The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1890-06-05

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A sHERIrF's jury in New York City,
over which General Sickles presided,
on the 10Th, found verdict of $1,000
against Francis X. Harte, son of Bret
Harte, the writer, in a suit by James
Smith for damages for the alienation
of the affections of his wife, Eleve B.
Smith.
On the Goth Bishop O'Connor died at
Omaha, Neb. He had been i'll for over
year.
Hon. JOHN G. CARLISLE appeared in
the Senate on the 26th, the oath was
administered to him, and he then took
his seat as United States Senator to fill
tho unexpired term of the late Senator
Beck, OF Kentucky.
THE three Connecticut directors of the
New York g. New England railroad have
been cited to show cause why they
should not be jailed for contempt for
refusing to take up the tracks on
Church street, Hartford, as ordered by
the Superior and Supreme Courts of the
State.
Mn. FLOWER, of New York, on the
27th, introduced in the House OF Repre-
sentatives a joint resolution making an
appropriation of S25o,o0 in aid of the
erection Of a National monument or
memorial to General Grant at Riverside
Park in New York City.
THE little steam pleasure yacht
Yeada was run down near Port Morris,
on the 26th. by the steamship Aurania
while entering the upper bay on her
way to her North River dock at New
York City. Two of the six occupants of
the yacht were drowned.
In London, recently, note tied to
stone was found in the courtyard of
Marlborough House addressed to its oc-
contained these words: Give us bread
il you would reign" and was signed
Thousands of starving Englishmen."
This communication was promptly sup
pressed, and the police profess ignorance
of it's reception.
JouS A. CocKERILI, editor, julius S.
Chambers, managing editor, and James
+. Graham, city editor Of the New York
World, who were indicted by the grand
jury for criminally libeling ex-Judge
Hilton, pleaded not guilty, on the 26th,
to the indictments, with leave to with
draw their plea in ten days.
OK the 27th seventeen-year-ol
Mexican girl, Victoria Marisco, COM
nitted suicide at San Francisco through
fear that she would be forced to leave
her guardian and return TO her father
A CONFERENCE to consider the sub
ject of common German photography
has been called by Kaiser William to
meet in Berlin. 1t is expected that
Austria and Switzerland will participate
in its deliberations.
BEN MEYERS, catcher of q eolored
baseball club while playing at Mont
gomery, Ala, on the Goth, was struck in
the mouth by a ball thrown by the
pitcher and instantly killed.
SIxTY-EIGHr election officers OF Hud-
son County, n. j., have been indicted
for conspiracy.
OK tho ssth Thomas V. Gallagher, the
cashier in the Philadelphia post-office,
who was caught stealing letters, was
given hearing before United States
Commissioner Bell, and was held in
81, 900 bail for trial.
THE New York, Lake Erie & West
ern Railroad Company's statement for
April, as compared with the same
month last year, shows an increase in
net earnings of sl2f6o7.94.
FORTH WoRrns pride and glory, the
Spring Palace, is heap Of blackened
ruins, il having been swept out of ex-
istence by fire. which broke out on the
second floor on the night Of the Both,
Just as the evening concert was over
and preparations were being made to
begin the annual Spring Palace ball.
At least one life was lost and many
were seriously injured during the panic
that ensued.
REPORTS from Western and North
western Kansas state that the drought
In those regions has been broken by
heavy fall of rain. Winter wheat and,
oats were in a precarious condition on
account OF the continued dry weather,
but il is believed now that the rain has
benefited them to such degree as TO i'm
sure fair yield
Mrs. O. J. SroNE, her daughter, aged
eight years; her son, aged four. and
Mrs. Poe WINNER, while out driving.
were instantly killed by Chicago, ST.
Louis & Pittsburgh lightning express
train on the Goth The accident oc-
Cured where the railroad crosses the
Joneshoro pike just eastof Marion, Ind.