The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1890-05-15

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

GOVERNOR HILL of New York sent
| Message to the Legislature, on the 9Th,
suggesting that a constitutional amend
ment be submitted to the people of the
State for the transfer from the Legisla-
| ture to the courts of the power of decid-
| ing contested-election cases. He also
recommends action to bring the subject
before Congress with view to securing
ultimately similar amendment TO the
| Federal Constitution.
THE glass-makers' combination of
Berlin has broken up, and the trade is
stagnant--partly because of imports
| from America The price of bottles
was, however, raised ten per cent, on
| the 5th, through coalition of manu-
| facturerS.
| EXTENDED interviews with lawyers
and Judges Of New York develop very
general opinion against the abolition of
capital punishment.
| THE Tailor at Midletown, N. ", on
the 5th, permitted a party OF relatives
and friends to visit and talk privately
| with prisoner held on serious charge.
| Next morning when the obliging official
went to feed his charge he found the
wife of the prisoner, who was one OF
the party of visitors, dressed in the
prisoners clothes, occupying his cell
| All the parties to the escape were sub
sequently arrested
THE new United States cruiser Phila-
| delphia made remarkably successful
| trial trip, on the 7th, over a course out
to sea bearing east-southeast from Cape
| Henlopen and return, six miles.
| THE insane asylum at Tongue Pointe,
| nine miles east OF Montreal, Can, cost
ing 81, 1872, 600 and containing 1900 pa
tients. was totally destroyed by fire, on
| the 9th, and large number, variously
| estimated at from 100 10 200, of the in
mates perished miserably in the flames,
| together with several OF the Sisters in
| charge.
| THE overseers of Harvard College
| spent about two hours, on the 9th, de-
batting the subject of amending the
| rules so as to shorten the time requisite
| for graduation. No action was taken.
THE five conyicts in Dannemora IN.
| W State prison who recently protected
| the warden from a murderons assault
| by fellow-convict, were, on the 7th,
pardoned by the Governor
| THE Slater Educational Fund, estab-
| lished ten years ago by John +. Slater,
| of Norwich, Conn, providing for the i'm
| PRODUCTION OF industrial training in the
| schools of the South, last year expended
| S42, 600 in the work.
FIFrY-Two Anarchists were arrested
| in Barcelona on the 9th. Documents
seized in their residences revealed plans
| 10 destroy railways with dynamite and
to set fire to factories.
The Indiana block-coal miners and
operators have agreed on seventy-five
cents. summer and winter, as the yearly
mining scale, and work has been re-
| sumed.
Tue people of the District of Colum-
| bia are making concerted effort TO
! secure representation in Congress. They
| ask for one Senator and one Represent
| alive.
| THE relief steamer New Haven re-
turned TO Shreveport, La, on the 9th,
from Black Bayou. and reported the
| people there in distressing condition
the whole section being submerged and
many houses washed away. The people
are without shelter or tho necessaries Of
life Many were rescued from perilous
| situations by the New Haven.
Al MISPLACED switch threw portion
Of the south-bound express down an EN-
bankment at Fountain, Col, on the 7th
| Fireman Sipes was killed. The engi-
neer and the few passengers in the de-
rallied cars escaped with a shaking-up.