Hillsboro recorder., 1888-03-08
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prevailing in northern Italy. sa@ri 4.
A slight shock Of earthquake was felt
at San Francisco.
The Porte has rejected Russia's sugges.
tion that Turkish troops occupy Bulga-
ria. @7
The Gloucester, Mass, Council has
passed resolutions protesting against the
| ratification Of the fisheries treaty.
sCiars rodfsc Kclf6sg fs suiferiihSe
badly, at Fishkill, N. Y, from bronchi
tbs, complicated with whooping- cough. .
Disorders in St. Petersburg have been
revived Students hissed Rector Ylad-
islavoff while he was delivering lecture.
Surgeons at San Reno now take q
| gloomy view of the Crown Princes con-
dition, owing to the depression exhibited
by him. - Il =
The village of Voltorta, in the north Of
Italy, has been half buried by an ava
lanche. Twenty-three corpses have been
recovered. Il .
N 0'Brien, Of Cork, who was SEN
fenced to fourteen days Imprisonment on
the charge of assaulting apolice sergeant,
was released.
Five shares of the New York Sun Pub
fishing company, par value 81 900 each,
were sold at the New York real estate ex.
change, for $3,350 each. - s
George II. Clark & Co., hat jobbers, the
oldest, and until recently, the largest in
businessin New York, suspended. They
recently claimed to be worth 100000.
The roof of nearly completed hoiel
NJ Kansas City collapsed and crushed
through eight stories to the ground. One
workman was killed and about dozen
injured.
Dispatches from Massowah says King
John, with Rasslula and large army, is
advancing upon the Italians, and that the
advance grard arrived at Osmara to pre-
pare quarters for King John.
A panic was caused in Jewish syna-
gogue in Warsaw, Poland, by false
alarm of fire, and in the struggle to es-
cape, four women were killed and six
teen other persons seriously injured. 4
The trust investigation was resumed in
New York City. The envelope trust and
storage trust received brief attention by
the committee. The committee is in dai-
ly receipt, they say, Of information Of in
Vulnerable kinds Of trusts, the latest of
which appear TO bein the glass and match
trades.
A strike of the furnace employees Of the
Edgar Thompson steel works, in Pitts.
burg, Pa, against reduction Of ten per
cent in wages was inaugurated. All the
men quit work, and the company is now
banking the furnaces. A protracted
struggle is expected, as the masters are
determined TO make no more concessions.
and the men are equally firm in the stand
they have taken.
The Union Square theatre, with all lis
contents, in. New York City, was dies.
troyed by fire. The Morton house, all
joining on two sides, was badly damaged,
and The Star theatre was in imminent
danger for some time, but 1t received no
damage, except TO its interior decorations
from smoke. Five firemen were injured
by falling iimbers, but not fatally. The
Henrietta company had finished rehear-
sal only few minutes before the fire
broke ont.
The Union Pacific fast train, known rs
the 'Flycr," collided with freight train
at Colton, Neb. The engineer Of the
s'Flyera was instantly killed, and eigh-
teen people wounded. The freight,
which was pulling into a side track,
struck the third car from the caboose.
The car WIS loaded with bcnzcin. The
entire car was in flames. Engineer
Michael Powell, Of Cheyenne, who was
running the 'sFlyer," stood at his post
and was crushed TO death.
| Another great fire, involving loss Of
a quarter Of million dollars, occurred al
Buffalo, N. Y. The chief sufferers are:
James Il. Curtiss, gloves and mittcns, a
and 10 Exchange street; Bickford *
Francis, leather merchants; the ticket
offices Of the Michigan Central railroad,
and the Offices Of the freight agent Of the
same road, the Express newspaper, Mat.
thews & Northmp, printing and litho.
graphic works, the Empire fast freight
line, the Buffalo uph0lstering company's
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II. Thompson, and the Queen City shirt
manufacturing company.
As the steamer Julia, plying between
| South Vallejo and Vallejo station, Cal,
was about to start from South Vallejo,
she blew up. She had about 20 persons
on board. A majority Of the passengers
were below deck, as Il was cold and fog
nv. Those on deck were all blown over.
board. Some were killed by being
dashed against tie wharf and othcrs
were drowned. Altogether 40 persons
lost their lives. The vessel took fire al'
most Immediately and burned to the wa.
tcrs edge and sunk. The steamer burned
petroleum for fuel. The probability Il
Il will never be known how the explo'
sion occurred, but the impression pre-
walls that Il was a petroleum tank on th,
steamer that accidentally took fire and
exploded. This same steamer, In 1866
!. blew out her boiler head, killing clever
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