The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-23

Ohio was unanimously nominated, on the 18th, by the Republican caucus for United States Senator.
 WORD was received by the Harrison family in Germantown, Pa, on the 18th. that Butler Harrison, who has been as- sisting his brother Alex Harrison, the well-known artist, in his work, com mitted suicide recently near Dover, En- gland.
 FIBE in Willis r. Prices cotton ware house at Macon, Ga, on the l4th, de- stroyed about 450 bales of cotton. Loss, S24.00o; fully insured
 MR. SERVANT, of the House jaase.sss..ry committee. was instructed, on tho 18th, to report favorably, with some slight notifications, the bill for the construc- tion of two United States prisons east of the Rocky mountains, the selection of the sites being left to the Attorney General. Tho bill appropriates s5Oo,- 900 for each of the prisons and si00, 1000 additional for each for the purchase of tools and other materials.
 HENRY NJ. STANLEY was entertained at a banquet by the Khedive on the evening of the 1Gth
 TIE exercises preliminary to the in stallation of Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, took place, on the 16th, in the Sunday school hall of the church. The installa- ton serylsns proper were held in tho church in tho evening
 TIE waters in the Conemaugh river and Stony creek, Pa, were, on the 18th, re- ported to be again at flood height, and much damage was apprehended.
 CHARLES CRAMER, brakeman on tho Queen < Crescent road, on tho 16th al Miller's, 105 miles southwest of Birming ham, Ala, was struck by the timbers oi water tank as the train dashed by and hurled to death. Ills neck was broken and he was otherwise horribly mangled.
 WILL DICKINSON, butcher at Mid dlesborough, Ky, desperate character, was shot and instantly killed by Deputy Sheriff and Acting City Marshal Roger Il. Williams while resisting arrest.
 ISFoRMATIoN was filed. on tho 16th, with the Health Department of Mime soun to the effect that a farmer near Nc. Carron's Lake, outside the limits of St. Paul, was slaughtering hogs suffering from cholera and selling the diseased meat for human food.
 TIE New York grand jury, on the 16th, handed in an indictment against Major William H. Clark, of the South ern Society. who fired three pistol-shots at Wilton Randolph, fellow-member, recently.
 Miss LAURA DIXON, who shot herself in the head, at Elizabeth, N. J., died on the 10th. She was pretty brunette of twentythree and was Respondent be. cause George Weim CT, who had kept company with her for long time, mar ried another girl
 MRs. JAMES MCNEIL, an insane moth. CT at Cannon Lake, Minn., killed two children and fatally injured two others and herself on the 16th
 AUTHENTIC news has been received at Cairo, Egypt, of terrible mortality among the natives in the Soudan due to famine resulting from lack of rain during the autumn.
 A UNIVERSAL exhibition will be held at Liegc, Belgium, in June next, on tho occasion of King Leopold's jubilee.
 A GLAss-BoTTLE trust has been formed in London by the uniting of twenty. three firms engaged in the manufacture or sale of glass bottles with view to maintenance of uniform prices.
 IT has been discovered that the 110- ton guns carried by the 10, 0,6O0-ton British man-of-war Benbow, of the Mediterra- mean fleet,are entirely worthless for the purpose for which they were designed
 SIDNEY DILLON, a nephew of Hon. Sidney Dillon, of New York. accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting on his farm, ten miles northwest of Omaha, Neb., on the l7th.
 TIE trial of Constable Potts, the Pro. hibition scarcher, at Des Moines, Ia., who was charged witL perjury in his own trial for bribery, was concluded, on the 17th, with verdict Of guilty.
 BENNY WILSON, better known as the Kid, one of the most expert car burg lars in the country, was arrested, on the 17th, by Chief Detective Grammar of the Baltimore S Ohio railroad at Balti. more, Md. ''The Kidn heads gang that has skinned the freight cars in that section.