The National tribune., 1886-04-22

married Dora Newman, domestic employed
| there. On Friday following he demanded her
| to leave the institution, which she declined to
| do, whereupon he blew out his brains in her
presence-The residence of John Douthette,
near Xenia, o., was burned Saturday night
| last, and Mr.. and Mrs. Douthette, an old couple,
| were burned to death. Charles Morris, for
mer employee, has been arrested. 1t is thought
| he murdered the couple for purposes Of robbery
and then fred the house.-The bodies of Mrs.
Bridget Rowe, aged AZ, and her daughter,
| Lizzie Reed, aged 25 were found Saturday last
near Metuchen, n. J. 1t is supposed they
were frozen to death last January
Mrs. Sarah 4. Pooler, of Cory, Pa, was exam
ined last week on the charge of having muir
| dered her daughters child. The woman de-
clared that the child had died natural death,
| but che refused to disclose the place where it
! was buried. The court was adjourned, as the
| body could not be found to support the charge,
| but the woman was remanded to prison while
| the search was renewed.-Two daughters Of
| Mr. Marabe, Charles City County, Va, were
! fatally burned few days ago by the explosion
of can of coal oil with which little son of
Marable was attempting to kindle fire.
| Edward Bagley and Alfred Twoomey, aged re-
spectively 10 and 81 years, had prize fight at
| Somervjlle, Mass, on Saturday last. Bagley
was beaten so badly during the contest that he
died few hours afterward.
! INDUSTRIAL.
Sixty switchmen struck on the Baltimore &
| Ohio Railroad in Chicago last week, putting an
entire stop to the freight traffic.-Street cars
are now running by electricity in Montgomery,
| Als-The strike ut the coke works of Nc
| Clure & Co, of Pittsburg. Pa. has ended. the
strikers getting all they demanded. Over 1,G00
men have returned to work. Every mine row
| in the coke region is commencing to pay the
| increase demanded by the strikers, and the
coke ovens are being put again into active op-
Grafton throughout the entire section.-One
hundred and seventy winders iii the rattan
works of Haywood Brothers & Co, at Gardiner,
| Mass. are out on s:rille.-Nearly 2, 600 men
| employed in the warehouses in Brooklyn n.
| V, struck for an advance os pay early last
week. A few days afterward the demand WAS
granted and work resumed.-hbout $50 har-
nessmakers in the employ OF n. J. Demorest
& Co., E. F. Beck & Son, and the Peters & CAL
| houn Co, of Newark, n. j., have struck for
restoration of old wages Adyices from Bati-
more are to the effect that the harnessmakers
Of that city will take similar action.-Cigar-
makers Unions II and 15 with a total men,
bership of l, 125, held a meeting in Chicago
| Wednesday night last week aud decided to
join the Knights of Labor in a body. and to go
upon strike next week for an advance of
| S1.25 per thousand for bunch breaking and
rolling. At present the bunch breakers and
| rollers get $6.25 and cigarmakers $7.50.-The
| failures in the country during the seven days
!
155. and for Canada 27.-C. p Huntington
will build the projected bridge across the Ohio
| River at Cincinnati, connecting the latter with
| Covington. The bridge will be of iron and
steel. supported by five piers. 1t will be
| splendid bridge, with two railroad tracks
wagon ana foot way for pedestrians, and will
cost $780, 00.-The Bigelow Carpet Co., of
| Clinton, Mass, have closed on account threats
Of the strikers. The payroll OF the company
amounts 10 about $4,000 per month OF the
| 1000 hands thrown out of employment so arc
striking dyers.-Most of the cigar factories
at Terre Hill, Lancaster Co., Pa, which sus-
| pended several weeks ago on account of union-
labor trouble, resumed work OF Monday last
Engineer Bradley, Of Woburn, Mass, who
| on being refused an advance of wages, stopped
| his engine-on Wednesday last thereby caused
shutdown in John p Crane & Co.'s shoe fac
| tory, has been ordered back by the Executive
| Committee of the knights of Labor.
MISCELLANEOUS.
| The United States Government has ordered
! the purchase of foreign ships for the carrying
trade, ana many of the surplus English vessels
viii now fud market in this country
Last week naval review was held near PEN
sacola, Fla. The manuvers Of the vessels
were very interesting. A torpedo drill was
| gone through with great credit, and showed
great efficiency on the part of the men.--A
/ bitter fight is going on in Virgi over the
! local option law. In some OF the towns there
| have been fights between the different factions.
| Ii some instances families and churches are
| divided Most of the business men in Inc
| State are for whisky. and large meetings are
| held in different parts of the State for and
| against the law.-John ii. Noyes, the founder
of the Oneida Community of Free Lovers, died
at Niagra Falls on Tuesday of last week.
| The Rhode Island House of Delegates has
| passed resolutions congratulatiDg Gladstone
filn fStlTl fhn,y hoy bon
| towards the liberation of Ireland.-All the
| New York Alderman who were interested in
| the great Broadway Railway scheme have
come to grief. With the exception of several
| who have left the country, all are now under
constructive arrest, being ont in the sum of
| So, 600 each.-Porticns of wrecked schooner
have beer found near Sag Harbor, n. 7. No
| clew could be found as to the name of the
schooner, but it is thought to be the vessel
| which wrecked the Oregon. The Oregon will
cow, in all probabilities be left il the bottom of
the ocean, it being demonstrated beyond doubt
| th8t she is too badly injured to be raised
| Great excitement exists among the fishermen
/ on the New England coast in regard to the I'M
| friendly attitude OF the DOninion Government
] towards them. Many VESTS are putting into
Canadian ports and express their determination
| OF buying bait whenever and wherever they
| please aud risking seizure.-A strike COM
menced last week among the drivers and con-
| dactor5 of the street cars III Baltimore Nearly
| ali the cars have stopped running, and great
| inconvenience is caused to business thereby. i
| large police force is kept OF hand to suppress
any riotc1s demonstrations.-Fre May, who
some years ego was brought prominently before
| the public by sham duel with James Gordon
| Bennett, of the New York Herald, was arrested
with friend in New York last week for up
setting ash barrels The pair were fined S. in
| the police court.-Mr. Lawrence Barrett is
| playing successful four weeks engagement in
| New Orleans.-The sons of the late VIM. II.
| Vanderbilt have given $3.50, 600 to the College
| of Physicians and Surgeons in New York for a
memorial bailding to their father. to be known
IS THE Vanderbilt Clinic OF the College of
| Physicians and Surgeons "-Arbor day was
observed in Lancaster City and County, Pa,
on the 18th, by the planting Of hundreds of
trees, vines snd shruhs.-Pearsall Dorlon, an
| extensive land Owner in Hampstead, n. Y, has
| begun an action against the city of Brooklyn
| for $4,000 damages for toe loss of trout pond
| on mis- premises, which, he claims, has been
dried up through the pum7ng of water for the
| Brooklyn water works one of whose driven
| well pumping atations is located near him.
This action is but one of many which will
| shortly be begun or similar grounds by farmers
and others.--The will of the late Ann Jane
| Mercer, of Philadelphia, bequeatls her estate
| in Montgomery County, known as The
| Mount" as home for the support of old or in
firm Presbyterian clergymen who DO not use to-
bacco in shy form or shape, and 100000 to