The Russellville Democrat., 1890-03-27

Devoted to Lo
 RUSSELL A ST. PAUL (Afinn) printer, jumped
 from the Robert Street bridge, dis
 tance of fifty feet, on the 20th, and was
 taken up dead.
 THE bill providing for the inspection and grading of all grain going into
 Baltimore was passed by the Maryland l House on the 20th.
 GENERAL WILLIAM MALONE. of vir. | ginia, 1t is rumored, is to be appointed
 Consul-General at Paris, in place ol l General Rathbone. | A FUND for the relief of the injured Indianapolis firemen was started in that city, on the 18th, and over S7,0O0 was subscribed the first day. -e-- GENERAL VoN CAPRIvI, the new | German Chancellor, is opposed to in
 creasing the strength of the navy, measure which the Emperor favors. AN agreeable impression was caused
 in Paris by the announcement that
 Emperor William had bestowed the
 order of the Red Eagle upon M. Jules | Simon.
 A SPECIAL mission has been sent by l the Sultan of Zanzibar with the object, it is said, of restoring peace between the Germans and Arabs south of Oar Es-Salem.
 TIE St. Petersburg Novosti, com menting on the resignation of Prince Bismarck. says: The solitary support of the edifice of European peace has crumbled."
 TIE Blair Educational bill was de- feated in the Senate, on the 20th, by vote of 37 to 31. MT. Blair changed his vote to the negative and moved recon sideration.
 LEHMAN AsHMAN, head book-keeper in Schwarzenburger & Co. s silk factory in West Hoboken, N. r., shot himself, on the 18th, because he was S1, 900 short in his accounts.
 TIE Russian Government is very dis agreeably impressed by the indignation meetings which have been held in En- gland and America to protest against the Siberian outrages. THE sensational report that the sister and neice of General Joe Hooker had been discovered in indigent circum- stances in Memphis, Tenn, is declared to be without foundation. THE remains of Benjamin A Jones, the paymaster's clerk of the Marine Corps who disappeared in December last,
 were taken from the Potomac river, on the 10th, badly decomposed. --~- TIE Sugar Trust made an application,
 on the goth, to Judge O'Brien of the New York City Supreme Court for leave
 to declare dividend of 25z per cent. on $50, 900, 900 of trust certificates. e- THE great coal miners strike in En- gland ended, on the 20th, in signal victory for the men, who receive an inn
 mediate advance of five per cent, and an additional like advance on August 1. JAMES A. SLooUM, the New York
 baseball player convicted of the mur- der of his wife, was, on the 2lst, sen
 tenced to death by electricity on some day during the week beginning May 5. THE Standard Oil Company has bought out George Rice, the oil man, who has
 been fighting them in the courts for years. The price paid him for all his
 refineries, leases, privileges, etc, was S100, 000
 TIE Lake Shore Railroad Company, on the 18th, discharged Conductor
 Houghtaling and Engineer Mooney for
 violating the company's rules and caus- ing the recent fatal disaster at Bay view, N. Y.
 TIE parishioners of Hawarden, Wales, of both political parties, have decided to erect as memorial of Mir. and Mrs.
 Gladstone's golden wedding, hand some fountain opposite the entrance to the castle grounds. THE village of Gampel, Switzerland,
 was, on the 17th, almost entirely de- stroyed by fire. Fully three-fourths of the buildings of the place were burned.
 The loss is very heavy. Many of the villagers were injured AFTER careful canvass of the situa- tion, Senator Jones, of Nevada, is of the opinion that there is large majority of Senators and Representatives in favor of increasing the volume of the currency in the line of tho Senate finance com mittees bill.
 FAILURES for seven days ending on the 2lst numbered for the United States, 215; Canada, 40; total. 255; compared with 260 for tho week
 previous. For the corresponding week last year the figures were 220 in the United States and 20 in Canada.
 THE Temps, Jonrnal Des Debats and
 other French newspapers display anxi- ety about the future. They say that, in
 view of the previous surprises afforded
 by Emperor Williams policy, there is no guarantee that the structure which
 the Chancellor so carefully built will be
 retained intact.
 WHEN the public-worship estimates came up for discussion in the lower house of the Prussian Diet on the 18th,