The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-02


 bitration Society will urge Scnor Gomez to consent to arbitration of the dispute between Great Britain and Portugal touching territory in Africa
 SECRETARY TnAcy has decided to name the new coast defense vessel, now building in San Francisco, the Mon terey,r in commemofation of the great victory of the American forces in Mexico
 UNITED STATES MARSHAL JACK WAL KEn was called from Wichita, Kas., on the 23d. to Oklahoma to quell the rowdyism 50 prevalent there and which threatens to develop into reign of terror.
 MEssRs HAMILTON and McHatton, the contesting judgss in ss5siiiiyer Bow County, Mont, haYo placed their resig- nations i'll the hands of the Governor.
 THE Pennsylvania railroad has con tracted with the Baldwin Locomotive Works for fifty-five heavy freight en- zines. which will soon be finished. The railroad company received twenty-two locomotives from the Baldwin works last month. The freight traffic of the road is very large and is increasing daily.
 ALL hope of rescuing the sixteen miners caught by the cave-in in the Lane mine near San Andreas, Cal, has been abandoned.
 FIVE conyicts who werc making Christmas pudding in the penitentiary at Kingston, Ont, on the night of the 24th, overpowered three officials in the bake-shop, scaled the walls and escaped. Had they desired, they could have se- cured the keys, which were on the per son of Keeper Brennan, and let 300 des- peradoes loose.
 TIE United States war-ship Enter prise arrived at Gibraltar on the 26th. Several of her officers and crew were suffering from influenza, and the ship was consequently quarantined, where upon she proceeded westward
 TIE influenza, which is almost epi- demic in Paris, is assuming more seri' ous type than that which characterized it at the outset. Many cases have de- yeloped into pneumonia with fatal re- suits.
 TIE Provincial Government of Para, Brazil, has established in it's own inter est monopoly of tho India rubber trade against which many exporting houses in Para, chiefly American and French, have emphatically protested. TIE Russian influenza has reached the Rocky mountains Three-fourths of the citizens of Denver are suffering from it. Reports from Cheyenne are to the effect that that city is similarly af- fected.
 TIE United States cruiser Charleston went into commission, on the 26th, at San Francisco, Captain George c. Remy taking command. Commodore Benham and his officers and many citizens wit messed the hoisting of the flags, and the band played .'The Star Spangled Ban ner" The Charleston will probably not be ready for sea until February.
 A sEvEgE shock of earthquake oc- cured at Acireale, Sicily, on the 26th, throwing down several houses and bury ing their occupants beneath the ruins. THE city solicitor of Philadelphia has decided that the Eight-Hour law is ap- plicable to the departments under con- trol of the city government. The law was enacted by the Pennsylvania Legis- lature twenty-one years ago, but has re- mained dead letter until attention was recently called to it by the United Labor League.
 LATE reports from the scene of the rioting at Jessup, Ga., place the mum | Der killed at ten
 THREE workmen were injured, one of them fatally, by the falling of scaffold at the new building of the Thompson- Houston Electric Light Company al Omaha, Neb., on the 26th. | XAALBEEo's immense carpet manu' facturing works at Leyden, Holland, were destroyed by fire on the 2Gth. The loss is very heavy anda large number oi operatives are thrown out of work. DUEISG the temporary absence oi | Mrs. Lena Schip from her home in Omaha, on the 26th, the house caught | fire and her three children, boy o seven, girl of tour and six-months- old baby boy, who were locked in the house, were burned to death. A hun dred people witnessed the casualty, but were unable to save the imprisoned l children.