The Russellville Democrat., 1890-05-22

THR Massachusetts Senate, on the
14th, by vote OF 10 to 15, passed an
amendment to the Constitution abolish
ing the poll-tax as a prerequisite tovot-
ing.
MISS JOSEPHINE CRowFEATHER, a full
blooded Sioux maiden, OF South Dakota,
has become Benedictine nun. lfer
father Is Sioux chief.
Ex-SEcRETARY WHITNEY and Mrs.
Whitney sailed for Europe, on the
morning OF the 14th, on the White Star
steamer Majestic.
MoRE than eight inches of snow fell
in North Dakota on the night of the
18th, and the farmers, who had feared
the entire loss of their wheat crops
from drought, are iubilant.
AMAsA j. PARKER, ex-Judge Of the
Albany On. Y.) Court Of Appeals, died
on the 18th, aged eighty-eight years
A YOUNG man who gave the name OF
Alphonse J. Stephanie, of Philadelphia.
walked into the Office of Lawyer Clin-
ton G. Reynolds. OF New York, shortly
after noon, on the 18th, and shot Mr..
Reynolds in the left side with re-
volver, probably fatally. lie then at
tempted to shoot others in the office.
but was prevented and arrested.
THE first arrest was made in San
Francisco, on the 18th, under the new
city ordinance requiring the removal Of
all Chinese to district on the outskirts
of the city
A Nix. CRoUcH and his wife and son
were found brutally murdered in their
home at Bcntleyville, an isolated town
of Pennsylvania, on the 14th. Their
brains had been beaten out with club.
The motive for the crime was robbery.
JoHN CoBUsKI and Michael Vacintz
were instantly killed by fall of rock
in the tunnel at Park No. colliery,
near Park Place, Pa, on the 14th. Peter
Basco was seriously injured.
BRIGADIER GENERAL NELSON II.
DAVIS died suddenly, of apoplexy, while
on visit to Governors Island, New
York harbor, on the 18th.
HuMiLIATED by his failure as an
ciety OF the Denver lCol.) High school,
James J. Mosier, aged seventeen, pro-
cured revolver and put an end to his
life on the night OF the 14th-
THE church party in the Italian Par
liamontis slowly increasing in strength,
and to this exteat it may be said that
the popular feeling in favor Of the res
toration Of the Papal kingdom has
grown.
The wife and daughter OF President
Stanley Hall of Clark University, at
Worcester, Mass, were found dead in
their bed, on the morning of the 18th,
having been accidentally suffocatcd by
Illuminating gas.
TIE official financial statement Of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company for
March shows: Gross earnings, 50, $780,
s73; increase, S702, 22i; net earnings,
81, 066, $50; increase, 1926. l22.
GENERAL CLINTON Il. FIsKE presided
over the meeting of the National Tenn
perence Society in Now York on the
18TH Addresses we're delivered by Con-
eral Fiske, Rev. DIR. Cuyler and others.
A cULM bank caved in at Scranton,
Pa, on the 10Th. upon number of
Italians who were loading the culm on
fiat cars for removal A large force of
men were at once set at work and all
but three Of the buried men were res
cued alive.
UP to the 10th nineteen dead bodies
had been taken from the caved-in Hart
ford mine was Wilkesbarre, Pa. Six
more were missing and supposed to be
dead. Fourteen men were rescued
alive.
FAILuRKs for the seven days ended on
the 10th numbered: For the United
States, 1911; for Canada, 2l; total, 2i2.
For the corresponding week last year
the figures were 207 in the United
States and 50 in Canada.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's birthday occurs on
the 24th, but will be observed this year
on the 2ist. Elaborate preparations are
being made for the event.
In an authoritative interview Minis
ter Palmer said, on the 10th, that his
decision not to run for Governor of
Michigan is positively irrcvocable. He
will not go back TO Madrid, but will
shortly hand his resignation to the
President.
THIRTY-sIx passengers were drowned
by the sudden capsizing OF ferry y-boat
in which they were crossing the Oder,
near Ratibor, Siiesia, on the 10th.