Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-25
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Owing to difficulties between the anthracite
board OF trade and the workingmen's beueyo-
lent association, operations in the coal regions
will cease January 1st.
A Washington dispatch says the reported CO.
alitiOn of the South American states to force
Spain to relinquish the rule over Cuba is I'M
known to diplomatic representatives.
1t is said that the government has withdrawn
from arbitration in the case of the Wright Indi-
an bounty frauds by which Wright obtained
about half million dollars, which he still
holds.
A meeting of ex-Union soldiers was held at
ST. Louis Monday night, at which was adopted
memorial TO the senate praying that body to
pass the homestead act passed by the house on
the 18th inst.
The following telegram vas received by the
chief signal officer at Washington, yesterday
afternoon, from Cairo, Illinois: columbus
gorge broke at $40 p. NJ, on the 28d, and the
Ohio river is rapidly rising"
The schooner Carrie Gibbs, from New York
Tor Charleston, arrived at Five Mile beach in
distress, yesterday, her crew being frozen. As
sstance was rendered by crews from the station
houses, and the schooner put back TO NewYork
The BODY of murdered white man, with his
skull crushed as by pick and twenty-five cuts
in his face, was found Monday night in vacant
lot IN Washington known as the "ISand." No
clue whatever to the name of the man or his
murdererS has yet been discovered.
Inc oil producers council yesterday ratified,
at Oil Greek, an agreement made by Their exec
utive committee with the refiners' association
providing that the latter shall buy $4,000 barrels
OF crude oil daily from the producers associa-
ton, and cooperate in other ways to maintain
the price of crude oil at 81 per barrel and up.
wards.
A Fort Monroe dispatch SAYS Brig Rio, from
Demarara, sunk an unknown vessel on the 20th,
off Hatteras. The captain was drowned but the
crew saved.
The water pipes in the cooking range of Da-
Wis restaurant, Chicago, exploded yesterday
morning., tearing the range and kitchen TO
pieces and badly scalding Mary Burns, serv-
ant. A new range was put on and fire kim
died. when a second explosion occurred, though
but little damage was done.
+. u. Eastman, prominent private banker of
chicago, and vice president of the City savings
bank, died at his residence, Monday evening,
from dose of arsenic taken Saturday. No
cause can be found for the suicide as his tinan.
cial affairs are found TO be in good condition,
and his family relations were pleasant. Mr..
Eastman went to Chicago shortly after the
great fire, and commenced business as broker
on Canal street, near Washington He was at
once time United States consul at Dublin.
A Philadelphia dispatch says that passengers
on the through train from Washington, due at
Iulladelpha at p. NJ, report an accident last
nlght near Stanton station, on the other side of
Baltimore. Several persons were injured, one
or TWO fatally. The train ran into a carriage
which was crossing the track. The train arrived
here an hOur late
Otto Berg of Philadelphia, who was recently
arrested in Fort Wayne on suspicion of partici.
patton in the watch robbery at Chicago, has
commenced suit in the United States circuit
court against the mayor of Fort Wayne claim
ing $4,000 damages for false imprisonment.