The Springdale news., 1889-05-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

tn Vienna, on the 24th.
 FULL returns from all cities and towns of Massachusetts show the majority against the prohibition amendment in the election, on the 23d, to have been A. 499
 COLONEL DAN LAMONT was, on the 24th, elected secretary of the New York Loan and Improvement Company, in place of Wm. H. Rockwell, who resigned.
 JOHN MAYS and wife and James NJ, Linderman, a boy of twelve years, were killed at Newport five miles south of Wilmington, Del, on the Ath, by train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti- more railroad.
 SECRETARY BLAINE was suffering from lumbago on the Hth, and was unable to attend to official business.
 LYSANDER E. RANDALL, aged thirty . seven, of Bangor, Me, was found dead on the morning of the 9th He had commit ted suicide by strangulation. A note was found on his person saying Rum did it."
 THE Vanderbilt roads east of Chicago on May will abandon great proportion of their Sunday freight business. | THE chief feature of the 0 hio Grand Army encampment at Dayt on, on the IT 24th, was the parade of the veterans, fol- lowed by number of carr iages of Gener- al officers of the war, the rear being brought mp by ex-President Hayes and General Alger. 1t was clang of bands, martial music and bugle calls, the col umn with difficulty working its way through the streets packed with specta- tors.
 Ar the conference of the National Re- form association at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 2ith, resolution was adopted re- questing President II arrison to mention Christ in state papers, especially thanks giving proclamations. The conference was attended by over one hundred prom inent ministers and others from all parts of the U nite q States.
 SINCE its formation the Whisky Trust has paid out Sl,S00, 900 in dividends, be- sides accommodating a cash surplus of 500, | 900.
 CHARLES SMITH, son of W. J. Smith, of Monmouth, Ill.,, was killed, on the 2ith, by kicking colt. He was a graduate of Abingdon College, and was recently licensed Methodist minister.
 THE great Rockaway Hotel, at Rock away Beach, N. J., erected several years ago at a cost of over one million dollars was sold on the 24th for $2S4, ,000. E. l.. WHITAKER, bOok-keeper and con- l fidential clerk for the plumbing firm of 1 Smith & Corners, at Cleveland, O., has 1 been arrested for embedding the firms money. The shortage is said to be Sl1, : l 900.
 THE visible supply of cotton is 2,2S1, 1s4 bales, against 2,51s,93i last year, and 2,515, S25 the previous year, Crop ill sight 6,G59, 1s6 bales against 6, 5S7, ,653 last year. w. F. DULMAGE, crown timber inspector ! Ip,. ID Q. I a few days go. An investigation shows him to be S20, O)0 short in his accounts. THE Bank of Montreal declared a straight dividend of five per cent without any bonus, on the 2ith.
 A BIG oil we'll was struck near Legion vile, Beaver County. Pa, on the 25th The oil gushed out to height of ll5 feet. Six hundred to eight hundred barrels is the estimated flow.
 THE King of Roumania, on the 25th, of fcially announced that his nephew, Prince Ferdinand, would be his heir, and that a residence for him would be built at Bucharest
 MEssRs. KAsSoN. BATES AND PHELPS, the American commissi toners to the Sa- moan conference at Berlin, departed from London for Berlin on the 26th.
 THE Ohio Encampment G. A. R., in ses- sion at Dayton, on the 18th, elected Gen. eral Samuel H. Hurst, of Chillicothe, De- partment Commander, and passed reso- lutions favoring a pension of eight dol lars per month to every soldier, with one cent per day per month in addition for over ninety days service.
 SECRETARY NoBT on the 25th, directed ostio,atiasn T, See reports that Gov ernment officials had used iaaa as officers to secure entry to '" Oklahoma Territory. ~ SEVENTY FIVE of the striking street-cdo' men of Minneapolis, Minn., accepted the f company's terms, on the 18th, and went to work. Cars were run on every line in the city with full quota.
 CHARLES A. BERRY, of Maiden, Mass, whose foot was cut off by train on the | 24th, died in Boston on the 25th. The de- | ceased was employed as a drummer by | John H. Pray & Son, carpet dealers.
 ON the 25tli, Secretary of War Proctor | visited the Watervliet Arsenal on busi- ness connected with the building of new | gun foundry. GENERAL MANAGER JACKSON of the | Grand Trunk railway, on the 23th, ordered that no freight trains be run on Sunday, except IUOSe carr J IuS llNP-StONh ullt PNi ishable goods. It is stated that the Della ware & Hudson Railway Company is in sympathy with the movement.
 THE newly Minister to Spain, ex. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, was ten dered farewell banquet by the citizens of Detroit, irrespective of party, on the night of the 18th. It was a brilliant af- fair. and continued to late hour.
 T1Yr, f,,paraI of Mrs n C. NJ Pierce the "big woman," of Dover, N. H., took place op the 25th. It required eight persons to place the body in the casket, and all the trimmings, handles, etc., had to be re- moved to allow the casket to pass be- tween the doors.
 MARK MAGU1RE, familiarly known as "Toppyn Mcguire, the oldest reporter on the New York City press, died at his home in Hartell on the 24th. He was sew enty-fve years of age. The cause of his death was carbuncle, which first ap- peared a'year ago on the top of his spine. He was born at sea August l. 1874.
 DANIEL A. GRosvENoR, of Ohio, was, on the 25th, appointed chief of a division in the office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury Department MT. Grosve- nor is a brother of Representative Gros- venOr.
 TIE acting Comptroller of the Currency, on the 25th, declared second dividend of fifty per cent in favor of the creditors Of the Lowell National Bank, of Michigan, which failed September Il, lSSS. This makes in all ninety per cent paid to the creditors of the bank on claims proved amounting to SSS, ,S35.
 EMMA RArH, seventeen years old, was buried on March 22 at Syracuse, N. 1 Her father believed that She had been buried alive, and few days ago he opened the grave and discovered that his fears were true The body was lying on the side, the hands were over the face, which was scratched, anda great quantity of her hair had been pulled out. The la- | ther is almost maniac.
 THE sixteen ladies who were deter mined upon to dance in the quadrllle of | honor at the New York Centennial ball were: Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs Levi F. Morton, Mrs. Grover Cleveland | IT. Nrc Alpyandpr Van