Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-05-20
Labor Strikes.

APPROACHING A CRISIS AT CUMBERLAND.
President Mayer. OF the Consolidation Co1l
company, had an interview with tivt miners OF
| his company iii Cumberland, Md. yesterday and
not iii ID them that the 60 days as per contract
with the railroad companies having Expired, un-
less the miners accepted the operltOrS' terms by
Friday, NJ " 20, other labor, amply protected by
| police, would lie intro iuced. The Consolidation
| co.npan ny Is sustained by ether companies. The
miners made no reply, except to say they would
| communicate the matter to the other miners.
| Niaety-SiX laborerS and eighteen machine men
| employed at DreybuSs Cos briakyard, Jersey
city. y. j., struck yesterday for $50 and se5 re-
spectively per month The men were discharged
and Italia rs or Chinese Will be hired Thirty Ia
borers in Ayers Oil refinery also struck yesterday
for higher wages
\ WOMAN IN THE Casa runor is current in
Long Island City that the local police have dis
Water Commissioner Mcbride. who fled the city
last week. leaving behind debts amounting to
Woman IN ts cae is rpe fha hS there ee Ss
York in her company. 1t hls also been ascer-
timed that he took between s. 600 and 5000 with
him.
A DELUsloN WHICH CAUSED DEATH.-A special
from Sandwich, ILL.,, says that Mrs. James A. Lay
died there yesterday, having tasted four weeks
She labored under the deluSion that she was about
to become mother, and that If she tasted until
the ShildS birth, which she believed would occur
In few days. 1t would be a second prophet Elijah
70 :t-mortem examination showed that she was
not eacielite.
SOUTH POLAR ExPEDITION-The German cor
SeeD due at IN ay has
expedition there and land them on the island OF.
South Georgia The Moltke will return in year
TO take the expedition away.
A SLIGHT FROST is reported IN the no1ghborhood
OF Norfolk, Va, Thursday night. While great
injury has been done TO vegetation, the cold
weather has damaging effect on str wberrss,
tomato plants beans and cucumber vines, retard-
ing their growth and culti'ati
SwINDLED BY A YOUNG FOnGER.-At Indepen-
"a. h1S hppn
swindled through two forged checks for 81 250 EACH
presented by Frederick Wilson. OF Winthrop, a
weeks ago, and the swindle has just been dlscOv-
cred. They were in the names Of Alexander Risk,
Tor whom Wilson worked The boy is missing.
JUNBo's KEEPER INJURED.-The confusion result
train carrying Barnum's show near Turner's STA
zion, on the Erie railroad, Thursday morning,
greatly exc tied the big elephant Jumbo. He broke
loose from his fastenings, and when Scott, his
keeper, undertook to secure him Jumbo picked
him up with his trunk and threw him violently
against the end OF the car. Scott was seriously.
but not fatally, injured. Jumbo was finany hob.
| bled, and was exhibited during the day as usual
A Mass STATE CONVENTION OF WOMEN interest
ed in the cause OF female suffrage convened in IN
dianapolts yestert ay, about three hundred and
fifty delegates being present. Mrs May Wright
Sewau was elected president; committees were
appointed, and addresses were delivered showing
the progress universal suffrage was making.
FLEETS OF ICEB ERGs.-The German ship Mazda
lene. Capt Meyer, arrived at this port last even
ing, after voyage OF thirty-five days from Bre-
men she 'ook the northern passage, and on May
q In latitude As Ceg nil. ncrth longitude As deg
40 min. west, she passed large iceberg about half
mile to the southwark OF her course At day
break OF the Sth the vessel was found to be sur.
rounded by 1ceberBS, and the vessel wore round,
| ana was steered on southwest by south course
for eightytwo miles, throughout which she passed
through fleet Of icebergs, some OF which were OF
tremendous size. By sunset the SLIP was clear of
the ice, having passed sixty greet bergs, besides
many OF smaller size. On May 10th she passed a
lapge berg in latitude 43 deg. M u. longitude AZ
deg. 80 min, and later ON the same day two more
al. close by. On the nth SIX were passed, nclud-
| ing the largest seen during the voyage The
weather was very cold while the vessel was In the
"tce curreDt"-N Y. Herald, to-day.
A TENNESSEE SHOOTING AFFAIR.-IneOrnatiOn
received from Kingston. Tenn - TO the effect that
there Is no doubt that Mrs. Pierce Is the person
that fired into the hack passing her residence
Wednesday. She was seen to fire deliberately
douDle-barreled shotgun at that vehicle. One of
The charges lodged in the seat Of the hack imme-
dlately behind Tom Williams, the driver 1t is also
| stscertatned that Williams was the person TINT
returned the fire and shot Mrs. PierceiS daughter
through the head. Mrs. Pierce has not been ar
| rested, bat will be. Williams has not been seen
since, but he is supposed To be concealed In the
woods, fearing arrest for shooting the child The
wounded girl is still alive, but her death Is mo-
| ineniariiy expected Williams was placed unuer