The Russellville Democrat., 1890-08-21
A NEw schedule of prlees was issaod

A NEW schedule of prices was issued by the Newark (N. J.) leather riants facturers, 0n the 18th, Increasing prices 1 ten per cent. all around. TmE Portuguese Cabinet having ap- proved tho convention with England, the agreement was signed in London on l the 14th.
 CHAIRMAN MAN1Ey of the Ropub- lican State committee of Maine says 1t is the unanimous voice of the commit- tee that the campaign this year be very short and that the public speaking be confined to the last two weeks of the campaign. Mir. Blaine will take no part in the campaign so far as speaking is concerned.
 Ar the meeting of the National en- campment G. A. R. in Boston, on the | 18th, Colonel Wheelock c. Veasey, of 1 Vermont, was unanimously chosen Commander -in-Chief. Other officers chosen were: Richard F. Tobin, Senior Vice ce-Commander-in-C Chief; George r. Creamer, Junior Vice-Commander- in Chief.
 PRESIDENT PELLEGRINI telegraphs from Buenos Ayres that the republic is firm and that the present government will make every sacrifice to save and protect it's name and credit,
 TIE Putnam County (Ind.) Farmers Alliance has decided to boycott the Stakeholder Wagon Works at South Bend for sighting letter from it's secretary.
 MR. TURBIN an Oklahoma claim | Ixoldor x,aa ebot ty,rouorb thu bx,d ', ,r, the 12th, by man who had been hired to cut hay on Turbin's land by claim jumper.
 TIE next National encampment of the c. A. R. will be held In Detroit, Mich, the home of General Alger.
 HALF of the town of Montier, France, was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Forty persons were injured.
 TIE new Silver law went into effect on the 18th.
 THREE men and one woman were killed and eight or ten persons were wounded in a bloody fight between negro laborers and crowd of colored gamblers at the Shelby Iron Works, in Shelby County, Tenn, on the night of the 18th.
 TIE entire plant, tools and stock of the Bellaire (O.) Goblet Works were de- stroyed by fire on the 14th. One hun dred and twenty men are thrown out of employment Loss, $50, GOO; covered by insurance.
 FLORENCE SULLIVAN, daughter of Thomas Sullivan, of New York City, and man named Hurlburt, of Buffalo N. r., were drowned while bathing at Spring Lake, N. J., on the 14th. TEN persons were badly burned by an explosion in the Kendall Manufactur- ing Company's large soap factory at Providence, k. l., on the 14th. THE population of Trenton, N. J., which is placed at 5S, ASA, has increased during the last decade 95. 5 per cent
 TIE business portion of Austin, Pa, was wiped out by fire on the night of the 18th.
 HARRIS, WOLF & DAVIS have tapped an oil we'll north of the city of Findlay, O., which is without doubt tho greatest producer ever struck. It flowed over one thousand barrels tho first hour, and up to six o'clock in the evening the production was 6,340 barrels, the first flow beginning at eleven o'clock in the morning.
 IN the great sculling match at Beat rice, Neb., on the 14th, between Han Ian and Teemer, one mile with two turns, best two in three, for $500, Han Ian won in two straight heats. Time 6:291S and 6:34.
 TIE peach crop in Southern New Jer- sey has been a disastrous failure this season, and the farmers are greatly dis couraged.
 Two of the Pinkerton men doing serv- ice in the freight yards at Albany, N. r., were killed, on the 18th, by being crushed between the bumpers of freight cars they were attempting to couple.
 FIRE still rages in the Hill Farm mine at Scottdale, Pa, where the fire damp explosion occurred a short time ago and killed thirty-one men.
 TIE phylloxera has appeared in the champagne district of France. Every precaution has been taken to prevent it's spread.
 REAR-ADMIRAL HARMONY has been ordered to take charge of the Chicago and the squadron of evolution