The National tribune., 1885-08-20

Dayton Orphans Home, are in a critical condi-
tion.-The strikers at Bay City, Mich, last
week, forcibly shut down two salt blocks. Sher-
III Brennan, with number of assistants, tried
to arrest one of the men. Clubs and pistols
were drawn and Sheriff Brennan was shot, the
ball grazing his forehead, and also struck by q
club. The rioters dispersed after number of
arrests were made. Three of them were
wounded.-Albert r. Herrick was shot and
killed by his stepson, Thos J. Armstrong, in
Brooklyn last week.-A train on the Grand
Trunk line passing Blue Bonnet, Quebec, last
week, struck an express wagon, with two men
named George Walsh and James Miller and q
boy. The men were killed and the boy seri-
ously injured. Franklin ID. Moses
of South Carolina, recently released from term
of imprisonment in Middlesex County, Mass,
for obtaining money under false pretenses, was
again in court in Boston last week on default
warrant for obtaining money from Samuel G.
Cobb, Fred. l.. Ames, and Others, representing
that he was Col. Simms of Charleston
On Sunday of last week as Hine and Steward
Pond, sons of ex-Indian Commissioner Pond,
were leading Holsten bull to the farm, about
IL miles from st. Paul, Mimi, the animal be-
came unmanageable and attacked the men,
killing them almost instantly.-A tubular
boiler exploded in the boiling department of
the Ivanhoe paper mill, Patterson, N. j., last
week, blowing the head through the eight and
12-inch walls of the picking and busting de-
partment. Several persons were seriously in
jured.-A heavy bank caved in last week at
the Government works on the canal at Louis
vile, KY, and killed Peter Decourcey and seri-
ously wounded Thomas Mccain and Mike
Cusick, workmen.
INDUSTRIAL.
The business failures during the seven days
ending Aug. Is number for the United States
Isl and for Canada 17.-An Alabama coal
mining company has received an order for 49,
600 tons of coal from the Mobile g. Ohio Rail-
road Pineapple shipping from Florida is
about at an end. A few more thousand will
complete the CROP There have been shipped
to Jacksonville by growers of the South Indian
River 81, 600 pineapples. Thomas E. Richards,
of Eden, shipped only 1000 out of crop of
$4,000, making the balance up into wine.-
The cottonseed-oil mill at Greenville. S. c., has
just declared a dividend of 10 per cent.-A re-
duction of one cent yard was made in the wages
of about 20 weavers employed in the Clifton
Silk Mills, at Athena, N. j., last week. and the
weavers, to the number of 10O went out on
strike.-A conference of Monongahela and
Kanawha miners is being arranged with the
view of ordering strike in the two districts if
the operators refuse to advance the price of
mining one-hr.,f cent per bushel.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The ifs. tug Sea Wing was found off Charlie
voix Saturday, morning last. The sailboat was
full II water and there were two corpses in it.
TIE men were identified as VIM. Gibson and
Edward Gallagher, of Beaver Isand-A Pc
tltion has been issued by the trades organiza-
tions throughout the country, requesting Pres
ident Cleveland to call an extra session of Con-
gress to be devoted exclusively to measures for
the relief of the industrial classes of the coun-
try, and the revival of business The petition
especially calls the attention of the President
to the general stagnation of business and TO the
severe consequences of this depression upon the
laboring people of the country.-In the trot-
ting race at Philadelphia on the 18th between
Phallas and Harry Wilkes the first heat was
won by Wilkes in ZIG and the second heat in
800. Phalias won the third lreat in 2.211 and
Wilkes won the fourth heat and race in 2.1S3.
The track was good. The race was for purse
of 81 900, of which $1,000 TO second horse
The taxable property of Pickens County, Ga,
has increased $4,000 in value during the past
year.-The Very Rev. Edward A. McColgan,
Vicar-General of the Diocese of Baltimore, has
been elevated to the dignity of Monsignor by
the Pope.-Margaret kcaley, a young domes-
tic, lately from Ireland, died Wednesday of last
week ON the farm of Edward P. Hunt, near
Camden, n. j. with symptoms of cholera
A petition is being circulated throughout Mas
sachusetts by Cochituate parties appealing to
Secretary Bayard to use his influence in behalf
of Louis Riel, on the ground that he is an
American citizen.-The Chief of Police of
Chattanooga Tenn. has instituted libel suit
against the Daily Times for $4,000 for certain
on his administration of the police
force. -Grasshoppers of both the migratory
and non-migratory species are swarRling in
Montana and are moving east in large swarms.
There arc 630 cities and towns in the
United States of over 1000 inhabitants where
the special delivery system will be introd uced
on Oct flames w. Marshall, who claimed
to be the discoverer of gold in California, died
last week at his home in Kelsey, Cal. He was
"a years old, and died poverty stricken, dis
appointed man.-Senator Cameron, of Penn
sylvania is said to be worth $9,000,O0 0.-In-
formation has been received at the State Depart
ment of the release of Santos, the American
citizen imprisoned in Ecuador.--ChiefG ero-
nimo is now in the Southern part of the Sierra
Madres 800 miles below the border, with two
following him.--Ninety young Ia
dies from various towns in this country and
Europe took the veil at the Mallnckrodt Con-
vent, Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 10Th inst.