The Russellville Democrat., 1890-05-01
 PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

lSAD0R WHINE, formerly or CnarleS- ;on, s. C., and chief officer of General Beauregard's staff during the war of the rebellion, died suddenly in New York on the 2lst. After the surrender of Appomattox he moved North and en- gagged in several business enterprises, all of which ended in financial disaster.
 SHERMAN l.. KNIGHT, a country school teacher, obtained S1.000 at a bank in Tiffin, O., on the 22d, on note purport- ing to be signed by his father, wealthy farmer. The genuineness of the note is questioned, the young man having dis appeared. He had borne good charac- ter.
 THE Para Rubber Shoe Company, of South Framingham, Mass, on the 2lst, voluntarily increased the wages of their employees an average of about twelve per cent
 TIE New York State Senate, on the ,2d, passed the bill recommended by the Governor to require party agents, com mittees, etc, to file statements of cleo tion expenses
 TIE Republican State Central com mittee of Iowa, at it's meeting in Des Moines, on the 22d, decided to hold the next State convention at Sioux City, June 25.
 EDWARD HANLAN and Fred Plaisted have been matched to row three races on the Tennessee river at Bridgeport, Ala, on May 6, ' and s, for the one mile championship of the United States and purse of S2,000. Each race will be one mile straight away.
 THE Pennsylvania railroad statement for March shows an increase of S5S, I'll in net earnings over March, 1889. For the first three months of 1890 the net earnings have increased S2S7, 1l0 over the same period of 1889.
 TIE Prince of Wales will visit Hom- burg in July.
 RANDOLPH DUBOIS, who murdered his wife, two children and mother-in-law in the village of St Albans, Canada,a couple of months ago, has been sentenced to be hanged.
 TIE ice broke up and went out of the Lower Saranac lake on the 23d.
 TIE main shaft of the Sanders power line at Haverhill. Mass, was twisted off on the 23d, and over ?, 300 hands were rendered idle for two days. 0ne-quarter of the shoe district was shut down.
 NoAH PALMER, aged seventy years, member of band of gypsies encamped at Morrisville, N. J., who had been on a protracted spree, shot his wife, on the 24th, killing her instantly. He nextat- tempted to shoot his daughter, but failed, and then shot himself in the back of the head. infiicting fatal wound.
 A wELIeTo-Do farmer named Morri- son, living near Shelburne, Ont, drowned three of his children in bar attempted to drown himself n a creek.
 THE Worlds Fair bill Was approved by the President on the 25th.
 A SEVERE earthquake shock was ex- perienced in portions of California shortly after half-past three o'clock on the morning of the 24th. Buildings were shaken perceptibly and persons were aroused from their sleep. Plas- tering fell from the walls in places, but no serious damage has been reported.
 THE sixty days notice given by the Coaf Hlher1 anu toh0 "pfhotS oi bilS Smithton tPa.l district expired on the 2sth, and a strike taking out over 1000 men was inaugurated. A protracted struggle $ anticipated.
 TIE New York State Senate, on the 24th, recalled from the Assembly the Saxton Ballot Reform bill and repassed it, after changing 1t so as to agree with the amended Saxton bill which was recently agreed to by the Governor, Mir. SaAton and others.
 EMN PAsHA with 5o0 portees. five German officers and large body of Nh Dian soldiers started from Zanzibar for tue interior oI Africa oa tho 25sa.