The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-04-30
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at Edgeworth, Mass, employing $500 hands,
will start up about May /, and are expected to
run on full time the rest of the sumner
The Chicago RailUay Age publishes list of 20
railroads that have been placed in the hands of
receivers from Jan. / to March 81. 1885. The
total capital stock and bonds of these corpora
tons aggregate 1926, $50 000.-One thousand
striking miners returned to work on Friday
last at the Turtle Creek, Sandy Creek and Plum
Creek Mines, Pa, at the terms offered by the
operators The railroad miners strike, it is
thought, will soon colapse.-The business
failures throughout the country during the
seven days ending the 18th inst number for
the United States 215 and for Canada 25.--
The mouders in the establishment of c. A.
Blessing & Co., manufacturers of plumbers
supplies, Philadelphia, entered on strike last
week. Early in the Winter the firm made
reduction of 10 per cent. in their wages, which
the men say they submitted to with the under
standing that it would be restored in the
Spring.-The LOO employees of the Lowell
Manufacturing Company were happily sur
prised last week by the announcement that an
increase in their wages to nearly the old stand
ard before the last reduction would be made on
Monday next. This is in accordance with
Superintendent Lyons promise that wages
should be advanced when business conditions
should warrant it.-The employees in the
Wabash Railroad shops at Moberly, Mo, struck
Saturday last against an order reducing their
working time to nine hours day. They
gard the order as violation of the agreement
made by the road last month. The employees
of the Missouri Pacific at Sedalia have also
struck.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The forest fires in New Jersey have destroyed
many thousand dollars worth of timber and
other property, besides several homesteads The
fires were burning nearly all last week in the
vicinity of For Ha renr Ni}y and trains
eral railroads had 10 pass four miles through
smoke and at points through the burning for
ests. Fires were also burning in the Welsh
Mountains near New Holland, Pa, and in the
pine woods near Mount Carmel, Pa. fire i'll
Norfolk County, Va, destroyed large quantities
of valuable timber-Capt. John O'Brien, of
the steamer City of Mexico, was arrested in New
York on the 23d inst. OH the charge Of supply
ing munitions of war 10 the insurgents in the
United States of Colomba.-Mrs o Brien, the
gianteSS, whose marriage to the giant, Pat
O'Brien, was chronicled in the papers about a
year ago, presented her lord with n l5-pound
infant on the 2lst inst. at Jonesboro Ill.,
Rev. Leonard Wilmington, ID. d., the oldest
Congregational clergymen in the United States,
died last week at his residence in Newbury
Mass, aged SO years. He was the author of two
books, The Puritan and "Solomon's Songs"
both of which are well known among theolo-
gians.-There is general desire Oh the part
of citizens of New Orleans and exhibitors TO re-
open the Worlds Exposition next October.
committee has been formed to visit the Board
OF Management and request that body to take
steps looking to the continuance of the exhibit
ton next Autumn.-Mary AnderSOnS yatch
the Galatea, WAS sold at auction at New York
last week. The vessel brought only the sum of
S2,100, and was purchased by Howard Bender,
of Albany, y. Y.-Capt. Couch has returned
to Arkansas City, and on his advice, it is under
ctn fl,a Dl- iob 1.oiIa,S bay dot nn1
to disperse temporarily The Ohio Legisla-
turc has passed an act requiring all judicial ex
ecutions in that State to take place within the
walls of penitentiary.-A man and woman
were found unconscious on the ped inst in their
room in hotel in Cohoes, n. Y. They had
blown ont the gas.-Isaac Martin, young
farmer near Salem, Va. left his home WedneS-
day of last week and went into the fields to
work, and nothing has been heard of him since.
This is the second case of mysterious disap
pearance in that immediate ncighborhood in
the last two weeks-Floods are reported at
st. Lambert, st. Bruno, st. Gabriel and other
points in the vicinity of Montreal, Canada, and
great damage has been done, especially at st.
Gabriel, where the water on the 2ith inst. was
from six to eight feet deep in the streets
John j. Lynch, who is said to have been the
first white person of American parentage born
in Texas, died in New Orleans Tuesday of last
week.-Mrs.. Phoebe Vanderbilt, sister of the
late Commodore Vanderbilt. died in New York
Thursday last, aged rs years.-George Smith
ley, young married man, died at Pittsburg,
Pa, on the ODD, from overexertion caused by
roller skating.-Great eXcitementtand activi-
ty exist among the settlers on the Crow, Creek
and Winrebago lands opened to settlement by
President Arthur. Meetings are being held on
the reservation and at towns contiguous thereto
regarding President Cleveland's proclamation.
Money is being raised and societies organized
to prosecute the settlers case in the courts and
to present it to the Department at Washington.
Jas. Talbot aged A., cousin of tho Earl
Shrewsbury, died in the County Work house
hospital in New York Saturday last. He was
committed on the 10Th inst. as drunkard. He
formerly held a Captains commission in the
Add Inf. of the British army He had been in
this country ID years according to his own
story, but other accounts say he had been here
only few months spending the last of for
tune inherited from an uncle.-An over
heated furnace caused fire in the Henry Broun-
ard Bronze Co.'S building, Mercer street. New
York. Saturday evening last, and destroyed the
mould for Garibadi's statue, which was to
have been placed in Central Park. The fu-
neral of G. Arthur Preler, the victim Of the
late Southern Hotel tragedy. took place lib st.
Louis Saturday. A number of the members of
the Victoria Club, local English society, acted
as pal-bearers. The body was laid temporarily
in vault in Belefontaine Cemetery, and will
be subject to orders Of his relatives.