The Russellville Democrat., 1890-07-03
ALBrnr IL KNOTT wealthy and

highly-respected citizen of Omaha, Neb., hanged himself in his barn, on tho 25th. while temporarily insane.
 TIE Congregational Church of Ash ford, Conn, was struck by lightning, on the 25th, and destroyed. It was one of the oldest edifices in the State.
 A PASSENGER train was wrecked at Glen Lake, five miles north of Glens Falls, N. Y. on the 26th. Three cars were thrown into the lake, including one passenger coach and the smoker. About seventy-five passengers were on the train, but nobody was injured.
 HoN. GEORGE W. McCRARy, ex-Secre- tary of War, died from cancer of the bowels at the residence of his son-in- law, Dr. W. c. Boteler, at St Joseph, Mo, on the 23d, aged fifty-four years.
 Two little boys named May, aged five and seven years, were struck by loco motive on the Ohio River railroad near Gallipolis O., on the 26th, and instant ly killed.
 IT was reported in Cairo, on the 26th. that Osman Digna had left Tokar in a northerly direction with large force.
 AFTER a strike of two months the 1,50o mill and bench carpenters of Dem yer, Col, hape given up and gone tc work.
 TIE Italian Government has appoint cd an administrator of the affairs of the municipality of Rome.
 JOHN COLEMAN, the eleven-year-old son of Martin Coleman, of Woburn, ,el ,xf hx,d,-f il. bia. The boy was bitten by dog about two months before.
 Two little girls named Harrington were killed by railway train at South Somerset, Mass, on the 27th, the elder losing her life while trying to rescue her little sister.
 PRESIDENT HARRISON received tho Dependent Pension bill, on the 27th, and late in the afternoon affixed his signature to it. making it law.
 Ex-SENAToR THOMAS W. PALMER, of Michigan, was, on the 27th, elected president of the Worlds Columbian Ex. position.
 IT is claimed that the new cruiser Philadelphia is the fastest war shir afoat.
 A. j. DIAz, an American Baptist mis- sionary, has been arrested and jailed in Havana, and the State Department has been appealed to to secure his release.
 TIE business portion of the town of Carbon, Wyo., was destroyed by fire on the 2sth.
 AUSTIN CoRBIN's resignation as presi- dent of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company was considered and accepted by the board of directors on the 27th.
 TIE fifteenth annual four-mile straightaway eight-oared shell race be- tween tho Yale and Harvard University crews was rowed, on the 27th. over the Thames river course at New London, Conn, from Gales Ferry to Winthrop Point, Yale winning by three and one half lengths in 21:29 Harvard's time was 21:40. This is is Yale's fourth sue cessive victory.
 THREE bodies of women were found at Johnstown, Pa., on the 27th, all of them being in the river just above the stone bridge, where the great mass of wreckage lay last summon. They were under the water in the sand and all were in fair state of preservation. Only one was identified. This was Mrs. Roberts, wife of Howard ]. Roberts, cashier of the First National Bank
 AN immense seven-story double front building fell at Knoxville, Tenn, on the 27th. No one was near to be hurt. It had just been completed at cost of $50, 900. Briscoe < Co, wholesale dry goods and notions, had just put in a stock valued at s2oO 900, which is buried in the ruins.
 SARA BERNHARDT was compeled to stop suddenly and leave the stage in the second act of Joan of Arc," in London, on the night of the 27th. She was seized with q fainting spell and lost her voice completely. Later in tho night she was reported better, but still unable to leave her bed.
 A MONOGRAPH made by Thomas A. Edison expressly for the Mikado of Japan, and presented to him recently by Edison's representative, has been set up in tho Mikado's palace, and tho monarch Is delighted with the exhibi-