The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-09
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

was daughter of the tragedian Thomas
 Cooper, and Mary Fairlee, celebrated | belle of New York. In 1S40 she married
 Bobert Tyler, son of President Tyler,
 and upon the special request of the
 President and of his wife, who was an 1 invalid, she presided as Lady of the
 White House" during the first three years of President Tyler's administra- l tion.
 IS an Oakland Gal. boarding-house on the 29th, Mrs. Jane Erwin and her two daughters Mary and Bessie, aged sixteen and twelve respectively, were found dead in bed, having been asphyx-
 lated by gas. They had just arrived l from Cole Camp, Mo, en route to Ven tura County, Cal, where the husband of | Mrs. Erwin has ranch.
 AFTER thorough investigation of the l plans and resources of the Monte Piedad
 banking scheme concessionaires, in the City of Mexico, it is learned that they can count on sufficient funds to carry out their project. It is stated that the | recent rumors that the concessionaires efforts had ended in fiasco were start ed by enemies of the enterprise. MANY deaths from pneumonia result ing from influenza are reported from all parts of the country.
 ADvIcEs from the Republic of San | Salvador state that the revolutionists in l the Department or Cuscatian are re- treating before the government troops sent against them, and that the revolu- | ton is of no importance.
 MRs. ROBERT STEWART, the wife of the superintendent of telegraph of the New Jersey Central Railroad Company, committed suicide by jumping over board from ferry-boat between Jersey City and Brooklyn. Her body has not | been recovered.
 HERR KENMORE, who some time ago was forced to flee from Germany owing to his advanced Anarchistic teachings and proclivities, returned to Leipsic from America recently. Though great secrecy was observed with regard to his presence, the authorities became aware of his return and with equal secrecy ar rested him.
 Mas. MARIA ROBBINS of New York, will in the spring erect library build ing to cost S250 000 at Arlington, Mass, which, together with 10000 volumes, in tended as the nucleus of a great library, she will present to the city. TIE protracted silence of Consul John son with regard to recent events in Mozambique and the acts of Serpa Pinto encourages the belief that he is organiz-
 ing force to drive the Portuguese from the position they have assumed. TIE trial of ninety-one Socialists, which had been progressing at Fiber field, Germany, for several days, was concluded on the 3Oth. Deputies Rebel, Griltenberger and forty-four others were acquitted Deputy Harm was sentenced to six months imprisonment and the
 other prisoners were imprisoned for
 terms varying from eighteen months to fourteen days.
 IT is stated that the illness of the
 Czar was caused by excitement conse- quent upon the sudden extinguishment
 of the electric lights in the Gatschina Palace, which caused an immediate
 rush of blood to the lungs, with result ant congestion.
 HENRY M. STANLEY, accompanied by Evan Smith. British Consul-General at Zanzibar, sailed from Zanzibar for Mom-
 bassa on the 30th. The remainder of
 the Stanley expedition left for Mom-
 bassa on the 3lst
 LORD SALISBURY was reported seri- ously i'll on the 30th.
 TIE Republican members of the Massachusetts State Senate met in eau GUS, on the 1st, and nominated Henry
 W. Sprague, of Boston, for president. The Democrats of the Senate held no caucus. The House Democrats held caucus, but made no nominations. Both branches of the Legislature met at eleven o'clock for organization.
 CHAs RITTER, New York City baker, too much liquid refreshment, and while calling on two young women drew a knife and badly cut them both and then ran amuck through the tenement house creating a small panic He was finally captured, and the two girls were taken to the hospital. One of them is likely to die from her injuries.
 JAMES A. ByRNs, an inveterate cigar cite smoker, aged twenty years, com mitted suicide at Terre Haute, Ind, on the evening of the 29th, by putting a bullet throug h his head
 TIE International Marine Conference at Washington adjourned sine die at noon of the 31st
 AMONG the deaths in New York City, on the ist, were: From pneumonia, 56; phthisis, "A, and bronchitis, 20.
 TIE negro citizens of Atlanta, Ga., celebrated Emancipation Day, on the ist, with military parade and exer- cises at the Lloyd Street Church.
 TIE Berlin Tageblatt claims to have information from an undeniable source that Dr. Peters and party are certainly alive.
 TIE funeral services over the remains of Robert Browning, the poet, were held in Westminster Abbey on the Slst.
 IS an altercation, on the Sist, between the Republican incumbent and the Democratic sheriff-elect of Silver Bow County, Mont, both drew pistols but were prevented by bystanders from us- ing them.
 TIE paupers' school at Forest Gate, London, connection of the White ShdPei OhiVh7, was puA Aheu, oh VnS horh- ing of the lst, and twenty-six boys who were asleep in the upper stories were suffoeated before they could be rescued. Eifty-eight others were rescued by the attaches of the institution and members of the fire brigade amidst the most in- tense excitement and at great risk.
 CHARLEs KINo, of Middleton, Mass, probably the oldest man in New En- gland, who will be one hundred and eight years of age on January IS. cele- brated the New Year by a family gath ering, forty of his descendants being present Mir. King was born in Middle ton and is the last of iamily of ten sons, one of whom reached the age of one hundred and ten