Daily Republican., 1884-05-31
News suprnssy.

The gangway of the Tunnel Collier.
at Ashland, Penna., caved in yesterda,
morning, bnrying George Story,
miner. Fifty others had Q narrow Oh
cape.
The cave in beneath the READING
Railroad tracks at Turkey Run ha'
made six cOllieries idle and caused {
suspension of traffic on the road. Th'
breach yesterday covered an area O
200 feet and the ground was still sink
ing. A new railroad track was beinS
built around the breach.
Hooper's building, 81 South Gay
street, Baltimore, tulnbled down yes
terday afternoon under the weight o.
cotton stored in it. Eight bodies have
been discovered in the ruins, but up tc
seven o'clock last evening only two had
been got out. The building was a sub
stantial one, five stories high, will
heavy brick walls and q bluestont
front, but 1t stood upon "fllled in y
ground, on what was formerly the r!vel
shore.
The Coroner's inquiry into the Tun'
mel disaster near Somerset, Penna, has
resulted In q verdict "exonerating the
contractors from all blame, every pre-.
caution having been taken" The dis.
aster was caused by q quicksank,s The
seven men killed were Italians and
Hungarians. Two of tho injured have
since died the rest are expected to re-
cover.
The Garfield Memorial Hospital in
W. 81 hS,,r Inlf taA q u
Rev. Mr.. Butler, of the Lutheran
Memorial Church, officiated, and Jus.
tice Miller, of the Supreme Court,
delivered an address. The hospital will
be opened for patients in about two
weeks.
a conference of the iron manufacture
ers and the Amalgamated Association
is TO be held in Pittsburg to-day, when
it is expected last years scale will be
signed and work continued. The scale
was signed yesterday by kirkpatrick q
Co at Leechburg.
The failure of Rhind & Bell, stock
brokers Of Augusta, Georgia, was re
ported yesterday. Rhind said that
Bell fused the firms name in stock
speculations in New York without au-
thority."
An auction sale of recently imported
Jersey cattle, including 13 cows and
calves, in Baltimore yesterday, brought
s., ,543 The highest price was $5lO for
"Primose Lady" None of the COWS
were more than 2 years old.
The smallpox at Ashland, Penna. con-
tinues to spread, and the hospital is
almost filled. Three new cases were
reported yesterday. The disease has
appeared at Girardville. Centralia and
intermediate points.
j. II. Spiegle X Co., dealers in books
and mems furnishing goods, at Green
burgh, Penna., have had their store
closed by the Sheriff on executions
amounting to $4,000.
The Greenback National Committee,
in Indianapolis, on Thursday night or.
ganized by electing +. A. Gillette, of
Iowa, Chairman, and d. W. Teerlinde,
Of New Jersey, Secretary.
A number of the delegates to the
Republican National Convention have
arrived in Chicago, and the headquar-
ters for the Arthur ana Blaine forces
were opened yesterday.
The Wabash hallway strikers held a
meeting in Moberly, Missouri, on
Thursday night, and it IL understood
decided to go back to work.
A telegram from Long Branch says
the potato bugs have appeared there in
large numbers, ard the beach is covered
with them.
The Harmony Savings Bank, at
Harmony, Penna., suspended on Thurs
day, its money being tied up with the
Penn Bank.
The Courtney Ross race, which was to
have taken place yesterday, was post
poned on account of rough water.
j. w. Reedy's elevator mandatory
in Chicago was burned yesterday after
noon. Loss SAC, 600.