The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-09


 Devoted to L0s
 
 RUSSELLVI THE will of the tenor, Gayarre, dis poses of an estate in Madrid worth $s0o.- 900.
 WHILE hunting, on the 3d, King Hum bertof Italy was thrown from his horse and somewhat bruised, but not seriously injured.
 TIE strike of the coal miners in the Seraign district of Belgium is lessen ing. At many of the pits work has been resumed.
 TIE German War Department has or dered that on April the garrisons on the French frontier shall advance and take position nearer the border.
 TIE draw-bridge built by the Balti- more S Ohio Railroad Company over the Arthur Kill from Bridgeport, N. J., to Arlington, Staten Island, was opened on the 1st
 TIE International Marine Exhibition at Boston closed on the Sd. During the two months that it was open there were over 200 900 visitors. It was not finan- cial success.
 MRS. POLLY FRENCH, of East Temple ton, Mass. celebrated her one hun dredth birthday, on the 1st, by receiv- ing numerous friends and relatives. She is quite bright and active.
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 TIE strikes in Belgium are assuming most serious phase. There are now involved upward of seventeen thousand ID an, and in addition to the probability oi riots coal famine is imminent TIE report that the Sultan had re- quested Lord Salisbury to suppress the London Daily News on account of it's publication of articles hostile to the Porte is denied by the Turkish Ambas- lador to England
 WHAT amounts to a panic exists among tn farmers of some of the counties of Mitdle Tennessee, the cause being the daring operations of a gang of horse thiees that has been operating there for several months.
 THEgE was great alarm in St Peters burg, dp the night of the 2d, caused by a repor of the Czar's death. It is i'm possibleto learn whether the Cars ill., ness is rom influenza, or whether he has been poisoned.
 THE Amerpsn squadron of evolution arrived at Tagier, Morocco, on the 2d. Owing to the prevalence of influenza on ship-board theydid not land any of their officers or crew. The disease was about evenly divided btween the ships.
 JOHN HIIToN, d Mansfield, Mass, a brakeman, was crushed to death in the Old Colony railroad yard at South Framingham, or the 2d, while making up train. Hislinjuries were wholly internal there mt being mark on his body.
 GovER1oR RICHARDSON of South Carolina has issuel proclamation of fering a ibward of S200 for the appre- hension md conviction of each and every oneof the nrties concerned in the killiw of negroes at Barnwell on the 2Sth
 Rosa SPIKE, the little daughter of an Ohio farme, living near Akron, fell on the points pair of shears, on the Slst, the blade lercing her heart. She pulled it out, andthe blood gushed out in a stream, an in an instant the little one was dead.
 TIE stealer Faraday has succeeded .n repairinl in mid-ocean, one of the Western Ufon Atlantic cables which had been blken for some time. This now gives le pool companies all of their seven tbles except one for Allan tic traffic
 A PANIC rcurred at the American Varieties Tftater in Berlin on the night of the 2d. Aladyin the audience faint ing, the cry olfre Vas raised and terri fic rush was made tr the doors. Many serious accidmts ccurred, but no one was killed.
 MIR. GLADSTONE erote general re- ply, on the 3Oth, tthe birthday greet ings which were sowered upon him, expressing the hopthat tho indulgence shown in estimatin the value of his labors would help tmake him watch ful to avoid errors Mas MAVERICK lends have of late redoubled their effos to secure the prisoners release. Fly claim to have gathered from Am,ica and other sources such mass of Evidence in favor of Mrs. Maybrick that Queen will be unable to refuse pardi. ~ DR. CYRUS EDISON, of he New York Board of Health, saidsn the 2d, that there were fully 1000 cases of ''la grippe" in that city, Hthinks that it is contagious, and tha before it has spent it's force every adl will come in for share of the sneezin e A sANGUINARy battlegas recently fought near Tacow, Foroso, between the Chinese and the nativ of Formosa. The Chinese were ordere to show no mercy in the punishmeI they were sent to innict and the fghresulted in the slaughter of 400 of the tives.
 PRoF. MELVILLE c. BLAfs, principal teacher at Chemewa lndi, Training School, near Salem, Ore, apDrother of Secretary of State JamG. Blaine, died, on the 3lst, after brf illness, aged sixty-three. He was a,an of rare abil- ity, a fine speaker and liable educator.