The Russellville Democrat., 1890-02-20

 Sheldon at Marion, Ind, and stole gold watch and chain, valued at SI00. The young thief was arrested and the prop. erty recovered.
 R. B. TUssEy, for four years district clerk in Adams County, Neb-, was ar rested at Hastings, on the 18th, for em- bezzlement His shortage amounts to something over g., 800. He gave bonds in the sum of 5000.
 ABOUT noon on the 18th Thomas Bry- ant, boy sixteen years of age, shot his mother dead at her home in Butte. Mont, robbed her trunk of s;,.e, and made his escape to the hills A sheriff s posse vas at once put on the track ot the murderer.
 WHILE returning from visit to rela. tives in carriage, on the 18th, farmer William H. Marsteller and wife were struck by passenger train on the Pitts burgh, Youngstown & Ashtabula road, at Grand Crossing, O., and killed. Their remains were horrible mutilated. The vehicle was completely demolished.
 CORONER LEWIS, of Phillips County, Col, on the 18th, committed Sheriff Witherbee and his brother, together with George Payne and Swan Nelson, to iail for term of four months. They were convicted of being implicated in a White-Cap outrage at Holyoke last De. cember.
 BY an accident on the Philadelphia, Reading X Atlantic City railroad near Camden, N. l., on the 18th, seven men, all Italians, were badly injured.
 AN English syndicate has purchased the mills of the Central Rubber Trust, of Trenton, N. J. There are seven Trenton companies in the Trust, and the amount involved is over S3,000, 000.
 PARTY of Europeans, consisting of Messrs. Roque, two merchants of Hai- dhong, Captain r. Rose, and the Messrs. Roque's compradore, were captured by band of pirates in Tonquin, last month, and Captain Rose was murdered.
 TIE House of Representatives on the 18th, passed unanimously the Senate joint resolution recognizing the United States of Brazil.
 TIE nomination of Daniel Dorchester to be Superintendent of Indian schools WdS tOHuflAtu OH bUt lolu.
 Miss AMY FOWLER, the young En- glish woman who is going to devote her life to the care of the lepers at Molokai, was rendered reception at the resi- dence of Richard F. Downing, in Brook lyn, on the 18th.
 THREE contested election cases were decided by the election committee of the House on the 14th. Strict party votes were developed on two of them, and in the other the case of Thrett against Starke, from the First dis trict of Alabama, pra ctically unani- nous vote in favor of the sitting mem. Der was cast.
 A BANQUET was rendered to the off, cers of the American squadron of evo- lution by Vice-Admiral Bergasse du Petit-Thouars, Commander of the Fifth maritime arrondissement. on the night of the 18th, on board of his flagship at Villa Franche. The civil and military authorities of Villa Franche and Nice were present.
 TIE medical examination proved that the Sultan of Zanzibar died from sun stroke.
 Ar the request of Mir. Hirsch, United States Minister at Constantinople, who has undertaken to right the wrongs of two American missionaries, the Sultan has had Moussa confined, not in damp and loathsome dungeon, but in his own palace, the abode of the Commander ot the Faithful.
 MR. ROBERT GARRETT, the ex-presi dent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, has been removed from his country seat, 'Uplands," near Baltimore, Md, but to what place is not known.
 SWITZERLAND has accepted the invi- tation of Spain to take part in the con- ference to be held in Madrid to devise measures for the protection of industrial property.
 LOUIS RUBENsTEIN, the champion fancy skater of America, won the cham pionship of the world in St. Petersburg on the 18th,
 AN international regatta, to which all leading amateur and professional oars men of the world will be invited, will be held at Port Huron, Ont, in August, following the proposed big regatta at Duluth.