The Springdale news., 1889-04-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

New York. The vessel had been abau. doned and was in a sinking condition. She had apparently been in a collision. Her bow stood high out of water, while her stern was sunkeu almost below the level 0f tlIe sea.
 THE Navy Department has instructed the eemmandant of the New York Navy Yard to furnish the custodian of the cus- house with a sufficient amount of bunting and flags to decorate the public buildings iu New York City during the Inaugural Centennial ceremonies. Sail ers will also be provided to render as sistaucn in arranging the decorations.
 Ix recent debates in the British House Of Commons the governments position in regard te its alliance with Germany tn suppress the African slave trade has been sharply criticised. It is asserted that Bis marek is simply using EugIand's infu- euce and prestige ru the East and in Africa t. help repair some of the blHaders made il those quarters by German officers and representatives.
 ONE of the gas wells near Tifin, O.. which was drilled about q year ago. and developed capacity of 5o0,00o cubic feet eaax, saddeuly increased its flow, on the i2th 10 =, ,97o, ,959 feet, throwing over 211 feet If tAe easing from the well, and dnin : caH siderable other damage,
 TIE court, iH tine Western Union Tele- graph G9mpauy's application against the New York City Subway Commission, de- e5aea against ihe Western Union on the Eth
 TIE house of ". r. Wood, two miles from Clayton, Ga, was burned to the ground early ou the morning of the llth and Mrs Wood and her five children were burned t9 death Mr Wood. who is ear- peHter, was absent from home. The fire k supposed to have been communicated t5 the house by burning leaves.
 OVER 70 hands were thrown out of work by the destruction of the Planet Jute Mills 8f Brooklyn on the f2th.
 lN concluding his address before the RafHell Commission, on the 12th, Sir Charles Russell said the court was trying the history of the Irish revolution, and he asked for | a fair and generous consider alton.
 ON the llth ffty-three hundred emi- grants sailed from Bremen and Hamburg for New York
 AMAE supposed to be SaIzmaa, who maHaefaazly assaulted Mrs. Muller at tfEIHRt8H, \. J., few weeks aso. wa captured mar B7rncgat, ou the l25h5 aad taken ta Newark for identification.
 \ CYCLONE struck the mining town of Be5dier. o.. on tEe 12tb, demoiishIag six dWeIz ziHss. William Lewis twelve year old daughter. was caught i'll the ruius and fataity iE5ured. Others were badly hurt
 AT finn o'clock, on the morning 9f the 12th, al attempt was made ta blow Hp Jerry BffseoIf's saloon iu Dublin Galeh. Mont. i couple of stick If giaat pawler We're plagad under the building and ex- Hla4st hE a fase, badly wfeekiHs tHe ha#flla5. Two men, who We're sleeping iH th- ztHre. We're slightly iu#4r1I i man HaMs3 Tom Mccarthy. Wha Ha1 i sHHzlse a4aIazt D.I-roll, has been arrest ezf.
 N Il. Il. SMITH has been appointed #H5rs ez#rk af the naval bureau af steam engineering. vice Julius ]. F=eks. re. signed. Mr. smith was the immediate predecessor ef Mr. Fceks, and went out attera service ot t'veuty-three years in th. bureau.
 TaE Secretary of the Navy has referred t4a board consisting pt Chief Constructor A43saH. Engineer Chief Melville and GaIf8ia HaRi,au. q. application ot the faI9a Iron Work, ot San Ffaaeiscl for zsts extension af tim. under their contract for the construction of Cruiser NJ. j.
 bHRlNe#a I thick fog. au the morning af the l2th, tas steamer Cou8Hieut, running from Newport ta Jamestown. R. L, ran ashore on the rock. in the outer harb4r, making q large hole in h.r. Tine pasSru- sefs We're landed in the tag Fairy. \ 5ersekiag schooner went to the assistance ot the disabled steamer
 TIE steamer Rio Graude. of the Mallory Line, was damaged t1 the extent of >e5,- e1a by fire at her dock in New York on the 1ttb.
 AMONG the passengers pu the steamship GMhria. which sailed from S5w York tar Liverpool on the 18th, were Johu \. k1ssaa. William Walter Phelps and Geofge H. Bates, the Commissioner appointed t4 represent the talfad Sfafes Government at the Berlin conference ea The samoan question. Ex-Mayaf Hewitt md -aAIIy were also among the Lmhria's passengers,
 THf steamship Island, the sister sAip of the abandoned Dmmark, arrived at h-f d=e5 ia New York on the llth. THe eGeiH- report that they saw HetAiay of tle haHmark ou their passage aal &aeH nothing ot the disaster until their arrival ii pert.
 BOOMER named Gordon is safa t9 lase been e8HslIt iu qnie k,tul ueat ktayti2..er and drowned. while his te9m WIS eacrtsI down t33a river.
 THG seH58H#r Northern BriIe f3a83@fe3 of the Nati4b Islani banks. and .7ar white mau aui sixteen natives wers drowned.
 HHE committee of sixteen ttea=asf ex- ftFfs appointed hy Sr Srarct3T NH3ow tu tH betare jt is transferred Co Nr. R3beFs,. the Hav Assistant United states Tr559- ursr tHFre, commenced operations 8u tsle 15sH. The examination and couut WU probably ll9t three weeks.
 < WHlrEH iH the Washington Post ar- eaes tHat t8a Executive MH~j5a k Ha proper pi1rr for business: that tiJr=ee~t- tra portion os tisa house HON oeeHpiaa by the clerical tossa shlg.l b. t8raei eter to the family of the President; and tt1t the practice of presidential haad-ehak.uz should be discontinued
 BIDS were. m the 18th. opened ia The Pn.t-0ficr Department for furni shH. s.-,~5.387 worth If @1IpIHies for thu Post Oale- Department aud tAt postal service fut the fiscal yeir e4aaug Jlna g. is. '. There wera Gtty-twa hIdder=. The
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 HE invitations for lhe coming Nash uzfoa Inaugural Centennial ceremonies at New York have been issued.
 ESTES r. RNTHH,SE. ot Hamilton, p., has heea aFFeiattd Chief Post-oiee In speetor.
 Ap5fTANr- -GESERAL .DRrN VIII retire aa May E when he wilt at olcr go ta his country home near Teuuailyt7wa. D. C.
 IT was reported, on the 15tt, that the Gimarron Was rising rapidly, threatening the boomers with new danger, as the river must be crossed to reach Oklahoma. and there are uQ brjIzes. TAe fsgd aear Guthrie was the only one available.
 \ SERIOUS conflict has broken ont be- tween the blacks and Fortuue in pe- marara The shops os thu Portuguese, who are the principal tradesmea, have been sacked, entailiag m estimaied los of >l0j 069.