The National tribune., 1885-10-22

police, while looking for gang of burglars at
Arctic restaurant, a thieves resort, Thursday
night last, had desperate fight with the gang.
Two of the burglars were shot, one, Charles
Strong, fatally, and other persons were injured.
john w. Coffee was hanged at Crawfords-
vile, Ind, on Friday last for the murder of an
old man named McMullen and his wife last
January. Coffee burned the house after the
murder. The rope broke twice. Jas. Dennis
was also sentenced to be hanged for the same
murder, but has been granted new trial.
Annie E. Cutler, the young colored woman who
pleaded guilty in May last to q bill charging
her with murder in causing the death of her
false lover, VIM. II. Knight, a colored waiter,
by shooting him in Philadelphia on the even
ing of the 22d of April, was last week sentenced
by Judge Mitchell to be hanged.
INDUSTRIAL.
There is some talk of 100000 paper mill
company being organized in Waycross, Ca
The Edison Electric Light Company, Dallas,
Tex, have signed contract agreeing to erect a
$3.50, 600 plant in that city.-The Bureau of
Statistics reports that during September the
exports of cotton from the United States were
123,S91 bales, or 81, 1869 pounds, valued at
Sc, 257 226. September last year, I26, 1SS bales,
81, 3SJ COS pounds, $685., 159.-What with
lIupEONSu Istooi Viz d'ci-
age cost of harvesting grain in California Is less
than it has ever been. One farmer, in the San
Joaquin Valley, pays four cents sack for har-
vesting his crop. Under old methods the cost
of thrashing alone has been as high as Is cents.
1t is predicted that the pineapple crop of
Florida will soon be more important than the
orange crop. Much of the scrub and palmetto
lands of South Florida have been utilized for
pineapple cultivation, and all engaged in the
growing of this fruit in Brcvard and Dade
Counties are much pleased with the years yield
and are hopeful of the future.-The cotton
mills at Woodbury., n. c., four in number, CIV
ing employment to upwards of ., 900 operatives
have commenced work on full time.-Sam
pies of Birmingham (Ala.) iron ore and coke
have been requested by manufacturers in Bel
GUM, and are being prepared for Shipment
The green glass bottle manufacturers of the
United States, in session in Pittsburg, have
decided, in view of the depressed condition of
trade, that reduction of from 10 to 10 per
cent. in wages is an absolute nCcessity.--Ihe
business failures throughout the country dur
ing the seven days ending Oct. II number for
the United States l39, and for Canada q.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Illinois Live Stock Commission declare
pleuro- pneumonia epidemic in Baltimore and
Prince Georges Counties, Md; Fairfax and
Loudoun Counties, Va; New Castle County,
Del; Jefferson County, w. Va; the District of
Columbia, and parts of New York, New Jersey
and kentucky.-Lewis Webster, who MUIR
dered Perry Harrington at Geneva, O., Dec. II,
last, was sentenced last week to be hanged on
Feb. g. 1886. Webster has been convicted twice
of this crime.-The enormous extent to which
not only food and drink, but almost everything
in use is being systematically adulterated at
present is brought to public notice in start
ling manner by the publication in Germany of
an illustrated Lexicon of Adulterants."
The first issue does not exhaust the letter b,
although it consists of 100 pages-Said an
Iowa Judge the other day: But for the house
wives of the United States there could be no
tramps, and any woman who feeds one ought to
be sent to Jail for 80 days."-Chas. Downs,
three-year man in the Ohio penitentiary, tired
of work, deliberately placed his left hand on
block and chopped three of his fingers off. He
was employed in the bolt shop, and took this
means to secure a rest.-In settlement Of
Swedes at Belgrade Mimi woman who has
been sick three years accuses her aunt of
witchcraft. The Swedish Church has held
trial, but it has not been determined what viii
be done.-The receipt Of the Brooklyn bridge
for September amounted to $55, 5t2, the largest
months receipts since its opening-Dr. Chas.
g. Am Ende, the Hoboken druggist who by
mistake substituted morphine fo- quinine and
caused the death Of two daughters of G. +.
Holtz, of Hoboken, was arragned in Jersey
City last week on an indictment for nlanslaugh-
ter. be pleaded not guilty, and was admitted
to bail in s., 5G0.-ThomaS Atkinson burner
in 4 Chicago brick-yard, has fallen heir TO one
half the estate OF Joshua Bowers, his uncle,
who died at Hounsted, near Leeds, Eng.
thirty-one years ago. The estate was be-
queathed to Atkinson and another nephew,
Lieut.. Robt. Wood, of the British navy, in equal
parts. The property is worth $500 0G0.-The
District Attorneys Office in New York, aided
by detectives, have discovered in five down
town assembly districts scheme for the colon
ization of tramps for election purposes.-At
Hoboken, n. J., on Saturday last, Teresa Descari
was arrested in company with two Italians,
with whom she had eloped. Her husband Wis
tied her in her cell and they tried to hang
themselves. Being cut down, they were allowed
to depart together.