Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-11-12
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Ex-PreSident Johnson Recovering His
Deposit.
Details Of The Execution of the Cuban
Prisoners.
HOME MEMS.
Reduction of Wages aud Discharge 10
WOrkingmeu.


ST. Louis, Nov. Two of the iron
works in South st. Louis have stopped
work, throwing about two hundred men
out of employment. The Vulcan Iron
Works have stopped two of their furnaces.
closed their mill, and discharged about four
hundred men, Other works have either
stopped their furnaces or discharged part
of their employees, and all have reduced
wages twenty per cent. Many manufac-
turing establishments in this city have
materially reduced their working force,
but have not cut down wages.
New EngIand Iron Men Reducing Wages
BOSTON, Nov. S.-After a weeks careful
consideration of the matter, the nail and
iron manufacturers doing business in New
England have decided to reduce the wages
OF their employees ten per cent, the re-
ductlon to commence on the lst of Deem
Der.
NEW YORK, Nov. S.-Two hundred and
thirty men were discharged this week from
the lumber yards in Grcenpoint. One
hundred laborers were discharged at Long
Island City, four hundred and fifty from
the Brooklyn city works and three hun
dred from Prospect Park improvements
The rubber comb factory at College Point
Long Island has reduced their time to four
days per week, employing six hundred
men,
FORT WAYNE, Nov. 1O.-Kerr & MIR
rays fOundery was burned. Loss $50 600.
Many workmen are out of employment
LOUISVILLE, Nov. lO.-Wages on the
Louisville IL Nashville Railroad are to be
reduced ten per cent after the 10th The
closing of several industries around the
falls las ousted 1000 operatives. The
tobacco factories are reducing their force
and wages. Several of the heaviest facto-
rles are about closing temporarily.
From Memphis.
MEMPHIS, Nov. 1O-The Chief of Police.
in letter thanking the police of other
cities, announces that further assistance is
unnecessary.
There were twenty-seven deaths from
yellow fever and thirty from other causes
during the past week.
The city is free from infectious or couta-
gious disease.
There her were three deaths from yellow tfe-
These were old cases. One new case de-
velOped yesterday.
Report from The Indians.
WACO, TEX, Nov. S.-Capt. j. EIgin,
from an extensive reconnaissance on the
frontier, reports the Indians bad as ever.
Satanic remains on the reservation.
Others, under the lead of Big Tree, are on
the war path.
x-President johnson Receives "a Portion
OF Ills deposits.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 1O.-Among
the depositors who received thirty per cent.
of their deposits in the First National
Bank, being the first distribution of the
assets of that institution, was eX-President
Johnson, who received nearly $50, 900 out
of the S73, 900 he had on deposit there.
Miscellaneous.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 1.-Two of the men
who were engaged in robbing the Columbia
(Kentucky) Bank, and the murder of the
cashier some time ago, have been appre-
hended in Maine, and will be brought to
Kentucky for trial.
General Crook, commanding the depart
ment of Arizona, reports the slaughter of
fourteen Tonten Indians during the recent
scout
The Captain General of Cuba and asso-
ciates were executed at Santiago De Cuba,
on the 4th. The executions were made
with great ceremony in the presence of the
army