The Penn's Grove record., 1883-06-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Plttsburg district was averted by the
manufacturers yielding to the demands
of the Amalgamated Association and
signing the scale of prices of last year.
Six rolling mills in Cincinnati, Cow
ington and Newport shut down, the
news of the Pittsburg settlement having
been received too late to allow time for
negotiations. There will be no strike
of iron workers in Cleveland, Youngs-
town or Wheeling. In Louisville There
is no apparent movement towards a
strike" A telegram from Omaha says
the Omaha Nail and Iron Works will
not shut down. The iron mills in Indi-
n are moving as usual, but it is not
known how long they will do so. There
are no indications of a strike among the
iron workers at st. Louis. Only two
of the mills there employ union men, and
these have made no demand.
The conference of the miners and the
operators of the Belleville district of
Illinois, with the Committee of the
Belleville Board of Trade, took place.
The miners agreed to all the Board of
Trade propositions except that of non
interference with the "machine mines"
Commissioner Price has received in
formation from Fort Custer, Montana,
that the Crow Indians will be removed
to their agency, in the Big Horn Valley
in a few days.
The Secretary of the Navy ordered
the United States steamer Yantic to
accompany the Greeley relief expedi
ton.
General G.. P. Buell.. q. S. A, died
at Nashville, from the effects of a sur
gical operation on his jaw, performed
three weeks ago. The shock of the
operation was complicated by heart dis
ease.
A boiler in the saw-mill of Black
shear q Snider, lei Opelousas, Louisi
anna, burst, killing two men and badl,
iniuring four others.
A freight train on the Grand Trunk
Railway fell through an iron bridge al
Stafford Hollow, Vermont. The car
were badly wrecked, and engineer KAY
anagh and the fireman, whose name i.
unknown, were killed.
Charles Fisher, chief engineer OF
Beatty's organ works, in Washington.
New Jersey, vas killed by being caugh
in the fly, wheel of the principal engin,
at the works.
A telegram from Hot Springs, Arkan
sas, says "the body of William Len
ders, a rich Philadelphian, who disap
peared a few days ago, was found ii
Galph Creek, six miles from this city
HIS head had been almost entirely cate
by buzzards. On his person were thrt {
dollars in cash and $500 worth of dis.
monds. He had evidently wandere
away while temporarily deranged an,
fallen into the creek"
At Salida, Colorado, City Marsha
Baxter Stingley attempted to arrest tw,
drunken miners. One of them, samec
Evans, attacked the Marshal with /
knife, when the latter shot and killed
him. The other miner, Thomas Mine
meyer, then shot the Marshal, Deputy
Marshal Jas. III. Bathurst and a maj
named Thos. d. Canon, after which ht
started for the mountains. Before he
RAJ captured the fugitive shot and killet
William III. Brown, one of his pursuers
The dead are Brown, Evans and Canon
The Deputy Marshal is dying, and
Stingley is in a critical condition.
In Boston, Bartholomew Nealon,
twenty-five years of age, attempted sui.
eide by cutting his throat. He is likely
to recover. Subsequently the dead body
of Nealon's wife was found. II is
thought she had been attacked by hel
husband in IA fit of drunken passion.
AT Des Moines, Iowa, some striking
miners-as is supposed-threw a quaint
ity of powder and a fuses into the house
of Scott Davis, a colored miner, who
refused to quit work. The house was
badly damaged, and several OF the in
mates were wounded, but none fatally.
The race between Hanlan and Ken
nedy took place at Point of Pines, neal
Boston, and was won by Hanlan with
his usual ease. Hanlan's time was Is
minutes, 4 seconds, Kennedy's 10 min
utes. 80 seconds. Distance 3 miles with
a turn.
The decrease of the public debt dur
ing the month of May is estimated at
So, 800, 900. The bond redemptions
during th3 month amounted to about
$40, $780, DOC, and the pension payments
to about So, 0OO, 900.
A telegram from Petersburg says
there are discouraging reports of the
condition of the crops in different sect
ions OF Virginia. "Cotton IS coming up
badly, and the tobacco plants are small,
and in some instances they are drying up
in patches.,' In the peanut section, il
is said, many farmers have been forced
to geplant, the seed planted having be-
essne rotten.
The steamer City of Picking which
arrived at San Francisco, brought 966
cases of opium, the duties on which
amount to 1898, 900. 1t is the largest
igle cargo of opium wei brought to
this country.
FOREIGN.
Great Britain.
LoNDoN.-The following is the reso-
luton relative to the disposition of Il g
of the Alabama Award. which