The Russellville Democrat., 1889-06-27

FIFTEENTH YEI
 
 TIE actress, Rose Coghlan, and her husband, Mir. Clinton Eagerly, have mu. tually agreed to hereafter live apart
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 CORRECTED returns show that the Dem- ocrats will have majority of five in the Montana Constitutional Convention.
 THE Beach Creek Railroad Company began running traius between Williams = port, Pa., and the Jersey shore on the 10th.
 IT is announced that the Northern Pa- cidc will withdraw from it's connections in the Canadian Northwest within a few months.
 TIE steamers State of Pennsylvania and Wyoming, which arrived at New York on the 20th, both sighted large ice- bergs on the passa .e.
 THE New Hampshire Legislature met in joint convention, ou the 10th, and form ally declared ". E. Chandler elected us United States Senator.
 EMPEROR WILLIAM will go on three weeks yachting cruise in the North sea in July, in the cDmse of which he will visit the Lofadon islands.
 JOHN E. KENNY was arrested in Boston, on the 18th, on the charge of embedding S4,s0O from the WellsFargo Express Company at San Francisco.
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 TIE Titania beat tue Katrina in the yacht race at New York on the 18th. The Katrina was leading until she met with mishap to her rigging, which enabled the Titania to win.
 A GENTLEMAN by the name of Middle. ton, from Washington D. C., is in Rich- mond, Va, buying and taking optic ns on all land upon which Robert E. Lee surrendered his army.
 THE battle of Bunker Hill was cele- brated in Boston, on tho l7fh, by military and civic parades. Tablets bearing the names Of those known to have fallen iD the battle were uuyailed.
 WILLIAM F. HOWARD. who was convict. ed in New York City in the Electric Sugar Refining case, was, on the 21st, sen. fenced to nine years and eight months Imprisonment in inc States prison.
 SECRETARY TRAcg ordered court of inquiry to investigate the circumstances connected with the grounding of the United States ship Constellation, to meet at the Norfolk Navy Yard on the 21st.
 THE Paris Temps says that Germany is treating with Belgium in regard to the laying of cable from Ostend to Port land, Me, in order to render those coun- tries independent of the English cable companies.
 OWING to the recent assignment of George Calder, Jr., owner of the Fulton Cotton Mill at Lancaster. Pa, operations in the mill were indefinitely suspended on the 20th. Three hundred hands were thus thrown out of employment.
 DR. R. ". II. DUNCAN, of the steamship Colon, was, on the 20th, taken from the residence of Captain w. II. Thompson, No. ITS Hancock street. Brooklyn, to quarantine, the Health Board having pro- nounced his case one of yellow fever.
 BILL passed the French Chamber of Deputies, on the 20th, providing that the children of foreigners who may be born in Franco shall be regarded as French citizens if domlciled in France at their majority, unless they decline citizenship. ON the 18th Pennsylvania voted on Prohibition amendment to the State Con- stitution, and returus up to a. m. of the morning of the 10th showed a majority against the amendment of over 13J, ,000 Philadelphia gave g., 900 majority against tho amendment
  GENERAL SIMON CAMERON, of Pennsyl- vania, was stricken with paralysis of the right side on the 20th, and left in a crit ical condition. Wayne MacVeagh, and Mrs. MacYeagh and Mrs. Halderman, his daughters, are with him at his home in Donegal Springs.
 MARTIN BURKE, alias Delaney, was ar- rested at Winnipeg, Man, on the i6th, for eomplicity in the Cronin murder, on infor- nation from Police Superintendent Hub bard of Chicago. He was boarding the Atlantic express, and had ticket for Liverpool, England.
 ON the night of the 17th pack of about 100 dogs invaded Prospect Hill Cemetery, where 800 victims of the Johnstown flood are buried, dug up number of the bodies and were tearing them limb from limb when they were discovered by the militiamen and chased away. REFERRING to the victory of the Val kyrie in the Queenstown regatta, the London Times of the 18th says: "It was just such weather as the Valkyrie is likely to sail the America's cup match in. Nothing could be more satisfactory than the way she acquitted herself"
 s THE coroner's jury Investigating the circumstances connected with the recent frightful railway disaster near Armagh, Ireland, returned verdict on the 21st, holding five of the officials of the railway responsible for the loss of life and charging them with manslaughter.
 The United States schoolship Constel- lation went ashore near Cape Henry, on l the 18th, with over three hundred peo- pie on board, nearly half being cadets. | The intelligence was received late on the ! night of the 18th, and preparations were | made to render assistance at day break. JuDGE ANDREWS, in the New York City | Supreme Court on the 17th, rendered a | decision discharging from custody Ma | roney and Mcdonald who were arrested | for alleged complicity in the murder of | Dr. Cronin. The judge decided that the | evidence did not warrant their being held. | MARTIN BURKE, the Winnipeg "sus- pect," was positively identified, as one | of the "Williams brothers," on the 2lsL | by the expressman, Martinsen, of Chi | cago, who hauled the furniture to the | Carlson cottage, who picked him out of | crowd of fifty persons without hesitation.
  A CONSCIENCE contribution, amounting | tO Sl3) was received at the Treasury De- | partlnent, on the 10th, from lady in | Philadelphia. Her letter accompanying | tho remittance stated that the money was for the payment of customs duties on |