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The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
THE SOUTH.

ISAAC MURPHY, the well known jockey, is seriously i'll at his home in Lexington, Ky, having taken violent cold while skating. He has never been we'll man since his peculiar sickness the day he rode the notorious Firenzi race.
 FOUR prisoners tunneled out of the jail at Newport, Ky, while the jailer was on a drunk.
 Ar meeting of the directors Paul Conrad was elected president of the Louisiana Lottery Company, vice M. A. Dauphin, deceased
 LA GRIPPE is causing many deaths in New Orleans.
 of the United States, died at Jackson vile, Fla, on the 31st at an advanced age.
 TIE steamboat E. W. Cole has been wrecked on snag in the Lower Missis- sippi. No lives were lost
 ApyICEs from Centertown, La, says cyclone struck that place and de- stroyed the post-office, Masonic temple and number of smaller buildings.
  jured. The loss will aggregate S25,000.
 SEVEN colored children were burned in house near Bayboro, N. c. The parents had locked the children in when going to church, the house in some way taking fire and burning them to death
 TERRIFIC wind did great damage to buildings and other property at Abilene, Tex, recently The roof and one end of the Episcopal Church were blown away; number of houses were un- roofed and others were blown off their foundations.
 THE British bark Topsy went ashore on Grand Cayman beach, Ala. Five men were drowned.
 THE floods were extremely threaten ing in West Virginia on the Ed.
 Two men, woman and boy per ished in the flames that destroyed the Avenue Hotel, Corsicana, Tex.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
THE TRADE OF 1890.
Dun's Report Shows It to Have Been D
 precedented in Volume.

Dun's Report Shows It to Have Been Un- l precedented in Volume. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.--R. c. Dun & Co. s Weekly Review of Trade says: The new year opens with so much of uncer- tainty that there is a natural disposition to dwell upon the crowning records of the year just closed, which show an ex- traordinary volume of business, in many lines surpassing all precedent. Iron, cotton, leather, boot and shoe and meat productions were larger than in any previous year. Thus ?, ,219,312 cattle were slaughtered at Chicago, against 1, ,763, ,310 in 1899, gain of 25 per cent. and 5,7S3,0 hogs, against 4,211, ,767 in 1889, gain of 86 per cent At Boston 8, 1885, ,211 cases of boots and shoes were shipped, against S,399, 9s0, gain of
 per cent The clearing house exchanges show that the volume of all business in 1890 exceeded that of any previous year by at least 10 per cent, though in part this increase was due to the higher
 range of prices during the greater part
 of the year. The advance in prices of
 all commodities, compared with a year
 ago, is 6.6 per cent, and the average
 has been about 6.5 per cent. higher for eight months.
 The reports from other cities are al-
 most uniformly confident In tone and
 indicate good volume and fair condi-
 tion of trade. The South rejoices in great crops and wonderful manufactur-
 ing growth and for the moment no great
 financial pressure, good holiday trade
 and bright hopes.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
CONGRESS.

WHEN the Senate met on the 29th the crc- dentials of George L. Shoup and William J. McConnell Senators. elect from Idaho were presented and Mir Shoup being present was sworn in, but after some discussion the credentials were referred. Mfr Aldrich pre- sented the resolution for a change of rules which went over. The elections bill was taken up and Mir Hiscock spoke at length in favor of the bill. Mir. Hoar also took the floor in favor of the bIll and pending his re- marks the Senate adjourned .. The House was not in session.
 WHEN the Senate met on the 30th 1t was an hour before a quorum could be secured In order to approve the journal. The elections bill was then taken mp and Senator Hoar re- sumed his speech in favor of the bill. Sen ator Wolcott (Col) then took the floor and spoke against the bill. The elections bill was laid aside informally and the financial bill taken up and Senator Stewart addressed the Senate in It's favor Senator Teller (Col then spoke against the cloture rule and upon the rights of minorities. Adjourned. The House met, approved the journal and ad iourned until Friday
 IN the Senate on the 31st Mir. Manderson offered Q resolution, which was agreed to, directing as early report of the census by Congressional districts as possible. A sharp debate ensued on Mir. Morgan's request to have his resolution placed before the Senate directing the Elections Committee to report as to the contents and mean ing of the elections bill. but the motion went over. Mir. George then spoke against the elections bill and the Sen ate adjourned until Friday noon, with the understanding that it should then adjourn until Monday. The House was not in ses- sion.
 THE Senate and House met informally on the 2d and after the reading of the journal adjourned until Monday.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
WASHINGTON NOTES.

