The Russellville Democrat., 1890-03-06
RUssELLVIIE ARK. THURSDAY, MARCH 6 189o

Dow PEDRO has resolved to endeavoI to come to terms with the Brazilian
 Government; to renounce the crown and to return to Brazil and live as a private
 person.
 Mn. McKENNA,of California. reported
 favorably to the House, on the 27th, from the committee on census, 8 bill to provide for complete enumeration of
 the Chinese population of this country. TIE Senate committee on commerce,
 at its meeting on the 27th, ordered q
 favorable report on the nomination of H. C. Yarmouth to be collector of cus- toms at New Orleans.
 AN old negro woman well known in
 Chamberlain, $. D., was burned to dea.h
 on the 27th. Her building caught ass,
 and she was unable to escape.
 TIE Lincoln National Bank, of Lam
 caster, Pa, reopened it's doors for busi-
 ness on the 27th, the stockholders hav-
 ing made good the loss occasioned by
 the dedication of Cashier Bard.
 TIE President has appointed Judge
 Henry C. Caldwell, of Arkansas, to be
 United States Circuit Judge for the
 Eighth Circuit, vice David J. Brewer,
 resigned to accept appointment to the United States Supreme bench. Ir was reported on the 27th that the
 condition of James Russell Lowell, who
 had been suffering from cold, was such as to cause considerable concern among
 his friends.
 COMMODORE GEO. E. WHITE, Chief of
 the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, died at his residence in Washington, on the 27th, from an at
 tack of apoplexy.
 WM. SCHUYLER MALCOLM, grandson
 of General Philip Schuyler, of Revolu-
 tionary fame, and one of Oswegos (N. Y.) pioneers, is dead, aged eighty years
 For many years he sailed the lakes as captain.
 THE United States steamship Enter
 prise, from the European station, ar
 rived at New York on the 27th. The
 Enterprise brought the body of Hon.
 George II. Pendleton, late United States
 Minister at Berlin.
 INFORMATION was received at the office
 of the Railway Mail Service on the 27th that the mail storage car on train No. 41, west-bound (the fast maiD, was burned, on the morning of the 27th, at
 Blue Creek, Utah, the car and contents
 being totally destroyed.
 SILcoTT, the absconding defaulter of
 the sergea nt-at-arms' office, was arrest
 ed at Toledo, Ore, on the 2Sth. Hewas acting as railroad engineer at the time of his arrest
 MRS. SARAH LATHRoP AMEs, aged
 seventy-seven years, widow of the late Oliver Ames, of North Easton, Mass, died, on the night of the 2sth, from the effects of an apoplectic stroke. DoM PEDRO, ex-Emperor of Brazil, has accepted the invitation of Emperor
 Francis Joseph to spend next summer
 at the castle of Heinstsendorf. TIE subcommittee of the House committee on the Worlds Fair has held
 several informal conferences, but no definite conclusions have been reached. CHARLES TUFTS, aged eighty-fve years, who had accumulated about S50,- 900 worth of property by working all his life as shoemaker, paper-carrier and maker of shoe-blacking, died in his filthy den at No. D Boylston street, Boston, on. the 2sth.
 TIE German chess player, Lasker, de. feated the English chess champion. Bird, in London on the 2Sth. TIE winter crops in the south of Rus
 sia have besn ruined by severe weather. FRANCE will follow the initiative of
 England in the Berlin labor conference. ON the 2sth Richard R. Hawes was
 hanged at Birmi ngham, Ala. On De- cember 4, 1888, Hawes killed his wife
 and two children, and their bodies were found in lake near Birmingham. He
 married young woman at Columbia, Miss, and was passing through Bir-
 mingham on his wedding tour when ar
 rested. A mob attempted to take him from the jail and lynch him, but the sheriff's posse fired into the crowd, caus- ing the loss of ten lives Including his own, his crimes cost fourteen lives. SURPRISE was caused at St John, N. B., on the 2sth, by the release of Fred. A. Walton, the Pacific Express embez- zler who abseonded with S35,000 from
 Dallas, Tex. It seems that the express | company compi omised on recovering all
 of the stolen money but 5000, and
 further proceedings were abandoned.