The Russellville Democrat., 1889-01-31

.
 A NEw YORK company proposes a novel plan for defending the entrance to har- bors. They propose to force petroleum to the surface of the water through pipes laid at the bottom for that purpose, and ignite it with burning bombs, thus creat- ing a sea of fire, through whichno enemy's fleet could pass.
 ELEVEN native policemen, headed by British officer, in Q conflict with party of Warboys at Sulyman, West Africa, killed 131 of the enemy with a Maxim gnD, and the rest of the party fled ill dismay. A PETITION will probably be presented by the British Indians asking compensa~ ton for the ruin brought upon their trade | by the fighting between the insurgents and the Germans at Zanzibar. CLEARING frauds upon the Indians in | the Fond du Lac reservation, by lumber i men, have been brought under the light | of official investigation. THREE hundred miners in the coal mines at Boonesborough, la, went on strike, on | the Fist, because of areduction in the rate l from four and half to four cents. Mine owners claim that the strike will benefit 1 them by limiting the output and raising
 the price, while the miners are obstinate, 1 and say they are out to win | TIE German fleet at Samoa consists of l the Adler, the Olga and the Eber, but 1 large number of German iron -elads, how 1 ever are within easy reach of the islands. A STUDENT in the School of Pharmacy at the Ann Arbor (Mich.) University is l down with smallpox, and great scare | exists among the students. The doctors
 are overrun with applications for vaccina- i tion.
 l SPAIN has granted amnesty to all press and political offenders, and to the soldiers
 who took part in the uprising in Madrid 1 in 1886.
 THE German Bundesrath has approved
 the East African bill. l A BRITISH cruiser has been sent to
 Samoa to protect British interests. ! A BILL to increase the artillery forces
 will be presented to the Prussian Bundles
 rath shortly.
 1 IT is announced that the German Emin Pasha relief expedition will start from
 Berlin i'll February.
 l THE new commercial treaty between l Italy and Switzerland has been signed by 1 both governments.
 THE Slav Society in Russia is increasing
 rapidly ill membership. One hundred Moscow merchants and manufacturers 1 have joined the organization. THE Cologne Gazette proposes the in- l sertion of special Geffcken paragraph l in the penal code, which, it says, requires l through revision from beginning to end
 IT is estimated that that fireworks to 1 be used at Washington on the night of
 inauguration day will cost S11,0 900. l THE garrisons of Paris it is reported,
 are being replaced by soldiers who are 1 known to be devoted to the republic. The
 Boulangist organs assert that the police l are preparing emeutes which will afford | pretexts for the arrest of General Bou- l langer and his friends. THE British Minister at Athens will
 soon render his decision as arbitrator up
 on the claims of the United States Gov | ernment against Denmark for compensa-
 ton on account of q Danish commander | at St. Thomas firing upon the American i ship Benjamin Franklin, as that vessel
 was leaving port in 1S5f without permis- 1 sion from the authorities. A DEAL by which the Pullman company
 secures control of all the palace-ca bus
 mess of this country, except that of the
 Wagner company, has been eonsum-
 mated.
 | IT is said that near the ruins of Palen- 1 que, Mexico, long g-buried edifice has
 been uncovered, exceeding in grandeur
 any thing previously discovered in proof l of the existence of the ancient city. | THE Military Appropriation bill for
 1890, reported to the House on the 18th. aggregates S24, ,466. .6l5, against S2i,47l, 300
 in the bill of 1889. The estimates for 1890
 were S25, 5,076,35s.
 ON the 25th city officials and others from
 Toledo, O., were at Syracuse, N. Y., in-
 specting the electric street-railway sys-
 tenn. There were twenty -elght in the
 party.
 A BILL to remove the capital of Arizona
 from Prescott to Phoenix passed the Ter
 ritor1al House by vote of Ii to 10 on the
 24th. The approval of the Council and
 Governor is necessary to make it a law.
 AFTER the Emperor's marriage, says
 the Foo Choo (China) Echo, China will
 annex Corea, and the present King and
 his family will be deposed, and Marquis
 Tseng will be appointed as Viceroy of l Corea.
 ON the 25th about one thousand Brook
 lyn street-car employees went on strike, tying up nine different lines. An at-
 tempted return to the old ''tripper" sys-
 tenn was the cause of the e-up.