The National tribune., 1886-02-25
ment in favor of establishing eight hours as a
days work.

days work.
MISCELLANEOUS
young Indian named Red Eagle, on his
way from the Indian Training School at Phila-
deIphia TO his home at Pine Ridge Agency,
OAK, died at the Northwestern Railway Sta
tion in Chicago. H., on the 18th, of consump-
tion.-Richard +. Stanton, wealthy con-
tractor and near relative of Edwin NJ. STAN
ton, Secretary of War under President Lincoln,
died at Bridgeport, Conn, Tuesday.-Mr.
John Leyeridge, probably the oldest lawyer in
New York city, died Thursday last, aged 94
years He was Corporation Counsel in 1S44-45.
a number of public schools near Reading,
Pa, have been compelled to close on account of
diphthera and scarlet fever. OF 40 pupils in
one school all are on the sick list except three.
Thomas jackson, colored, who is reputed
TO be over 10i years old. died at Reading Pa,
last week. He is said TO have been slave and
earned his freedom from Gen. Jackson, after
whom he was named.-John Ahearn, who
had been convicted OF bigamy at Scranton. Pa,
died on his way to the penitentiary at Phila-
delphia. He was sbackied TO a horse thief
named Levi Snyder, and suddenly laying his
head on his fellow -conyict's shoulder, instantly
xpired.-The ice harvest on the Hudson IS
estimated at 3,O00,O tons this year.-Mrs.
John II. Martin. of indianapolis, applied to the
police of that city last week for information of
her husband, who, she said, was arrested and
-
The police knew nothing of it, and 1t Is sup
posed the men played policemen to get his
money. Mr.. Martin has not been seen since.
"A young man, who gave the name of Wm
Rutherford, was found Thursday last with both
feet frozen in a freight car on the New York
Central Railroad at New York. He said he had
crawled into the car at Buffalo five days before
to ride to New York and had been locked in.
The feet Will probably have to be amputated.
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tenantless in Chicago because of ghost stories
about them. --A Anna Webster, of Morgan
County, O., was last week awarded S3,400
damages in her suit against George Williams,
Of Morgan County, o., for breach of promise OF
marriage, at Columbus. O-The night watch
man at the Indiana Pa Jail, in his rounds at
12 o'clock Wednesday ght of last week, stop
ped at the cells OF Derr and Wilson, confined
for illegal liquor selling, and partook freely of
dragged liquor. He became insensibe, when the
prisoners took the keys aid eScaped.-An
alarming epidemic exists among people along
Bernhardt's Greek, near Reading. Pa, thought
to be caused by chemical waste from dyna-
mite factory flowing into the water. which IS
used by the people aflected.-The Rev. }. Ia.
Swift, divine of the Christian Church at
Livingston, Overton Co, Tenn, eloped last
week with woman named Eliza Harris. MIR.
Swift leaves a large family.-Workmen last
week replaced the iron fencing which Enclosed
the Andre stone at Tappan, \. Y. From what
can be learned the stone is soon to be reset and
the present inscription to Be etfaced.--The
Legislature of Connecticut has just appropri-
ated $4,000 to build monument to Gen. Israel
Putnam, of Revolutionary fame.-Henry
Johnson, bachelor and hermit, died Saturday
last near Norristown, Pa. Though well-to-do,
he was miserly. and was badly frozen during
the last cold spell because of his neglect to pro-
vide himself with fuel.-The experiment of
closing theaterS on Sunday in Cincinnati, be-
gun two weeks ago. is working satisfactorily
in theaters where no liquor is sold. Manager
Rainforth, OF the Grand Opera House, says his
receipts are as large if not larger, than when
they played on Sunday, and they have one
nights expenses iess.-At Anita, Iowa. Friday
last Miss Grace Hendricks, relative of the
late ce-President Hendricks, publicly cow
hided II. l.. Brown, a leading member of the
Congregational Church. 1t is charged that
Brown coupled the name of Miss Hendricks
with that of young man about town in a
slanderous manner-Yai Duck, the Chinese
cook, who murdered Mr.. Wickersham and his
wife, near Cloverdale, Cal, was arrested at
Yokohama, Japan, on the arrival there of the
steamer Rio last week. More than COO col
ored men have left New Orleans during the
past week for Panama where they will work
on the canal.-Brooklyn, N Y, has adopted
a design for a soldiers monument The cost is
to be S500,000, aud it Will be completed in six
or seven years perhaps.