The Russellville Democrat., 1890-06-19

JHH Refpri1ed Presby terian synod, in session in New York. on the 1fth, voted to 17-for union with tho other branches of the denomination.
 TIE House of Representatives, on the iith, aereed to the conferences report on the Senate Pension bill: Yeas, 145; nays, 56.
 Is the suit for damages of ei0o, 900 brought by the American, George Wash inston nutterheld against the London financial News, for having ibeled hiui in connection with certain mining schemes in the United States, tho jury found against Butterheld, thus justify ing the Financial Ncws
 ABouT one hundred members cf tho Independent New York Schutzen corps were among tho passengers on the steamship Wicland which sailed from New York for Hamburg on the i2th
 CofLEcToR PHELPS of San Francisco states that there arc now fully tS0 Chi. nese encamped at Nogaiea waiting for afl opportunity to cross the Mexican border into the United States
 CHARLES CLARK,a aged twenty-six, was drowned at Portsmouth, N. H., on the 10th, by tho capsizing of small skin He leaves \ wife anu child.
 MR. DoIru introduced in the Senate, on the 18th, bill to appropriate s2oo,- 900 to establish branch home for vol unteer soldiers in Oregon.
 REV JosEru LAGAEcfE, with half dozen aliases, notorious thief and con fidence man who has operated through New England and Canada for several years, was arrested in Boston, on the 11th, charged with the theft of S125 worth of jewelry from Mrs. Zeuss nearly a year ago.
 SETm L. MuLIKES, of Belfast, Me, was renominatcd for Congress from the Third district on the l2th.
 TIE ninth annual convention of the Young Peoples Society Of Christian En- deayor began It's sessions in the Grand Music Hall of tho St. Louis Exposition building, on the 1otb, there being reg istered at the opening meeting 4500 delegates, with as many moro en route who were expected to arrive by the evening trains.
 GENERAL SHERMAN delivered an ad- dress to the graduating class at the West Point Military Academy, on the t2th, and when he referred to the fact that 1t was the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation a great shout went up from cadets and audience that made the walls fairly tremble.
 ON the 18th Southampton, Long Island, celebrated the two hundredth anniver- sary of it's settlement A great crowd was present to participate in the festivi- ties, among whom were few remaining Indians of the Shinnecooi tribe, which owned the land upon which the town stands
 TIE fifth volume of Sibel's ''IIistory of the German Empire" reveals the fact that in 1867 the Crown-Prince Fred erick William proposed that his father should assume the imperial crown. This action King William deemed to be premature at that time
 A RUMoR is cur rent at Yankton, $. D., that Senator Pettigrew is bankrupt and is trying to settle at sixty cents on the dollar. His transfer of $500, 900 of Silver Falls realty to Senator Don Cam eron gives color to the statement
 MR. JAMES F. KELLEY, the famous New York sculptor and designer of the Red Jacket monument to be erected in Buffalo, N r., and Mir Con verse, of New York City, were adopted, on the 10th, with all the old-time rites, into the tribe of the Seneca Indians. Mir. Converse is the husband of Mrs. Maxwell Converse, who is al ready Seneca by adoption.
 THE indictments against John Kee- nan and Doodle Alderman Henry l.. Sayles, of New York City, who were charged with participating in the steal of the Broadway railway franchise, were dismissed on the 18th
 IT is said the German Minister to Morocco has secured threo years mo nopoly of tho wheat and barley export trade of that country. TIE German wool markets are glut- ted and prices are consequently falling.
 THE English Tories have abandoned their proposed memorial in favor of an autumn session of Parliament. This ] action is taken in consequence of the threatened resignation of Mir. ". II. Smith, the government leader in the House of Commons.