The Russellville Democrat., 1890-02-06
RUssEILvIILE POPE ARK. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

 l TIE Hamburg Senate has approved a project for the construction of sailing vessels for harbor defense at a cost of nearly 1000, 900 marks. 1 TIE New York Clearing House, on l the 30th, suspended the Sixth National Bank of New York. | Miss BIsLANp, the competi tor of Nell l lie Ely in the race around tile world, ar rived in New York on the Cunard line steamer Bothnia on the 30th, complet- ing the trip in three days less time Phineas Fogg, but over four days be- hind Miss By.
 TIE dock laborers' strike at Birken- head and Liverpool is spreading. A MEETING of London Gcck-owners was held on the 30th. The president stated that there had been decrease of B, 900 tons in freight handled, and G12,- SIT in receipts during the six months following the strike of the dock labor CTS. He said that the men had not been working well since they took their old places and that it may be necessary to resume the struggle with them at all hazards.
 FROM Melbourne comes news that Neil Matterson, the oarsman, has chal- lenged Peter Kemp to row race for the sculling championship of the world and et, ,0O0
 The steamer Porfrio Diaz arrived at Guaymas, Mexico, on the 30th, with twenty-five Chinamen on board who had been run out of the State of Sina- loa by the authorities. A DISPATCH from Pictou, Nova Scotia, says the steamer Stanley, from Pictou for Charlottetown, with mails and pas sengers, is stuck fast in the ice five miles of Pictou, and can not move In any direction. She may be kept there for some time.
 Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND has shaken the last particle of Buffalo dust off his feet. He has sold his valuable property on Lexington avenue, which he bought six years ago for a nominal sum and which is one of the choicest locations in the city.
 PELLro, the Indian who was convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Agnes Taison at Portland, ofC., VI tllC bik ub Oi Istdy ~, lCob, WAS sentenced, on the 3oth, by Judge Sabin to be hanged Friday, June 6.
 ON the evening of the 30th Mir. Phin- eas T. Barnum, the veteran American snowman, gave "drawing-room talk" at the house of the Earl of Aberdeen, for the benefit of charity. His discourse was highly entertaining, and the affair was financially successful beyond ex- pectation.
 OFFICERS from Lincoln, Neb., arrest ed Chas. Williams as he was alighting from the Union Pacific express, from Salt Lake City at Denver, Col, on the 30th Williams is wanted at Fredonia, O., for the murder of Wm. McClain, farmer, whom he killed seven years ago, for money he had received for his annual wool crop.
 JUDGE MAsBAUM, county judge of Forest County, Wis, who was accused of selling liquor without Government license, was discharged by United States Commissioner Ryan at Milwaukee. He sold certain bitters and tonjcs which the Government officials claimed were in toxicating beverages.
 EARS iol tiic oaiVty VI ofVtQuo oecaih- CTS and sailing vessels are on the in. crease in London, fed by the reports of the great quantities of wreckage sight ed by arriving ships.
 HE Smith-J ackson(W. Va. )contested election case was taken up in the House of Representatives on the 31st.
 FIRE was discovered between the decks of the White Star company's fast steamship Teutonic at Liverpool on the 3lst It was speedily extinguished and very little damage was done.
 MosT REVEREND JoHN MAcEvILLy. Archbishop of Tuam, died in Dublin on the 3lst.
 TIE Frankfurter Schustern, a journal devoted to the interests of the shoe trade, has donated the sum of S5, ,o00 for the purchase of shoes for the poor of Frankfort, Germany.
 THE scullers Matterson and Kemp, of Australia, arc matched to row race on the Paramatta course, in April, for se0o side.
 Ar Kalkberg, a suburb of Dietz, Prus- sia, on the 31st, the fy-wheel of threshing machine burst while in rapid motion, killing five men.