Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-02

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others, the bakers agitated their trouoieS, dlaus
ing speedy compliance with their require-
ments, the grounds that disease is liable to be
contracted from eating bread made under I'M
favorable circumstances.
The federal council of iuternationals held q
meeting yesterday. The international congress
to be held in Philadelphia next week is to seek
the establishment of a reunion of all diScordant
elements in the association The general cOun-
Gil of London has suspended all the English
speaking sections of the United States.
1t is announced that the plasterers from the
Atlantic to the Pacific would strike for eight
hours to-day.
The strike of box makers is substantially end
ed, the men at Greenpoint having failed, and
those in this city being generally successful
Nine marble working firms are employing about
200 men at ten hours. The other shops remain
closed, and the men refuse TO return. Most OF
the car stablemen who struck for higher wages
have resumed work at the old rates. There is
nothing new relative to the Paterson strike.
Meetings. are held daily. A compromise is talk
ed of.
The situation in regard to the labor strikes TO-
day is practically unchanged. In some quar-
tiers rumOTs are rife of negotiations in progress
between the strikers and bosses which promise
an amicabe solution of existing difficulties, but
the reports lack confirmation. One-haf the
metal-workers are at work at the old rates and
hours. 1t is believed the rest will 70 to work
after the 4th, The furriers have formally ac-
ceded to the demand of rhe workmen for rs per
cent. advance on present wages. The long
shoremen demanded so cents an hour for all
work dOue after o'clock 1t is probable that
their demand will be amicably adjusted.
STREET CAR THIEVES.
OutrageS by thieves and rowdies upon street
cars are constantly reported. A conductor ON
the Third avenue line has been arrested for
stealing watches. Three were found in his pos
session.
THE CUBAN EXPEDITION.
A dispatch says it is believed in Washington
that the recent expedition for Cuba taken out
on the Fanny has successfully landed on that
island.
THE STOKES TRIAL.
Fisk's coachman was placed on the witness
| stand at the opening of the Stokes murder
trial to-day, The defence are endeayoring to
| prove that Fisk constantly went armed on ac-
count of the enmity between himself and Stokes
and that the latter had reason to fear personal
injury from the former.
After recess, DR., James X. Wood testified
that on the 9th of January, at the Grand Cen
trail hotel, he found Col. Fisk lying on bed;
he was pale, skin cold, pulse rs, and
respiration "a; found wound in his left arm and
| one wound also in the abdomen at
the left of the median line. DR.. Wood gave
technical description of the wound and
the process of probing; Fisk was anxious 10
| have the bullet removed, and desired to take
| chloroform; ordered thirty drops; wound was
| probed, but the ball was not extracted,
| probe being unable to find the ballet, and it
| being considered not advisable to go further:
| visited him again at II o'clock
The district attorney asked what was the
cause of the cOlonelS death.
The doctor could account for it in no other
way but that the shock to the system caused it.
| He died the Sunday morning after the shooting.
| There was perit0nitis, but not enough TO
cause death. There was no nourishment given
| him while / remained in the room; did not
probe beyond the walls of the abdomen; no one
| but a crazy man would; would consider it NAL
| practice; Fisk was very anxious to know wheth-
| err he was going TO die ordered his will made;
| can't say he wandered in his mind; was present.
| at the post mortem examination; was interest
| ed in it, because the brain was so large; the
heart was also large; the shock to Fisk was
| both from the effect of his wounds and mental
excitement; coma always results from portion
it's; rule the head is not affected in simple
| peritonitis; saw him at half-past eight and
| he was not then insensble; he died at eleven
O'Clock; was not present at his death.
Q. Did not death ensue too soon after the
wound to be the effect OF pertonitis?
A. think so.
The court adjourned until morning.
MISCELLANEOUS
There were q dozen cases of brutal violence
| yesterday, of which one or two are likely to
| prove fatal.
Long lists of sunstroke victims are published
| this morning,
In an affray on Park row last night James
| Datfy and VIM. McCafferty were shot by James
| Drscoll and company who belonged 10 a
| rival Jersey gang. An old leud existed between
| the clans. James Dawson, an old man passing
by, was shot. All will recover. Drisco was
arrested.
Joseph Hopkins, a well-known citizen of
Brooklyn, was struck down with a pavement
stone and fatally injured while attempting to
defend his son from an attack of roWdies Some
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