The National tribune., 1886-02-11

| for missing valuabes. Much of the stolen prop
| erty was found in Barnett's house-By fall
of top coal in Nod collery at Stockton, Pa, on
| Friday afternoon last, Charles Bray was in
| stantly killed and Charles Garahan fatally in
| juTed.-At Austinhurg, O., Chaunccy Pierce,
respected farmer aged IS years, laid down on
his bed Friday last, placed the muzzle of a re-
volver in his mouth and pulled the trigger,
| killing himself instantly. His wife had begun
| proceedings for divorce, and this fact is sup
posed to have caused the deed.-Jas. Clarke,
a prisoner serving n seven years sentence in
the Riverside Pcnitentiary, Pi;tsburg, Pa, was
ordered to the dungeon for an infraction OF the
rules on Friday last. While being conducted
there he stabbed Deputy Keepers McKain and
GreaveS. Deputy Edwards who came to the
assistance of the other keepers, was knocked
down and beat and kicked by Clarke in a
frightful manner. The guards overpowered
Clarke and took him TO the dungeon. Mckain
was dangerously and Grcaycs and Edwards Sc
riously wounded.-Rowland Reed, colored,
Is years Of age has been convicted at Winches-
ter, Va, of the murder of his younger brother,
and his punishment fixed at nine years il the
penitcntiary.-At Edgerton, O., Thursday
night last, sleighing party of Ii persons be-
came confused while crossing 4 railroad track
!, in front of an approaching train The loco
motive struck the sleigh, injuriug William
Harker fatally and five Others seriously
Mrs Carrie Howard, comeiy woman of grace
ful figure and bearing about 81 years of age,
was acquitted at Morrisville n. Y, on Friday
last of the charge of numbering her husband
Albert ID. Howard, who died at Peterborough
Dec. 4, 1884. In discharging the prisoner Judge
Martin indicated his displeasure at the verdict
John Kief, blacksmith, who continued to live
in the Howard mansion after Mr.. Towards
death, will have separate trial for the same
crime.-Geo Jackson, n large manufacturer
and very wealthy man, of Paterson, n. j.,
was last week sentenced to confinement in State
prison for one year and to pay fine of 81 600
and costs for shooting at VIM. Schauz man
with whom he had quarrcled. SchauZ was not
injured. Cooley, farmer, residing
three miles from McGregor. Iowa, with his
entire family, consisting of his wife, two boys
and little girl, were burned to death in their
house on Thursday night last.-Geo. Cuff,
who killed Richard duffy at Carbondale, Pa,
last Summer over game of cards, and who
escaped conviction former trial by dis
agreement of the jury, entered plea of guilty
on being again brought up for trial last Friday.
The judge fixed the crime at murder in the
second degree, and sentenced the prisoner to
six years in the penitentiary.-JO Hard
sock, of Ellen Grove, Pa, was killed on the 9Th
inst. by the accidental discharge of his gun.
The top Of his head was literally torn to pieces.
An $4,000 fire occurred at Greenville, S.
c., on the 9Th inst.-The Rev. Father VIM.
Fennelly, pastor of Roman Catholic church
at Oneida, \. y, for 20 years. was struck by
the cars at that place Sunday last and died
within half an hour. Father Fennelly was Sc
years old.-The wife of J. X. Whitelaw, a
wealthy farmer of Jackson, Tenn, set fire to
her house Saturday night last and was burned
to death. She had been insane, and occupied
a separate house from her family.-The Day
ton organ factory, at Dayton, Rockingham Co.,
Va, was burned Friday last; loss $20,000-no
insurance. Nothing was saved but the engine.
Mrs. Marc Branbher, so years DID, commit
ted suicide Saturday last by jumping from the
center span of High Bridge into the Harlem
River, at New York. She was made desperate
by long continued illness
INDUSTRIAL.
The street railway strikes in New York city
have been successful. the increase in wages
which the men demanded having been granted.
Representative of leading silk manufac-
turing firms of the United States at a meeting
in New York on the I'd inst. decided to adj
vance the price of silk thread and twist 10 per
cent There was disposition to stop the Civ
ing of cabinets to merchants.-The Tobacco
Association of Dauvilllc, Va, report the sales
of leaf tobacco for the last month at 1640, eco
pounds at an average of 1913 cents against
5596,0O0 pounds at an average of 1913 cents
for the preceding January. The sales for
the last four months amounted to $4,000
pounds as against 9,S0l, 600 pounds for the
corresponding period last year. The re-
ceipts have been of an inferior character,
and there has been almost a panic among
the planters owing to the low prices.-
Z. II. Coates & Co., Of Philadelphia. have de-
termncd TO erect ten thousand spindle yarn
mill on the bank of the Augusta (Ga.) canal,
and have closed the contract with the city for
water power. The mill will employ $50 hands,
and Will be incorporated in six months. This
will make the fifth yarn mill in that city
The great strike in the coke regions Of Penn
sylvania is likely to cause coke famine. A
great number OF the strikers are Hungarians,
and it is probable that a great many will return
to their native country. The action Of the
strikers in refusing TO dig coal for the engines,
has caused the operators to retaliate by refus-
ing to allow the strikers TO take any coal from
the bins, and it is expected that in a few days
hundreds Of families will be without fuel. The
Hunglriaus still hold on to their dwellings In
one instance at Scottd2le the goods Of one family
were thrown out into the snow during the abb
scnce Of the occupants. Writs of ejectment
have been issued at Greensburg, but Sheriff
Stewart has refused to evict the strikers while
the cold weather lasts. He says if the opera
tors want the Hungarians turned out they must
do it themselves. In some places the evictions
have taken place. Near Pittsburg a generous
miller named Richard Barton was present at one
Of the evictions with his team AID wagon, and
as fast as the Sherif's officers took the furn-
turc of the strikers from the houses he had it
put into his wagon and hauled to his mill,
whore he has now six families quartered The
people of UniontOwn and the farmers of the
surrounding country are being solicited to aid
the strikers with food, and they are contribut-
ing literally. Between $50 and 300 German
and Irish laborers have arrived on the grounds
TO take the places Of the strikers, who in some
instances are showing signs of weakening but
at most points they seem IS determined as ever
to stand out for their rights.-The Pittsburg
Touring mills at Minneapolis divided $50, 900
surplus profits among 100 employees last year.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Thomas A. Edison, the famous inventor is
about to be married TO Miss Nina Miller, the
daughter Of wealthy manufacturer of Akron,
o. The wedding will occur on the 2ith.-
Harry Hill, the well-known proprietor of one of
the vilest dens in New York, says that he has
since last Summer, when his license to sell
liquor was revoked, been paying $50 to 800 to
Detective Moran, who said the money must be