The Russellville Democrat., 1890-03-13

in Paris very shortly. The institution
 has the sanction of the Pope and will
 have capital of 2.000. 900 francs ] SEVEN employees of shoe factory iT Weissenfels, Saxony, lost their lives, or
 the 5th, in fire that destroyed tho
 building.
 | A MONTHLY line of steamers between Portland, Ore, and Asiatic ports will be
 started in June by the Union Pacific
 Railroad Company. 1 ABour dozen leading natural-gas
 companies operating in the northern part of Indiana have combined their in | terests and formed an immense trust, with an aggregate capital of S3, 800, GOO l CHARLES JOHNSON, the principal in
 the Olson lynching, appeared in court at White Hall, Wis, on the 5th, and pleaded guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree. The prisoner was
 remanded back to jail to awals sen. | tence.
 ATToRNEY-GENERAL MILLEB, on the
 9th, appointed w. F. Gurley Assistant
 United States district attorney for Ne. braska.
 l TIE net earnings of the Burlington & Northern railway for January show .
 decrease of s20,674. SIGMUND L5oEwEEHURz, who swindled people in New York City by forged
 checks a,d fled to Germany, can not be extradite1, because he never ceased tc
 be a Prusydan subject; but the German
 Government will prosecute him in Ger
 many for the aIisSed offense, upon evi-
 dence to be furnished by the American
 authorities.
 IF the report of the geologist who ex.
 amined the field can be relied upon,
 gold and silver in paying quantities have
 been discovered on the farm of Jere- miah Stauffer, near the Mount Vernon ore mines in Pennsylvania It is said that the rock assays about S2SO in silver and from 5000 to s1, 900 in gold to the ton.
 Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND was one of the orators at a meeting in Chickering Hall, on the 9th, in the interest of the New York City Free Circulating Lii brary.
 BLACK diphtheria is raging to an alarming extent in the town of Stock. dale, Ind.
 TIE strike at the rubber works al Stoughton, Mass, has been compro missed.
 A FREIGHT train on the Cumberland Valley railroad was wrecked near Car lisle, Pa, on the 9th, and eight loaded cars were demolished. A brakeman was slightly injured yrurs {1 uar.s.ka.n1 l1 grees minus at St. Johnsbury, Vt, on the 7th.
 ON the 7th the Pope was again re- ported indisposed. THE suburb of Plymouth. Pa, known as Curry's Hill, sunk ten feet at three o'clock on the morning of the 7th, ow- ing to the settling of the ground above
 an abandoned mine. TIE returns issued by the London Board of Trade show that during the month of February exports decreased
 e12o,30O and the imports increased a2,- 41o,000, as compared with the cores bonding month of last year. BISHOP BOWMAN, of the Methodist Episcopal church, has been found guilty of falsehood and the use of unchristian language, and deposed from the bishop
 ric and suspended from the ministry
 until the meeting of next general con. ference.
 THREE families were rescued, on the 7th, some of them in an unconscious
 condition, from burning tenement
 house at Reading, Pa. THE wife of Alexander Stokes, living
 near Ridgely, Md, perished in the flames
 of their burning home on the 9th. FIFTY secret agents of the Russian Government have been sent to this coun- try to lecture and procure the publica- tion of newspaper articles laudatory of
 the Car and his government with a
 view to overcoming the evil impression
 made by the late outrages against polit
 ical prisoners in Siberia.
 THE funeral services over the remains
 of Abraham Lincoln. son of Minister
 Lincoln, were hold at the London resi-
 dence of Mir. Lincoln on the 7th. Among
 those present were all the members of
 the American Legation and Consulate
 except Mir. Post, the military attache.
 They were all accompanied by their
 wives.