The Springdale news., 1889-07-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE President on the 2Sth, appointed Frederick Douglass Minister to Hayti
 THE total export of gold, on the 29th, was 1.5S0, GOO
 MANY of the friends of Henry George | are urging him to become a British sub- l ject and enter Parliament for a Scotch district. It is not likely that MT. George will accept the proposal, though he has not as yet given definite answer.
 IT is announced that Prince Albert i Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. has been betrothed to Princes g Victoria sister of Emperor William. It is reported that Parliament will not be asked for settlement for the couple, but that the Queen, the grandmother of both, 1 will provide for them.
 A SERIOUS accident occurred on the Ohio & Northwestern railroad, one mile east of Batavia, O., passenger train being thrown from the track, by the wash ing out of eulyert, caused by heavy rains. Receiver Samuel Hunt, Passenger Agent Rhodes, Conductor Kain and sey- eral others were injured. GEO. ". WRIGHT a we'll known busi- ness man of Philadelphia, and supreme treasurer of the order of Tonti is report ed to be $40 900 short in his accounts with that order, and warrant for his arrest was issued on the 18th.
 THE Treasury Department officials esti- mate that the reduction of the public debt for June will amount to S15, 900, 900. 1 TIE Neversink, the thirty-foot boat which sailed from Boston about the mid- de of May. arrived at Havfe, France, on the 2sth. Captain Lawlor and his two companions were well.
 THE total number of bodies recovered 4l4 ~ to the 2sth, as recorded by the chairman of the committee on morgues, is ,, 253, to which must be added about fifty that have been found at points along the river of which no accurate list has been secured.
 A CLOUD BURST occurred over the city of Akron. O., on the 2Sth, and two inches of water fell in all hour. The cellars of several business blocks were badly food ed, and the damage to property is esti- mated al Sl0 009. Sand was washed upon the railroad tracks in such large quanti- ties as to altogether prevent transporta ton.
 EXAMINATIONS for admissions to Har- yard College were held, on the 2Sth, at Cambridge, Quincy and Andover, Mass; Exeter and Concord, N. H.; New York, i Albany, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chi caeo, St. Louis. San Francisco and Bonn, Germany. The total number of candi- dates is about seven hundred-greater than in any preyiousey ar. TREASURER HUsT0N, on the 29th, mailed ! 35,jl6 cheeks, aggregating SI, I21, 933, in payment of the interest due July l, 1sS9 on United States registered four-per. cent. bonds and on bonds issued in aid of Pacific railroad companies.
 Tttf- ,tsiy ,f afo church in France assembled ill Paris. on the 29th, ninety delegates being present. It was announced that they would almost immediately create a college at Mines, which, if it is erected will be the first Protestant seminary in France.
 THREE persons were killed and large number injured by the ditching of the limited express on the Boston & Albany railroad near New Haven, Conn, on the 29th.
 THIRTY SIX buildings, with large quantity of machinery, were destroyed by fire at Luneburg, Germany, on the 30th. The roof of the St Nicholas Church was also destroyed. The fire broke out in the eooperage workshops. The loss is 100000 marks. Six hundred workmeu are thrown out of employment.
 THREE of the Telluride tCol.) bank rob- bers have been recognized and it is be- lieved they will be captured. Their names are Thomas Mccarthy, Billy Madden and Matt Warner.
 TIE jury in the McDow murder case at Charleston, $. C., after being out two hours. returned verdict of mot guilty on the 29th.
 RELIGIOUS services were held in the various churches at Johnstown, Pa, on 90fh M biah " larnaf4y aftap1aJ
 TIE ex-supreme treasurer of the Or der of Tont, George W. Wright, was sent to Moyamensing (Pa.1 prison, on the 29th, in default of 50 GOO bail, on charge of embezzlement.
 THE British Cabinet Council, held on the 29th, decided to send additional war ships to Delagoa Bay, Africa, immedi- ately.
 TIE betrothal of Princess Louise to to the Earl of Fife reyives the rumors which were prevalent short time ago of coolness between the Prince of Wales and tho. Duke of Portland, which, it is said, has assumed the character of a permanent rupture.
 DAVID WARD, residing near Martins vile, Ind, reproved his nineteen year old son William because he had done some work in an unsatisfactory manner and also for participating in a charivari. The young man brooded over tho matter and, on the 29th, shot himself through the head, dying instantly.
 A SPECIAL session of the Rhode Island General Assembly has been called for the 9th.
 THE president and cashier of the First National Bank of Indianapolis, Ind, have been sued for misapproprlation of funds involving loss of S390, 900.
 THE objections to the Chicago ready built houses have disappeared, and they are now eagerly sought after for tenn porary habitations by the flood sufferers. i'll the Conemaugh Valley.
 MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN. who was ar rested in Cork. Ireland, was. on the 30th, released on bail to await trial for ad- dressing prohibited meeting.
 THE Pope strongly protested at the se- cret consistory of Cardinals against the Bruno fetes.
 EMPEROR WILLIAM witnessed the naval regatta at Kiel, on the 1st, from the deck of the royal yacht Hohenzollern. DURANGO, Col, was visited by de- structive coutiagration, on the Ist, which totally destroyed eight business blocks, including all the principal business houses, three churches and portion of the residence part of the town. The loss is estimated at S3)000), with light insur ance. The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin.
 AN English officer who was connected with one of Henry NJ. Stauley's expedi- tions, has been restrained from pubfisb- ing book, "With Stanley's Rear Guard, " the court holding that it's publication would violate the agreement made by those engaged in the expedition not to publish any aeeount of t nntil tLe offielal