The gale., 1888-02-17
WEEKLY GLEANINGS.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES CAREFULLY
COMPLIED.
An Interesting Budget of General In
formation.

ILL., (the largest in the Vest, was DC
stroycd by fire.
Fifteen hundred cotton operators arc
on strike at Cornwall, Ontario, ON ac'
count of a reduction in wages.
Archbishop Walsh will lay the founda-
tion stone of the National Irish C.urcE
of st. Patrick, at Rome, staly.
Latest reports from Manitoba Indicate
that there has been great oss OF life on
the Canadian Pacific owing to snow
slides.
The private bank of W. ii. Gutter,
called the "Guelph bank company" s'ls-
pended payment recently at Guelph, On
tario.
The absorption of the Whitney Arms
Company by the Winchester Repeating
Arms Company, of New Haven, Conn,
is believed to be the beginning of a series
of such combinations resulting in fire
arms trust.
The Nat opal Tube Works Company,
of McKeesport, Pa, employing 1900
men, have posted notice ordering a re-
employees. Ii the reduction is not ac-
cepted the firm will shut down.
! The carpenters of Pittsburg, Pa, have
notified employers that on the first OF
May they will make a demand for an adj
vance of ten per cent. i'll wages and the
employers say that the demand will cause
a suspension of business.
Eugene Zimmerman, formerly direc-
tor of the Fidelity National Bank at
Cincihnati, Ohio, who was in Europe
when he was indicted by the United
States grand jury for completely in the
wrong transactions in that bank, has re-
turned.
Ex-Lord Mayor Sullivan, of Dublin,
Ireland, was released from Tullamore
prison the other day after two months
confinement. A large crowd was gath
cred in front of the building and greeted
Mr.. Sullivan with great enthusiasm, and
he afterwards received addresses from
various delegations.
A man named Fitz Maurice, who re-
Gently ytook farm near Tralcc, County
Kerry. Ireland, from which two brothers
had been evicted was. going to market,
when he was approached by the two
brothers, who shook hands with him, as
if to make sure of his identity, and then
shot him fatally with revolvers
The limited express west bound on the
Pan Handle railroad, ran into an open
switch at Urbana, Ohio, and colided with
o switch engine Both engines were
badly wrecked. Frank Brown, engineer,
and Charles M. Alband, fireman of the
passenger locomotive and Frank Shade,
roadmaster, were killed.
VIM. Mcfarland, one of the Oldest
actors in the country, died in the county
Jail, at Minneapolis, Mimi, where he was
awaiting examination as to his sanity.
Intcmperancc had made him wreck
Mcfarland had supported Macrcady, the
elder Booth and Forrest, and other noted
stars of former generation.
About 5000 men, women and girls,
employed in the shoe manufacturing bus
iness, are locked out in Cincinnati, Ohio
The manufacturers agreed upon this
course of action. The origin of the
trouble was the keeping back of the
wages of twelve girls in Blocker, Gerstle
& Co.'S mauufactory recently, which the
firm claimed had been paid them inn
properly by mistake in estimating their
work.
The incendiary who set fire to the nos
pital for Ruptured and Crippled Children
on Forty second street and Lexington
avenue, in New York city, has been dis
covered in the person of a pretty, mild
hammered little girl of II years, named
May Wilson. She has been in the hos
pital nearly three years, suffering from a
wry neck. She was about to be sent
hDrx AZ
was discovered.
The Assembly chamber, in the Capitol
at Albany, N. Y, is about to be vacated.
The authorities have discovered many
serious movements of stone in the grand
arch, all of the main ribs of the vault
split, and many of the stones cracked
clear through. The whole ceiling is de-
clared to be in dangerous coptlition.
The time must come soon, they say, when,
without warning, the whole ceiling will
fall, and recommend that the whole As
sembly wing of the capitol be vacated at
once.
Burglaries have been If almost nightly
occurrence in the western addition one
of the most fashionable quarters OF the
city of San Francisco, Cal, and the rcs;
uehtS nave appcaleu 70 tne cllel Ol ponce
for additional protection A burglar
entered the house Of Chief of Police
Crowley, while he was asleep, and stole
| 81, 500 worth of jcwclry from his wife's
room. Mrs. Crowley was aroused lust in
time TO see the thict jumping from front
window.
When the men employed at Glendower
collicry, near Minersvillc, Pa. came out
from work recently, they were met at The
mouth Of heslopc by large crowd Of We
men from the adjacent Heckshervillc val
ley, who besought them to stand BY .thcii
stsikirr brethren, and offered, if tbev
would, ito share their last crust with
| them" As an earnest of their good
faith, the women offered them substant al
contributions, which they had brought
with them, consisting of bread, meat and
potatoes. Little or no attention was paid
to this novel appeal.
Express train No. s, onthe New York,
Pennsylvania 81 Ohio Railroad, was
thrown from the track by broken frog,
while passing S'eamburg Station, N. Y
The engine and the first two cars passed