The Russellville Democrat., 1890-03-20

Street fNew York City) jail, indicted for bribery, resigned his office, on the 1 12ths in a letter in which he declares 1 his innocence, and asks for suspension of public opinion
 | THE Dolph committee Investigating secret-session leakages, on the 18th, examined E. w Halford, private secrc- ] tary of the President; o. l.. Pruden. executive clerk of the President; Thomas w Cridler, chief of the Diplomatic Blu reau of the State Departments; Julian Taylor and James ". Phillip, clerks in che State Department, but without much success in the matter of securing infor nation.
 TIE Spanish Ga,Se.==.:.s.n,e.,s --'iH be rep. resented at the ssssofIin labor conference by Senor Moret and two experts SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY WIN DOM, Solicitor Hepburn and Special Agent Okie, who made the investiga- ton of Castle Garden a year ago. ap- peared at joint meeting of the House and Senate committees on immigration, on the 18th, and explained the reason for the transfer of the immigrant station from Castle Garden to Bedloc's island.
 GENERAL ELPHISsroSE, tho comp troler of the Duke of Connaught's house. hold, was washed overheard from the deck of . steamship off Teneriffe on the 18th. His body was not recovered.
 FoR striking an old squaw in the head with an axe and cracking her skull, Dirty Foot" was seized by crowd and thrown into q fire. and repeatedly pushed back when he tried to escape, until he was burned to a crisp. TIE water in the Mississippi river overfiowed the levee in front of New Orleans. on tue 18th, and for awhile threatened great damage to the Crescent City.
 AN adverse report was made to the House committee on banking and cur rency, on the 18th, by subcommittee tional paper currency.
 THREE persons who had participated in the recent anti-government demon stration at Johannesburg. in the Trans vaal, and in hauling down the flag of the republic. have been sent to Pretoria on charge of treason. As a conse- quence great excitement prevails throughout the republic
 TIE French Government has deter mined to occupy the Dahomian province of Whydah on the African slave coast.
 P. T. BARNUM, sailed from South hampton for New York on the 18th
 THE Czar is very unpleasantly reflect ed upon by the continental press for the persecution of the Princess Dolgourika, the morganatic wife of his late father.
 TIE number of miners wko perished in the recent Morsa mine disaster at Glamorgan, Wales, is definitely placed at eighty.
 TWENTY THOUSAND men employed as organized strike for shorter hours.
 THE striking weavers at Gablong, Bohemia, became riotous on the 14th. The local police were powerless to with stand them and the military was sum moned.
 HOLDERS of ninety-five per cent. of the indebtedness of Henry $. Ives & Co, have consented to settle for five cents on the dollar. It is expected that the consent of the five per cent. will soon be secured.
 SEVEN men, part of gang engaged in removing an obstruction from the track of the West Virginia Central rail- road in cut between Chaffee and Blaine, on the 14th, were buried alive by great landslide, and four of their number were taken out dead.
 ALEXANDER DOYLE, of New York, was the successful competitor for the design for the monument to Henry W. Grady, to be erected at Atlanta, Ga.
 THE late Wm. Bucknell, of Philadel- phia, left his entire estate of several million dollars to his children. It was expected there would be large bequests to charities.
 TIE General Term of the Supreme Court of New York decided, on the 14th, that pool-selling on races was legalized by act of the Legislature in 1887.
 KING HUMBERT has donated the sum of S200 900 for the purpose of erecting monument to the memory of the Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini.
 MENoTTI GARlBALDI has resigned as a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies