Daily Republican., 1885-07-29
News Summary.
HEAVY FAILUREa-KILLED Ara
EARN RAISHNG-SEVExE
TH HUNDERSTORMs.
STRIKE OF FEMALES.

Severe thunderstorms YESTERDAY
passed over portions of the Northwest.
At Minneapolis and in the surrounding
country considerable damage was done
by wind and lightning. A team of
horses was killed by lightning, and
three men were injured by the blowing
down of platform. At Cumming,
Dakota, several buildings were blown
down,
| One hundred female weavers in the
cotton mills, at Evansville, Indiana,
struck on Thursday against q reduction
OF Is per cent. IL their wages. A meet.
ing was held by the strikers, and it was
decided that tho girls should confer
| with their fathers, brothers or Ruardi.
ans, and procure their assistance and
advice.
HeaEy Fasold. aged rs years. of
Rockfellow township, near Sunb bury,
Penna., was killed on Monday evening.
He wes hauling load of logs to the
mill. Going down q steeep hill the
horse ran away, and he was thrown
under the wagon and crushed to
death,
The long strike at the Pepnsy1vania
Colliery at Mount Carmel, Pa, virtu-
ally ended on Tuesday, one hundred of
the Den resumiDg work at . ten per
cent. reduction on the December wages.
made seven hundred men idle.
John A. Benson, civil engineer and
contractor, ofSan Erancisco, has made an
assignment. His liabilities are report
ed at $3.50, 900, and his assets, con-
sisting of real estate In different parts
of California. are said to equal she liza
bilities.
John A. Duttsf, a prominent coal op-
orator of Mahanoy Plane, Penna., has
been foreclosed by the sheriff. The COL.
liery operated BY him will be sold on
August Sd. Dutter's liabilities are
about $3.50, 900.
| Robert Whits,s dye works, occupy
iug large five-story brick block on one
of the wharvee in Boston, was badly
damaged on Tuesday evening by fire.
Loss on the stock will be nearly total
and very hoavy.
The Democratic State Convention of
Virginia will meet in Richmond to day
"wednesday 1t is expected that
General Fitzhugh Lee will receive the
nomination for Governor.
The weather has again become srltry
in the West. In Chicago on Tuesday
morning the Thermometer marked rs
degrees in Keokuk, 80, in Dubuque,
80; Des Moines, SO, and St. Paul, 70.
General Sheridan is expected in
Washington in a few days to report
verbally to the President the state OF
affairs at the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
Agency.
The epidemic at Plymouth, Pa, has
abated, only thirteen patients remain
Ing in the hospital, all conva le9cent.
, The hospital will be closed on Friday
Peter Burke, Wholesale tobaccoa ist,
of Mobile, made an assignment yester-
, day. Liabilities, S5e, 600; assets, nomi-
g nally, $780, 200.
!. During eashhHday, the fall of a ben .sn
killed Join shaw and injured twenty
two others, three OF them perhaps
3 fatally.
Herry Batds, twenty-five years of
Q age, hanged himself on Tuesday morn
ing from ths staircase of house in
New York, No cause foz the deed is
known.
John Parkins, aged sixty years,
= hanged himself at his house at Glen
a Cove, Long Island, on Tuesday morn.
. ing.
T The murder of f. M. Patterson,
mail carrier, near Crittenden, Arizona,
t on the 2Srd inst, is now said to have
z been the work of Indians.
I, Twenty persons were arrested on
i Tuesday in a gam bling house at Long
Branch, and the proprietors were fined
Q 500 each.
: The Presld has refused to modify
!, his proclamation requiring cattlemen
4 i to remove from the Indian Territory
within forty days.
The trial of Louis Riel, for high
treason, was resumed on Tuesday at Re-
gina, in the Northwest Territory.
.. Up to the 18th inst, there had been
. "a cases of yellow fever and deaths
from the disease in Havana.