SECRETARY WINDOW has re-affirmed the decision that aliens have no right to be employed on American merchant as sailors they may not be given the au- thority of mate.
 ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL CoR- BIN, speaking of the Indian war, said: "The troops are behaving splendidly. I am in hopes of hearing good news soon. You may say that General Miles reports that he has sufficient number of troops at his command at all points, see some newspaper dispatches hint at the contrary"
 A CALL of National convention of Railroad Commissioners to meet in Washington at the office of the Inter State Commissioners March has been issued.
 TIE public reception of the President on the S1st was attended by 5000 peo- pie, principally school teachers from New York, New Jersey and the New England States on an excursion to Washington.
 FIRE broke out in the house owned by Secretary of State Blaine and occupied by Mir. Letter, of Chicago, at Washing ton on the 1st. It was subdued after considerable damage had been done.
 THE Presidents New Years reception drew out comparatively only small attendance.
 REFRESHMENTS KELLEY, of Kansas, has introduced in the House bill di- recting the Secretary of the Treasury to print fractional currency of the United States to the amount of $50, ,O00,- 900.
 THE reduction of the public debt dur ing the month of December amounted to S11 ,O05, 397.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08


 THREE men held up crowded car on
 the Chicago & Louisville at Columbus
 Ind, recently. The robbers got $20(
 and escaped
 A BANK robbery is reported to have occurred at Albia, Ia. The robbers escaped with their booty | THOMAS GREEN & SONS, old packers of Council Bluffs, la. have assigned
 with $75, ,000 liabilities and $62, ,000 as sets.
 THE State Prohibition League of In | diana has been disbanded. THE Minnesota Farmers Alliance has
 elected Ignatius Donnelly for president | CHIcAGo is to have Sl, 100000 |. M | A. hall in the near future. It will be l thirteen stories high. TIE shops of the Illinois steel works | at Chicago have closed down. COLORADO mines. produced last year S2o, ,259, DOG silver, s4, 512, 136 gold 4,749,. S52 lead and S359, ,44o copper. Total, S29,- ssi, ,334
 | IT is almost certain that Chicago car 1 penters will strike again next spring NEWS has been received from Fort Sully of the drowning of Mrs. Lieuten-
 ant E. c. Carnahan while crossing the
 Missouri river in a closed army ambu- lance. The ice over the main channel broke and the entire conveyance was drawn under.
 ON the Iowa Central, three miles from Oskaloosa, passenger train crashed into a standing freight train. Engineer
 Wright was fatally injured and several passengers seriously hurt. The two en-
 zines express and passenger cars were totally demolished JUSTIN PETrIGREw, a brother of United States Senator Pettigrew, died at Sioux Falls, s. D., the other night. Senator Pettigrew was much incensed at the Christian scientists, who attended the sick man.
 JOHN T. MILLER has been arrested
 near Pittsburgh, Preble County, O.,
 for making and passing s gold pieces. THE Ohio buggy works at Columbus, O., have been destroyed by fire.
 THE Armours deny the alleged deal for the purchase of the St Louis and
 East St. Louis stock yards. Ar the bottom of the trouble with the
 Northwest Indians, according to Father
 Crafts and others, are the frauds perpe-
 trated by Indian agents,
 THE towboat Anna Roberts exploded
 her boilers near Portsmouth, O., on the
 2d. Five men were killed.
 IN the habeas corpus original package
 crse from yinton Judge Preston, of
 Cedar Rapids has decided that the Iowa
 law relating to original packages was not made effective by the passage of the
 Wilson bill.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.


