The Russellville Democrat., 1890-10-09

| HE pardon committee or the MasSa- chusetts Executive Council has under consideration tho application for par don for James Dunlap, sentenced to State prison in December, 1877, for twenty years for complicity in tho North pton bank robbery. No MEMBER of the House introduced the customary resolution thanking Speaker Reed for fairness, impartiality, etc, in the chair Once before during the history of Congress was this feat ure omitted It was at the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress, over which Mir Keller presided.
 CONGRESS adjourned sine die on the 1st.
 LoUIs KossuTH, the Hungarian pa- triot, has written letter in which he advises tho Hungarian extremists to take their stand on tho dualistic princi- pies enuciated in is49.
 Ar Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 1st, Charles McElvaine was sentenced to death by electricity in the second week of November for the murder of C. W. Luca.
 GERMANY and Austria arc discussing the preliminaries of joint convention looking to closer relations between the railway systems of those countries.
 GOVERNOR HILL of New York has ap pointed General Roger A. Pryor Judge of tho Court of Common Pleas of New York, in the place of Judge Larremore, who recently tendered his resignation, to take effect October |
 TIE Government Printing Office made the quickest time on record in the an nals of printing in getting out the of- ficial print of the Tariff law.
 TIE Independence Beige, of Brus- sells, says that the passage of tho Me Kinley Tariff bill insures the failure of the Chicago Worlds Fair It is need- less, the paper adds, for Americans to expect that Europeans will, under the circumstances, go to tho expense of making an exhibit on that occasion.
 LOUIS GRIGG, aged twenty-one, of New Albany, Ind, fatally stabbed Will liam Carroll, aged nineteen, on the 2d, with pocket knife, for twitting him with being cripple. The latter, drawing the blade from his own body, plunged it into the abdomen of his murderer and immediately fell dead. The other died in few minutes.
 THERE is no doubt that an extra ses- sion of the Ohio Legislature will be called by Governor Campbell to abolish the Cincinnati Board of Public Improve ments. A special message is being pre- pared 1t is said, that will be full and terrible arraignment of the political vices and corruption in office which abounds in that city.
 IT is said that the greatest discontent reigns in Guatemala among the masses against President Barillas, and war within four months Is predicted.
 KARI. HAAS, the valet of the Count of Paris. who was removed from the steamship Germanic to St Vincent's Hospital, in New York City, at three o'clock on the afternoon of the Sd, died at seven o'clock the same evening from intestinal obstruction.
 oN the Sd, the grand jury in the Now York Court of General Sessions returned an indictment for conspiracy against the full board of walking delegates of the building trades of that city, but the district attorney arose in court and moved that they be dismissed. Re corder Symthe immediately dismissed them. The indictment was found in connection with the boycotting of brick manufacturers.
 Two children of Nelson Dion, of Marlborough, Mass, aged seven and four, respectively, were burned to death, on the night of the 2d, by the explosion of lamp.
 TIE enrire Republican ticket of Scat tie, Wash, was elected in the late cleo tion. The Republican majority is esti- mated at about three hundred
 ELEVEN prominent men have boon called recently to Cabinet positions by President Barillas, of Guatemala, but all have refused to serve.
 TIE ceremony of turning the first sod for the Niagara Falls tunnel took place at ten o'clock on the morning of the 4th.
 A TREMENDOUS gale swept over tho North Sea on the Sd. During it's prev alence five vessels foundered.
 Two of the Ohio express robbers were captured at Bellefontaine, on the Sd, by the railroad detectives, and ono of them made confession.