The Russellville Democrat., 1890-02-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Earl of Dunraven and Lord Ran lolph Churchill, on the 18th, assured a deputation of miners that they would favor state limitation of the hours of labor.
 THE semi-annual meeting of the de- partment of superintendents of the Ma tional Educational Association, for the training of teachers, opened in New York City on the 18th.
 SIXTEEN persons were drowned, on the 18th, by the sinking of the steam ship Coral Queen in collision wiSh tho Rotterdam steamer Brinio of the river Tees.
 w. HORACE RosE, prominent law yer, was, on the 18th, elected mayor of the city of Johnstown, Pa, as lately formed by the consolidation of eight contiguous boroughs.
 Miss AMY c. FOWLER, the English girl who goes to devote her life to work in the leper settlement at Molokai, left New York, on the 18th, for San Fran cisco, en route for Honolulu.
 COUNT ANDRAssY, the Hungarian statesman, died, on the 18th, in the sixty year of his age.
 THE Bulgarian Government is in pos session of information sufficient to jus tify the fear that another plot against the life of Prince Ferdinand is in exist ence.
 IT is thought that Sl00 900, 900 will be required to cover the expense involved in the English Governments new Land Purchase bill
 TIE vote for successor to the late Judge Wm. D. Kelley, Congressman from the Fourth Pennsylvania district, on the 18th, resulted as follows: Key burn, Rep, a4,s $50; Ayers, Dem, lo, 446; Tumbleston, Pro, 23s.
 JUDGE ZANE has decided that six Mormon councilmen who received the highest number of votes in their re- spectiye wards in Salt Lake City in the recent election, are entitled to certifi- cates of election. This would make the and six Mormons. The Gentiles ap- pealed from the decision.
 TIE annual convention of cigar man ufacturers of the United States held in New York, on the 18th, took action fayoring a National bankruptcy law.
 TIE increased earnings during Janu- ary of the entire system of the Balti- more S Ohio railroad, east and west of the Ohio river, were Sl, 40s,5i0; in- creased expenses, S4S0, 4G3; net increased earnings, s92s, ,047.
 AN alarming rebellion is in progress in Morocco. The royal troops have been defeated by the rebels at Nassau and are besieged in the town.
 GOVERNOR HILL of New York signed the Worlds Fair bill on the goth.
 A REMARKABLE feature of the Ger man election, on the goth, was the en- tire absence of the anti-Semitio faction, who abstained from voting because the candidates did not meet with tho ap- proval of the carltel electoral commis- sion.
 OWING to depression of business, a nun ber of spinning mills at Lodz Rus sian Poland, have beenshut down and upwards of 1, GOO spinners are thus locked out. They are in a destitute condition and threatening violence. DR BLOOD, charged with being inn DiitNltl III kiit lIihlAtA VI AAAAnAA R"W telle. was arrested at Middleboro, Mass, on the goth, and taken to Boston. CLAUS SPREcKEI.s addressed the House committee on ways and means on the sugar question on the goth. He was op- posed to making any reduction in the duty on sugar He said the United States could raise enough beets to sup ply the sugar demand.
 SECRET negotiations have been in progress in Rome to induce the Portu- guese Government to propose that the Pope shall srbitrate the dispute be- tween Portugal and England, but have Jailed.
 A WEALTHY syndicate is forming plans to erect immense oil refineries at Findlay Lima, cygnet, Delphos and Upper sanausky, Q. Tbe company will te termed eg eapitalista from Chicago, Milwaukee aEA riitsoatehi whe will pes 7e9, eaV gep lsle thg palefpfssai