The daily gazette., 1882-05-26
MORNING SUMMARY.

| The Readjusters carried Petersburg, Va,
by large majority yesterday.
| The shoe tinishers in some of the factories
at Montreal have struck for higher wages.
The Common Council of Boston passed al
order last night fixing the pay Of city la
borers ut not less than 81 per day.
Andrew Neal, rowdy and horse thief, wa
lynched by yigiants near Rockford, Wash
ington Territory, on Monday last.
George Beecroft was killed yesterday IN
| the Trenton Iron Works at Trenton New
Jersey, by his head being cut off by coming In
contact with fly wheel.
The Woman's Christion Union State Con-
vention, of Michigan, in session at Detroit,
voted on Wednesday in favor of female suf
frage by 10 majority in total vote Of 113.
Wood Reeder was killed and two other
men were injured by the fall of an elevator
platform in Newburgh, New York, yester-
day. The elevator 'was fimsily constructed"
Major Charles Burdette, the dwarf of
Forepaugh's menagerie, died yesterday at
Pontiac, Michigan, of congestion of the
lungs. He was 32 inches high and 80 years
of age.
William A. Hall, ex-clerk in the City
Treasurer's office at Newark, N. J., who
absconded recently after having,i is alleged,
embezzled S35, 900, was arrested yesterday
in Toronto
The strike of the operatives of the Read
ing Cotton Mill, at Reading, is partially at
an end. One hundred and fifty of the
strikers resumed work yesterday at the re-
duced wages.
Lewis T. Frye, the champion bicyclist of
the United States had his skull fractured
by being thrown from his bicycle, at Marl-
boro, Massachusetts, on Wednesday. 1t is
feared he is fatally injured.
The municipal election in Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia, held yesterday, resulted in the sue
cess of the Democratic ticket by 1870 to 800
majority. The Readjusters and Republicans
had united against the Democrats.
A telegram from Milford, Massachusetts,
says that Father Cuddihy, of that parish,
g has announced that he will not permit the
Grand Army of the Republic to enter the
Catholic cemetery on Decoration Day"
The assignee of R. Peter Lee, ex-president
of the defunct First National Bank of Buffalo,
reports Lees liabilities at $500, 900, and his
assets at S46,6l7. The liabilities include a
suit for the recovery of 500, 900 begun by
the receiver of the bank.
James Fitzgerald, on trial in Boston for
fraudulently obtaining money from Charles
Francis Adams by the ''banco game" was
yesterday convicted on three counts of the
indictment. Hts counsel filed exceptions,
which will be heard before the Supreme
Court.
By fall of 90 tons of rock yesterday
in shaft of the new tunnel of the New
York, Ontario and Western railroad at Union
Hill, New Jersey, James Mulcair and BARLEY
Fox were killed and Charles Brown was
severely injured. After the accident all the
men in the tunnel quilted work.
Another meeting of iron manufacturers
was held yesterday in Pittsburg to consider
the labor troubles, at which it was unani-
mously voted to resist the demands of the
iron workers. The mills which will, doubt
less, shut down as a consequence of this
action, pay out nearly $1,000, 900 in wages
every month.
William Brockway, alias Edward w.
Spencer, and Charles III. Smith, alias Charles
Smyth, were indicted by the Grand Jury in
Washington for stealing bond plates from
tlle vaults of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing. Brockway and Smith are impli-
Gated by recent confession of the counter
feiter Doyle at Chicago.
At meeting of the creditors of the Proyi-
dence Tool Company, held yesterday in
Providence, Rhode Island, the property of
the corporation was reported at 81, ,123, ,622.
and its Indebtedness at 81 1,117,943 1t was
resolved to appoint committee to select
three trustees TO continue the manufacture
of sewing machines for three years, unless
they conclude that the profits do not war
rant so long continuance, and to continue
the other branches of the business until the
property and machinery can be judiciouslv
disposed of.