The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-12

indianapolis has less than a weeks supply of coal
If the weather should turn cold.
The miners employed in the siegersville (Pa-) ore
beds struck yesterday for an advance of wages.
Mrs. Carlton Phillips, Of Providence II. T., died
Monday night of injuries caused by tho explosion Of
an oil lamp.
The Boston 'longshoremen's strike for increased
wages is ended, the employers making the cOnces-
sions demanded.
d. Denton Young. aged seventy-nine years.
instantly killed at Goshen. n. Y, yesterday by an
Erie Railroad train.
Twenty-Five poles Of the American Union Tele-
graph Company were cut down Monday afternoon
near Newtown. n. j.
A rain storm yesterday saved Middletown. N. Y.
from water famine. The supply from the reservoir
to have been stopped
The Union Protestant Church. at Cote st. Louis.
suburb of Montreal was totally destroyed by an in
cendiary fire yesterday morning.
At the sale in Boston on Monday of the autograph
letters of Brantz Mayer. Of Baltimore, the competi
ton was lively and the prices high.
At Forrestville CAL. Saturday night, j. G. Hill was
killed and Hamilton Litton wounded IN quarrel
with family named Travis. who are in jail.
A terrific storm passed Natural Dam, Ark,
last saturday. demolshing buildings and rprooting
trees. John Newton killed in y falling house.
James T. Hicks, q desperate ut Hope, Ark, MUIR
dered Bill White. negro, deliberately shooting him
through the lungs. and escaped, pursued by the
Sheriff
A great pressure of freight from the Western
States is felt by the Great Western Railway. which
carried $50 car loads into Montreal last Friday and
William H. Harrington. recently elected County
Commissioner of Wiconuce county. Nd was shot
and instantly killed yesterday by j. Wesley Turpin.
neighbor.
b. Platt Carpenter. receiver Of the Haverstraw
Savings Bank. reports balance in hand Of SIT 1876.
which the directs him to pay to depositors
their final dividend.
Lingham 4 Co., cattle Dealers of Belleville Ont
have orders for 1000 beef cattle for the English
market, tobe delivered before Christmas. They will
ship them from Boston.
1t is charged that adefcency of about 81 800 exists
in the accounts of ex-Secretary and Treasurer A. B.
Root of the Berkshire Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany, OF Pittsfeld, Mass.
Judge Learned directs the receivers of the Oriental
Savings Bank to sell the notes. bonds. mortgages and
judgments of tho bank by auction, at the Exchange
Salesroom, after two weeks notice.
The United States Senate subcommittee on tho
Kellogg Spoiford will leave Atlanta Ca. for New
Orleans saturday. Senators Hill and Vance will start
from Atlanta and be met in New Orleans by Senator
Cameron. of Wisconsin.
Stettauer Brothers. of Chicago. have furnished
statement showing their liabilities to be S15l9.S61
and their assets $9T49 1t is understood that the
creditors strongly object to accepting the offer of
fifty cents on the dollar.
The Canada Cotton Company, which built mill
in Cornwall Ont, costing S5OO,0OO, is said to be
and the holders have the alternative of taking tho
property aud plant or granting renewal
At Cambridge Ohio. the coal miners demanded
three cents per bushel for mining Yesterday they
went to work in several mines ut two and half
cents, but those employed by the Ohio Coal Company
held out for three cents. At Massilon, Ohio, most
of the miners strike