The Russellville Democrat., 1890-05-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Two negroes entered the Georgia
southern & Florida depot at Jasper,
Ga, about one o'clock on the morning
OF the Goth, and called for a ticket.
While Mr.. Haley Frink, the night agent,
was preparing the ticket one Of the ne
groes shot him, and then they robbed
the Office andfied. One of the negroes
was subsequently, captured at Melrose.
UNITED STATES MINISTER RYAN en-
tertained ID. O. Mills and party, of New
York, at dinner in the City of Mexico,
on the 27th. The nu and appoint
ments were never surpassed by the
Tyoli San Cosmc, the Delmonico of
Mexico.
AN organization to be known as the
independent Order OF Machinists of the
United States was instituted In Lynn,
Mass, on the 29th, with charter list
of $50 members. A full board of Off
GERS was chosen. 1t is the intention to
have the supreme lodge in Lynn, and
to organize one or more lodges in every
city in the country. sa.ss,,s
\ WILLIAM RICHARD HINTON was, on
the 29th, appointed superintendent Of
artesian irrigation, Department OF Agri-
culture, with an appropriation OF S20,0 600
to expend before July | proximo, in as
pertaining whether the agriculture of
the Dakotas and adjacent States can be
benefited by the artesian system.
THE Homestead Bank OF New York,
closed its doors on the Goth. Bad busi-
ness is said to be the cause of its sus.
pension The bank has capital OF
500, 900, and it is said the depositors
viii be paid in full
IT was stated on good authority, on
the 2ath, that the governments of the
United States and Great Britain were
further apart in their negotiations in
regard to the question as to whether or
not Behring Sea is a closed sea, than
they had been at any time since the me-
gotiations we're begun.
: THE Fish Commission steamer Alba
tross, having been thoroughly repaired
at Mare Island Navy Yard, California;
is now on her way to the Aleutian ISL
ands.
WOLVES have becn doing such great
damage in Iowa that the citizens are
going 10 Join forces and exterminate
them In grand wolf hunt
MINISTER no SPAIN PALMER, who had
been mentioned as candidate for the
Goyernorship of Michigan, and was en-
route home to take part in the cam
paign. ON the s0th cabled his with
drawal from the race. The death OF
his niece, his last living relative, has
broken him down completely.
JUpeR WAIdAcE's action in signing
tho Kemmler writ OF habeas corpus. is
criticised as unprecedented byccmpetent
legal authority, especially since the
writ was in itself defective. lacking
Kemmler's signature and the seal OF
the court
G. T.. BiLLINGsLEy, grader and con-
tractor Of ST, Paul, Mimi, while exca-
vating under house, on the S0th, pre-
paratory 60 moving H. was killed BY
the house tipping oyer and crushing
him beneath the timbers
TIE British press speaks in eompli-
mentary OF the skill In seaman
ship and effectiveness Of equipment Of
the American squadron Of evolution in
the Mediterranean.
RIcHAnD SSfEIrKA a German farmer
Of Rochester, MINI, committed suicide,
on the goth, after first taking the life
of his three year-old boy. lie had just
.qpaweled with his wife, from whom he
had separated
JAMES PALMER vas hanged ia the
state prison OF Concord y III, on the
ist. ftf lhe murder o. iellow-wotkmea
pamea AfAigehopse. May 2, 1857