The Russellville Democrat., 1889-06-27

drift near the Johnstown bridge on the 20th--three women and two children--all 1 badly decomposed and unrecoguizable.
 One of the women held the bodies of the
 two children, aged about six and fourteen,
 clasped in her arms.
 RHODE ISLAND voted, by large major ity, on the 10th, to repeal the prohibitory
 amdnQmeAt to her constitution. The amendment was adopted in 1S58, by vote
 of 15, l13 to 9,23).
 TIE death of Joel Parker was an- noUnced on the New York Stock Ex-
 change on the 18th.
 GENERAL LUuUs FAIRcHTLD, of Wis.,
 consin, notified the President, on the 10th, that he accepted the appointment on the Cherokee Commission.
 PRINCETON COLLEGE conferred the de- 1 gree of LID. upon President Harri son, on the 20th.
 REPORTS accumulate of the ravages of the green midge" among the wheat fields of Northern and Western Indiana. | JOHN KERN, of Bellefonte, Pa, was as : saulted and robbed, on the night of the 20th, in Cambria City. He was found next morning lying in the street. unconscious, and was taken to the hospital. The phy- sicians say that his injuries are very l serious.
 A SILVER brick from Colorado was auc- | toned off in New York for the benefit of 1 the Johnstown sufferers and brought | S10.
 THE King of Holland has had serious relapse of the malady which last year caused temporary resignation of the reins of government.
 | THE Canadian Government has been notified of the discovery of a mine of ex- 1 celent anthracite coal at Canmore, N. ". | T. The veins have been traced for four miles and are over nine feet in width l THREE Hungarians, Frank Georgie, | Harry Harson and Alec Harson, charged with trying to wreck passenger train on the Delaware & Hudson River railroad, were arrested at Scranton, sPa., on the | night of the 20th.
 A WHITE man named Nottingham was accidentally shot, on the 20th, at Parks ley, Va, by his friend, Will Parker, while fooling with pistol. The ball entered the thigh and passed up into the abdo- men, making a dangerous wound. A STATE dinner, followed by recep- tion, was given at the Elysee Palace, Paris, on the 20th. Among those present were United States Minister Reid and the visiting American engineers. A SERIOUS riot, the outcome of the strikes in that region, occurred at Klad- ,, no, Bohemia, on the 20th. The strikers defed the gendarmes, and the latter were compeled to fire several volleys into the crowd before they could be dispersed. Two of the rioters were killed and twelve wounded
 CARDINAL GIBBONS ordained six priests. nine deacons and eighteen ub-deacons at the Baltimore (Md.) Cathedral on the 2lst. Twenty-six others received the lower orders and seventeen took the initiatory step toward the priesthood.
 A NEGRO, whose name is unknown, whipped the little daughter of John Core, a white farmer of Pastoria, Va. Mir. Core armed himself with gun, went to the negro's house and fired load of buck- shot into the negro's breast. Core then left and has not been arrested. The negro is badly wounded.
 AMOS S. BEEcHER, of Winstead, Conn.,, aged ninety one, died on the 20th. He was the oldest Mason In that State.
 NEARLY Sl00, 00) in wages was paid out on the 2lst, to employees of the Cambria Iron Company. The payment was for wages for the two weeks previous to the food At that time the company had 5000 names on it's payroll. On payday 3,600 answered to their names. It is known almost to a certainty that 1 900 lost their lives in the flood.
 THE schooner Baltic, of Provincetown, Mass, from a whaling voyage, reports that while in Samana Bay, in May, she was fired on by party of Haytien sol diers, but no one was hurt. The captain was unable to get any satisfaction, and will refer the matter to Washington.
 ON the 2ist State Treasurer Isaac s. Bamberg of South Carolina dropped dead at his home in Columbia from heart dis ease.
 ALEXANDER M. FRYER, aged sixty three, and his son Fred were working on house in Dorchester, Mass, on the 20th, when the staging broke, and they fell twenty feet, The elder man received in- juries of which he died shortly after. The son escaped with a few slight injuries.
 GARDNER R. COLBY, a wealthy dry goods merchant and railroad capitalist of New York City, died on the 20th, aged fifty years.
 FIVE lives were lost, and one man was fatally injured, by the destruction of Hyer Bros' fire works establishmet, in Boston, on the 2lst. Two boys are also missing, and supposed to be lost.