The Russellville Democrat., 1890-09-04

LIE IOnuoH DOCh IhbCftFS oHAoh has voted to subscribe shilling week. for each member for the benefit of the' strikers in Australia, and has serft telegram of sympathy to tho striking Knights of Labor on the New York Central railroad, thus repaying in kind, in both instances, the obligations in- cured during their own great struggle with organized capital.
 TnE growing cotton crop of the South is said to be the largest ever produced, and it is estimated that the value of this years agricultural products Of tfe Southern States will reach the enormous aggregateo of $I, 050, 900, 000 or about s4oo. 900, GOO more than in 1880.
 FEARS are entertained in Ireland that in addition to the failure of the potato crop other products will be injured by unfavorable weather.
 TIE Russian Minister of War is re- ported to be enrolling the tribes of the Caucasus and other districts with q view to the organization of an Asiatic army, which may be relied upon to act independently of the European forces of Russia should war occur with any of the countries of Asia.
 TIE Union Pacific railroad statement for July tpreliminary) shows, gross earnings, s3, s37. 362; increase. S263, TS4., Net earnings, S1,6l2, 722; increase, S11,- 42i. For seven months to July 3i, gross, Sa3, 736, Ill; increase, S3,261, l37 Net, s7, 34s; increase, s6e, 6s9.
 A CYCLONE, accompanied by light ming. rain and hail, struck the south sido of the city of Coldwater, Mich, on the night of the 2Sth. The track of the wind was about 120 yards wide, and the damage done amounts to many thousand dollars.
 GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania issued proclamation calling for the proper observing of Labor Day, on the lst and ordering that the several departments of the State Government be closed to business on that day.
 A TEAM of horses was killed, on the 29th, by current from broken cleo tric-light wire in Saratoga, N. Y.
 TIE fires in the window-glass facto- ries of the country will be started on the 18th.
 THE President, on the 29th, approved the act providing for the leave of ab- sence for per diem officers and em- Government
 THE Tunnel House, large frame structure at the Sarnia (Ont.) entrance to the St Clair tunnel, was burned on the night of the 2sth A female em- ploye, unable to escape, was burned to death, and two laborers who were stop ping at the house, are missing
 MERRILL E. GALES has formally ac- cepted the presidency of Amherst Col lego.
 TIE Presidents family left Cape May Point, N, r., on the 29th, for Cresson, Pa, where they will spend the rest of the out-of-town season.
 REV. MICHAEL BRENNAN, mem Der of the congregation of the Mission of St Vincent de Paul, and professor of St. Vicent's College, Los Angeles Cal, died of typhoid fever in Baltimore, Md, on the 29th.
 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES celebrated his eighty-first birthday anniversary at his Beverly Farms (Mass.) homo sur rounded by largo party of friends who called to extend their congratulations. A beautiful array of flowers filled the rooms with their sweet perfumes.
 WALTER F. HORTON, timber inspector of the Northern Pacific railroad, charged with drowning his wife and daughter in the Mississippi at St Paul, Minn., was, on the 29th, held to the grand jury on the finding of the coroner's inquest.
 ALEXANDER PnIIIIPsEN, the Swede arrested in New York on the charge of murdering the man whose remains were received there some months ago, packed in barrel, and who was discharged by reason of the real murderer being ar rested in Sweden, has entered suit for S25, 900 damages for false imprisonment.
 COUNCILMAN SHARKEY, of Whining ton, Del, was held for the Criminal Court on the 29th, for having chal- lenged Charles W. Edwards, news paper man, to fight duel. The Dela- ware statute imposes penalty of Si, 900 fine and three months imprisonment for the offense, with no judicial discre- tion in mitigation.