The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-23

 Clackmannan. Scotland, have advanced the wages Of the miners twelve and . half per cent
 THE grand jury at Petersburg, Va, failed to indict General Malone fol shooting P. F. Harrison, on the night oi the last gubernatorial election.
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 A BILL. appropriating s4o,ooo to erect a statue in Washington to James Madi son was favorably reported by the Sen. ate library committee on the 10th.
 ELECTIONS were held in France, on the 12th, to fill vacancies in the Cham. ber of Deputies caused by the invalida- tion of the election of number of Bou- langists.
 TIE German-Czech conference al Vienna, has had highly beneficial re suits. All differences between the two races in Bohemia are believed to have been reconciled.
 TIE strike of the laborers employed in handling grain at Liverpool is ex- tending and fears are entertained that sympathetic strikes of large proportions may grow out of it.
 TIE New Jersey House of Representa- tives passed by large majority, on the 18th, the bill already passed by the Sen ate increasing the Governors salary from 5000 to S10, 900.
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 TIE strike of the shoemakers of Bris- tol, England, which had been in progress for some time, ended, on the 18th, in favor of the strikers,w who gained every point for which they contended.
 TIE board of directors of the Shef- field (Conn) Scientific School, on the 18th, asked for the resignation of Prof. Honey on account of his order to the students to buy apparatus of certain dealer.
 THE Senate committee on the quadri- centennial, of which Senator Hiscock is chairman, began it's hearings on the claims of Washington, New York, St. Louis and Chicago to the Worlds Fair of 1892 on the 9th.
 MR. CHRIsToPER RICE MANsEI. TAI- BoT. Liberal member of the British Par lament for Glamorganshire, died on the 17th. He was the oldest member of the House of Commons, having sat con tinuously for sixty years.
 TIE Senate committee on Territories, Co l,l port on the bill for the admission of the State of Wyoming. No minority report will be presented, although the vote in favor of the bill was not unanimous.
 SEVERAL restaurant keepers of Pitts burgh, Pa, were prosecuted, on the 17th. for selling quail out of season. One keep CT, Nomie Jones, had 115 birds in her possession, and will have to pay fine of Sl,15o. Other keepers will pay amounts ranging from S300 to S10.
 CARNIVAL week opened in Augusta, Ga, on the l4th, with the turning over of the keys of the city by the mayor to cession with 200 floats. The city was crowded with visitors. On the night of the 18th the grand carnival took place. THE Senate committee on Indian af fairs reported favorably, on the 18th, the bill authorizing the President to re- move the Apache Indian prisoners to Fort Sill, I. T.; also tho bill to enable the Secretary of the Interior to locate Indians in Florida on lands in severalty.
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 CAPTAIN TRIvIER, the French traveller who has inst crossed Africa from west to ezst coASrms the previous reports of tae high-hanSed conduct of the Portu- ltuese in Southeast Africa, and declares that the English have lost prestige in Southeast Africa through their pacific policy.
 TIE Treasury Department decided, on the 18th, that the marble statue of President Garfield recently imported al New York and intended to form part of the Garfield Memorial, public monu- ment now in course of construction at Cleveland, O., is entitled to admission duty free.