The Russellville Democrat., 1890-03-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE works of the Para Rubber Com pany at South Birmingham, Mass, which were shut down December IS last, were started up in the calendar and mix ing departments, on the 5th giving em- ployment to 150 operatives. MR. THOMPSON, chairman of the Firth of Forth Bridge Company, and Sir John Gowler, have been created baronets, and Messrs. Baker and Arrot, respectively engineer and contractor of the bridge, haze been knighted.
 RIoTING took place at Setubal, Portu- gal, on the 3d. The military were called out to disperse the rioters and re- store order, and firing into the crowd, killed two and injured twenty.
 TIE Irish Land bill to be introduced by the British Government, contains clauses to assiss emigration and to abol- ish the land courts and land commits sion.
 A BILL authorizing the Canadian Pa fife Railway Company to issue further bonds to the extent of S6, 900, 900 to aid in the purchase of ocean steamships passed it's final reading in the Dominion Parliament on the Sd.
 THE majority of the House committee on Territories completed their report on the bill for the admission of Idaho, on the 5th. The report is favorable and will soon be presented in the House.
 SENATOR WM. B. ALLISON was, on the 4th, reelected to the United States Sem ate by the Iowa Legislature. Each house voted separately, and Mir. Allison receiving a clear majority of eight votes, the necessity of a second ballot in joint session was obviated. es
 TIE Chinese Government is massing troops on the frontier of Siberia, and the Russian authorities are apprehen- sive that Chinese attack upon the Russian forces on the border is medi- tated at an early date.
 TIE proprietors of tho Pittsburgh (Pa.) Times, the youngest and most widely circulated newspaper in the Smoky City, have purchased lot for the erection of $500, 900 building.
 TIE Halifax (N. S.) Chamber of Com merce, on the 9th, adopted a protest against the proposed increase in the duty on flour; also resolution urging the removal of the duty on American corn.
 A CONFLICT in which several lives were lost is reported to have occurred on the lower Amoor between irregular Russian troops and Chinese gold-diggers who resisted an attempt to drive them from the placers which they have worked for the last generation.
 SECRETARY WINDOW announced, ,on the 5th, that the Treasury Department had resumed the purchase of four per cent. bonds at 123 or less.
 Or the sum put up by MT. Parnell to defray the expenses of the action brought by him in the Scottish court against the Times, and subsequently, abandoned, e536 have been returned to him.
 AN English syndicate, capital, ss,oOO,- GOO, is said to be trying to buy the Tufts and the Puffer soda-water apparatus works of Boston, the Matthews, of New York, and the Lippincott, of Philadel- phia.
 F. A. HovEy, representing the Stand ard Gig Saddle Company, Jackson. Mich, went to Dubuque, la, recently on regular trip, called on customers, paid his hotel bill and sent his baggage to the depot. He then mysteriously dis appeared. He had large sum of money when last seen. Hovey was not addict ed to dissipation. Foul play is feared.
 A NEW and clever smuggling scheme has been discovered in New York by a customs inspector A number of sup posed packages of macaroni from Medi- terranean points were found to contain fine shawls instead. There were i40 boxes and ten bags seized. The goods were consigned to Chicago. The matter will be sifted thoroughly
 HENRY D. LEcATO was held for trial at Philadelphia, on the 9th, upon the charge of stealing about Sl000o worth of diamonds and jewelry from Sanford < Cook, of New York, for whom he was a Philadelphia salesman.
 TmR first deep snow of the season fell in the lumber districts ot Pennsylvania, on the night of the 9th, and postponed lumber work is being pushed day and night.