The Russellville Democrat., 1891-09-03
The News in Brief.

Western Kansas has a boom in crops and the farmers are happy.
 Reports of damage to wheat in the northwest by frost has been exagger- ated.
 Salton Lake, California's inland sea, IS drying up and will soon dis appear.
 James c. Blaine, Jr. will answer the suit for divorce filed by his wife at Sioux Falls, s. D.
 It is said that Gen. William Wells of Vermont will succeed Proctor as Secretary of the Navy.
 Mr. Dudley of Indiana says that State will send Blaine delegation to the national convention.
 A remarkable religious revival is in progress in Southern Illinois, the converts falling into trance.
 Governor Byrd has notified white settlers in the Choctaw Nation that he will rot renew their permits.
 The Cincinnatti Tax Commission is unearthing millions of securities not placed on the tax duplicate.
 H. H. Burns has sued Houston, Tex, for $25,000 damages because he caught case of small pox in the city.
 Leland Standford has launched his Presidential boom through the columns of the Argus of San Fran cisco.
 The site of Hindostan, Martin county, Ind, once promising city of 5000 inhabitants, is now a field of corn.
 A number of lottery directors have been arrested at New Orleans for sending advertisements through the mail.
 Mrs. Rubenstein landed at New York with husband and twenty. four children. She is only 45, plump and pretty.
 Patriotic Sons of America settled the negro membership question for another year by refusing to admit colored men.
 The Kansas Republican Legue at their convention at Topeka vigorous. ly arraigned the Alliance and Peo- ples' Party.
 The Missouri alliance convention adopted the Ocala platform, leaving out the subtreasury and land loan features.
 Canadian newspapers express dis. appointment at the surprisingly small increase in population shown by the census.
 Senator Sherman made his appear ance In the Ohio campaign in speech on the silver question. de- lvered q. Paulding.
 A cloud burst in the vicinity of Troy and Berlin, N. r., caused sev eral deaths and destroyed $500,O00 worth of property.
 The Park place building which collapsed, killing over sixty persons was death trap, according to wit nesses in the inquiry in New York.
 A Kansas man threshed a crop of wheat in Kingman county belonging to another man, pocketed the pro- ceeds and fled, leaving the threshers unpaid.
 A convention composed of all per sons interested in the improvement of western waterways has been call ed to meet at Evansville, Ind, Octo Der IA.
 The extra session of the Tennes- see legislature will be devoted to consideration of convict labor, mill tary laws and Worlds Fair appro. priation.
 Miss Etta May Cox of Vernon county, Missouri, has been hlccough Ing fourteen hours day for nine teen days, and physicians are un- able to stop it.
 "Zach James arrested at Lincoln, Neb., on suspicion of being a bank robber, proved to be pretty girl who was eloping with her lover from Council Bluffs.
 Immediately after the funeral of Mrs. John $. Webb of Webb Hill, quadruple wedding will occur, one of the bridesgrooms being the be- reaved husband.
 The government rainmakers have concluded their experiments at Mid land, Tex, and will remove to El HNrIIE1Cs E1TENn