The Russellville Democrat., 1889-12-05

cOpal tAthedrai or IT tunn fno i}tttnt
on the 25th, agreed 70 allow the site d
the proposed cathedral g Be u~rsi - RE
New York Worlds Fair commlttsr a.
a portion Of the fair grounds
Ar Amherst, N. H.. the unidentified
skeleton of man has been found. The
top Of the skull was blown OF ana j
loaded gun lay near. saicsde or aar-
der? is the question In Amherst
J. l.. POWELL, late county judge -
Butler County, Ala, and 1T one tine
candidate for Iieutenant-Goyernor u
Alabama, was placed on trial in Green.
vile, Ala, on the 25th, before Judge y.
p. Hubbard, OF the Circait Court. for en-
bezzlfng $1,000 of county funds collected
by him in the way Of fines and otherwise
during his term Of Office.
Mr.. WALKER, the eminent English
civil engineer and contractor, famous as
an engineer OF the Severn tunnel. the
Manchester canal and other similar nm
dertakings, is dead.
SECRETARY TRACY has made arrange
ments by which the navy will be- fur
nished with the Brown prismatic pow
der for large guns and the new smoke
less powder for smaller ones
TWELVE HUNDRED Clyde Scotland }
engineers went out on strike on the 25th.
Eighteen firms, under pressure Of con-
tracts, were obliged TO conceda tho
strikers demands.
GEORGE III. WILLIAMS, colored, aged
thirty years, was found guilty OF muir
der in the first degree at Wilmington,
Del. He was charged with killing Wal
ter E. Wright, white boy about eight
cen years of age.
TIE Plummeryille and Morrillton
fArk.) ballot-box theft trials were con-
cluded in the United States Court at
Little Rock, on the 25th when in the
case OF Walter z. Wells, o. Il. Bentley
and others the jury returned averdict Of
not guilty
THE Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany's new $1,000, 900 steamship, the
China, recently reported aground near
Yokohama, was foated of and pro-
ceeded, without having sustained any
apparent damage,
TIE $50 miners who were entoinbed
in flooded mine at Recklinghausen, in
Westphalia were all rescued.
IsADoRE SULTZBAcH, a Philadelphia
clothing dealer, has made an assign
ment, for the benefit of creditors, to
Simon Bacharach, of the firm OF A.
Bacharach & Co. The liabilities are es-
timated at 1928, 900; assets nominal.
A PLOT to depose King Alexander of
Servia and to put Prince Peter Kan
georgvitch in his place has been dis
covered at Belgrade. Many Russian
are said to be implicated in
the plot.
PHILIP LA CosrE, life prisoner, was
terribly stabbed in the neck by John f.
Mccarthy, lhghwayman, at the Rhode
Island State prison on the 25th. Both
were employed in the shoe-shop, and
Mccarthy stepped up behind La Coste,
put a shoe-knife in the back of his vic
TINS neck, and drew it around one side
Of the neck. La Coste, who will die,
was sentenced for murder.
HENRY T. ScHALI, the young man
in the cashiers departments of
the Northwestern Railway Company at
who left that city last January,
after taking, as alleged, $4,000 of the
funds, returned on the 25th.
An indictment was returned and Schall
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
NoTIoE of appeal from the decision .sfr
the New York City Supreme CourA appe
tanning the order of Justice Rs--y iasI,
solving the North River Sugar Renhing
Company was filed on the Goth.
THE law committee of the New York
City Council on the Goth, reported to
the aldermen an ordinance which will
allow the playing of organs in the city
streets between the hours OF a. m. and
! p. m. The number is, however, limit
ed to three hundred organs.
THE election for Mayor of Providence,
r. l., on the Goth, resulted in no choice.
Amos, Jacob, Charles and James
Long, brothers, and all leading citizens
and churchmen of Pine Grove, Pa, were,
On the Goth, arrested for burglary. The
residence of Jacob Long was searched,
md complete burglars outfit captured.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for
he holding of an exhibition at Kin gs-
ion, Jamaica, to be conducted under
government auspices.
AN east-bound Pennsylvania freight
vas wrecked at Falmouth, Pa, on the
hight OF the 25th, by a broken axle.
loaded cars were derailed, and
eight of them fell into the canal A
number of cattle in the cars were drown
ID.
AMONG the passengers of the City of
Paris, which sailed from New York, on
he Goth, were Hon. Edward Stanley,
.on of the Governor-General Of Canada;
lady Stanley, who is the daughter Of
he Duke of Manchester, Vice-Admiral
# the Royal navy; Sir Michael c. Sey-
nour; Mrs b. Lowdon Snowden, OF
wife of the United States
Minister to Greece, and Hon. d. j. Par
clio United States Minister TO Dussel-
Iorf
THE roller-process fiour-mill, saw-mill
md undergrad of j, A. Taylor, at Safe
Iarbor, Pa, were burned on the 26th;
oss, $4,000
Ir was announced, on the 26th, that
he sale of the Fort Worth road to the
Union Pacific had been effected, but
hat the officials were not yet ready to
i've out detailed statement
KING CARLOS of Portugal has had the
Palace prepared for the
of his great uncle, Dom Pedro,
lthough he is not certain that the ex
led Emperor will reside there.
SECRETARY BLAINE is engaged in me-
an international copyright |
reaty with France.
THE City Of Boston was visited by
cry destructive confiagration on the |
sth. Several squares of the most cost |
y business houses Of the city were |
The loss was vadously stated |
3 from s., 0o0, 900 TO SlO,o00,00
RI. Hon PETER o'BRIEN, now Attor-
for Ireland, is to succeed |
In Michael Morris as Lord Chief-Justice |
I Ireland
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