The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-04-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

petnocA St' IeteTsDurR ana ParlS, on
horseback, within forty-five days. The
wager has been accepted, and the officers
will start on their journey some time dur
| ing the mouth of May.
THE Austrian colony In Buenos Avres
has sent n golden wreath valued at 10000
francs, to be placed on Prince Rudolph's
| tomb.
ALMOST the entire fire department Of
Milwaukee, Wis, was temporarily laid
| out, on the 10th, by smoke from a smol-
| dering fire in the glazing rooms of the
| Sanger 81 Rockwell Sash aud Door fac
| tory.
ONE hundred and twenty men and boys
employed in Clark's o. N. T. Thread
| Works in East Newark, N j.. went on
strike on the 10th, against fifteen per
cent. reduction in wages.
The Cologne Gazette, in an article on
| the future of Luxembourg, says it trusts
| that the German habits, languages and
| influences that now prevail in the Duchy
will continue to do so under the Duke Of
Nassau.
SEVERAL accidents occurred at the
| Charlottenburg Germany races on the
| 10th, some OF which may prove serious,
| and one probably fatal. Count Heinrich
Dohna was thrown from his horse in a
hurdle race, and injured internally.
There is little hope of his recovery.
THE Spanish Government has pur-
| chased site in Berlin and has begun
| building palatial embassy for her rep
| resentatives to Germany.
THE coroner's jury, iuquiring into the
| cause Of the death of Willie Berg, who
was shot in Buffalo, N. Y, on the sth, by
his playmate Charles Muse, returned a
L s.N - 4 al 4 4.
THE anniversary of the birth of Edward
| Hahnemann, the founder Of homeopathy,
was celebrated, on the 10th, by the pro-
moters of the new Hahnemann Hospital
| in Rochester, N. Y, by the formal open
| ing of the hospital
The Secretary of the Treasury has
awarded the contract for excavating, con-
| creting and underpinning the Philadel-
| phia Mint to Paul j. EsSick & Son, of
| Philadelphia, for So. s3l.
THE coroner's jury that inquired into the
death in London Of the American suicide,
| Rev. Sydney Hunt, rendered a verdict, en-
| the 10Th, stating that Mr.. Hunt was tenn
porarily insane when he committed the
deed. All save the technical evidence in
| the case was suppressed.
JAMES LAMRY, q foreman in charge Of
| the iron work at the new post office, un-
| der construction at Brooklyn, N. Y, fell
| from the second story to the basement, q
| distance of fifty feet, on the 10th, and sus-
| tanned injuries from which he died short
| ly after.
DIR. CHAs. PELLEGRISI, Vice. President
| of the Argentine Republic, and Mr.. W. K.
Vanderbilt arrived In Paris on the 10th.
THE Balloon Society of Great Britain
| has bestowed a gold medal upon Mr..
| Williams, of Cincinnati, who has given
| numerous exhibitions in England OF his
skill in the use Of the parachute in de-
| soending from balloons.
THE special National convention to con-
slider the question of consolidating the two
systems of Sons of Veterans met at AL
| bany, N. Y, on the 10th. Commander
| n-Chief George Marks, of Brooklyn, pre-
sided.
| SIX English boys, between sixteen and
nineteen years old who were brought over
on the steamer Wyoming by man named
| Rev, under an agreement to work on his
ranch in Iowa year for their passage
| money, were detained at Castle Garden,
on the 10th, and will probably be sent
| back.
A SECOND attempt was made, on the
| night of the 9th. at Louisville, o., to wreck
| the yestibule train on the Pitts burgh, Fort
| Wayne g. Chicago railroad, by strapping
| ties to the track. Timely warning was
| given, and the train was stopped just as
| the locomotive reached the obstruction.
THE New York Stock Exchange will be
| closed on Good Friday, April &C. and on
| April 20 and 30
A SAD accident occurred on the Chi
cago, Santa Fe g. California railway, at
| Lorenzo, fifty-seven miles south Of Chi
cago, on the morning of the 10th. During
| fog an extra freight train ran into the
rear of a passenger train, smashing to
| bits q private coach, not a single one of
the occupants OF which escaped. -Four
people were killed and four seriously
wounded. Among the killed was young
| lady on her way East to be married.
THE Jury in the case of Miss Libbie
Beechler, on trial at Omaha, Neb., for the
| killing Of Harry King, of Chicago, re-
turned verdict, on the 10th, of not guilty
of murder King had lived with the woman
as his wife, but never married her, and
married a lady at Omaha, Miss Beechler
going from Chicago to kill him.
THE schooner Carrie A. Bucknam ar
rived at New York on the 10th, and report
! ed that when off Saona island she was
chased by Dominican war vessel and fired
upon. The schooner was flying the Amer
ican flag at the time.
| NATHAN F. DIXON (Rep.) was elected
! United States Senator by the Rhode
| Island Legislature on the 10th.
| REAR-ADMIRAL THOMAS II. PATTERSON
| died at Washington on the 10th.
WILLIAM WHARTON, OF Massachusetts,
| the newly appointed Assistant Secretary
OF State qualified, on the 1lth, and as
sumed the duties of the position at once.
PAYMAsTERs j. II. Carmody and F. j..
| Hennan were, on the llth, placed on the
| retired list OF the navy.
| Mrs. Nj. l.. GRAsTY was found dead in
her residence at Danville, Va, on the
morning OF the 11th, with an empty choral
bottle beside her. The coroner's jury gave
it as their opinion that she took an over
dose of the drug, but not with suicidal IN
tent She had been separated from her
| husband for several months. They were
one of the prominent families of that Sec
| ton Of the State.
THE annual oratorical contest on the
| 18th, for the Yale junior exhibition prize,
was won by John Crosby, of Minneapolis,
Mimi, who had seven competitors. HIS
| subject was "John Wilmot second Earl
| Of Rochester"
Ir is alleged that the steady advance in
| the price Of raw sugar for the past two
| months has been due 10 the existence OF
a combination among Cuban producers
with view to securing better terms from
| the Sugar Trust.
The New York Yacht Club, on the llth,
| voted to accept Earl Dunrayen's chal-
lenge for match for the Americas cup.
| A committee was appointed to arrange
the preliminaries which are to determine
what yacht shall be put toward against
| the Valkyrie.
The Planet Mills factory at Brooklyn,
| for the manufacture of jute bagging,
twine, iute carpets, etc, was totally de-
stroyed by fire at one o'clock on the
morning OF the 18th. Loss, 100000; fully
insured OF the 800 girls comprising the
| night force, two were badly burned. The