Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-31
TIE STRIKING ENGINEERS upon the Wester

TIE STRIKING ENGINEERS upon the Western
dependencies OF the Pennsylvania Railroad are
disgracing themselves by series Of crime out
of (which it is ooly by good luck that wholesale
murder has not yet resulted. Turning switches
80 that trains may be diverted from the main
road to sidiugs, from which they may be pitch
ed down embankments, or at least brought to
dangerous halt off the rails, and soaping the
boilers so that steam cannot be made aud the
danger of explosion incurred, are the tavorite
tricks of the strikers. Both of these devices
were tried upon passenger train between
Pittsburg and Cincinnati, on Saturday night, pc.
rilliug the lives of several hundred people who
have nothing at all to do with the questions of
difference between the company and their en-
ployees. Other endeavors to wreck trains Ire
reported, but, fortunately, the carefulness of
the officials in charge has brought them to
naught. On Sunday night some of the strik
ers broke the gauges of all the locomotives of
the Jeffersonville and Indianapolis Railroad at
Indianapolis, and yesterday only two of them
could be pre- pared for service. The exhibition
OF the force Of the law at any point compels the
strikers into quiet, but it is impossible to pro-
tect the lines through the hundreds Of miles OF
country over which the movement extends At
iDenuison, Ohio, militia company restored
tranquility yesterday, and trains have since then
passed that point without interruption. Late
dispatches from Indianapolis say that there
was no material alteration in the condition OF
affairs Yesterday By the exertions of the
master mechanics assisted by other volunteers,
few trains were run over the lines affected by
the strike, but they were not numerous enough
to afford any positive or satisfactory relief from
the embargo which the movement has laid up
on travel and transportation. The engineers
80 ~ al nd ia
evidence of any advance from either side TO-
ward an agreement between the railroad COM
panies and their employees 1t is said that
the PENNSYLVANIA Company have been paying
off 10 their own scrip instead ot money, when
was another cause of the strike. BAIT Am
WILL OF JOINS HOPKINS, OF BALTIMORE.
-''The rents aud profits from tour warehouses
on Exchange Place, six dwelling houses on
East Baltimore street, two warehouses on
Obeapside, two on West Pratt street, and three
on Hollingsworth street 60 to the children OF
the testator' sister, Sarah H. Janney, namely,
one fourth to Jane White one fourth to Mrs.
Margaret Elliott one-fourth to Samuel d. Jan
ney and one-fourth to Johns Hopkins Janney.
ITO his surviving sister, Mrs. Eliza II. Cren-
shaw, he gives the mansion on Saratoga street
during her life, aud at her death it goes to the
carriage and horses, all hs plate, furniture e and nd
w1aes' aad the profits derived from 500 600
sV neIsVs 1s rsrcad StSdt Ath her dsssth S Stock
goes to the hospital.
ITO the Baltimore Manual Labor School,
$4,000; to the Maryland Institute for the Aca-
DENY of Design, $4,000; to the Home of the
Friendless $4,000, and the Baltimore Orphan
Asylum, $4,000 Johns Hopkins University
gels "Chftou,' 1880 acres) and all the stock
owned by Mr. Hopkins 10 the Baltimore and
~ 81 ,oh 60 rh,,,.k
100000. The bequest will exceed $1,000, ,OOO
The hospital gets all the real estate not dispos-
ed of by previous bequests, and oil the bank
stocks owned by the testator. The bequest
will exceed So, 500 OUO. 1t is provided in the
will that ifany legatee is not satisfied and makes
any contest, his legacy shall be forfeited. Ihe
hospital will take all bequests that lapse by
death or failure to comply with the condl-
tons annexed. The trustees are Instructed to
procure from the Legislature additional powers
to the end that they may provide for the care
and education of destitute colored children.
All the legatees are released from any debts
which they may owe to the testator
A FEW WEEKS ago convict, named Will
lisms, convicted at Alton, ILL.,, of horse steal
ing, and sentenced to four years imprisonment
at hard labor, was brought to the Joliet pen-
tentiary. He was assigned to the business of
shoemakiDg, but from the first showed de-
termination not to conform to the rules of the
institution, and not to perform the tasks allot-
ted to him. He finally refused absolutely to
work. He was punished in the ordinary modes
known to prison discipline, but still refused to
work. He complained of Sickness but, on ex-
animation by the prison physician, was pro-
nouuced apparently we'll. As all ordinary modes
Of punishment had proved unavailing, the ply
sician was consulted as to the effect of cold
buh upon the convict, assuming that the pre-
teuions of sickness had no basis. The physi-
clan .dvised the bath both as sanitary and
disciplinary measure The convict was accord
ipgy iuruersed briefly, under the orders of the
deputy Warden, and then asked if he would
work. He doggedly replied that be would not.
He was again immersed, and again refused to
work. At tho end of the third immersion he
showed signs Of insensibility, and In few mo-
ments was dead post. mortem examination
was held, and it vas shown that his heart had
literally burst asu1der; that the muscles OF that
organ had been converted into fatty sub
stance, and that death must have ensued 10 a
few days at the fartLest, whatever mental or
physical exertion the man might have used
voluntarily or involuntasily.
RAILROADS. seems that the lowest point
of passenger fares over the Pennsylvania aud