Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-11
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Dana temporary receiver OF the Johnston
Harvester Company, Of Batavia, NY. The
Indebtedness of the concern is $4,000
THE Pennsylvania railroad miners train,
carrying 500 men returning from work,
was wrecked at Shamokin the other night,
sill being wedged in the road bed. The
miners were very angry and threatened
vengeance. No person was seriously in
Jured.
The next Pennsylvania Republican con-
vention will be held at Harrisburg, April
IS.
NOTICES were received at the offices of
the Central railroad Of New Jersey that
the road had passed out OF the hands of
Receiver Little and would hereafter be
ruled by the officers Of the company.
The Shoemakers' Union, of Newark, N.
j., numbering several hundred members,
recently decided to Withdraw from the
Knights Of Labor. The reason assigned is
bad management on the part Of the National
and local leaders.
THE employees of the seven furnaces
owned by Carnegie, Phillips q Co., al
Braddock, Pa, have made a demand for a
ten per cent advance in wages. The firm
claim that the condition Of the steel mar
ker will not justify an advance.
The commission house Of d. d. Castro &
CO., OF New York, which recently made an
assignment, has filed schedules showing
8, 23l ,S04, liabilities, 81 69l, 427 nominal as
sets and 8, 009, 75S actual assets.
TEE coroner's jury in rendering verdict
as to the cause OF the recent disaster on the
New York, Pennsy lvania & Ohio railroad
near Meadville, Pa, held George McFar
land and Conductor Murray, of the collid.
ing freight train, responsible for the dis
aster.
BY premature blast four Italian labor
ers were killed and seven severely injured
while at work on the new branch line Of
the Lehigh Valley railroad near Wilkes
barre, Pa, the other day.
The second annual meeting Of the United
states Law and Order League will be held
at Boston February 81 and -
HUBBARD & Co.'s axe works, Pittsburgh
have been closed because OF the strike OF
the men against lower wages
Tue Massachusetts Legislature met a,
noon on the 5th and Governor Ames and
Lieutenant-Goveruor Bracket were sworn
in.
the Brooklyn navy yard was reported
on fire on the morning Of the 9th. Loss
$4,000.
The funeral of ex. Governor Joel Parker
war executive Of New Jersey, occurred al
Freehold, N. j., on the 9th with many
noted men and political orders as mourn.
ers.
You've Walter Phelps Dodge, who be
came notorious by publishing an announce
ment Of marriage with his cousin, has lef,
Yale College, New Haven, Conn. He was
conditioned at the Christmas examination
and failed to work it or When he re
turned his classmates avoided him and he
preferred to leave voluntarily rather thar
risk probable suspension and certain os-
traoism.
A LAD was blown from a moving train or
the Lake Shore near Westfield, N. Y, re
Gently. When picked up he was dead
HAMERIcK q Co, jewelers., No. S04 Chest
nut street, Philadelphia, are embarrassed
with liabilities estimated at 5000
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, says
At a meeting OF the coal miners of the
Clearfield region, 1t was resolved to notify
the operators that If the Columbus scale
was not paid by the 21st general strike
you'd be inaugurated
9RBAg destruction was reported by ar
OIL fire at Etna, Pa, on the evening of Tho
9Th. A bridge was said to have beer
burned and much damage done
HE stockholders OF the Washington Fire
and Marine Insurance Company, OF Boston
have decided to go out OF business
The spinners Of Fall River, Mass, hay,
demanded the restoration of the scale O.
wages in force year ago when the price,
OF cotton goods were very low.
The forthcoming report TO the New York
Legislature OF the State Board OF Media
ton anu Arbitration will, it is understood,
suggest the exercise OF Legislative power
over persons employed to operate IA lroads
e well az over tho properties themselves
and their owners.
EUNIcB CoTTRELL, an Indian woman aged
one hundred and fifteen years, died re-
Gently in Connecticut She was the grea,
grandchild Of King Philip, famous in col
ouIal history.
DURING the year 1887 371,6.e immigrant,
landed at Castle Garden, New York.
tHE Cross pulp mill at Franklin Falls
y. n, was destroyed by fire recently. Loss
TWENTY horses and large ivery stable
in pittsburgh, Pa, were destroyed by fire
recently.
HE strike on the Reading road was re.
ported as working detrimentally to all in
austries along the line OF the road. But few
were In operation on the 9Th, consequent
upon the scarcity of ccal