Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-10-20
The East.

A STEAMER made in imitati92 92aap27ds 2dd the he
Maid of the Mist r".',,.inine ran s,,r ten minutes
siasara ;a.GG9nrihSoio Gn tbs io'h' -5.- i6.;
in the VIII " I,,;on Tclesr'E ale 10th,
1HE :" ester n|--,v-cpmpany had 432,-
!!H, Hines of wire and 2,917 offices. During
the year 40,GS1, Ia messages We're handed,
the receipts from which were S19, ,434,9O2,
against SI7, ,I14, 1G5 last year. The expenses
fer the year were $l1, 194 ,5J3, leaving a net
profit of -, $3.50, $40.
asUPoN being told few evenings ago by a
friend that be had heard of her death, Miss
Jennie Noon, of Scranton, Pa, fell into
swoon and died the next morning.
TIE sessions of the Woman Suffrage
Convention, at Brooklyn, NY, closed on
the IIth. May B. Clay, of Kentucky, was
elected President. Resolutions We're adopt
ed that Congress and the State Legislatures
be petitioned for constitutional amend
1nents granting suffrage to women.
THE United States Senate sub Commit
tee on Labor and Education met at Man.
chester, y. H., the 18th. Colonel
Thomas Livermore, agent of the Amos
krar Mills, testified that the mills turned
ont annually about CO,oO0,OO9 yards of
cloth at q cost of between So,O3O,00o and
$6,on,pa0. The cost of labor was about
thirty per cent. of the total cost of the
operatives, he said, numbered One-ftth of
all cmployed aud were the best opera
tives The operatives We're not discon-
tented He dill not believe there was Il
labor union in Manchester, though many
efforts had been made to establish them.
There had not been general strike in
thirty years.
TIE miners employed by the Rochester
& Pitt-Iurgh Railroad Company at Du-
hois Pa, were strike on the 18th, and
through the use of brass bands and
various terrifying devices had bulldozed
the whole reg ion. Trouble was antlcI-
pat1d.
WlIfH on lis way recently to Jail Isaac
Lan"3, Il convicted lncendiary, jumped
from an express train near Montpelier,
VT, which was going at the rate of forty
miles an hour. bu5 was captured unhurt.
TIrou e.unt-T Maino extreme cold wealth
CT prevailed cu tie 18th, and several inches
of snow were reported i'll the northern
part,
Ir was estimated that booksellers and
bonT--ura'icrs throughout the country lost
sIcpttlO on the 18th by the Justification OF
tie reports of the races at jerome Park, N
V. TIC fraud it was thought, was perpe-
tratcd by expert telegraphers who tapped
the wires outside of the park.
SEVEN persons lost their lives by the re-
cent foundering of the Boston hsblhS
schooner NJ. o. Andrews.
MAMIE GORDON, aged fourteen, reprl-
moudsd i'm school at Trenton, n. j., the
other daN for circulating an improper bal-
lad. drowned herself upon being told her
Darcuts would be informed of her mis-
deed. J3'r
Mrs. HrrpER was drowned few days
her of the fa,niIv to perish that way. They
believed they were doomed by curse W.
tered bv an ancestor in Bavaria
Tur death of Captain r. Beckwith, vet
or,p of the war of 1912, occurred on the
18th at Norwich, Conn.
FrHNACE engine on tie Soutn"est
Railway ran into a passenger tram near
Jcn,ont Station, Pa, few days ago, tufr-
bling over one car and setting 1t on nre'
OF the eighteen persons in the coach, none
escana,I injury, seven being seriously
wounded.
Nps. FANNIE 'SPRAGUE, mother OF ex-
Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, VINO
was nearly eighty four years of age dleo
at Groton, Conn, on the l5th.
CRY of fire in the Elm street School
nj Waterbury, Conn, ,ecaused SIX hunoreu
children to rush down stairs in the wliues,
confusion a few days ago. One girl hau
bcr collar-bone broken, another an eye oao-
ly cut, and a third was, taken out lnsensi'
BILE.
AT Derry Station, Pa, John Bly, sand
James alaloney, switchmen' were crusheo
20 5aatb Inv the cars the other day.
Fo,-R persons, viz: Margaret Curfen'
,ged seventeen: Alice King, aged hEe'
Mary Farrell, aged ten,' and Daniel Far
relI, agei seven, were struck by an ensine
while walking on the track OF 'ne pd,''
- G. Ob;o Road near Connellsville, Pa,
ON TIN, 18th, ana all were killed.
T.r.,vbolesaIe clothing firm OF Hyams
Brothers, of New York and San FranG,sSo'
faiIed on the 18th for $4,000 and Hoiz
-. g. R,.,;ckbeimer, importers of notions
and fancy goods, failed for 100000;
I Ara birthday party on the 18th at the
residence of Charles Tabor, in Ithaca, n.
y, fifteen persons were poisoned i,oa 5sas
eating canned beef. One lady haa o'eo
cd Several others were seriously ill.,