 Two brothers named Bell, aged twen- ty-two and nine years, and sister seventeen years old, were frozen to death at Medicine Lodge, Kas., on the 4th.
 JOIN Cox, porter, found S6, 900 worth of diamonds in little bag in the mud on the streets of New York on the 4th. He turned in his find at the Fifth Avenue Hotel office and the owner being soon found Cox received s100 as re- ward.
 TIE Bureau of American Republics has received advises of the almost total failure of tho coffee crop in Java, which is estimated at only about l6 per cent. of former annual averages.
 INFORMATION received here from Gainesville, Southwest Virginia, is that shooting match occurred there on the 4th. Several prominent residents of that section, while intoxicated, became involved in fight, and four of them were instantly killed.
 PRINCE OWENS, one of the wealthiest negroes in the South, was murdered on the 4th near Helena, Ark, by three un- known negroes. The fiends, after mur- dering their victim, mutilated his body in horrible manner and fled.
 A NOVEL wedding took place near Blue Lick, Ind, on the Sd. Justice Weir, armed with a license, rode toward the homes of Harvey Taylor and Kate New by to marry them, but all the water courses were up and unfordable. After waiting for several hours the brides father appeared on the further bank of of the Blue Lick. The situation was explained and the bridal couple were brought to the creek, where the Justice married them, shouting the marriage service across 200 feet of water, all the parties remaining mounted on horseback in the mud and rain.
 JOHN DENTON, prosperous citizen of Haynes, Ark, was presented on the 4th by his wife with two boys and one girl. All are doing we'll.
 TERRIBLE holocaust occurred at Corsicana, Texas, on the 2d in the burn ing of tho Avenue Hotel. The build ing, two-story frame, waSa total loss, and among the ashes were found the eharred remains of four bodies. The individuals were supposed to Dc of the same family and from Birmingham.
 pgsrATcHEa from the Eppss Ohio ra. port serious slate os AaslFs from high water hpt with tue hope os tas Ass bsias sssessa " Sss Increasing cold
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
GENERAL.

M. OCTAVE FEUuLET the distinguished French novelist and dramatist, is dead, in the seventy-second year of his age. He was member of the Academy and an officer of the Legion of Honor. THR Bureau of the American Repub- lies has information that the President of Mexico has approved the bill recent ly passed by the Mexican Congress ad- mitting corn from the United States free of duty. This is very large con cession as the duty heretofore has been one cent per lxilogramme, or about one- half cent per pound. TIE Spanish Cortes has dissolved. Elections for members will be held in February and the new Cortes will open March 9.
 THE Christian natives of Uganda have again defeated the Moslems.
 THE soldiers quartered in Berlin have been ordered to keep away from ninety seven restaurants conducted by Social ists.
 A SERIOUS fire broke out in London on the 30th near BlaelSfriars bridge About s2,0oO,0 900 worth of property was destroyed.
 A SPECIAL dispatch from London says: '1t is rumored that large demands have been made from the Bank of England of gold for shipment to New York. Ger many continues it's demand. The bank charges 6 per cent for loans"
 TIE death is announced of Lady Dacres at a very advanced age She danced at the famous and historical ball at Brussels on the eve of the battle of Waterloo.
 Ar meeting of the Pontifical Acad- emy of Archaeology, Rome, it was an- nounced that basilicon in the church of St. Sylvester had been discovered containing the tombs of six persons in- cluding that of Sylvester l., who occu pied the Papal chair from 5el to S26.
 ALEXANDER KINGLAKE the historian of the Crimean war, was reported dying. He was 70 years old.
 EsIS PAsHA has had several fights with natives in East Africa
 THIRTEEN buildings in Pugwash, near Halifax, \. S, have been destroyed by fire involving a loss of S70, GOO
 TIE schooner Mort Light, of Calais from Portland for Calais, Me, with a cargo of grain, left Portland December a7, and as she has not been heard frsm since she has probably been lest The ysAasl carried cseW of slx feasies the captain
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
THE EAST.

