Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-06-29
The carpet weaver Of England threat
en- to strike for higher wages.

The carpet weavers Of England threat.
en- to strike for higher wages.
Senator Revels, of Mississippi, viii
lecturs in Cleveland, at some early day
in July.
On Saturday last the thermometer
stood at 100 on the shady side of Broad.
way, New York.
Seven thousand four hundred and sew
enty emigrants landed at New York
during last week.
AT Kingston, N. Y, a named Ben
EFT, in a fit ofjeslousy, cleaved his wife's
head in tive with an axe.
Spain has passed a law providing for
the gradual abolition of slavery in its
colonies. The world moves.
The room of the treasurer and special
Cuban commissioner, at the st. George
Hotel, New York, was robbed of So, 600
on last Saturday morning.
Queen Isabella OF Spain, has formally
abdicated the throne in favor of the
Prince of Asturias. Like Satan in the
wilderness, the poor Queen is offering a
kingdom she does not possess.
The fight between the New York Cen
tral and Erie railways on the reduction
of freights is confined exclusively to
cattle and live stock. Freight on gener-
al merchandise is not affected.
Rumor hath it that President Grant
intends to remove Motley, Minister to
England, as soon as a suitable successor
can be found. Secretary of State Fish is
supposed to be the man, if he wants it.
Aman by the name of M'Carty, a resi-
dent of Shslersville, was killed at Man
tua Station, last Saturday night, June
Is, by being run yea by a railroad train.
M'Carty is said to have been intoxicated.
A battle occurred last Saturday, in a
harvest field, in HALLS, Peoria county,
Illinois, growing out of an old grudge.-
Pistols, knives, pitchforks, clubs, etc.,
were used. Nine were seriously and
perhaps fatally injured.
Wesley Pharis wa instantly killed at
the steam cheese box factory in Ravenns
last Thursday week. He was caught in
a belt and drawn feet foremost into the
machinery, and carried around the shaft
twenty times, his head striking upon
the floor.
LsstSunday, in Cincinnati, Fred. Knoll
shot his wife and then shot himself, not
producing death in either case. His
wife refused to accompany him to Cali
fornia, unless he would make some pro-
vision for her support. In a mad fit he
sought this foolish revenge. The woman
is the more dangerously injured.
The fre-cracker nuisance is so preva-
Kent in Cleveland that the press of thai
city invokes the Intervention of the po-
lice t suppress it. The daily list Of ter
rifed and runaway horses, frightened
or injured ladies and children, is length
ening out. The invention is a Juvenile
abomination, dangerous to life and
property.
JEFF. Davis is living at Memphis, in
poor health. His property is nearly all
lost to him. His plantation is now own
ed by Ben. Montgomery. formerly a
slave ia the family who having learned
60 read and write while travelling with
his master, became chief oEerseer Of the
place. He subsequently bought it, pay
ing over 100000 for ii.
An explosion of nitro-glycerine took
place at Worcester, Mass, on Thursday
last, instantly killing Timothy Cronan,
an Irishman aged twenty-five years, and
injuring about thirty other persons, none
of them dangerously. Twelve houses
were demolished and many others badly
shattered. The shock vas felt all over
the city. Bells we're rung, and crockery
and furniture broken half mile distant,
The conference committee on the cur
reney bill were in session but arrived at
no conclusion. 1t is probable that addi-
tional facilities will be given 10 banks
south and west to the extent Of S70,0OO,-
600, by absorbing the forty-five million
of three per cent. certificates, and trans
ferring SIS. 900, 900 from the banks. 1t is
likely there will be no actual expansion
of currency, only so far as this may re-
suit from the authorization of the gold
banks
The Senate has voted for the abolition
of the income tax by q considerable ma
jority; although Mr.. Sherman for the
finance committee made an earnest and
vigorous fight against it. The alterna-
tive will probably be the recomitment of
the bill and the restoration of some of
the special taxes which the committee
advised to repeal. With the reduction
Of the income tax to 8 per cent, and an
exemption of two thousand do liars, as
the House proposed, the whole estimat-
ed reduction of revenue would be about
sixty millions.