The Russellville Democrat., 1890-10-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary of Important Events. PERSONAL AND GENERAL

dock in the afternoon with a section of her machinery broken. Those who were on the vessel when she started down the river say that her speed was very great and that she promises to be one of the fastest boats ever launched.
 GOVERNOR THOMAS of Utah certifies in his official report that there has been no change in the attitude of the Nor mon church on the subject of polygamy, notwithstanding tho recent official ut terances against it. That infamous doctrine is still part of it's creed, and plural marriages take place in spite of all laws forbidding such unions. It will not do to disregard this testimony.
 THERE is strong movement on foot among the pottery employees along the Upper Ohio valley, and west of the All leghenies generally to cut loose from the Knights of Labor and form sepa- rate National organization similar to the American Flint Classy Workers Union.
 Two young men have been arrested at Bloomington, Ind, for peddling four, five and ten-cent stamps on the street. They are believed to belong to band who have been robbing so many post offices in that section.
 ON tho 9th the historic and famous Bluecoat school in London was slightly damaged by fire
 BIG Guatemala recently received a severe drubbing from little Salvador, but, apparently, she is notyet satisfied. In the new conflict she has provoked with her alert and plucky foe she is hardly likely to fare any better. Hav- ing violated the rules of war by murder ing all prisoners captured from the enemy, and having none on hand to meet the exchange provided for in the peace protocol, she goes into the new conflict with decidedly dirty hands.
 SPAIN can not make special treaty with the United States in regard to the West Indies trade without extending the same privileges to European na- tions with whom Spain has treaties containing the most favored nation" clause as to imports of Spanish colonies.
 JOSEPH JoNAssoN, son of Mir. Meyer Jonasson, of New York, was acquitted, on the Sth, in Berlin, of a charge made against him by students with whom he had quarreled for an insult to him because he was an American. They accused young Jonasson of saying: 1T sneeze at your Emperor" political crime for which the extreme penalty is ten years Imprisonment in German fortress.
 MR JAMES NJ. GAMBLE has assumed the indebtedness of the Wesleyan Fe- male College near Cincinnati, amounting to BPS. 900, and thus prevented the sale by foreclosure of that old institution. It is the leading Methodist college for women in Ohio.
 THE newspapers of Mexico call on the Mexican Government to appeal to tho Postal Union against the action of the United States Government in forbid ding the transmission of Mexican news papers, bearing Mexican postage, with lottery advertisements.
 By conservative estimate over Sl00, . 900 damage was done by the late prairie fire in Norton County, N. D.
 TIE Millers' Association of the State of Pennsylvania adjourned, on the Sth, after a two-days' session at Reading. Invitations to hold the next meeting were received from Philadelphia, Wilkesbarre and Altoona.
 TIE little town of Saffron Walden, England, was the scene of much reioic- ing. on the Stb, over the safe return of Young Pelly from Canada, whore he is popularly believed to have had mar row escape from the fate which over took his companion, Benwell. The streets of the place were decorated with flags and arches, and the numerous friends of the Policy family gave the returned wanderer hearty welcome
 AMONG tho passengers from Europe by the Teutonic which arrived at New York, on the Sth, were Hon. J. c. Bancroft Davis, John E. Herreshoff, Hon. Pitt Kellogg, the Duke and Duch- ess of Marlboro, Mir. Joseph Pulitzer and Hon. Leland Stanford On the City of New York were General John Albert, ex-president of the Transvaal, and his family, and Theodore Thomas.
 APPREHENsIoNs are entertained that the conference between the representa- tives of England and Italy on the limitation of the African possessions of the two countries will prove abortive. Both sides tenaciously adhere to their respective positions with regard to Cas- sala, and it is not impossible that this may result in defeating 6 settlement.
 ABOUT 130 shoe manufacturers, repre- senting all parts of the country, met in New York on the 7th, and decided to advance the price of shoes from twen- ty-five to fifty cents pair.
 Mss INEZ CoULTBE, a missionary to Utah. who is at present. in New York has made important revelations con corning the Mormon church in relation to female immigrant converts.
 FALSE rumors concerning alleged movements of Russian troops on the Turkish frontier have been spread by Russia in the hope of torrorizing the Sultan into an alliance with the Czar
 THE committee on revision of the Con fession of Faith of the Presbyterian church mot in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 7th.
 SIR HENRY DRUsMoND WOLFE, Brit ish Ambassador to Persia, was reported, on the Tth, to be dying.
 1'HE Dupont Powder Works near Will mington, Del, together with the adja- cent town of Rockland, were com pletely destroyed, on the 7th, by tho explosion of nearly ten tons of powder Twelve persons were killed, twenty seriously, and scores slightly wounded. Loss. estimated, $500. 00O THE steamer Alomo of the Mallory limo arrived at New York, on tho 7th, from Galveston. with her cargo of cotton on fire, Alter landing her passengers in safety by means ot tug, she pro ceeded to the Eric Basin. where her hold was flooded by tho fire tugs. She has 5, coo bales of cotton on board.
 DuENG panic caused by an explo- sion in tho Keystone Hosiery Mill at Reading, Pa, on the eth, 1Ye of the girls at work in an upper story leaped through the hoistway to the floor below and sustained severe injuries