THE road making machine manufact- urers are forming trust at Pittsburgh, Pa.
 DENNIS WILLIE BUNKER, rising New York artist, died suddenly of pneumonia in Boston. He was married only last October.
 BATEMAN & Co.,, bankers of New York, have assigned. Bateman was formerly mixed up with some Washing ton sensations and was a partner of Douglas Green, who mildly astonished the New York 400" by going to Eu- rope with Mrs. McCrea. TIE thermometer was 60 degrees be- low zero at Clearfield, N. H., on the 3lst. A SERIOUS explosion of gas in the Beaver Meadow mine, near Wilkes barre, Pa, occurred recently. One Polander was killed and two others fatally injured. THE old Wilkinson &5 Green yarn mill, Providence, k. l., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, S125, ,O00. THE strike of Hungarian furnace men at the Edgar Thompson steel works, Bradford, Pa, has been attended with serious disturbances
 By the premature discharge of blast near the village of Stafford, N. Y., four men, Andrew Hunt and three Hungarian laborers, were killed and four others received injuries that will probably re- suit fatally. The dangerously injured men were also Hungarians.
 VIcE-PREsIDENr LEVI F. MORTON has sold his summer residence, Fair Lawn" at Newport, K. l., to Isaac Townsend Barden, of New York. The price paid was about $780, ,O00. ELEVATED trains were in collision at New York on the 9d. One man was badly injured
 HoN. DANIEL CLARKE, one of the most prominent characters in the political history of New Hampshire, died quite unexpectedly at Manchester. He was sl years old.
 TIE strikers at the Edgar Thompson works, Braddock, Pa., have been paid off and discharged.
 THE Monongahela river miners have struck. Ten thousand men are in yolved.
 THE Fifth Avenue and Hermann's Theaters, New York, and adjacent buildings were burned on the night of the 2d almost immediately after the per formances. Six firemen were reported killed. The damage was at least s500,' ooa
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
A NEW YORK FIRE.
The Fifth Avenue Theater and Many Other Buildings Destroyed-six Bremen Re- ported Killed.


 The Fifth Avenue Theater and Many Other
 Buildings Destroyed-Six Bremen Re-
 ported Killed
 NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Fifteen minutes or so after Fanny Davenport, in the character of Cleopatra, had left the boards of the Fifth Avenue Theater and the audience had passed out of the Broadway and Twenty-eighth street en- frances last night watehman ran out of the theater screaming fire" A few seconds later fire engines were dashing up Broadway and until nearly o'clock this morning still more attachments were responding to additional sig<nls for help.
 What was at first believed to be a false alarm proved to be one that de- stroyed whole block upon Broadway, besides the Fifth Avenue Theater, Herr mann's new play house and a dozen stores and threatened the Sturtevant House, on the east side of Broadway between Twenty-eighth and Twenty ninth streets.
 The fire had been burning less than half an hour before the flames shot
 
 consternation among the guests of the Brewer House on the northeast corner and the Sturtevant House.. The shower of sparks which covered the pavement of Broadway also set fire to the avn ings of the latter and communicated to Hermann's Theater. To add to the con fusion there were six explosions in the Fifth Avenue Theater, which blew the rafters sky high, and these set fire to the roof of the buildings surrounding.
 The first of the series of explosions which are thought to have been caused by the bursting of gas tanks, came very near being serious affair for a dozen or more fremen under the leadership of Battalion Chief McCabe, who were working in the auditorium of the Fifth Avenue Theater.
 There were several lively scenes in the Brewer House, but there was no panic. The front of the Fifth Avenue is of iron and as the beams vanished it was feared it would fall out and crush Evarard's bath house on the south side of Twenty-eighth street, but the walls are still standing.
 According to the Herald six firemen lost their lives by the fire in the Herr mann Theater. The Herald story is as follows: 'Six firemen had gone through Herrmann's Theater to the roof and had just succeeded in hoisting a length of hose up when the furnace opened directly at their feet. Five of them could not be seen from the street, but one stood outlined against the sea of flame that rose from the burning buildings. A shout was made for scaling ladders by the firemen on Broadway, but before they could be procured the firemen was seen to take farewell look at the crowd below and then to deliberately walk into the flames and disappear"
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
A Man Hunt.

Bob Black killed George Hall on Greenback island, in the Arkansas river, near Pine Bluff, and escaped, and at last reports was still defying the posse of vigilantes and constables who surrounded his place of refuge. He is dead shot, and is armed with Win chester and Colts revolver, on account of which his pursuers are not very anxious to venture too far into his lair. The island is morass, covered with a heavy growth of cane and underbrush, and it is impossible to see ten feet ahead in the thick part of the swamp in which he is supposed to be. There will prob ably be a battle to the death when he shows himself. Business has been sus- pended at Greenback during the man hunt
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
College Ruilding Opened.

The new building of the Morrilton Male and Female College was formally dedicated and opened the other day with appropriate ceremonies and addresses by leading citizens. This is one of the best arranged and most neatly-fnished school buildings in the State, and stands a monument to Morrilton enterprise and progress. The building cost st5,000, every cent of which was subscribed by Morrilton citizens. The school was founded in September, and is fast talk ing a place among the leading schools in the State Moving into it's new and commodious quarters will give the school new impetus.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Four Crashes.

