The Russellville Democrat., 1890-02-06
 PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

HUNDREDS of people sitting in farm houses on the snow-coyered plains of South Dakota are going mad from want and starvation.
 LEHMAN KEMPENsKI, naturalized American citizen of Russian birth, who visited his native country over year ago, and was arrested under military law for evading duty, and sentenced to banishment to Siberia, has been re- leased on the demand of Secretary of State Blaine.
 WILLIAM BArCHELLER, thirty-five years of age, at one time well-known telegraph operator, but of late years en- gagged in the brokerage business in New York City and Chicago, fell down a flight of stairs at his home in New York, on the 30th, and fractured his skull. He died before medical assistance could reach him.
 MR VANDEvER introduced in the House of Representatives on the 2sth, bill to provide for the establishment and maintenance of an Industrial school in California. The bill appropriates $50, 900 for the erection of building for this purpose.
 A RESOLUTION expressing confidence in Mir. Parnell was adopted by the mu- nicipal council of Dublin on the goth.
 A RESOLUTION was introduced in the New Jersey Senate, on the 2sth, for joint committee, consisting of four Sen ators and six Assemblymen, equally di- vided politically, to draft a ballot re- form bill, and to hold meetings with view to obtaining from citizens sug- gestions therefor.
 THE Congregational Church at Dan yers Center, Mass, was burned on the 2sth. Loss, S35,000; insurance, S15,000. The church was historic one, being the successor of the ancient Salem Will lage Parish Crurch in which the witch craft troubles began.
 LORD CARys-PoRr and Mir. Parnell will each donate e2, 900 towards inn
 PROF. CHESTER LyMoN, of the Yale Scientific School, died at New Haven, Conn, on the 29th, aged seyenty-six years.
 TIE British African Lakes Company is negotiating satisfactory peace ar engagements with the Arabs of karon- gas.
 IT was reported, on the 2sth, that the ship Buteshire had foundered in the At lantic. She was bound from Norfolk, Va, to Mediterranean ports, and had a crew of sixteen, all of whom are sup posed to have perished.
 THIEVES entered the office of the Vienna Navigation Company. on the 29th, and dashing pepper in the eyes of the cashier, seized a sum of money lay ing on the counter and made their es- cape.
 DR. HErTINGRR, professor of theology in the University of Wurzburg, died on the 30th.
 TIE Marquis of Harrington, leader of the English Union Liberals, has issued circular to his followers in reference to the approaching opening of Parlia- ment-
 A KANSAS CITY (Mo.) newspaper man named R. A. Corrigan is making ar rangements to revive the New York Graphic as an afternoon paper without illustrations.
 FRr0HTFUL accident occurred at the stone-quarries at Chickies, Pa, on tho 29th. A charge of dynamite failed to explode, and when William Mestenftt- ter. the foreman, went to investigate the charge it exploded as he. was looking at it, tearing off his head and mangling his body in a frightful manner
 TIE Senate committee on military and militia gave a hearing, on the 3oth, to Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania, and General Bacheller, the historian of the Gettysburg Association, on the bill to mark the battle-line of the Virginia troops at the battle of Gettysburg. The bill will be reported faYorably
 Bisu0P GRuscHA, Chaplain-General of the Austrian army, will, it is officially announced, succeed the late Cardinal Gauglgauer as Archbishop ol Vienna,