Daily Republican., 1883-08-22
NEWS SUM MARY.
LABOR UNlON6 -TAAIN
ACCIDENT.


The 3rd annual meeting ofthe Fe,lera-
tion Of Organized Trades aud Llbor
Unions began yesterday in New York.
Samuel Gompers, Chairman Of the Es-
ecutive Committee, called he me ting
to order. The following officers were
elected Chairman, Samuel GomDers /;
Vice Chairman, Richard Powers Sec
retary, w. G. Palmer; Clerk, W. H.
Foster Sergeant-at-Arms, john H.
o Brien. An address was made by
Mrs Charlotte Smith, the onl y woman
present She said she Intended to
organize a Woman = Protective Society.
1t was resolved that the chairman 90
before the Senate Committee On Eluca-
tion and Labor, inform them of the
oath exacted by the Western Union
Telegraph Company of its employees,
" and urge the adoption ola law pun
ishing such attempts to reduce work
ingmen to slavery.
The funeral of Judge Black took
place ye ,t.rI " in York, Pa, and was
" IS suspended and the reefs were
thronged with people. Rev. DR.. Power,
Of Washington, conducted the religious
services, and the interment was at Pros
pect Hill Cemetery. The pail bearers
were General Hancock, Judge Gibson,
Judge Wickes. George Small, Gen. S.
w. Crawford, Chief Justice Mercur, A.
Il, Farquhar, Geo H. Sprigg, Judge
Bear, and W. l.. Small.
Through the neglect of some one the
switch at the east end of the Pittshurg
and Lake Erie Yard, at Hazleton, Ohio,
was left open yesterday, and passen-
ger train, running at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, ran into the rear end of
a freight train, demolisblng several
cars, badly damaging the engine, and
injuring Louis Klun-z, fireman; VIM;
johnson, express messenger, and
Charles Walsh, baggage mas er.
Another mysterious disappearance
occurred in St. Louis, on Sunday even
ing. Col. James O. Churchill aud his
wife went out for a drive, leaving
at home their daughter Mary,
II years old. On their retur,s
about 8 O'Clock, the daughter
could not be found. Detectives have
been unable to obtain clue. AT luc-
ton is the only theory suggested.
The majority of the striking telc-
graph operators in San Francisco were
reinsrated on Monday. They took an
"iron CLAD oath, similar to that ad-
minstered 70 the operators IN Eastern
offices of the Western Union Com
pany.
Two reinstated telegraph operators at
Albany and one at New York We're dis
missed from the Western Union service
yesterday for calling operators who did
not strike, and with whom they w..e
working over the wire, " scabs."
As Jason Hersey, of South Abingdon,
Massachusetts, was returning home Oh
Monday night he was attacked by
garroters, and knocked insenSible. His
pocket was riiied of 800 and Il valuable
watch.
A telegram from Boston says that
Kirkland NJ. Fitch, the theiving cashier
of the Second National Bank Of War
ren, Ohio, surrendered himself to the
Boston police, and Is now ON the way TO
Ohio.
1t is stated that forged drafts, pur-
porting to be issued by the First
National Bank Of Omaha, Nebraska,
upon Kountz Brothers, of New York,
are in circulation.
Mary Kairns and Mary Rudd, each
fifteen years of age, were drowned Oh
Silver lake, New York, on Monday, by
the upsetting of boat.
j. p. Kennedy was shot and killed
while trying to commits a burglary atRir-
minglan, Mich. early Sunday moruin :.