Milford chronicle., 1883-07-27
NEWS OF THE DAY
aENERAL TTEMs.


by a terrible cyclone at about noon on
Sunday. Several lives were lost, and an
immense amount of damage done tC
property.
An insane man at Rochester leaped
into furnace aud was burned to ashes.
Jim" McDermott, Brooklyn poll.
tician, was shot and slightly injured
during a dispute in n New York liquor
saloon. It is asserted by a certain Irish
nationalist that the attack on McDer,
mott was deliberate, and that three men
had been assigned by the 'dynamiters
to shoot him for acts Of his.
The Munro Building, Nos. II t. 27,
Vandewater street, New York, was partly
destroyed by fire on Sunday. The loss
will be about 100000. distributed
among a number of firms. Fourteen
firemeu on the fifth floor had their Cs-
cape cut off and were saved by piece Of
string which they lowered to draw up a
life line. The Bridge was crowded with
persons who gathered to look at the fire,
and to prevent an accid mt the Brooklyn
gate was closed against passengers.
The Supervising Surgeon General Of
/ Marine Hospitals notified the health and
| quarantine officers in New York and
/ other cities of cable message received
/ hy him announcing six deaths from chol-
era in the London docks.
The State Department at Washing
| ton was informed that the steamship
/ City Of Washington, from Vera Cruz for
New York, left several passengers sick
with yellow fever at Havana, and that
/ five of those left had died.
In consequence of Texas fever APP
pearing among the cattle just reaching
/ Massachusetts, further receipts of cattle
from Texas are interdicted.
The announcement of the failure of
+. W. Holbrook & Co.. dry goods com
mission merchants of New York, caused
a good deal of surprise III commercial
circles Liabilities over $3.50, 00O
Thirteen hundred cloakmalers and
dressmakers 900 of whom are men, are
ON strike in New York city, for higher
wages They believe they will be sue
ccssful.
Postmaster General Gresham inti-
mates that the government interSs TO
bring civil suits against ihe members Of
the star roure ling to recover the money
v dich 1t is alleged they had fraudulently
taken from the Treasury. For some
time a large part of the clerical force in
the Sixth Auditors office has been en-
ployed on very important special work,
which it is understood relates to alleged
fraudulent payments made to twenty
seven contractors and aggregating over
$1,000, 900.
Frederick Schultz, a New York city
boy of eight years, who aided in check
ing a panic in n public school, was re-
warded by a gentleman, who presented
him with a handsome gold badge.
Three vessels lying at Harbeck's
stores, Brooklyn, caught fire from a
burning shed on the wharf and were
almost entirely destroyed. Two men
were drowned and eleven firemen are in
iured.
In New York city eleven thousand
cigar makers have been locked out by
the firms belonging to the United Cigar
Manufacturers Association. Those who |
thus presented themselves before the |
factories Thursday morning to find the |
doors locked against them were almost |
without exception non-unionists and |
foreigners, as are, III fact, upward OF |
two-thirds of the locked out operatives. |
In New York city there are two cigar
makers uniOns-the international Union |
and the Progressive Union. The |
leaders of these two bodies have |
long been at war, and a few days |
ago, on account of trifiing dis |
pute in one factory, the Progressive |
Union men demanded that the In |
ternational Union men should be dis
charged. This the firm refused. The |
Progressive Union men would net
return to work until the Intema-
tional Union men were discharged.
The United Cigar Manufacturers Asso-
citation then declared that unless the
Union men returned by
Wednesday they would begin lockout,
and it was begun. The affair hss caused
much distress among the cigar makers.
In the neighborhood of the scene of
General Crooks exploits, Apache braves
have just defeated a body of Mexican
troops, killing seven of them.
"A furnace explosion occurred at
Kutztown, Pa, on Tuesday morning, by
which one man was killed and several
injured The eight boilers of the an
thracite furnace owned by the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad Company ex-
ploded, reducing the furnace to a mass
of ruins.
"A horse standing in front of a dwell
ling in Syracuse was stung by bee on
Tuesday. The horse ran into a yard
and upset several bee hives. The bees
swarmed upon him, and stung him so
that he died in few hours.
Bill Davis, widely known as a bur
glar, was found hiding between two bed
ticks in Sherman, Conn, on Tuesday,
and is now in jail.
Philip Smith, a farm laborerin Wash
Orange county, 60years old,
killed himself on Monday because his
wife had died.
The first arrest in Boston under the
new Chinese law was made on Tuesday
On June 10 the British bark
Erne, Captain J. Douglas, brought from
Manila, as ship carpenter, Chinaman
named All Chung, who was discharged
md allowed 10 go ashore. The captain
was arrested, and was held to answer on
the Chinaman being held as q
witness.
The lockout by the firms belonging
o the United Cigar Manufacturers As
ociation has begun. Over ten thousand
bands have in consequence been thrown
nut of employment in New York city.
The Sprague mansion at Providence,
R. l., was sold ON Tuesday, together
With the other property of the estate.
Low prices were the order of the day.
Canned fruit poisoned upward OF
wenty five persons at Clinton, Mass,
N Wednesday, July 18th.