The Springdale news., 1889-05-24
PERSONAL AND GENERA =


 men, and five per cent. on those of la borers.
 IT is stated that the Turks are massa- creing Christians on the frontier of MOn- tenegro.
 MINNEsoTA's Drunkards' law has gone into effect. It provides that whoever be- comes intoxicated by voluntarily drink ing intoxicating liquors shall be deemed guilty Of the crime of drunkenness, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun ished by fine and imprisonment
 THE Terra Central Sugar Grinding Factory, at Manzanillo, Cuba, was burned on the l7th, loss, $i00,000.
 THE British House of Commons, on the lzth, rejected Mr. Labouchere's motion to abolish hereditary sittings in the House of Lords.
 TIE Pope became suddenly indisposed on the lIth.
 AN Anarchist Republican conspiracy has been discovered at Succia iu Valencia, Spain, among the peasants. The plot was to seize the town, on the 11th, and sack the houses of the wealthy. The police and soldiers arrested a number of the conspirators. Firearms were found in their possession and many also had pass ports to South America.
 THE reports of the committee of the Sa- moan conference on the questions of land tenure and the government of the islands were presented to the full body on the l7th The latter report was ap- proved with the exception of a few de- tails which were left over for discussion at the next meeting of the conference.
 THE Chesapeake 6 Ohio Railroad Com paEy's depot warehouse at Norfolk, Va, was burned,on the 17th. The loss on the building and freight is estimated at $l00, poo. The building, wooden structure was nine hundred feet long. The origin of the fire is unknown.
 THE late Duchess of Cambridge left an estate valued at about f220, ,00). Most of her fortune was devised 10 the children of her daughter, tho Duchess of Teck.
 ON the 10th Stewart Brothers Packing house, at Council Bluffs, Ia, was burned with a quantity of cured Ill eats. Loss, slo0,0J0; insurance, $93, 100.
 THE manufacturing company occupy ing three large woOlen mills at Kensiug- ton avenue and Huntington street, Phila- lclphia, indefinitely suspended on the l7th. The concern employed about three hundred men. Competition in trade and low prices were the causes. Tho liabili ties will reach nearly $50, 00); assets, Si0o,00).
 A DISPATCH from Breslau, Germany, of the 17,h. says that conflict occurred between the military and the strikers near there. The troops fired upon the strikers, killing number of them.
 JUDGE JoHN l.. MILBrRN, of the St. Mary'S County Orphans Court at Leon- ardtown, Md., was struck by lightning and killed on the 10th.
 GEORGE HowERY, a wealthy farmer of Shelby County, Ind, was arre sted on the 10th, and taken to Nashville on q warrant charging him with being one of two men who passed over S3l0 in counterfeit tiyes and tens iu the latter city.
 THE worst hail-storm that ever visited Central and Northern Iowa was experi- enced on the 16th, lasting but two or three minutes. Many of the stones were larger than hens eggs. They cut the leaves and small limbs from trees, dam aged vegetation, anl caused great loss to greenhouses and windows.
 A CONFERENCE of Austrian and Hun garian sugar merchants was held at
 
 adopted urging tho government to with draw from the London sugar bounties convention.
 TIE Parnell Commission resumed its S;ttincs on the l7th. Father O'Donovan, of Fully, Ireland testified that tho Moon- lighters of that place were opposed to the National League.
 PoSrMAsTER-G GENERAL WANAMAKER ad- dressed over three thousand of his Phila- lelphia employe5 on the evening of the l7th. He talked to them for over half an hour, receiving frequent outbursts of ap- plau5e. The occasion was the second an nual distribution of the profits of the immense establishment among its em- ol0yes.
 TIE delegates to the Presbyterian Gen. eral Assembly in New York City were endered @ reception, on the night of the 6th, at the Metropolitan Opera House by he Presbyterian Union of that city. There was music, luncheon and speaking. Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania and others delivered addresses.
 \ SERIOUS fight occurred near Beverly, ". Va, on the 17th, among about forty Italian laborers on the West Virginia Central railroad extension. Three men were shot and badly wounded; two were severely stabbed, and others were cut, beaten, bruised by stones, etc.
 MR. ROBERT T. LINCOLN, United States Minister to the Court of St. James, has taken house in Cadoyan Square, London, for the season.
 NELSON COLBERT (colored), who mur- lered Philip Wentzel, superintendent of the Columbia street-car stables in Wash ington, in October last was hanged at the District jail on 17th.
 Mas. HAR8ISpN's mail contains ever day appeals from office seekers to use her influence with her husband in favor of the writers.
 JOHN BoGARD, of Van Sue, o. took dose of arsenic, on the 18th, with suicidal in tent, dying shortly afterward. He was to have been married iu two weeks to Miss Lola Beck, and killed himself because she received calls from another gentle man.
 ON the 18th Mrs. Vice President Nor ton and her daughter, Miss Edith, were among tho passengers on board the French steamer La Normandie, which sailed for Havre.
 TIE twenty-frst anniversary of the DlIltl OL lIit tHdItNlAt4t -Nlh'lhi @hAOAoi4- drovitch, Grand Duke of Russia and heir-apparent to the throne, was cele- brated on the 19sh. He is betrothed to Princess Alice Victoria of Hesse, daugh- ter of the late Grand Duchess Alice Maud Maria, who IS grand daughter of Queen Victoria. The marriage will take place next autumn.
 THE English syndicate has offered S1o,000,00O for the Blatz brewery, in Mill waukee, Wis, and is trying to get op- tions on other breweries in that city.
 A DISASTROUS wind and hail-storn swept over part of Seneca County, O., on the 1sth, doing thousands of dollars damage to buildings aud fences. Freight cars were blown from the track at New Riegal, and crops were badly cut by the hail.
 IN speech in the Reichstag, on the 18th, on the Aged Wor6nen's Insurance bill, Prince Bismarck used the following significant language: "We wish to dis pose of the bill before the next election for nobody knows whether we may hav' as much leisure next year as We have now"
 BUFFALO BILL gave private perform ance of his Wild West show in Paris on the 18th. Pre- sid ent Carnot, some or th' Cabinet and sev eral members of the dip lomatic corps were present. Alter the show President Carnut and the guests