The Russellville Democrat., 1890-09-11

J demns the killing of General Martin Guatemalan reyolutionists claim that the American captain should not have surrendered him, though the legality of the act is not questioned.
 ORDERS were issued by the Navy De- partment on the Sd for the United States steamer Kearsarge, lying at New York, to proceed at once to Aspin- wall. Itis supposed that this action was based upon rumors of threatened rail- road strike at that place, and tho possible imperiling of American in- forests.
 TIE New York Equalization Board has announced the assessed value of all real and personal property in that State to be $3. 6s3, G5s. 062.
 JACK CROCKETT, aged nineteen, g bill-poster, was killed at Des Moines, Ia. on the night of the Sd, while on tor of building witnessing fireworks display. By some mischance he caught hold of live electric-light wire and re. ceivcd fatal shock. His hands were burned in terrible manner.
 IN response to dispatch from the New York State Board of Arbitration as to existing trouble, subcommittee of of the Brickmakers' Association called on the board, on the 4th. and stated that they proposed to run their yards and employ whom they pleased with out any dictation. The board said they would get tho statement of the walk ing delegates and transmit it to the as. sociation.
 LEMUEL N. JAYNEs, a nurse at Belle vue Hospital, in New York, was arrested, on the Sd, for dosing a patient to death with carbolic acid. which, he says, was administered by mistake.
 JUDGE EDWARD F. NoYEs, of Cincin- natl, dropped dead in the street, on the 4th, just after leaving the Supreme Court room. where he had just heard an injunction case.
 TIE American Social Science Asso. citation met in Minneapolis, Minn., on the 4th.
 THE Panama Railroad Company hay ing agreed ts pay their laborers the former rate of wages, the strikers re. turned to work on the 4th.
 TIE steamship City of New York on the 4th, and the steamship Teutonic followed fifteen minutes later. There were large number of bets made be- tween passengers on tho two vessels as. to the result of the race.
 IT was reported in Constantinople, on tho 4th, that body of Armenians had crossed the frontier from Persia to as sist their persecnted brethren in Fur key.
 THE Navy Department, on the 5th, is sued advertisements for bids for the con struction of three steel tugs. These are the vessels for which bids haye once before been advertised and received, but found to exceed the appropriations. The Department has, therefore. ma terially modified the requirements un- der the present call
 A DISPATCH from the city of San Sal- vador says that General Ezeta is en- gagged in forming legal government for the Salvador Republic, preparatory to demanding recognition from foreign powers.
 TIE Socialist congress at Bilbao, ended with little result The eight hour scheme is looked upon with small favor by Spanish workmen.
 STANLEY is enjoying himself in the Alps and has gained greatly in appetite and strength. He has climbed the Forno glacier.
 MRS. WILLIAM ROBINSON, of Port Huron, Mich, has married her adopted son, George Robinson. This makes his foster mother his wife; his grandmother his mother-in-law, and his foster sis ters his step-children. Being the legal father of his wife's children, he is his own legal father. He is twenty-three years old and she is forty-three.
 BUSINESS failures occurring through out the country, during the seven days ended the 5th, numbered, for the United States, 167; and for Canada, S6, total, 203; compared with 1s9 the proceeding week. For the corresponding week last year the figures were 20l, representing 174 failures in the United States and 27 in Canada.