The National tribune., 1886-04-29
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| coming on Of mild weather the patronage of
the bridge increases the ferry company has
| discharged so men from its employ, and will
soou reduce the number of trips.-At mid
night on the 21st ult. 5000 employees of the
srsar refneries of the eastern district of
| Brooklyn struck because of noncompliance
Of the demands for more pay. - The
miners Of Luzerne, Lackawana and Lehigh
Counties Pa, are forming an organization
known as the Miners Protective Association.
II is at present very strong, and is rapidly in-
| creasing. IL is the intention of the miners on
| the LIST Of May to enforce the eight hour rule.
Oil has been discovered at Burts, Pa, and
. company has been formed for the purpose Of
developing the industry there.--The strik-
| ing drivers OF the Union Passenger Railway
Company, of Baltimore Nd, resumed work on
| the 22l at their old rates of $50 per day but
tie rev men who had taken their places dur
ing the strike we're discharged. -The busi-
ness failures throughout the country in the
seven days ending on the oath number for the
United States $50 and for Canada 25-a total
Of 19i as compared with total Of 1So last week.
The switchnens strike st Chicago mas
ended, and the men are again at work. The
Lake Shore Railroad Company has agreed to
send the non-Union men (the employment of
which csused the trouble) to some other point.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The bodies Of Eddie and Charles Klusmyer,
aged IL aud z, and Charles Kallobach, aged 10,
who disappeared from Quincy, ILL.,, last Sep
TENDER, and were thought to have been stolen,
were found last week buried in the sand on
the river bsnk. 1t is thought they were dig
ging csve in the sand bank, when it fell in on
them.-Municipal elections took place in
many Illinois towns Tuesday Of last week. and
in the majority of cases where the contest was
between license and no license the former was
victorious. At Joliet, Paxton, Urbana, Belyi-
dere, Rockford, Monmouth, Warren, Mount
Sterling and Lincoln, the license and high
license aldermen are now in the majority. At
Eennepin, Dwight, Anna, Monticello, Plano
and other small towns, where license or no
license was the issue, the Prohibitionists were
victorioCs.-A cooperative morocco factory
is to be built near Wilmington, Del, snd man
aged under the auspices Of the Knights of
Labor. Similar concerns are in operation in
Philadelphia and other places, and have been
enlinently successful.-Seyeral of the Oregon
engineers testified recently that the sinking Of
the steamer could have been prevented if the
hu!khead doors had been properly arranged.
Henry Z. Goodwin was convicted at Salem,
Mass, on tie goth for murder in TIE second
degree for shooting Albert d. Swami last
August. His sentence was Imprisonment for
Efe.-Miss Florence Morisini, who was week
before last bitten by dog supposed to be
rabid, has sailed for Europe to bs treated by
Pasteur.-A local option election in Aicorn
County, Miss, resulted in the defeat of the
"drys."-Great fires are raging in the noun
tains in the vicinity of TamaqUa, Pa.-Father
Abram j. Ryan, the "poet-priest of the South"
died at st. BOniface church, Louisville, KY, on
the 23d inst.-The total so far collected by
the Grant Monument Association is $120, GiS.75
-Congressman Houk was renominated for
Congress at Knoxville, Tenn, on the 22d inst.
by the Republican convention, having no oppo-
sition and receiving unanimous vote. This is
the first instance in Tennessee politics where
q man has received his fifth Congressional
nomination unanimously.-CaptW ". B. Sher-
wood, who has been in charge of dredger on
the Panama Canal, says the management of the
work on the canal is so bad-in regard to the
letting of contracts and lack Of discipline-that
unless change is made he does not believe the
work will ever be completed.--The manuvers
of the feet continued last week at Pensacola,
Fla, and were witnessed by great number of
people.-Constance 81 the famous Holstein
heifer of the Record Farm herd, died on the
owned by Mr. VIM. nj. Singerly, of the Phila-
delphia Record, and was valued at S., 900. Her
record of SO pounds of milk ia one day has
never been equaled by any two year old.-At
New Brunswick, n. j., Saturday last, Janeway
& Co. obtained verdict of $f79 500 against the
Pennsylvania Railroad for the destruction of
Janeway's wall paper factory, which was set on
fire Feb. z, 1885, by the burning oil from an oil
train wrecked in collision at New Brunswick.
The bodies of man and woman were found
near Clarksville Tenn, Saturday last, in q
hogshead left in a field by the receding waters
Of the Cumberland. The arms of the man had
been cut off, both bodies had been sawed in two,
and the skulls were missing.