The Russellville Democrat., 1890-06-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IT is reported in Cairo that all the Europeans who were captured by the Mahdi have been released by him. THE Big Four and the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroads on the 18th, offered their striking switchmen at Cleveland, O.. all that was asked be- fore the strike took place. Tho offer was refused, the switchmen demanding the Chicago scale.
 TIE beautiful new building of Wells College for Young Ladies at Aurora, N. Y, the alma mater of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, was formally dedicated, with song and praise service, on the 18th.
 THREE men employed in Baltimore (Md) soap factory were literally drenched and fatally scalded by the bursting of large tank of boiling fat on the 17th.
 In Milwaukee, Wis, with q capital of $500, GOO, that will give employment to from 500 to 1000 men.
 TIE wedding of Lena Caldwell and Baron Won Zedwitz, German Minister to Mexico, took place, on the 17th, in the chapel connected with the new Catholic University in Washington, D. C., which has been largely built by the muniflcent gifts of the Caldwell sis ters.
 MAYOR P. McQUAID of Jacksonville, Fla, was assaulted and beaten with q billy by City Marshal Wiggins, who is under investigation on charges of off, cial misconduct and Is supposed to have held the mayor responsible for the proceedings against him.
 VICTORIA WEST, daughter of Lord SackvilleWest, late Minister from Great Britain to the U United States, was married, on the 17th, to her cousin Lionel, who is heir to the family estate of Seven Oaks
 ANDREW CARNEGIE expects to induce Mrs. Mary Shenley to give to the city of Pittsburgh twenty-acre site for tho S1. 900, 900 free library which Mir. Car negie proposes to build for the city.
 LIEUTENANT STAIRS, of Stanley's OK petition, has been appointed Adiutant of the Royal Engineers at Aldershot
 HoN. c. c. SHORTER, of Eufaula, Speaker of the Alabama House of Rep resentatives, died on the 10th. He was young man of brilliant attainments.
 Miss MARY ANDERSON and Mir. An tonic Navarro were married at St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Hamp stead, London, on the 17th.
 NEARLY ten thousand men and wom- en engaged in the cloak making indus try in New York City went on strike on the 17th.
 JoHN DWELL one of the New York poodle aldermen of 1884, was released from Sing Sing on the 18th.
 JouN c. McELHoSE, for many years chief stenographer of the House of Representatives, died ot paralysis at Atlantic City, N. J., on the 17th.
 THE Sugar Trust case was not men toned in the list of decisions handed down in the Court of Appeals at Sara toga, N. r., on the 17th.
 THE last vestige of hope for the rescue of the thirty-two entombed coal miners from the burning mine at Dunbar, Pa, expired on the 18th, when nearly half an acre of the surface over the mine eayed In, stopping the escape of the smoke, which would soon smother any living thing therein.
 THE steel mills of Carnegie, Phipps & Co. at Beaver Falls. Pa, were shut down, on tue i7th, on account of q strike of the rod-mill holders for in creased wages. Tho demand was re- fused and the mill closed, shutting out 800 men.
 FoUR men were killed and three bad ly wounded by the wreck of two freight trains on the Asheyille branch of tho Western & North Carolina railroad at Melrose, N. c, on the 18th.
 DELEGATES from the various life un- derwrlteFs, associations of tho country mot ln Boston, on the 18th, end formed \ NaEIeHai asseqsasioal