The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-21

THE G. A. R. encampment of New Jer- sey at Trenton, on the 18th, elected W. B. K. Miller, of Camden, department com mander.
 DHuLEEp SINGH has sent to India a | proclamation inviting the people to sub scribe the sum of ei090,00O, with the ob- l ject of throwing off the English yoke
 THE famine in Anhul and Kianqsu, China, is spreading. In one province 300,000 families are starving, and alto- | gether several millions are suffering from famine caused by two years drought. ON January s Chief Engineer Edwin l Wells of the United States steamer Omaha committe q suicide at Shanghai, by shooting himself through the head, during a fit of temporary insanity.
 TIE Chicago, Burlington 6 Quincy di- reetors declared dividend of one per cent, on the 14th.
 E. s. PHILBRIoK, a well-known citizen of 1 Brookline, Mass, and civil engineer of i National reputation, died suddenly, on tie night of the 18th, on @ train for Brookline.
 PATRICK MoLLoy was arraigned in the Bow Street police court, London, on the 14th, on the ch arge of swearing falsely before the Parnell Commission. Molloy pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial.
 EMPEROR WILLIAM gave audience, on the 18th, to Lieutenant E. II. Buckingham and Lieutenant Aaron Ward, the military and naval attaches of the American Lega- l ton at Berlin.
 PARTIES at Pittsburgh, Pa, are pro- ce eding to prosecute the oleomargarine dealers. The State law prohibiting it's sale has, heretofore, proved a dead let l ter.
 1 CAPTAIN WIssMAN left Berlin, on the l 10th, for East Africa. ON the 18th, Ar. and Mrs. Gladstone ar rived at San Remo, Italy, and proceeded | to Cannes.
 l A NUMBER of horses belonging to the farmers in the vicinity of Columbus, Ind, l have been killed on account of hydro i phobia. The disease is alarmingly preva- lent there.
 | IN the Pennsylvania Senate the Satur- day Half Holiday bill was defeated, on | the 14th, by a vote of 120 to 12. I THE boiler-makers at the Risdon Iron | Works, Philadelphia, are on strike. The use of foreign made plate is the cause. JERAULD COUNTY, Dalz., is in trouble over the courthouse site. Instead of the land belonging to the county it is found to be owned by private parties. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, was visited by 0 900 fire on the night of the 14th.
 JOHN GRAY, a Scotchman, was shot through the heart and killed at Pittston, Pa, on the night of the 14th, while trying to fire shanty occupied by three Italians to which he had been refused admittance.
 LATEST adyices from Samoa represent all parties as maintaining truce with arms in hands.
 THE President, on the 18th, signed the s.T., Secretary of Agriculture.
 JOHN l.. SULLIVAN was to have started from Boston for New York City on the 18th, but did not have the money to pay his fare and could not raise any.
 NICHOLAS MERLAND, wealthy New Orleans cigar manufacturer, shot himself on board ferry boat, on the 14th, and then jumped into the river and was drowned.
 ROBERT MONTGOMERY, one of the six teen counterfeiters arrested recently in Butler County, Pa, by secrct-seryice agents, was gwen a preliminary hearing, on the 1ith, by United States COmmis- sioner McCandless, at Pittsburgh, and was held for trial in default of S2, 2,00) bail.
 THE boiler of a locomotive on the North Pennsylvania railroad exploded near Bening Station, Pa., on the 10th, killing the engineer and fireman.
 ON the 18th Q street-car was run into by train on the Baltimore 6S Ohio rail- road at Chester, Pa. It was thrown from the track, and four lady passengers and the driver of the car were badly hurt.
 A SHORT time since the Government sent an inspector named Mallett to in- vestigate the affairs of the Indian school located at Genoa, Neb. The investigation has resulted in the discovery of a short- age on the part of Superintendent Chase of over S25, 900.
 ON the 14th fiveyear- child of c. w. Jackson, of Beatrice, Neb., fell through the ice on Indian creek. The mother saw the ice give way under the little one, and ran out to save her. The ice broke with her, also, but she managed to save the child.
 IT is announced that the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy has signed the railroad presidents agreement.
 HENRY KUHHARDT, Haytien Consul at Boston, has been removed by President Legitime.
 THE fre-fghters in tho Calumet & Hecla mine at Calumet, Mich, have been driven out by gas and smoke and all the shafts sealed but one.