The Russellville Democrat., 1890-06-19

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 RUSSELL IRE investigation of the official acts of Fish Commissioner McDonald began | on the 18th.
 TIE seven Belgian glass-blowers, whom the Umbria refused to take back to Europe, sailed on the Wisconsin on the 10th.
 THE jewelry store of ". D. Norton, at Gloversville, N. Y., was burglarized to the amount of SIS, 900 on the night oi the 10th.
 REV. EDwARp T. DoANE, for thirty five years missionary to the Sandwich Islands under the control of the Ameri- can Board of Missions, died at Honolulu on May Is.
 GEORGE UPTON, negro, confessed at Denver, Col, on the 11th, that he as- sisted tho Greigor brothers to murder and rob Store-keeper Underwood at Trinidad, Col
 TIE French Chamber of Deputies passed resolution, on the 10th, by vote of ss7 to 47 to preserve as a per. manent structure the machinery hall of the late Paris exhibition.
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 THE Canadian Methodists, on the 11th, refused to accept any share of tho s60,000 awarded the Protestant de- nominations in connection with the set clement of the Jesuit estates.
 AN anti-Semitic riot occurred at Loh- jak, Lithnia, inhabited mostly by Jews, on the 18th. The bulk of the houses in the town were wrecked and many of the occupants were wounded.
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 THE revenue cutter Corwin sailed from San Francisco, on the 12th, for Behring sea, where she will join the American fleet in protecting the Amer ican seal and salmon fisheries.
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 c. c. HALE was indicted in Montreal, Can, on the 18th, for shooting with in tent to kill and murder Eugene H. Cowles and bound over in the sum of S4 900 to appear for trial in September.
 --------- OS the 11th United States Minister Lincoln and his daughter were the guests, at dinner, of Mir. and Mrs. Bonynge in London. Prince and Prin- cess Christian and their daughters were also of the company assembled. FORTY persons lost their lives, and eighteen thousand were rendered home less, by great conflagration in the Ural mining district, Russia. The iron works, four school houses, three churches and thousand dwelling houses were destroyed COLONEL ANDREW D. BAIRD, who was recently nominated by President Har- rison to be postmaster Of Brooklyn, has declined the appointment, because the demands of his private business will not permit him to undertake the duties of the office.
 TIE committee of the Maryland | Legislature appointed to investigate | State Treasurer Archer's dedication, | completed it's report, on the 18th, show l ing the total amount of the dedication | to be S1S2, 401.25. The money was used | to pay old personal debts.
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY immigrants | from St. Johns and Harbor Grace, N. F., 1 have arrived at Montreal. They are | bound for the Canadian Northwest, | where they will take up land. Many of | them are fishermen and leave their old | homes to avoid starvation. LIEUTENANT MILLER, Troop R, First | Cavalry arrived at Miles City, Mont, | on the 11th, with the leaders of tho In- | dians who murdered Ranchman Robert | Ferguson. White Buffalo, Black Medi- | cine and Little Eye were bound over to June 2S to await examination.
 --- ~---- AMERICAN cattlemen on the Mexican | border are much alarmed by an order of l tho Mexican authorities that all Amer | ican cattle hereafter found across the l line be taken up and sold. There are | many thousands of American strays, | from the Gulf of California to the Rio | Grande which will be confscated un- less the order is cancelled.
 MR. MORSE, of Massachusetts, intro | duced in the House of Representatives, | on the 10th, a bill prohibiting the sale | of intoxicating liquors upon all grounds l on which are located exhibition and ex- l position buildings for which appropria- | tions are made by the Government | The same bill was introduced in tho | Senate "by request by Mir. Blair.
 HENRY NJ. STANLEY will sail with his | wife from England for New York on Au- gust 20 Mir. Stanley has concluded ar engagements to deliver fifty lectures in | the United States during the fall and | winter. For the lectures to be deliv- cred in New York he is to receive f5,- | OO0 and for each lecture thereafter, in the various cities, he is to receive f200. | FRED E. CLOSE, a wealthy English | banker, was fatally injured at Sioux | City, la, on the 18th, by being thrown | from his horse in game of polo be- tween the Sioux City and Lamar clubs. | MT Closes horse collided with another | and after he had been thrown to the | ground he was kicked and stunned by | his own horse. The other horse fell | upon him. TuE conferees on the General Pension bill reached an agreement on the 10th. | The House conferees receded from their | ufaud for fha Eprvicp-uanSton fpatura