The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-07-30

was found drowned in q spring in Is inches Of
water.-John Daley, while holding cigaret
in his mouth for Max Florence. Mexican
sharpshooter to shoot at, was shot in the tenn.
pie and probably fatally wounded at Coney
Island Saturday last.
INDUSTRIAL.
Two hundred and fifty employees Of the
West Shore shops, at Frankfort, Me-, struck at
noon on Friday last. They have received no
pay since April. They ask to be paid for May
and June, and to have a regular pay day
The business failures during the seven days
ending July 25, as reported to r. G. Dun & Co.
of the Mercantile Agency yesterday, number,
for the United States 1872 and for Canada %, or
total Of 215, as against total of 225 last
week.-Fall River Mass Mills, representing
1.OO0,000 spindles, have agreed to an additional
four weeks curtailment of production.--All
the~Wheeling wv. Va nail factories are about
to resume work, the feeders taking the places
of the striking nalers. from 70
labor organizations in Western Pennsylvania
have organized a trades assembly to boycott
business men employing non-union workmen.
ALI the employees at the mill in Dalton,
Mass, where the paper used for Government
securities and national bank notes is made,
were dismissed on Saturday last.-The cigar
makers, $4,000 in number, will hold sheir ma
tional convention on August at Cincinnati.
Last year they spent $500 900 in strikes, $4,000
was given to travelling cigarmakers and 1884,
600 disbursed for sick benefits.-SOme West
ern towns are overrun with idle mechanics.
Richmond, Ind, has 1000 out of work. There
are many in Columbus, O., St. Louis and Louis
ville.-There are $500 railroad bridges in
the State of New York, and each one Of them
is to be critically examined by experts and re-
paired where found necessary. A large amount
of railroad building will be undertaken on Au-
gust 1.-Of the Grand Rapid (AIich.) Board
of Aldermen, composed of Is members 10 are
members of the Knights of Labor. All but
one of the city officials and every county Off
cial are Knights. The Knights of Labor in
Iowa are pushing organization vigorously
The largest locomotive boiler ever constructed
is under way at the West Albany shops-52-
inch shell Of ZIG Iron, with 225 tubes, and
weighs over tons.-A Philadelphia house
has just shipped turning MILL weighing Co.
600 pounds, to st. Petersburg, Russia.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Milwaukee cigarmaker's wife last week
gave birth to twins which from the hip to the
shoulder were a single body. Aside from this
and the absence Of one ear the babies
were of perfect development. They died soon
after BIRTH and the bodies have been preserved.
George VIM. Martini steward of the
brig Sarah Hobart, arrived in Newport Thurs
day last in the steamship City of Rome. He
says that while bound from Calcutta for New
York the brig was wrecked in cyclone off
Tamatave near Madagascar. on neutral ground.
The crew, except the second mate, was saved.
They were not permitted to go near the vessel,
were thrown into prison by Malagasays and
their clothing stolen. He wants damages from
the HovaS Government.-Sark ee So Lee Shar,
a Pawnee Indian, travelling with Buffalo Bills
Wild West Company, died at Narragansett Park,
on the 21st, of heart disease, and the Pawnees of
the company buried him in the Pocassett Gem
etery, with his head to the eastward. The
members of the band, in their own tongue adj
dressed the Great Spirit in behalf of their COM
Hill, of New York, has denied
the application for pardon of John O'Brien,
alias Robert Lindsey, of New York, convicted
of perjury in connection with the Garfield
Morey letter. and sentenced in April, 1881, to
eight years in Sing Sing.-Walt Whitman,
the poet, was Frustrated by sunstroke last week.
The deaths in Baltimore during the week
ending Sunday last were 31S the highest num-
Der ever reported, and u of them were from
cholera infantum.-Jay Gould left New York
Saturday last in his steam yacht the Atlanta,
for an extended trip among the Thousand Isles
Stanford estimates that his Cali
fornia vineyard will this year produce 100000
gallons of wine.-Leaveuworth, Kan, has
rendered a reception to young Kuhn, who
graduated at the head of the last West Point
class. His father is poor blacksmith of that
town, and he got his appointment by COM
petitive examination.-Maj.-G Gen. Franz Sigel
has been appointed Equity Clerk in the County
Clerks Office New York, at a salary of $4,000.
Bach of the iron girders to be used on the
statue of Liberty will weigh 10000 pounds
The trial of the half-breed Louis Riel, COM
at Regina, Canada, on the Goth. The
prisoner pleaded not guilty.