The Russellville Democrat., 1890-07-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

JOHN F.. RUBsEN has begun suit in Washington to test the validity of the will of his late wife who left S10, 900 in trust to have her grave kept green. FIRE in the Stamboul quarter of Con stantinople, on the 14th, destroyed 1, 900 houses and burned an immense amount of timber, completely running 125 timber merchants.
 THE yacht Marion, of South Boston, from Rye Beach to Pigeon Cove struck a rock, on the night of the 14th, and sank. The crew of four got into the tender, which was swamped several times. and three of them were drowned.
 WORK was resumed in the Maltby colliery, at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 18th, after suspension of nearly six years. The colliery now gives employ ment to over three hundred men and boys
 GOLD was quoted at POT per cent in Buenos Ayres on the 18th
 Q PROF. NORMAN DUNsHER, of Drake University, Garfield's Latin and Greek teacher at Hiram College, died sud denly at Des Moines, la, on the 18th, of heart disease.
 WATER was let into tho Central Park (New York; reservoir, on the 18th, for the first time through the new Croton aqueduct which had been six years in building.
 TIE new territory acquired by Ger many in East Africa is about twice the size of Germany, not including any part of the great African lakes in the meas urement.
 A BILL was presented in the House of Representatives, on the 18th, granting pension of S3. GOO year to the widow of the late General John c. Fremont.
 BY a ruling under Maryland State law professional baseball playing is work" and can not be performed on Sunday.
 THE coming Encyclical of the Pope urges the nations to resort to papal arbitration for the settlement of social questions and national wars.
 TIE Department of State was in- formed, on the 18th, of the arrest of Minas, who assassinated the wife of Rev. John N. Wright, an American missionary, in Salinas, Persia, on the 14th of May. Minas was a teacher in the mission school and had just been dismissed from his place for improper conduct. The arrest of Minas was mainly due to the efficiency of the British Consul-General at Tabriza and Colonel Stewart, before whom he will be brought for trial.
 IT is said gigantic scheme to de- velop the oil territory of West Virginia is under way, with J. c. Blaine, s, B. Elkins, Senator Camden and the Stan dard Oil Company at the head of it.
 By an explosion at Kings Powder mill, on the Little Miami railroad, twenty-nine miles east of Cincinnati, on the 18th, twelve persons were killed and twenty-one seriously injured.
 IMMEDIATELY upon receipt of the news that President Harrison had signed the Silver bill, the price of bar silver in the London Stock Exchange, advanced to fifty pence an ounce, tho highest selling price reached in several years.
 TIE White Star steamship Teutonic, which arrived at Sandy Hook at 7:15 p. m., on the 18th, from England, made the run from Roche's Point by the long route, ?, sSs miles, in 5 days, 2i hours and 55 minutes. This is equal to or better than the ) days,1 10 hours and IS minutes trip of the City of Paris, the latter coming by tho short route, 27ss miles.
 DURING the absence of John Hamlett from his home near Valparaiso, Ind, on tho i6th, his residence was destroyed by fire and his wife and four children were burned to death.
 TIE golden jubilee of Bishop De Goesbriand, was celebrated in Burling- son, Vt, on the 1Tth.
 ADvIcEs from Africa state that the natives have routed, and it is feared, cut off the retreat of the French expe- ditionary force now in the Upper Niger country.
 THE Native Sons of the Golden West propose to start movement 10 inter the remains Of the late General John C. Fremont in Golden Park, San Fran cisco, and to erect monument 70 bis memory