Daily Republican., 1882-06-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
DESTRUCTIVE FEREs-sUPPOSED
sHlPWRECK - THE LABOR
QUESTION, &C., <hC.

At Cripple Cove, Cape Race, on Snn-
day, the side of ships long b,at and
several loose piecesof wreck were found.
Ihe boat was new painted white out
side and drab inside, and looked as If it
had been lashed to a vessels deck, II
Is said that. on Saturday evening, dur
ing q thick fog. three shrill blasts of q
steamers whistle were heard near
where the wreck of the boat was dis
covered. A party sent to the scene,
found ships bell and walnut step.
ladder, but could identify nothing, as
there was no name on this pieces of tie
boat.
One of the heaviest rain storms ever
known in Colorado swept over Denver
last Saturday night. 1t was accompa-
MED by water spouts, and did great
damage in the city aud surrounding
country. Several houses near the Platte
river we're swept away, and two men--
Ludwig Miner and Fidele Drier--and
three children ars known to be drow
AT Golden, several houses we're also
swept Oft, and the Ca'nbrian Fire bridge
works were destroyed by lightning
There is nothing new in the situation
at Pittsburg, but the men appear more
confident of success than htfore. Presi.
dent Jarrett, of the Amalgamated As
sociation, has gone to st. Louis and
other Western points to reconcile differ
ences between employer and employed,
and it is believed he will be as success
full as at Cincinnati. 1t Is said the Apollo
Iron Works, ut Apollo, Pa, will re-
sumo to morrow with non union men.
The graduating exercises at West
Point took place yesterday. There WAS
a review and dress parade of the cadet
corps, an address was made by General
Horace Porter, and General Howard
presented the diplomas. Addresses
were then made by Colonel Otis, of the
Twentieth Infantry; Senator Harrison,
OF Indiana; Congressman Blackburn,
of Kentucky, and General Sherman.
A fire in Wareham street, Boston,
yesterday morning, destroyed large
four-story brick building occupied BY
Cummings& Kenny for storing lumber;
.. l.. Brown, carpenter, and Sanger g.
Rice, fancy cabinet makers. The arm.
ory OF Battery A, adjoining was burn.
ell out The total loss is estimated at
SEC, 900.
Three and half inches of rain fell
in Springfield, Illinois, and its eignbor-
hood during Saturday night and Sunday
morning. All of the streams over flow
ed and several railroad washouts occur
red, but the damage is now repaired.
1t Is feared the crops have suffered
greatly.
At Cleveland, the Cleveland Rolling
Mill Company worked three of its
mills, and the steel works of Siemens
u Martin were running half turn
with larger force of men than at any
time since the lockout. There was no
trouble from the strikers.
The National Merchantile Travellers
Association will meet in Cincinnati t.
day. The principal object of the sessic,.
will be the creation of "an intiuencei
favor OF legal measures to protect IT,
rights of travelling salesmen in tho
south and Vest
While William Milliken, of Boston.
was hunting near Lake Piseco, in the
Adirondacks, last Saturday, he was
killed by bear, and his guide was
dangerously if not fatally injured. The
bear, and It's three cubs were afterwards
captured.
Five weavers went to work yesterday
in the Harmony Mills at Cohoes under
the ten per cent. reduction. Three
thousand strikers gathered at the mill
gates, threatening the five weavers,
but all trouble was prevented by the
police.
All the lap.welders in the Reading
Iron Works, who struck last week on
account of notice requiring the men
to finish the work they were on before
stopping for the day, resumed work
yesterday morning, under the new
rules.
Vice President Bullock, of the Anal.
gamated Association, returned to Mil
waukee yesterday from Pittsburg, with
to arrange matters between
the strikers and employers. and it Ia
now thought the rolling mills will re-
sumo.
John johnson, colored youth ofsev-
enteen who feloniously assaulted q
young white girl, at Rock Hill, South
Carolina, on last Sunday morning,
was lynched yesterday morning by
mob.
Charles Case was fatally stabbed by
Reuben Davidson yesterday in quar-
rel about clothes-llne, near New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey. Davidson was
arrested.
The shoe factory of Erwin Smith, at
Warren, Maine, was burned on Satur-
lay night. Loss $4,000. 125 hands
ire thrown out Of work by its destruc-
ion.
The steam lumber mills of White,
Jlarkson q Co., near Richford, Ver-
mont, were burned yesterday afternoon
With / 100000 fest of lumber.
The iron mills in Cincinnati, Coving-
on, Newport and Aurora all resumed
work yesterday under tle agreement
made on Saturday.
About fifty railroad section hands
Ind gravel train men at Perryville,
struck yesterday against a
of wages.
Forest fires are raging near Millsvills
Wisconsin, and threatening to destroy
he village of hewittville and Hewitt's
mill.
Fifteen thousand people walked in
he procession OF the "Fete Dieu," at
fontreal, on Sunday.
A telegram from Minneapolis reports
bishop Goss to be convalescens.
Seven stores in Osborn, Missouri,
1ere bu ned on Sunday, Loss $40, 900.
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