The Russellville Democrat., 1890-06-26

charged with fraud in the prosecution of their work.
 WILLIAM l.. ScoTT, Congressman from tho Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania dis trict, was renominated at Meadville on the 18th.
 BY Q recent wreck on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad the only witnesses against Azero Polly, charged with hay ing brutally assaulted Miss Julia Hes ter, were killed; and when the case was called at Parkersburg, W. Va, on the 18th, Polly was discharged for want of testimony to sustain the charge.
 TIE Democratic State committee of Maine has voted to call another con vention in Augusta, on July ?, to nomi- nate candidate for Governor in place of F. ". Hill, deceased.
 MARION MASoLA, of the DeWolf Hop per Opera Company, secured temporary injunction. on the 18th, against Mana ger Ben Stevens and Photographer Henry Meyers, of New York City, to re- strain them from making use ot pho tographic negative of herself, taken against her protest by the use of flash light, during performance in which she appeared in tights
 THE inspector of customs at Victoria, E. C., has seized the schooner North Star for infraction of the customs laws, After having cleared regularly her captain ran the vessel along the coast of Vancouver Island and took on board nineteen Chinamen for the purpose of smuggling them into the United States.
 AN attempt to burn the Cincinnati House of Refuge by band of boy con spirators was frustrated by the bravery and coolness of Mike Kelley, aged eleven years, who gave the alarm and used the fire hose with good effect until help arrived.
 DURING a married fife of twenty-four years Thomas Butler, of Taylorville, Pa, never failed tc kiss his wife be- fore going to work in the morning. Be- cause he would not kiss her on leaving, on the 18th, Mrs. Butler committed suicide by taking paris green. She leaves nine children.
 TIE Germans are enthusiastic over the satisfactory outcome of the negotia- tions with England on the question of the African territorial rights of the two countries.
 TIE Attorney General of California says that the disgraceful pugilistic OK hibitions that have been given under the auspices of certain athletic clubs of that State are felonies under the State law, and that he will use every means in his powor to prevent them in future.
 AL. 4 4s~.. IL ~f cino, Switzerland, have been relieved by the Grand Council from responsibil- ity in connection with tho recent em- bezzlement of ono million francs by the cantonal treasurer.
 A TEST vote in tho Louisiana Legis- lature, on the 18th, developed sufficient anti-lottery strength to defeat the lot tery scheme.
 A MOVEMENT is on foot for the estab- lishment of a Government park on the battlefield at Yorktown, Va
 PROSPER LANAI, n prominent import CT of New Orleans, has been authorized by a French and Belgian syndicate to offer the State S1, 500, 900 a year for a twenty year charter for lottery on the same basis as the Louisiana Lot tery Company is operated.
 TIE Court of Cessation at Sofia has confirmed the sentences passed upon Major Panitza and the other conspira- tors who were found guilty of attempt ing to overthrow the Government of Bulgaria.
 COLONEL THos. c. JONES, the Demo- cratic nominee for Governor of Ala bama, and Mrs. Grover Cleveland were, on the goth. elected honorary members of the Alabama Press Association.
 IT is stated that Franco Russian all lance has assumed concrete form since the African agreement between England and Germany.
 FRANK F. BELTZHoovER, of Carlisle, Pa, was, on the goth, nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Nine teenth district
 THE King of Dahomey is negotiating with France for the establishment of peace between the two countries.
 ABOUT one per cent of the returns had been received at the Census Bureau on the 20th.