Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-18
The East.

The East.
OK the 9th, John Fisher, aged eighteen,
and WnIfred Butler, a young lady, We're
drowned at Quincy, Mass, by the upset
ting of sail-boat.
On the night of the 9th the entire body
of the Salvation Army was arrested in
Syracuse, y. ", for parading through
the streets singing, in violation of the ordi-
nance.
THE New Jersey National party met in
State Convention at Asbury Park on the
n and nominated Benjamin Urner, of
Union County for Governor. A platform
was adopted which opposes all monopo-
lies: fayors Government control of rail-
ways and telegraph lines; demands equal
taxation, universal suffrage, and favors
submitting to the popular vote an amend
mont to the State Constitution prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors
THE failure is reported of T. :. Atwater,
n bag manufacturers, of New York, for
SIIn,GD0.
\ RACK supporting five hundred tons of
metal gave way in the steel warehouse of
H5Isscy, Howe n Co., ut Pittsburgh, Il few
davs ago, killing two men and injurinS
three others.
THERE WAS material change In the at
titude OF the telegrapEers' strike on the
10th with tie exception of a number of
telegraph operators in the employ of the
Panhandle Road ut Pittsburgh quitting
work. both side, still refusing to make con
ccSSions.
THOMAS MCtREERY & Co, bankers at
Beaver. Pa suspended on the 10TH
THE fr;tricidc, William H. Ostrander,
who was hanged at Utica, \. v, on the
10th used profanity and obscenity on the
yaIIowS. He said he did not have a fair
rial, and finished rambling talk by re-
marking: " Life is no good to me-"
BY an exrlo ion of fire damp i'll a colliery
near Shenandoah, Pa, on the 10Th Thomas
Williams was fatally and Hugh Edwards
seriously burned.
AT Camden, N. ", p. & p. C"stello's
large tannery destroyed by fire the
other hi ght. Loss. F1oo,Hoo.
ONE hundred of the Western Union Tel
cgraph wires were cut in the vicinity OF
New York City during the night of the
11th, and at other points reports OF WIRE
cutting were announced The strikers in
the Pan n-handle Railroad offices at Pitts
hurgh returned to work on the 18th, the
,.nmpany reiustating them with the under,
standing that they leave the brotherhood,
and at other places operators were said to
lrc returning to their posts under similar
conditions.
AT st. Albans, VT, on the 11th railroad
officials met and arranged Il astPassen@er
train between Chicago and Boston, the run
to he made in forty hours.
MASKED men Il few nights ago felt B. j.
RYAN, night operator at South BcliInghan,
Mass, into ins enSibility, and laid his body
across the track. Assistance came before
any trains passed.
IN New York on the 11th stranger en-
tered the Center Market, and going to a
,,,l lpnnn1 off his left hand
little finger with Il cleaver. He then quiet
ly departed, leaving the dismembered
digit behind.
NEAR DemIer, Pa, Oliver Doris, John
Kenvis and James Connor were struck by
a train few nights ago, and crushed 10
death. They had stepped out of the way
of a freight train and got inf front of an ex-
press coming in the opposite direction.
OK the IIth Mr.. G.. F. Heath rode down
Mount Washington to the Glen House on
tris.ycIe, making the eight miles in fifty
five minutes, while thu bicycle record Is
one hour and fifteen minutes
At Viupyard Haven, Mass, over hfty
houses were destroyed by fire on the night
OF the I1th, causing Il loss of S2oo,ooo. Inc
village has two thousand Inhabitants,
mostly retired mariners, on whose behalf
nm aDDeaI for aid had been sent out to the
country at large.
OK the Ilth Oscar w Hoe arrived Ill we"
York from Europe. He comes to superln-
tend the production of his play "Nera"
A FEW days ago, at Wakefield, Mass,
John F. Sweltzer, a shoe manufacturers
hanged himself with the rope of his chill
dren's swing.
ARTICLES of incorporation were filed IN
New York on the 18th for an international
iron and steel company, with capltal OIL
SI0,UOO,01O.
THE anniversary of the establishments or
the Freedmen's Aid Society of the NJ r.
Church was observed at Ocean Grove, n.
J.. on the 18th. The years receipts
amounted to S11S,ON.
THE commandant of the torpedo station
Mt Newport, r. l., Captain SelfrldSe, Will
have the only gun-cotton manufactory III
the country in operation wIthln three
months Heretofore the Government mas
been obliged to depend upon foreign deai-
erS. :;.... o,,
OK the Isl h the Senate Subcommittee OH
Labor and Education convened In the os'-
office Building ill New York: ana COM
,ncured an investigation of the teleSraph
strike by examining Master VI N''i
John Campbell, of Pittsburgh.
ONE of the most popular summer resort
houses near Philadelphia, the Hotel Devon
WAS entirely destroyed by fire on the l"1n'
Loss, 100000.
BY an explosion in Nagle's quarry at
Glasgow, Pa, a few mornings ago, TWO
men were killed and several other CHI
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