The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-21
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.

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 A Summary of Important Events. F,-SgyAroR PLArT's son has entered General Tracy'5 law firm in New York City.
 ALDAcE F. WALKER has finally accept sd the chairmanship of the Interstate commerce Railway Association.
 THE Rhode island Senate passed, on the 15tb the Ballot-Reform bill, amended SC ns to take effect June, 1889, instead oI ; April lss'
 DR. KARI. PETERS started from Alexan- Aria Egypt, for Alden, on the 14th, on his wav to take charge of the Emin Bey re- lief expedition.
 TIE Silesian Diet has voted to appro- rriate the sum of POO, GOO marks for the pur- nose of erecting monument of Emperor William l. at Breslau.
 THE interpositiou of Ex- King Milan of servia prevented a duel between Nj. Nihiokoyic, chief-of-staff, and NJ. B9li- markoyic, one of the regents.
 A GERMAN officer of artillery has dis covered a new and extremely powerful explosive for filling shells. The basis of 's the explosive is carbolic acid.
 GRhAT raA-storms have ragged in Cali ,oruia recently, the rainfall for twenty four huurs ended at noon on the 18th be- ing ID inches, the heaviest ever known there.
 TIE issue of standard silver dollars from the hints for the week ended the 9th amounted to 37l, ,5s7. The issue during the corresponding week of last year was S9l,j64
 SCHUYLER MosEs, the oldest Free Ma son fin the State of New York, and the oldest pioneer of Rochester, died, on the 18th, aged ninety. He had been 8 Mason sixty eight years.
 QUEEN VICTORIA will shortly go to San Sebastian to pay a visit to the cemetery where lie the British soldiers who fell in the Psninsular war in the British conquest of that place in 1913.
 TIE Ameer of Afghanistan denies that he has any designs against Russia. He declares that his enemies, wishing to em- broil England, Afghanistan and Russia, originated the report
 NEWS has been received from a man y~formerly of Waterbury, Conn.,, who, for twenty-one years, has been supposed to be dead, but who is now wealthy resi- dent of Victoria Australia.
 VINcENzo VILETTo, an accomplice of "Red -Nosed Mike" in the murder of Pay master Mcclure and Contractor Flanni- gan, has been captured in Italy, and $l,000 of the stolen money recovered.
 IT is reported that the secrets of the Patriotic League were betrayed to the French Government by a leading officer of the organization. The name of the traitor has not as yet been divulged. '- THE Mexican Government has amended the concession granted to Captain J. B. Eads for a ship railroad, by guaranteeing earnings to the extent of five per cent. in- terest on sixty million dollars of stock.
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 EIGHT HUNDRED delegates and visitors attended the South Dakota Prohibition convention at Huron, Dak., on the 18th. The sentiment was almost unanimous for the adoption of the Sioux Falls Constitu- ton.
 
 consideration the question of furnishing anaval vessel to convey the remains of the late John Ericsson to his native land !. In recognition of his distinguished serv- ' ices. OWING to the illness of Mrs. Townshend and her daughter, it was determined to postpone the taking of the remains of Representative Townshend to Illinois. His funeral took place in Washington on the 18th.
 LATE Samoan dispatches received at Auckland, New Zealsud, show that there is no basis for the rumors of the naval battle that was said to have been fought between the German and American war vessels.
 TRAIS-wREcKERs tore up the track of the Iranscaspian railway in Russia, caus- ing a frightful accident to a passenger train, on the 10th. Fifty persons were killed and injured. The wreckers were captured.
 LORD LoNsDALE has arrived at that point in the Arctic Circle known as the Ramparts, which is the last outpost of the Hudson Bay Company. He and his party are reported we'll, and his lordship is in line spirits.
 THE schooner Ellen, which recently left San Diego, Cal, for the new gold fields at Ensenada, with eight tons of provisions and seventy-six minors on board, went on the beach few miles north of Ensenada, and broke up.
 LORD COMPTON (Gladstonian) was elect sd to Parliament from the Barnsley div sion of Yorkshire, England, on tho l2th, receiving 6,232 votes against 3, 7sl cast for B. c. Vernon Wentworth, the Conserv- Atiye candidate.
 TIE Nihilist committee of St. Peters burg has issued secret circular an- nouncing that the apparent inactivity of the Nihilist leaders Is merely a blind, in- tended to lull the authorities into false :. sense of security.
 MAYOR GRANT of New York will head the reception committee which will go down the bay on tug to meet the Adriatic, which brings back the Chicago and All-America base ball clubs from their tour around the world.
 ADMIRAL JOHN LEE DAVIS, aged sixty Tour, retired naval officer, died at the Ebbitt House, Washington, on the i2th, Of pneumonia. Admiral Davis entered the navy in lsi1, and was in command of the Asiatic squadron when he was retired two years ago.
 TIE first sign of the inevitable return of Queen Natalie to Belgrade as the result of her late husbands desertion of the throne and her sOn's accession thereto is visi- Ole in the report that meeting is being arranged between the mother and son on the frontier