Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-07-21
NEWS NOTES,
DOMESTIC.


The 400 rug weavers who have been Oh
strike at Philadelphia because their en-
poyers, John Bromley n Cons, refused to
lay off n learner, have returned to work
under protest.
Governor Algor has appointed Frank w.
Noble OF Detroit commissioner for Michigan
to the American position in London.
Mr.. William Reed while bathing in Flat
creek, near Shclbyvile, Tenn, few weeks
RSo, caught large water moccnsin, which
bit him on the thumb. A few days ago the
hand began to swell, followed by violent
fever Mr. Reed became delirous and
wanted TO bite every one who came near his
bed All the symptoms were similar to
those in cases Of hydrophobia, but he is get
ting we'll.
A portabl, engine on the farm of u. B.
Job at Alton junction, ILL.,, recently blew up.
Five men we badly wounded, three of them
fatally. The engine was torn to atoms, the
thrasGing machine and all the wheat ada
cent burnt up, and three or four horses were
killed.
A report from the West says that an I'M
mense cloud of grasShoppers settled down on
n wheat field in the vicinity of Sanborn, on
the Northern Pacific railway, and in very
short time cleared fifty acres OF every YES
tiage of grCenneSs. Several other heluS
were partially destroyed
The owners of the Monarch line of steam
ships in New York recently said: "We have
been trying the experiment on our line OF
sending steamers fom New York to China
by way of the Sucz canal, carrying general
cargo The experiment has been so success =
full that we are TO establish and extend the
scheme
One of Pmkcrton's men has seriously shot
q man at the Folty-third street crossing in
Chicago. The account received shows the
shooting TO have been almost unprovoked.
The Thomas Tunis Box Manufacturing
Company's extensive works at Philadelphia
have been totally destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
Workmen engaged in making excavations
in New York city have mcarthed the skelo-
ton of a man who, when living was seven
feet tall The body was evidently buried
naked many years ago, and was doubled up.
Tho liabilities of De Rivera Il Co., sugar
refiners of New York, are thought TO be
,bout $4,000 Mr.. De Rivera, who is in
Montreal, is interested in Vermont marble
and slate larricS.
Tie striking coal miners at Grape Creek,
ILL.,, are iubilant at having driven of q gang
OF negroes who went to tax their places.
At a recent meeting of New York dry
goods merchants an organization was formed
for thepurpose Of cfccting q reduction of
west bound freight rates.
Auditor Brown of Iowa has been acquitted
by the state senate sitting as court Of inn
parchment.
Maxwell, for the murder of Preler, is sen
tencelto be executed on the 18th Of August
Fire broke out in the Wagar Lumber
Company'S mill at Fish creek, southeast of
Stanton, Mich, destroying $4,000 worth of
lumber. Insurance, SjD,OO y.
The Provilcnt Savings bank Of St. Louis
has suspended payments AMI mai, an as
Segment. TIL prcsid mt of the Bank of
Commerce has been appointed receiver for
thcdefunct in tituioN. The officials of the
bank say they will he able to ply in full.
Almond Thompson, the cashier, is missing.
Liabilities, $4,000.
DR.. Norwin Green, president Of the West
ern Union Telegraph company, mas joined
the board of directors of the Forthcoming
American exhibition in London us vice
president of the general council.
The Edgar Thompson Steel Works COM
pany of Plttshurg, Pa, have announced that
they will not sim thu furnace mems scale,
allowing an advance of 20 per cent in wages.
1t is CLAIMED that the anarchists have at
tempted to bride the Chicago Jury which is
irving Spies, Fielding and Parsons.
Two hundred acres of CranbCrricS i'll Wis
consin have been burned, causing a loss of
$4,000.
The convicts employed in the mines of the
Dade Coal and Iron company in Georgia are
in a state of revolt. 1t is said to be proposed
to starve them into submission or to shoot
the ringleaders,