The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-09

 been arranged by the British Miners Union and tho German miners organi-
 zations. and will be held at Berlin dur
 ing the present year.
 TIE increase in Germany's armament continues to excite comment. The gun factories at Spandan are still running l nicht and day.
 THE Queen of Saxony, the Queen of Roumania Baron Mohrenheim and Dr. Dollinger are among the latest victims 1 of the influenza.
 TnE United States ship Richmond, flagship of the south Atlantic squadron, | sailed, on the 2d, from Bahia, Brazil,
 for Montevideo. All were well. HENRY M. STANLEY departed from l Zanzibar for Calro on the 2d, on the
 steamer Mansourah. The Sultan of Zanzibar has decorated Stanley with the
 order of the Blazing Star. l ONLY one vote was cast in the Liner
 ick (Ireland) corporation, on the 2d, against the restoration of continued
 confidence in Mir. Parnell. | TIE vessel with which the City of
 Paris collided in the Marsey, on the 1st, was the British steamer Birchfield, bound from Liverpool to Cardiff. The
 bowsprit of the City of Paris was not carried away, as at first reported, but
 only slightly damaged. The Birchfield lost her starboard forerigging and | sprung her foremast.
 | HoN. T. C. POWER was chosen as the second Senator from Montana by the Republican members of the Legislature in joint session on the 2d. HIRAM HOWE, the famous horseman, died at Gravesend, N. Y, on the 2d.
 During his life he brought out many of 1 the most famous trotters. | THERE are 400 cases of ssla grippe" | among the prisoners in Clinton (N. Y.) prison. The warden, clerk and assist ant clerk are confined to their beds. | FoR the first time since the National l ;sts had majority in the Drogheda | Ureland) corporation the Queens health
 was drunk at the mayoralty New Years banquet on the 1st.
 THREE prisoners escaped from the Ohio penitentiary on the night of the 3d They concealed themselves in the kitchen at locking-up time, and then crawled through ventilator, thus gain | ing the open court-yard inside the walls, whence they escaped by means of a rope.
 IT is said that the President has fin- ally decided to adopt Secretary Win dom's recommendation that the Govern ment shall accept silver bullion and is sue certificates therefor at the market rate, the certificates to serve as cur rency; and that the President will soon send message to Congress on the sub ject.
 shortly proceed to Zanzibar and other parts of Southeast Africa in the interest of a German company. TIE postal authorities of Austria are violently agitated over the theft of letter containing $90, 900 in transit be- tween Pesth and Vienna. AN eminent Paris physician concurs in the belief expressed by Lord Sails bury that the latter's influenza was transmitted from Russia in dispatches which came to the London Foreign Of flee from St. Petersburg. JOHN LILLE, at present register of the lduu-OllCc dt outuTlt, ID pSluR puSucu by Indiana friends for the position of Governor of Oklahoma. THERE is movement on foot to or ganize National loan and savings as- sociation with headquarters at Buffalo, N. Y., and branch offices in several Northern and Eastern cities, with capital of $50, o0o,0
 CHOLERA is raging frightfully at Ham madam, Persia. Many deaths have oc- cured and it is feared that the disease will spread 10 Teheran in the spring.
 .IonN RUsKIN is again ill
 TIE Russian Government has ordered the manufacture of 1,500000 magazine rifles in France, the delivery of the weapons to be made as speedily as pos sible.
 THE steamship Brittanic, New York for Liverpool, ran down and sunk the brigantine Czarowitz, on the night of the 2d, in the Irish sea off the Mersey. The Captain of the Czarowitz was drowned. All the others on board were saved by the crew of the Brittanie, though the work of rescue was rendered difficult by the severe cold weather.