Daily Republican., 1884-05-12
NEW q BNMMAEY.
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st1uctlve Fir es- The Labor Field
Other general N News,

| Othef general News.
The preliminary report of the condi.
ton Of the Marine National Bank OF
New York, made by the Examiner,
shows that the Bank will have TO be
wound up, and that it is not likely to
be able to pay more than 85 cents on the
dollar. The nominal assets foot up S5,-
600, 600, the actual assets being $780,
900. The loans outstanding amount to
81, ,00O, 600, of which $2,OOO,0OO are to
the bankrupt firm of Ward g. Grant.
The deposits in the bank, which consti-
tuted the bulk Of its liabilities, amount
cd to about 81, ,500,0 900.
Serious disturbances occurred In
Quincy, Illinois, on Saturday, among
the Union and on-union stove mould
ers. Parties of the working moulders
were several times attacked by the
strikers and once a riot seemed immi-
nent. Channon, Ewing & Co.'S foundry
shut down, "the managers becoming
convinced that they cannot get proper
protection. The non-unionists are
blamed for paying too many visits to
saloons and not trying toavoid conflicts
with tho strikers.
Butler B. Strang, the we'll known Re-
publican politician, committed suicide
in Westfield, Pa, on Saturday morning
by shooting himself. He had been in
| i'll health for some time. Mr.. Strang
was born in New York State in 1929.
He was lawyer by profession, and
represented district Of Tiega county
in the State Senate and in the House
for fifteen years,
The German Methodists Of Baltimore
yesterday celebrated the fftieth ami
versary of the founding of the first
church of their denomination in that
city. The celebration took place In the
First German church on Broadway, the
congregations and choirs of all the
churches uniting. Rev. DR.. Dinger de-.
livered an address.
At the close Of work on Saturday
afternoon several hundred hands in the
West Station shops of tho Reading
Railroad, at Reading, were suspended
from work. 1t Is said the stopping Of
coal mining, under direction of the
New York com bination, is the cause.
More than one hundred girls in the
shoe shops of s. +. Crossman & Co., at
Lynn, Massachusetts, quilted work on
Saturday because three females among
the buttonhole makers were affected by
a reduction in the wages of that class
of operatives.
John Wall shot his brother In law,
Samuel Clark, and also the latter's lit.
tie daughter, al Hamilton, Ontario, yes
terday morning. Clark's wound is
slight, but his daughters is believed to
be mortal. 1t was caused by family
feud.
| A fire at Canton, Massachusetts, on
Saturday night, destroyed the Nara
gansett suspender Company's factory
the Webb Company's building and
s. r. Wattles & Company's spinning
ring factory, causing a total loss o.
100000.
At Hackett City, Kentucky, las
Thursday, Deputy United States Mar
shal Brown killed John Belt, and th'
lstter's brother, Albert, fatally wound
ed Brown. A family scandal was tn
cause.
/ Tie boiler in the salt works OF Green
Ring & Co., at Saginaw City, Michi
gan, exploded on Saturday, wreckinl
the works and inJuring four men, on
of them-John Clute, the fremen-mor
tally.
Mrs. Mary G. Crow, of Brooklyn
New York, was arrested yesterday Oh
the charge Of causing the death of Mrs
Phoebe Prestley, aged IL years, by NAL
practice.
In fight with ten tramps at Nation
i Illinois, on Saturday morning, thTe<
policemen shot two and captured sever
of the gang.
By runaway accident of Dubuque
on Saturday night, Matthias Fritz
was fatally injured and his wife wa.
killed.
The varnish works of Williams &
Co., at Cleveland, Ohio, were damaged
BY fire on Saturday to the extent o
$50, 900.
The clock works of the Sweetland
Manufacturing Company at Walling
ford, Connecticut, were burned on
Saturday morning. Loss, $4,000.
A crevasse ton feet deep and thirty
wide is reported on the east bank OF
the Mississippi, ten miles below Bator
Rouge. twill probably be soon closed
The spinners' strike in Fall River
Massachusetts, was practically ended
on Saturday, the strikers failing in
| their purDose