The Russellville Democrat., 1890-04-17

in Pennsylvania are again on ''high' and the lower portion of Johnstown was under water on the 9th. Several bridges were washed away and operations sus-
 pended at the mills situated along the banks of these streams.
 A STEAMER sailed from Hamburg for Zanzibar, on the 9th, with a cargo of railway iron, bridge material, arms. ammunition, etc, in response to a re- l quisition from Major Wissmann.
 FoUR mnrderers were executed in Pennsylvania on the 9th. They were; 1 William Bartholomew, for the murder of Aaron w. billiard, at Easton: Alfred Andrews who plxiIled Clara Price, al Bellefonte; Zach Taylor, one Of the slay- CTS of William McCausland, at Waynes- burg, and Charles Carter, who killed John Matthews, at Ebensbtrg. SILVER ore has been discovered twei ve miles southwest of Mitchell, S. D., in four different places at depth Of sixty feet. Assayers in Chicago who have tested the ore pronounce 1t genuine. The metal exists in large quantities.
 TIE inquiry into the financial con,i- tion of the City of Rome shows the sit uation to be worse than indicated by the most gloomy anticipations. As thu government refuses relief to the muni cipality, crash with numerous result ing failures is expected. TIE military trial at Fort Yates, N. D.. of Captain Frecht, Eighth Infantry, on the charge of being drunk while president of court-martial, was con cluded on the 9th. The findings will not be made public until they are ap- proved by General Ruger in command of the department.
 THE Liquor License bill was defeated in the Iowa Senate, on the 10th, by a vote of 2l yeas to 29 nays. THE verdict of the court-martial which tried Lieutenant Steele for assaulting Private Wild is reprimand and con finement for three months to the limits of his post
 Mas. FERDINAND WARD, wife of the ex-broker now in sing Sing prison, died at Stamford, Conn, on the 10th, of in fammation of the stomach, aged thirty five.
 TIE will of the late Prince Doria, of Rome, bequeaths S6o0,0 900 to charities. THE late Jersey City mayoralty cleo tion which resulted in the success of Orestes Cleveland, the Democratic can didate, is to be contested by Mir. George F. Perkins, the Republican candidate, who was defeated by heavy Democratic majorities, said to be fraudulent, rolled up in the first and second aldermanic districts.
 FORTY holders employed in the steel plants at West Superior, Wis, struck on the 10th.
 JOHN NELSON, wanted for the murder of Nels Carlson in Superior, Wis, in November last, was arrested at La Prairie, Minn., and returned to Superior on the 10th.
 GENERAL. JoHN c. FREMONT. who had been seriously ill for few days, had so far recovered, on the 11th, as to be able to be out again.
 HENRY M. STANLEY, the African ex- plorer, arrived in Rome. on the 11th, and was welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd of people, who saluted him with yivas and cheers A formal reception was rendered him by the Geographical Society, whose president, Signor Vitel- leschi, presented Stanley with gold medal.
 TIE residence of Ferdinand Roths- child at Waddesden, England, was par tially destroyed by fire on the 11th A Gainsborough picture, valued at fl0, ,000, and much old and rare tapestry were destroyed.
 THE Boston Duck Company at Bonds vile, Mass, will suspend operations Friday and Saturday of each week for an indefinite period, owing, it is stated, to overproduction.
 THE non-Socialist trades unions of Berlin, numbering 63,00o men, have re- fused to observe May as labor holi- day.
 UPwARDs of fourteen hundred plumb CTS, gas-ftters carpenters, stair-build- CTS, painters, varnishers marble-cut- ters, hod-hoisting machine engineers, electric-wire men, tile-layers, framers, etc, employees of the firm of Paulsen X Egan, of New York City, which signed an agreement to comply with union rules and afterward refused to keep 1t, struck on the l1th