The Russellville Democrat., 1890-10-16
RUsSELLv1LE, ARK. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 Sso


 IT is said that tho matrimonial en gagement between Miss Winnie Davis daughter of the late Jefferson Davis and Mir. Wilkinson has been broken of
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 Ar recent meeting of the Flint an Lime Glass Manufacturers Association in Pittsburgh, Pa, an advance of nc quite five per cent was made in prices
 
 THE best authorities say Californi will this year pack 1,S00,00 boxes c raisins. This is about twenty times tn raisin output of ten years ago. Ship ments East have already begun.
 A FAINT comet was discovered b Prof. E. E. Barnard at the Lick Obser vatory at San Francisco, at s:46 p. m. on the 9th. Its position is 10 hours, I m., 26 deg. south; motion easterly.
 Ar the trial, at Croydon. England, ol the 10th, of Lord Cahir, for makinI threats against neighbor, his lordshii roundly cursed the police magistrate and was in turn sentenced to the work house.
 ON the 9th partial returns from tn special election in New Mexico, held or the 7th, for the adoption or rejection o the State Constitution, indicated the de feat of the Constitution by at least 800 majority.
 Ia handed of Portugal the immediate set clement of the claim of the Britisl African Lake Company for indemnit, for tho illegal seizure of the steame James Stevenson.
 LOUIS REMEL1N, the member of thi Cincinnati Board of Improvements o whom Governor Campbell said in pub lie letter 'I believe you to be dishon est" has demanded that the Governo make charges against him.
 PUBLIC opinion in Spain favors rc prisals to offset the effects of the Me Kinley bill on the Spanish and Wes Indian trade, and the Spanish Minister at Washington will enter the protest O Spain against the measure.
 A SYNDICATE of New York and En glish capitalists has Its agents il Hutchinson, Kas., negotiating for the purchase of the salt plants there. Two have already been purchased, and op tions are held on some of the others.
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 EMPEROR WILLIAM received tele gram from King Humbert of Italy, or the 10th, addressed to My true friend and ally" and announcing that tht Italian King had forwarded to tho Emperor life-sized portrait of him self.
 STRIKING union workmen of Sydney N. $. w., attacked the hremen heayins coal at Bulli, on the 9th, and, after dis persing them, occupied the mines. Int police were unable to preserve order and endorsements had to be sent t' the scene.
 A NUMBER of citizens of Boston have united in remonstrance against the ap propriation of public funds for the cree ton of memorial in honor of the lat John Boyle 0'Reilly, on the ground tha he was the indefatigable enemy of thu public schools"
 TIE first joint session of the British Iron and Steel Institute and the Amer ican Societies of Engineers and IroI and Steel Manufacturers was held il Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, Pa, on thu 9th. The meeting was a success be yond anticipation.
 TIE Supreme Court of Michigan ha sustained the Local Option law in |; test case taken to it by John w. Teek who wanted to open saloon in Val Buren County, which had voted dry The court decided that the law is per fectly constitutional.
 A sCULLIoN named Ladeers employed in the kitchen of the Archduke Sigi mond, at Grunden, Austria, has beer arrested for putting arsenic in the foot and causing the illness of the Aachduk, and his suite, to procure the dismissa of chef whom he hated.
 JOSEPH T. CATTLE and his thre, brothers, all poor men, living at Tren ton, N. J., say they have received in formation leading them to believe tha they are heirs to the estate of Jame Wood, deceased, of England, who lief property worth $50, 900, 900,
 2a. .e 4,,1. c,fa A,,,, herds of cattle in Manchester, N. H. and the likelihood of spread of tho disease, has caused almost panic there Milkmen are losing their customers by the score, and the local sales of bee have pereeptibly decreased.
 CAPTAIN PETER FOSTER, the oldes member of the Grand Army of the Re public in the United States, died a Mount Pleasant, la, on the night o the 9th. He was ninety-six years o age, and fought in the war of 1872, tho Mexican war and tho civil war. Hi funeral was held under the auspices 0 the Grand Army.
 Ir is said that the French Cabinet i considering plan by which 1t IS hoped to come to terms with America on tn, tariff question, The proposition sub stantially is ono of mutual concession or reciprocity. Unless somo terms ar, arrived at, an attempt will Do made t' virtually exclude American product from French markets.
 THE eighty first meeting of thu American Board of Foreign Mission opened af Minneapolis. Minn., on th' sth. All missions were reported in | flourishing condition. The whole mum ber of church members received sinc' the board began work eighty-one year ago, is ll4,953 The years receipt were s763, 434.O7, and the disbursement 762, 9469S
 THE centenary of the birth of Fathe Matthew was celebrated, on the 10th