The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-07-31
REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
Political, Criminal and Casual Incl
dents and Happenings.
CAPITAL AND LABOR.

hihit at New Orleans Is ready for the several Gov
elnors' orders.-Two hundred and fifty men are
thrown out of employment by the failure of the
Coatesville Iron Company of West Chester, Pa
Depression in the iron market has caused the Ash
land iron furnaces of Baltimore County go out of
blast, deprIvlng 30 hands of work.--ihe wheat
crop in Lancaster County far exceeds the most
guine expectations, yielding in many instances
from forty to fifty bushels to the aere.A confer
ence was held on the 23d inst at Fortress Monroe
between Commissioners General Morehead and
number of leading business men of Virginia incIud
ing Gov. Cameron, United States Commissioner
Blanton, Commissioner OF agriculture Harrison and
Gen Grover, and acomprehensive plan adopted
for securing to Virginia grand exhibit of its
terial resources at the Worlds Exposition of New
0rleans.-The receivers of the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad and Coal and Iron Companies
filed their first audit on the 9th inst. The balance
on the credit Of the railroad S237 57l and to the
credit of the Coal and Iron Company g, l59.-The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company have purchased
Us acres of land at Freedom Pa, for $4,000, and
will erect repair shops round houses, ETC., and
| they win spend Sl,50000o improvements
The cotton crop in Texas is late in all quarters,
and Is suffering from a severe drought. The gem
eral outlook indicates critical condition unless
rain should fall within week. The drought in
ONO is so great that constant watch has to be Kept
| to prevent fire the lines of railroads. The to-
bacco crop is injured and the crop threatened.
| 1t is reported that the pleuro-pneumonia has
| made its appearance farm near Hightstown,
| n. 1.-The Bennett Maekay Atlantic Cable will
be ready for public service on October 1. The cost
of the cable will reach 81 GOO 000 A company has
| been organized to lay a cable from Brazil to New
Orleans, via St. Thomas, to cost s. 0O000 which
| will work in connection with the Bennett Mackay
Cable.-The first electric railroad for public use
in America went into operation in Clevand, o., on
! the 18th inst.--Dispatches from Dakota, Ne
! braska and Minnesota indicate a good Spring
/ wheat crop The yield in Dakota will be 90 BUSH
els acre making total yield of 26. 600 BUSH
| els; while Winter wheat in Nebraska will yield 80
/ to 10 bushels acre, and Spring wheat 20 to %
| bushels. In Minnesota the wheat yield will be
100000 bushels, Corn, oats, barley and rye
| promise well.
/ ABOUT WELL-KNowN PEOPLE.
| Mrs Jane Grey Swisshelm died at her home at
Swissvae, Pa, the I'D inst, aged 6s years She
was noted Abolitionist and has always been
| stanch advocate of female suffrage -Rear-hd-
miral Geo. r. Emmons, u. S. NJ, retired, died on
the 23d inst. at his residence in Princeton, N j.,
| aged IS years.--Peter S. Porter an old colored
Abolitionist and for 30 years of the lead
ers of his IN New York city, died on the oath
| inst. He became known of the anti-savery
workers with Fred. Douglass DR.. McCune Smith,
| VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Gerret Smith, and others.
He was prominent in the fight against the
| popular sentiment which would not allow colored
| people to ride on the horse cars. and kept up the
| fight until he won.--Portsmouth, n. H, is max
/ ing preparations for the reception there Of Lieut.
| Greedy.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
| Forest fires nUnion County Pa have burned large
tracts of lumber and bark and railroad property a
| large saw mill was saved by thunder shower
/ James Ferguson was fatally wounded at Denver
/ Col, on the 2lst inst by Mrs A. @. Gould, with
! whom he had been keeping company. Ferguson
married another woman last week.--Four per-
/ sons We're drowned in the Marmaton River near
Deerheld Kan, on the 23d inst.--A severe hail
and wind storm visited Wisconsin on the night of
| the ed inst. and did much damage 20 crops and
| property. Its severity most felt at Jefferson
Watertown, Fond du Lac, West Bend, Kewaskunl
/ oconomowoc, Plymouth, Whitewater, and the in
Guided country Landino, an Italian,
| while being taken 10 a station house in New York
City, for shooting and seriously wounding his wife,
swallowed the contents of bottle of mustache dye
from the effects OF which he died within half an
hour.-An inquest was held in Philadelphia
the I'D inst. the body of Addison Is. Ziegler II
| years old whose death was supposed to be due
/ to Asiatic cholera, The post morteni showed
death was due to acute choiera-morbus. - The
works of the Zen Guano Company IN South
Baltimore were destroyed by fire the 23d inst,
| fnjuring several fremen and entailing a loss of
more than 500, 000.--.A party of masked men
blew up with dynamite two disreputable houses
near Sabine o.. on the 23d inst, taking out the
females first and coating them with tar and feath-
ers.---Seyen lives were lost by the cyclone which
occurred near Sioux Falls D. It. ON the 2lst.--
| On complaint of Special Examiner Walter J.
