The Russellville Democrat., 1890-04-24

I sine die on the 15th- BesideS the in- terest attaching to the deadlock and the election of United States Senator, the session was uneventful.
 Miss ALICE ELLIOT, of Ottawa, Ont, aged twenty-three. while suffering from dementia, swallowed small penknife with the blades open. So far she has experienced no unpleasant results, but her physician is watching the case with great anxiety
 KING LEOPOLD of Belgium contradicts the statement that Germany had made proposals looking to the purchase by that country of the Congo Free State.
 WHILE Aeronaut k. E. Craig was mak- ing balloon ascension at Topeka, Kas., on the 18th, he fell forty feet, sustain ing probably fatal injuries.
 IN his address at the banquet in Min neapolis, on the evening of the 18th, Henry Willard promised in behalf of the Edison Company to have the same cleo trical exhibition that was at the Paris Exposition which opens in August
 WHEN Commander McCalla, of the United States ship Enterprise appeared at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on the 16th, Commandant Braine furnished him with copy of the charges against him and deprived him of his sword. TIE colored convention at Richmond, Va, ,ad djourned on the 16th. after adopt.-y resolutions indorsing the Republican party, denouncing the Democratic party and Governor McKinny, and electing a State executive committee. THE bark Sarah, Captain Hale, from Fayal, Islands of Azores, was quar- antined at Boston, on the 18th, with several cases of smallpox among her passengers.
 THE Republican members of the ways and means committee struck off the entire duty on sugar the last thing before presenting their Tariff bill to the House on the 18th. In lieu of duty the bill provides for bounty of two cents per pound on all domestic sugars.
 A CIRCULAR addressed by the German Government to high-school directors calls attention to the frequency of suicide among the scholars. The directors are urged to be lenient with backward pu- pills.
 TIE widow and five daughters of a Russian army officer, residing in Mos COW. locked themselves up in their room, on the 17th, and turned on the gas to escape the sufferings of poverty. When discovered they were all dead.
 TIE remains of Representative Sam uel J. Randall were inferred in Laurel Hill Cemetery, at Philadelphia, on the 17th. A large concourse of friends and admirers of the dead statesman met the funeral party at the Pennsylvania rail. road depot and escorted them to the cemetery, where the last sad rites were observed in a simple and impressive manner.
 TIE Chicago and Yorktown, of the American squadron of evolution, ar rived at Malta, on the 17th. Salutes were exchanged between the vessels and the British forts.
 LOUIS FRANKIE & Co.,, dealers in raw silks and manufacturers of thrown silks at No. 110 Grand street, New York City, assigned, on the 17th, without prefer ences. The firm expect to settle in full.
 TIE grand jury of Burlington County, N. J.. found an indictment, on the 17th, against Mrs. Carrie Vandergrift, one of the most prominent women of Burling- ton and leading church member, charging her with attempting to poison her son, Frank C. Norman, aged twen- ty-three, at whose death she would have received BPS, 900 insurance.
 AN American syndicate has purchased a controlling interest in all the binding twine factories of Canada except one in Ontario.
 THOMAS JAMES was killed and Robert Livingston fatally and Sam Clark severely injured by the premature ex- plosion of charge of dynamite in the limestone quarry at Cementyille, Ind, on the 17th.
 PRESIDENT TAeGARD of the New Hampshire Senate, took the oath Of office and entered upon the duties of acting Governor on the 17th.
 DR LYMAN ABBOTT says he has no in- tention of resigning the pastorate of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. He can not imagine how the rumor of his res ignation could have originated.