The Russellville Democrat., 1890-03-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

l FoUg of the entombed men in the .Morsa mine, in Wales, succeeded in mak- l ing their escape, on the 11th, by crawl ing through crevice between the roof
 and the debris. They passed over heaps of dead miners and express the belief that no more of the entombed miners are alive.
 AMONG the ea7 immigrants who ar rived in New York, on the 11th, on the
 steamship Elder, over eighty per cent.
 come to work in the mines. The major | ity of them are Hungarians and Sile-
 sians. The Immigration Commission will take action in the matter. Ir is semi-officially announced that
 the new German Reichstag will be con vened on April 15.
 TIE children of the Cayuga (N. Y.) l Orphan Asylum are suffering from an | epidemic of measles and whooping- cough Out of total of 1la inmates,
 on the 11th, sixty were down with
 measles and forty-nine with whooping- cough.
 MINISTER PHELPS gave Q dinner in Berlin, on the 11th, to Herr Eisendeck- CT, formerly German Minister to Wash ington.
 JOIN DILLON, M. F., the Irish agita- | tor, passed through Denver, Col, on his
 way from Australia to England on the 18th.
 JOHNSON BROAD, aged seventy, died
 at his home in Morgan County, Ind, on
 the 10th, of dropsy. He was the largest
 mar in Central Indiana, and few days before his death weighed over four hun dred pounds, measuring nine feet around
 the girth. The coffin was too large to be taken into the house, and the body had to be taken out in the yard and placed in it.
 OS the 1lth Andrew Houk, gambler and worthless character, shot and se- riously wounded Mrs Kittie Bowers and then committed suicide at Council Bluffs, la. Houk was in love with Mrs Bowers, | but she did not reciprocate. A NORWEGIAN named Loga, one of the | mob who hung Hans Jacob Olsen six months ago, committed suicide at White hall, Wis, on the night of the 1lth.
 Although Loga was only charged with
 riot, it is said he feared long sentence to prison.
 JOHN T. LESTER, the wealthy Chicago stock k-broker, died on the night of tho i1th. He had been an invalid for two
 or three years, having become broken
 down physically by close attention to | business.
 QUITE sensation has been created aS
 Fort Dodge. la, by the discovery that | the much-lauded speech of Congressman Ya- I.It 1~.fo versary recently in Brooklyn, is an all
 most verbatim copy of an oration de- livered by his brother, Victor, on Lin coin at the commencement of Cornell | College last June.
 MAJOR HANCOCK CLARK, the man | ygho shot Milton Randolph as a result I of quarrel at the Southern Society in | New York City a short time ago, has been expelled from the society after an investigation of the charges against him. Randolph, on theother hand, was | acquitted and exonerated. | w. D. CoMsTocK, Democrat, was elect ed mayor of Sacramento, Cal, on the
 llth, defeating Gregory, Republican, by | 4i votes. The Republicans elected the
 remainder of their ticket by large ma
 jorities.
 Ex-CoSeREssMAS JOHN B. WEBER, of Buffalo, N. F., was, on the 18th, ap- | pointed Commissioner of Immigration
 at New York City, and Colonel James
 R. O'Byrne was appointed assistant commissioner.
 IiY vote of 7S to 52 the Roumanian
 Chamber of Deputies, on the 18th, re- ! jected motion expressive of lack Of confidence in the government as con
 sequence Of it's appointment of state | officers
 A vRuLASr type of influenza is rag.
 ing in Persia.