The National tribune., 1885-12-17

The business failures throughout the country
during the seven days ending on the 11th inst.
number for the United States 230, and for Can
ada IL, or total of 247 as compared with 239
last week and 214 the week before the laSt.-
An acre of surface over the Harleigh mines of
NJ. S. Kemmerer Co., near Hazleton, Pa,
caved in on the 11th inst, causing flood of
water in the mines and throwing 400 men out
of work. The damage is estimated at 5000
The mining troubles in the Monongahela
Valley are assuming serious proportions. Grand
Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights of
Labor, reached Pittsburg on Monday last to in
vestigate the trouble and endeavor to effect
settlement. The knights are reported to be in
favor of arbitration, but the operators say they
will not recognize the organization nor MIR.
Powderly. The strike has now lasted four
months, and many miners have not earned
dollar for % weeks. Business along the Monon-
gahela Valley is prostrated.-1n consequence
of the refusal of the striking shoe cutters OF
Cincinnati to resume work when ordered to do
so by the National Executive Committee of the
Knights of Labor, they are declared in rebel
lion against that body and are expelled from
the order. This makes an opening for about
200 cutters.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The "Oklaboma boomers" are being removed
by the United States troops from Oklahoma
on the double-quick The last of them reached
Arkansas City and Caldwell last week--At
Cumberland, Me-, on Wednesday of last week
there was shower of fish about an inch long,
and having the appearance of young smelts
The railroad depot at Cumberland was strewn
with them, and passengers secured specimens
Ferdinand Ward was transferred last week
from the stove shop, where he was obliged to
select castings and carry them to the stove
mounters, to the office of Perry & Co., in the
prison, where he was set to bookkeeping. This
is more agreeable and congenial to him.
Gen. Lew Wallace, eX-Minister to Turkey, ar
rived at New York on Wednesday of last week
in the steamship Aurania, from Liverpool
One hundred delegates, representing liquor
organizations in II Counties Of Pennsylvania,
met last week at Reading and declared in
favor of fair laws to wipe out dens of vice, but
deprecating high licenses, and pronouncing in
formers to be moral lepers who should be
amenable to criminal law.-Miss Virginia &.
Clay, of Huntsville, Ala, is an ornament to
her sex and an honor to her State. Her father,
Mr.. j. Withers Clay, being i'll, she has under
taken the difficult task of conducting his
paper, the Huntsville Democrat. She not only
does the work of getting out and preparing the
copy, but the additional labor falls TO her lot
OF setting up most of the type. She is doing
her work well.-A certificate of incorporation
has been filed with the Secretary of State of
New York by a society styling itself the Anti
the organization is to investigate the benefits
or evils resulting from vaccination, and what
protection it affords against allpox.-The
North American Union of Radicals, with head
quarters at Milwaukee, Wis, has issued a me-
mortal TO Congress asking that the Constitution
be so amended as to abolish the Office of Presi-
dent. The memorial proposes to vest the
Executive power of the Government in an
Execctive Council to be chosen by Congress.
They claim that the President is King, clothed
with greater power than any European sover-
eign except the Gar of Russia.-ChefJ Justice
Charles p. DAILY, who has been connected with
the New York Court of Common Pleas for AZ
years, on the 10th inst. sat for the last day upon
the bench of that court. The Chief Justice was
presented by the bar with an ivory gavel, which
is to be bound in gold.-A Hendricks Monu-
ment Association was formed at indianapolis,
Ind on Saturday last, and committee of over
5000 citizens, representing every county and
town IN the State, was appointed to solicit sub
scriptions for a monument to the late Vice.
President Thomas A. Hendricks.-At the
Parker House, Boston, complimentary BAN
quet was rendered by the Massachusetts, Reform
Club on Saturday night last to Hon. Dorman B.
Eaton, United States Civil Service Commits
sIoner Hon. John S. Farlow presided, and
about $50 gentlemen were in attendance The |
principal speeches were made by Mr. Eaton and |
James Russell Lowell, the latter warmly in
uOieiIS VI TtSiueUb SleNc-
land.-The physicians of Wilkes Barre Pa,
have formed black list of patients who do not
pay their bills.--Malignant scarlet fever has
broken out in school No. 10 at Marion, the ex-
treme western part of Jersey City, n j. and
threatens tospread throughout the entire city. |
Five children have died since Sunday last from
the disease.--TheJ j. L. Sanderson Stage Com |
pany has begun a suit in the United States |
Court at Denver. Colo, against the Government !
to recover 100000 balance claimed to be due |
them for carrying the mail between Lone City |
and Siiverton.-It is reported that % Mexi- |
can soldiers crossed into Texas on the I'd inst |
and deliberately drove off % cattle belonging |
to c. w. Gentry and Thomas Wiley, both |
hundred convicts at work |
in the Allister mines at Coal Hill, Ark, went |
on strike on Friday last for larger supply of |
powder to shoot the coal than was allowed them |
by the superintendent. The convicts refused !
to send out any coal or to permit the foremen |
to enter.--The New York Board of Health on |
the 10th inst. passed resolution declaring the |
United States Assay Office nuisance and a |
menace to health by reason of acid fumes and |
vapors.
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