The Russellville Democrat., 1890-06-26

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 RUSSELL LINCOLN, Neb., was damaged to the extent of S1oO,00o on the 16rh, by l tornado.
 TIE amount subscribed in London to | the Egyptian conversion loan was twen- l ty times in excess of the amount of the loan.
 RoRERT A. WARD. the champion half mile runner of the Detroit Athletic Club, died suddenly, at his fathers res idencn in Hillsdale, Mich, on the 18th.
 JAY GOULD was fined S100, on the 18th, by Judge Fitzgerald in the New York Court of General Sessions for not answering summons to act as petit juror.
 CLAUS SPREcKLEs, the Sugar King, has made formal complaint to Secretary Windom of discrimination against him in favor of the Sugar Trust by the customs officers In New York City.
 THE Spanish Government, on the 17th, ordered troops to proceed to the prov ince of Valencia and establish there military cordon about tho districts in which the cholera has made it's appear ance
 TIE reduction of the rates of fare on the State railways of Austria has had the effect to increase the number of passengers three-fold, and the facilities of the various roads are greatly over taxed.
 FRENCH police official states that the Nihilist conspiracy recently dis covered in Paris was fostered by Ger man agents. The explosives were made In North London, whence they were sent to Paris.
 Two WOMEN were chosen as members of the Board of Education of James, general school election held under the State Constitution which permits wom- en to vote on school questions.
 SIR EDWARD BRADFoRD, the new chief commissioner of the metropoli- tan police of London, is an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales, and acted .s chaperon to Prince Albert Victor turing the latter's tour of India.
 ALL the striking switchmen at Cleve- and, O., except those formerly em- ployed by the Valley, Nickel Plate, Cleveland & Canton and Cleveland X Pittsburgh roads returned to work, on the goth, and fears Of food and coal famine vanished. THE annual meeting of tho Nicaragua Canal Construction Company was held at Denver, Col, on the 20th. Substantial ly the old board of directors, including Warner Miller (president), ". L. Scott, Smith M. Weed. A. c. Cheney and A. T. Hoyt were elected. MRS HARRISON with Mrs. Mckee and Ter children, arrived at Cape May, N. T., on the 10th, where Mrs. Harrison will remain during the summer. After three weeks stay Mrs. Mckee will livide her time between the various fashionable watering places.
 THE annual convention of the Mill lers' National Association at Minneapo- lis, Minn., was brought to conclusion, on the 10th, amid torrent of resolu- tions, the principal one being the in- dorsement of the Butterworth Anti-op- 1 tion bill, which was passed unanimous. ly.
 A COLLISION occurred, on the 10th, on the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council l Bluffs railroad about three miles east of Atchison, Kas., between the pay train I and freight train. L. w. Yocum, en- gineer of the pay train, was killed, and 1 three others were seriously injured. | Eighteen horses were also killed.
  THE police of St. Petersburg have | discovered another plot against the life | of the Czar, and several of the conspir- ators have been arrested. The plotters | had undermined the Imperial Palace | at Gatschina with the intention of | blowing up the building The guards about the palace have been doubled.
 Miss IDALENE Nj. FRIsBIE, daughter | of Division Superintendent Frisbie, of | the Illinois Central railroad, was killed, | on the goth, at Mount Carmel, Conn, | where she was on visit She was | driving hay rake in the field when she was thrown from the seat and fell | under the feet of the horses, her skull | being fractured.
 ROBERT L. WALLACE and Ignatius R. | Lowitz, who went to Cuba, after steal | ing s45,O00 belonging to the uncle of the former, the proprietor of Wallace's | Monthly, were arraigned in the New | York Court of General Sessions, on the | 18th, and pleaded guilty to grand lar ceny in the first degree. They were re- manded for sentence.
 HENRY NJ. STANLEY will sail with his wife from England for New York on Au- gust 29. Mir. Stanley has concluded ar. rangements to deliver fifty lectures in tho United States during the fall and winter. For the lectures to be deliv- cred in New York he is to receive e5,- 900, and for each lecture thereafter, in tho various cities, he is to receive e2o0. ON the 10th while fifteen young ladies from the schuylkill Seminary at Fred ericksburg, Pa, were on their way to the railroad station at Johnstown in a coach drawn by four horses, some of the harness broke, and the horses, becoming | unmanageable. plunged down twenty foot embankment, the coach and it's oc cnpants falling on top of the horses. |