The Monitor., 1885-06-26
GENERAL NEWS.

was $50, 100, ,00S less than in 1888.
An insect called the ''dumb locust in
that region, is reported to be committing
ravages ON apple trees" in Southwestern
Virginia and killing hundreds OF the trees.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company as
soon as their works are completed will
light all their cars by electricity. Storage
batteries will be attached to every train
and the incandescent arc lights will be
used.
The b. & o. r. r. it is now said will
enter Philadelphia within six months.
The entrance will be effected through the
Sehuylkill River East Side Road and Bridge
over the river and connect with the Read
ing road.
1t is estimated that the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad will expend $1,000, 600 in
the right of way and construction of their
new line through the city of Philadelphia,
and will furnish employment to 5000 men
during the progress of the work.
George w Dent, brother-in-aw of
General Grant, received letter from Pres
ident Cleveland on Monday, notifying him
of his suspension from the office of Ap-
praiser at the Custom House in San Fran
| cisco. Thomas Beck, who was recently
appointed, will succeed him.
The miners OF Soddy Coal Mine at Chat
tanooga 300 in number who struck three
weeks ago resumed woik OH Monday at
the reduction. The price agreed on is go
cents per ton. and the sliding scale is ac-
cepted for the adjustment Of wages. A
three years contract has been signed.
Lem Jones, dsreputablc sot, of Spring
| Place, Murray county, Ga, who has per-
sistently refused to provide for his family,
was taken from his home on Saturday
night, and terribly hogged by party of
twenty masked men, He was told that if
he did not do better the dose would be re-
peated.
\ wonderful escape from instant death
occurred in Rochester. n. V. on Saturday
last. The two-year old daughter of John
Ward fell from fourth-story window into
the basement, distance of seventy feet
She was picked up and found to be con-
siderably frightened but no bones were
broken and no severe injuries sustained.
Charles A. Buddensiek, the builder
whose row of buildings on West Sixty
second street, New York, fell in a heap on
April 13 and caused the death of Louis
Walters a framer at work on the build
ings, and who was recently convicted of
manslaughter in the second degree. was
sentenced ON Tuesday by Recorder Smyth
to ten years Imprisonment and To pay a fine
of $500.
BY the first of July every iron and steel
mill in Pittsburg and vicinity with one
exception. will be using natural gas as
fuel This will reduce the consumption
of coal 3S, 2j0 600 bushels per annum. or
one-seventh of the yearly output of the
region tributary to Pittsburg. 1t will also
throw out of employment thousands of
firemen, coal beavers and ash haulers en-
ployed in the mills.
The Indian Orchard Mills, of Springfield
Massachusetts, shut down this week for
two months. They have not been idle for
so long a period since 1857. They have
=. 600. 600 yards of cotton in the storehouse
and as much more in the hands of com
mission merchants. They employ 800
hands, and will give employees who live in
the corporations - tenement houses their
rent free till tie mills start, September T.
Antonia Accetta, of Catskill who was ar
rested in Cleveland, on the charge of at
tempting to defraud insurance companies
was brought to Philadelphia on Tuesday
He effected the insurance in January last
in Catskill and ON June s went out fishing
and either fell or jumped from the boat.
Nothing more was seen Of him till he was
arrested Tuesday He was insured in the
Fidelity Mutual of Philadelphia for $40, 600
and in the New England Mutual of Boston
for 81, 600
Thomas Knott, a stone cutter, who lives
in Dayton KY, when on the middle of the
Newport and Cincinnati Railway bridge
last Monday, suddenly jumped over and
descended to deep water in the river 10j
feet below. He was unhurt. and began to
swim at once for dear life Some boatmeu
picked him up and brought him ashore
He says he was not attempting suicide,
but jumped from a sudden impulse. He
was sober, and was returning from Cincin-
natl where he had sought in vain for
work.
The situation at Plymouth, Penna., was
reported better on Monday than for week
past. Three patients were admitted to the
hospital and two Were discharged. No
deaths We're reported. The report of the
Relief Committee for the week ending
Monday evening is as follows: Sick, 2G2;
destitute families, 1877 deaths, 5;new cases,
"a; recovered, Ga: cases now in hospital,
39 discharged during the week, l3; deaths,
2: admissions, II. Total subscriptions
received by Treasurer to date 923. 24s 81:
expenditures. sl4 900.