The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-05-23
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
QUEEN MARY of Bavaria, mother ol
King Otto, died, on the 10th, from dropsy
and cancer Of the liver.
THE striking stone masons of Pitts
burgh, Pa, returned TO work, on the 10th,
at the old wages, pending arbitration.
THE Municipal Council of Berlin voted
100 900 marks for the expenses of enter
tanning King IIumbert during his visit to
that city.
THE Connecticut House, on the 18th, by
n vote Of 90 to a., defeated the amend
ment to strike the word "male" out Of the
State Constitution.
FRENCH papers unanimously eompli-
ment Miss Sybil Sanderson, the Ameri-
can prima donna, upon her success in
Massenet's new opera.
TIE United States steamship Dispatch,
with the President and party on board,
returned to Washington from o trip to
Fort Monroe on the 18th.
THE British House Of Commons, on the
1ith, rejected, by 2si to 81, a motion to
disestablish the Welsh church. Mr..
Gladstone was not p resent.
THE largest oil we'll in Ohio was struck
at North Baltimore on the 18th. 1t filed
q !, 500 barrel tank in an hour. Land in
the town is held at enormous prices.
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T. . fH,a y,
man who disappeared from his hotel in
New York City, and for whom the police
were looking, was found safe and well in
Philadelphia on the 18th.
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Az enormous landslide occurred in
the region Of the Spiessbach, Switzer-
land, on the 18th, destroying several viii
lagos, large tracts of woods, ETC., aud
killing large number of cattle.
DISPATCHES from various portions of
North Dakota state that snow fell in con-
siderable quantities, on the 14th, the fall
varying from two to ten inches, doing
great deal of good to growing grain.
THE Senate committee on trade rela-
tions with Canada arrived at Los An
geles, Cal, on the 14th. Senator Hale's
right leg was badly injured in a colli-
sion of trains near San Jose on the 18th.
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SHANGHAI advices are that the claims
for damages growing out Of the Chez Foo
riots have been settled. The English
and American flags have been again
hoisted and the Chinese troops have sa-
luted them.
THE annual convention Of the Order of
Railroad Conductors opened at Denver,
S1 20 do ia "a
ing all the leading railroads OF the coun-
try, with a larger attendance than at any
previous convention.
HUNDREDS of the striking miners at Es-
sen, Germany, have, at their own request,
been sworn i'll as special police in order
to keep their fellow workmen from riot
ing and thus spelling their hopes of the
mine owners concession.
AMONG the passengers on the steamship
City of Paris, which sailed from New
York for Liverpool, on the 18th. were
Robert T. Lincoln, the new United States
Minister to the Court Of st. James, his
wife, two daughters and son.
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Two THOUSAND men employed at the
National Tube Works at McKeesport,
Pa, struck, on the 10th, for q ten per
cent. advance in wages. About six thou
sand more of the company's employees
threaten to join the strikers.
JUDGE MArTaEws, who succeeds Judge
Durham as First Comptroller of the
Treasury, and Mr.. Huston, who succeeds
Mr.. Hyatt as Treasurer of the United
States, entered upon the discharge of
their respective duties on the 18th.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER has au-
thorized the United States marshal of
Arizona to offer a reward of 500 each for
the arrest and conviction of the pal ties
who attacked and robbed Paymaster
Wham near Fort Grant on the 1lth.
CHIEF ENGINEER l.. HARRIS, who was on
the Naval Examining Board to test the
cruiser Charleston, but who became Ill
on the voyage from San Francisco to
Santa Barbara, and was incapacitated for
duty, died on the night OF the 18th.
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THE conductors employed by the tram
way companies of Vienna, whose drivers
recently enforced their demands by a
general strike, are threatening to take
similar action unless their pay is in
creased and their hours shortened.
II Is Staleu ludt tne ponce Tblus on tue
Adelphi and Field clubs of London wero
prompted by the father of one ard the
mother Of another Of the persons arrest
ed, with a view to enabling the latter to
escape the payment OF their gambling
debts.
THE principal publishing houses OF
London are apparently vieing with each
other in their eagerness to obtain the
right of publishing the history of Lord
Lonsdale's Arctic adventures. Several
houses oabled him magnificent offers for
the prospective book.
IT is limited that Attorney General w.
H. II. Miller will probably be appointed
Justice of the Supreme Court, vice Mat
hews, deceased, Secretary Noble TO be-
come Attorney General and Assistant
Postmaster General Clarkson to become
: Secretary of the Interior
INDTANA's old State House at Indian
apolis is to be sold under the hammer.
II has been officially appraised, and its
value fixed al $4,000. Fifteen years ago
the building cost the State that sum for
repairs and tine real estate on which il
stasds Is valued at S33, 75l.
WoRKMRS excavatiug beneath where an
old house had just been torn down in the
southern part Of the city Of Columbus, o.,
on the lSth discovered a quantity OF gold
and silver coin. A miserly old woman
formerly owned the place 1t is thought
at least $4,000 were dug up.
REv. JOHN T. RUSSELL, professor OF
biblical theology at Yale, has resgned,o on
account, it is supposed, of a difference of
opinion in regard to the "Andover contro-
yersy" the professor siding with the An
dover professors. The resignation causes