The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-06-21
EASTERN NEWS.

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fraud as President of the Eric read,
has been filed. 1t was rumored on
the 14th he had fled, fearing the
trial.
Five thousand macllinists, iron
mouIders and boiler makers, of
Brooklyn, were among the strikers
for eight hours of labor or ten hours
pay, on the l4th. The employers
would not accede to their demands.
Strikers III New York city were
driven from the vicinity OF Stein
way and other large piano manu-
factories by the police on the
18th, before an outbreak occurred.
strikers took possession Of piano
factory on Eorty-second street, aid
had to be driven Oft by the police,
who used their clubs freely.
The German Imperial Band and
Conet Quartette Of Emperor VIII
liam, of Germany, with Herr
Struss, Madame Pischas and Lieut.
ncr, arrived at New York on tie
14th. The wife aud daughter Of
Horace Greeley also arrived in the
same vessel
The Iowa Press Association,
comprising 100 persons s,were on their
way to Salt Lake on the 18th.
The Tere Haute journal OF the
10th, contains direct and emplat-
ic contradiction to the report tele-
graphcd from here that Dan Voor-
hees was defeated in his own dis
trict for the position of delegate to
the Baltimore Convention. Itays
he peremptorily declined to accept
the nomination, which was urged
npon him hy members and also
says, voorhees, has been approached
by strong Greeleyites in the district,
and urged to accept a nomination
for Congress as the only means Of
saving the district from the Rcpub-
licans.
A heavy sulphur shower fell at
Saratoga, N. y, on the 18th. The
ground in many places was covered
The State Temperance Convcn-
ton Of Pennsylvania has nominated
a State ticket. s. p. Chase, Of
Susquehannah, is for Governor.
The ceremony of awarding dip'o-
mas took place at West Point on
the 14th. Secretary Belknap de-
liycred an eloquent address.
The Internal Revenue receipts
tor the fiscal year ending June 10Th,
are over twenty-five millions, and
exceed the estimate for the entire
year. The probable receipts to the
3Oth inst. will be full FIVE millions.
It's believed that the murderer
of fex-Secretary of State Tindale, at
Springfield, ILL.,, has been discovered
in the person of James Canedy, a
convict serving his term in the
penitentiary for swindling. The
evidence against him is SO strong
that Governor Palmer pardoned
him on the 18th, when he was i'm
mediately arrested by the Sheriff of
Sangamon county and taken to
Springfield for trial.
The floor of the Christian
Church at La Grand, Ky, gave
way under a congregation at a iune-
raj service on the 10th. Several
persons were injured, but none
killed.
Jas A. Garfield, of Ohio, has
been appointed Commissioner to re-
move the Flathead Indians from
Bitter Root valley, Montana, to a
general reservation in the same Ter
'itory.
All the piano makers of New
Haven, Conn, struck on the 18th.
number of clockmakersand brew
rs also struck the next day,
A tornado in the vicinity of Mil
ord, Pa, on the 18th, uproofed
louses, uprooted trees, and killed a
Iuantity ofstock.
A terrific storm ofwind and rain
listed Binghampton, N. u, on the
9Th inst. The tents OF Robinson's
nenagerie and circus were blown
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