Says Little Rock dispatch Reports of four failures in Arkansas have been received. three in this city and one in Fort Smith. The aggregate amount of liabilities of the firms will reach $50. 900, and all were the results of dull times and close collections. Those in this city were Harris Bros, jewellers, who clsim that their assets are at least s3,00o more than liabilities; ] l.. Black ard groceries, preferred claims g, TSP, assets about B, 800, and Rufus J. Polk, ice and coal dealer, liabilities Ss,0o0, as sets S7,00O. The other failure was Opp penheimer & Lewis, clothiers, Fort Smith, attached. Liabilities about S14, 900, attachments for St0,000
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
Arranging an Exodus to Africa.

A gentleman from Redfield, who was n Little Rock few days ago, reported a great deal of commotion among ne- groes there. Some one has been hold ing secret meetings at which negroes have been told the Government was go- ing to move them back to Africa, and all their expenses would be paid The negroes are quitting work and secretly disposing of their property, getting ready to move when Uncle Sam" gives the word
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
sklpped with the Money

D. V. Brickley, assistant manager on his sons farm near Greedy, drew Sl, 200 in leash from Mir. R. c, Atkinson, of Pine Bluff, to pay off the hands, but did not arrive on his farm, nor has he been seen in that vicinity since. Foul play was suspected at first, but it is re- ported that he has taken Horace Cree ley's advice and gone West, where he has been heard from.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
sensitive solays.

LONDON, Jan. 3.-Mr. Froude, in a letter on the subject of the persecution of the Jews fin Russia, says; "This proud, sensitive Government resents foreign interference with it's internal affairs. l fear that the action that has been taken by the English people is more likely to injure than to help the object of our sympathy" The Chron- icle's Vienna correspondent says that reports have been received from Russia that severe anti-Semitie measures are being enforced; that hundreds of Jewish shops are being closed daily, and that thousands of families are being ex pelled from different villages.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
Arkansas Ex-confederates' Home.

Says a Little Rock dispatch: The Confederate Home of Arkansas for dis abled ex-Confederates has been formal ly opened and two applications are in. A suitable man has been selected for superintendent, who will have exclusive care of the Home. Only six rooms have been furnished at the Home to date, but it is confidently asserted that liberal appropriation will be made by the in coming Legislature. The contributors include all classes, and the intention is to make home for indigent ex-Con- federates of which the State shall be proud
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
Jackson's Day.

The banquet to be given by the Old Hickory Club of Little Rock January 3, Jackson Day, promises to be the most eventful gathering of the kind ever witnessed in this State. Elabo- rate preparations have been made and an unusually large attendance is ex- pected. All the leading Democrats of Arkansas have been invited. Colonel Charles II. Jones, editor of the St. Louis Republic, Congressman-elect Josiah Patterson, of Memphis, and Henry Wat terson, of Louisville, are among the speakers booked for the occasion.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
A General Store Goes Up.

The house of E. Van Ronl1el, doing a general merchandise business at New port, with branch at Nashville, has made an assignment. The house com menced business in 1885. and always met it's obligations promply. It en- joyed big trade from the start. This year, however, the hard times, low prices of cotton and consequent dull trade, and the cupidity of some cred itors who pressed payment on bills un- matured for two months, forced the as- signment. Liabilities and assets, about SEQ, ,OO0
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
xgsod "a Tss...

ABHENE, Tex, Jan. s,-A terrific wind last night did great damage to buildings and other property The roof md one end of the Episcopal Church were blown away number ns hnHses were ausoaiea Baa aSAeFs aefs n.oNa 70 tAesg foundations M isss A( iigei
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
Attached by Creditors.

The wholesale and retail produce and grocery house of J. k. Ferguson at Texarkana was closed by attachment the other day. This was the largest es- tablishment in the city, and had large stock on hand. It is said that their in debtedness is to merchants in New York, St. Louis and New Orleans, The attachments aggregate a large amount
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
Father manIey bond.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. s.-Fatber William Francis Hanley, formerly as- sistant pastor at the Cathedral in this city, died at four o'clock yesterday morning at Milan, Mo, of pneumonia, death being hastened by congestion of the brain.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-08
The MIssLng neard From.

D. V. Brickley, a prominent planter ,f the vicinity of Pine Bluff, who dis appeared recently, has been heard from but his whereabouts is not known.