The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-30
1s the Senate, on the asd, the crodcn-

tials of Wm. A Clark and Martin Ma Ginnis as Senators-elect from the State of Montana were presented by NIT. Vest read and referred. The four gentlemen claiming to be Senators-elect were pending the contest, admitted the priv ileges of the floor.
 NICHOLAS MEYER, of Chicago, on the 23d shot his wife dead and then suicid- ed. Jealousy was the cause.
 HENRY WILLIAMS, colored, made a wager at Hartford, Ky. that he could drink quart of whisky in fifteen min utes. He won the wager, and had a largely funeral.
 IN 1894 four silver dollars we're ceined by the United States mint. The where abouts of three of the four has been known for. years, but the fourth was missing. Coin collectors valued it al $500, and few days ago it was found in the possession of an old Norwegian ir Minnesota, who had it stored away in a stocking. He sold it for Si50, and the present owner wants not less than Si, GOO
 Oy the 24th hurricane swept over many parts of Germany. destroying houses and doing great damage.
 ON the 24th the erecting and repair ing shops of the Huntington & Broad Top railroad, located at Saxton, Bedford County, Pa, were destroyed by fire, to- gether with new engine and three coal cars. The total loss will reach $50, GOO. The shops will be rebuilt at once.
 AN explosion of natural gas in a dwelling house at Columbus, O., on tho evening of the 24th, in which two per. sons were injured, attracted thousands of spectators to the spot, when second and more dreadful explosion occurred, dealing death and destruction on all hands A runaway team attached to a heavy ladder-wagon added largely to the list of killed and wounded.
 ASSISTANT SECRETARY TICHENoR has Informed the Italian Chamber of Com merce of New York that no good reason is perceived for change in existing regulations relating to claims for dam age allowances on green fruits, more particularly, he says, as their require ments are regarded as necessary to pro- tect the revenue from fraudulent dam age claims.
 ON the 24th Mir. Glynnpetre, British Minister to Portugal, telegraphed othe Admiralty that the presence of the British war-ship Enchantress was no longer required at Lisbon.
 TIE Treasury Department sustained the collector of customs at New York in his ruling that embroidered linen (ta- ble covers) in which metal forms on ap- preciable and prominent figure are du- tiable at the rate of forty-iive per cent. ad valerem, as manufactures in par. of metal"
 THERE was report in New York City, on the s4th, that firm in Buenos Ayres had failed for s6,00o, 900.
 Ir was reported on the 24th that ''Old Hutch" the great Chicago market ma nipulator, had been robbed by his .'set- ting boys" of St00, 900. The old gentle man says the above amount is too largo by at least S97, 900.
 ON the 24th George H. Lounsberry, cashier of the New York post-oflice, com mitted suicide because shortage in his cash had been d;scovere d.
 AN undertaking is on foot to ship ex- port American cattle over a Canadian road, with 8 shipping point at St. Charles Bay, Labrador, thus saving two days in time.
 q. M. SMITH is in jail at Lpeucerbrook, Minn., for forging the name of l. D. Gould, deceased, to pension check for Si, 900.
 
 TIE Brazilian Minister of Finance cabled the Brazilian Minister at Berlin, on the 24th, that the Bank of the United States of Brazil has been established with capital of 200, 900, 900 contos, all of which was subscribed in four hours.
 THE Iron Hill Company's hoisting works at Carbonate, S. D., were burned on the 24th; loss, sio0, 900.
 A. M. SAWYER, inventor of the Sawyer gun, used during the rebellion, died at Athol, Mass, on the 24th, aged sixty four years.
 H. s. PIERCE, ex-collector of internal revenue for Western New York, died on the 24th, aged fifty-foue years, from rheumatism and influenza.
 SoPPo-Vo-NA-O, chief of the Utes and the most influential Indian of his race since the departure of 0uray for the happy hunting grounds, is dead.