will, and the widow and children retaining most of the property, valued at S400 000.
 THE cathedral at Seville, Spain, is again in danger of falling. The structure is tottering, and repairs of q most extensive character will be required to save it from ruin.
 TIE concert of the Yale Glee and Banjo clubs, on the evening of the 22G, at the Congregational Church in Washington, was quite a social event. The audience included Mrs. Harrison and a party of young girls. After the concert Mrs. Har- risoa was serenaded and the college boys were tendered a reception at the EXecU- tive Mansion.
 WILLIAM KLUMPH, saloon keeper, was burned to death at Delavan, Wis. on the night of the 18th. It Is supposed he had been smoking, and, falling asleep, the lighted pipe set fire to the bed clothes and burned the saloon and its proprietor.
 SECRETARY TRACY is very desirous of making several changes in the bureau officers, so as to have them more in ac- cord with his progressive ideas regarding the navy, but further than that no sweep ing change is indicated. There can be no doubt, however, that there will be several changes in the Department within the next few weeks.
 THEo. F. SCHUMAKER, 8 German gar dener, seventy five years of age, commit ted suicide in Washington, on the 18th, by shooting himself through the breast while crazed with drink. He leaves a widow and six children.
 THE New York Central foots up it's loss by the great fire in New York City, on the evening of the 18th, at $i 400, 900, but more than half a million dollars worth of the burned property was useless to the com pany, and need not be replaced. Another half million and over is covered by in- surance, so that the actual loss of the company is chiefly on freight for which it is responsible for about 80, 00).
 By the confession of a murderer named Brown, at Moorehead, Dak., the mystery surrounding the death of George Full james, last year, is cleared up, and a sus- pect named O'Hara has been eXonerated.
 HUGH REILLY, the lineman who was thrown from d window to the pavement by the breaking of a guy-rope during the removal of the telegraph poles in Sixth avenue, New York City recently, died, on the 2lst, of his injuries. A fellow work Dldu NiIO LIlI hitn 1llAl w CD 'l9letlitis ' killed.
 MR. CYRIL POWER, member of the Brit : ish House of Commons for Luton, was thrown from his horse and dragged a considerable distance while riding, on the 21st, and severely injured. The acci- dent was caused by dog snapping at the heels of his horse.
 THE Postmaster General sent tele- gram to Thomas L.. James, on the Fist, approving his designation as postmaster pro tenn. at New York, and approving the appointment of James Gaylor as assist ant postmaster.
 ALEXANDER HENRIQUEs, vice. president of the New fork Stock Exchange, died on the both.
 THE little town of West De Pere, Wis, was visited by a half million dollar fire. on the 20th, which almost wiped it out oi existence.
 As A train of fourteen loaded cars, with Superintendent Pope's private car at tacheI, was descending the grade neal Two Hrbors, Minn., on the Duluth Iron Range railroad, the air brakes re- fused to work and the train gained l frightful velocity, reached a speed of ll0 miles an hou., when it left the track. witt tba aycaptio, of the nriyate car. and wdH