| Brooks of the United States Pension Bureau, Mary
Dance, alias Mrs Mary Clark, and her two daugh-
were arrested al Pney Point. Md, on the 23d inst
| by Deputy United States Marshal upon the
charge of obtaining and assisting to obtain pension
upon fraudulent representations. THE main
building and three bonded warehouses of A. Over
bolt Co.'S distillery at Connesville Pa together
| with 1000 barrels of whisky were burned on the
| 9th inst Loss s665 GOETHE rear part of the
| boiler of freight engine on the Lehigh Valley
| Railroad, near White Haven, Pa, blew out on the
| and telegraph operator who was riding on the
| engine.--Aiss May G. Aulters, the betrothed of
DR.. ossian rerbnrgh, who committed suicide at
| Pttsbnrg few weeks ago by taking prussc acid,
shot and MORALLY wounded herself on the 25th.--
| A young man died a few days ago at Lyons n. 7.
from the effects Of eating quart of peanuts pint
of ice-creafa and two quarts of cherries on tri-
/ fling wager.-L. IT. j. Davis of Pocomoke City,
Md, was shot and instantly killed by Irving ].
daughter.-Pius Miller shot and fatally wounded
his sister law on the 9th inst York, Pa,
| --Twenty-elg horses were burned In the canal
| stables at West Troy, N. " on the 26th inst.--A
terrible cyclone passed over Edenton, N c., on the
9th inst blowing down a warehouse and several
| wharves were destroyed. One child killed
and several persons injured by falling timber.
POLITICAL.
John r. Lynch, colored, is the Republican nonnf-
for Congress in the Sixth District of Mississippi
and Gen. James b. Weaver, the Greenbacker, is the
Democratic nominee in the Sixth District of Iowa
| The California Republican State Convention
| chose presidential electors on the sd insI.-The
| Prohibition Convention at Pittsbure on the oath
nominated Gov. John p. Sc John for President and
VIVA. Daniel, of Maryland, for President
| Il. Willis Wilson, OF Charleston was nominated for
Governor Of West Virginia ON the 24th by the Dem
ccratic State Convention.--At the Republican
Convention at Hinton, w. Va, on the ed Col j.
w. Davis of Greenbrier was nominated for Con-
gress, and Capt j. w Cracroft, of Kanawha, pres
| identiai clector.-The Indiana Prohibilionists
have nominated r. s. d. Virgins. of Jasper County
for Goyernor-The Republicans Of Alexandria
Va, held grand ratification the night of the
26th.--The executive committee of the Independ-
ent Republicans have employed Carl Schurz to
translate into German the address of Geo VIM
Curtis.-The National Democratic Committee on
the 9th inst. elected W. II. Barnum permanent
chairmaD.--Gen. w. n Grant was nominated by
the Republican Congressional Convention on the
sd inst. at Montpelier VT, to succeed Luke P
Poland Resolutions were also adopted indorsing
Blaine and Logan the Republican State con-
vention held at Sacramento, Cal, the 23d inst,
the following nominations for Congress were made
First District, L. @. CarotherS; Second, A. A. Sar-
gent; Fourth, w. w Morrow; Fifth, Chas n. Fem
ton; Sixth, w. II. Markham.--The Irishmen of
hfahanoy City, Pa, are organizing for Blaine and
Logan.-A Blaine and Logan club has been or
lcan Invincibles of Philadelphia enrolled IS active
members on the 25th.-Gen. Lew Wallace, q. 8.
Minister 10 Turkey. who is at his home here ON a
four months leave of absence, Is preparing to take
the stump at early day in the interests of Blaine
and Logan.--Gen. Raseerans in interview
published in the New York Star says that the
Democratic Presidential nominations "haye
chilled two classes of workers. They arc the
industrial classes and the soldiers.-The Demo-
Gratis actively opened their campaign Immediately
| after the Committee OF Notification waited upon
Gov Cleveland the Goth inst. 1t is reported that
the ticket gives general satisfaction in New York
and Judge Murphy, in an interview recently, stated
that Tammany would come round in good time,
but that Cleveland could be elected without either
Tamnany or New York. He said the Germans in
Iowa enthusiastic for Cleveland, and that at
the ratification meeting in Davenport the night
after the nomination over 1900 Germans who had
formerly been Republicans took part and shouted
| for Cleveland. Speaking of Senator German, Con-
| gresham Murphy said he was one of the ablest
managers he ever saw, and he has already done
most efficient work. Gov. Cameron, of Virginia
Ip,s s1l