The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1890-05-15

annual meeting IN New 1ork City Oh
the tn General E. O. Howard pro
sided. The society has issued 7, 435 dis
tinct publications. 1t has six period.
icals, with an aggregate circulation Of
2,4ls, 600. Hon. William Strong, Judge
OF the Supreme Court at Washington
was elected president; Major-Genera,
Howard, vice-prcsident.
A. ELIwooD LANCASTER. young
man who carried on the business OF real.
estate agent in Philadelphia. has dis
appeared, and 1t is charged that he has
embezzled funds intrusted 70 him b.
various parties to invest in reai-estate.
The amous,t Is yariously estimated al
from 1000 to $40, 600.
JuDGE EDWARD II. HEAD, who had
held the Office of Superior Court Judge
OF San Matco County, Cal, since 1879,
died at his residence in Redwood City,
on the 9th, OF pneumonia. Although
totally blind, Judge Head was recog-
nized as one of the ablest jurists OF the
State.
THE members d the Senate naval
committee were taken down the Poto-
mac, on the 7th, on board the new tor
pedo boat Cushing She ran at the
rate of twenty-se miles an hour, re.
versed at eighteen miles an hour and
turned within her own length.
THE expedition under command OF
Major Wissmann, which recently left
Bagamoyo for Kilwa to make an attack
on that place, has been successful. The
place was occupied on May 4, Major
Wissmann's force meeting with no op-
position.
THE Canadian duty on pork was, on
the 9th, increased TO two cents per
pound, or about sixty per cent. ad va
lorem.
GRAVE populations have been discov-
cred in the customs department at
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic. The
revenue lost by the government by the
embezzlements is estimated to have
reached the enormous sum of $40, 900, 00c
annually.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WATSON OF Ohio
brought suit in the Supreme Court of
that State, on the 7tb, to oust the Stand
ard Oil Company from doing business in
Ohio. on the ground that it has forfeited
its charter as com mpany by becoming a
trust, which is injurious to trade and
commerce.
THE Chenango County On. W poor
house was destroyed by fire, on the
night of the 7th, twelve OF the patients
in the idiot ward perishing in the
flames. The origin of the fire is sup
posed to have been spontaneous COM
bustion.
On the afternoon OF the 7th, a few
hours before the Chenango County IN.
Y.) poor-house was destroyed. Deborah
Dibble, one of the inmates, was burned
to death by her clothing catching fire
from the pipe she was smoking.
THE Treasury Department decided,
on the sth, that s'coney shreds" are en-
titled to free entry when intended to be
used as glue stock.
WEIL-INFoRMED horticulturists esti-
mate that the peach crop of Michigan
will this year scarcely amount to a
tenth of the normal yield.
THE Georgia Temperance Association,
in session at Atlanta, on the 9th, adopt
ed resolutions requesting the Georgia
delegation in Congress to urge legisla-
tion which will give to tho States the
right to control the prohibition ques-
tion for themselves, regardless OF inter-
State commerce.
THE General Term of the Supreme
Court of New York, on the 9th, reversed
the Judgment OF the Special Term in
equity that George Rice is entitlei to the
rights of a shareholder in the Standard
Oil Trust because OF his having become
possessed by purchase of certain trust
certificates.
THE defaulting ex-State Treasurer of
Maryland Stephenson Archer, was in
dicted by the Anne Arundel County
grand jury on the 9th
DEPUTY MARSHAL JOHN ID. DAILY capt
ured four desperate moonsbiners on
Cove Creek, in Tazewell County, Va,
on the sth.
PRAIRIE fires have burned over about
eighteen miles square north and south
of Old Mans river, near Alberta, n.
w. T.
MAsURY & Sons paint-works and the
Atlantic starch-works, in Brooklyn
were burned, on the 9th, causing loss
of 500, 000 fully insured.