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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-22
Imports
Railroad Receipts.

TRAPANI. Bark Columbus-1700 tons salt to
John A Emery & Bro
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
LABOR STRIKES DURING 1887.
Some Interesting Statistics Made Public
bY 90 EradStreet'S.''

Some Interesting Statistics Made Public
by " Bradstreers."
New YORK, Jan 23.-BrddStreet's Journal
has the following summary of strikes and
lockouts of Importance taking place during
1887 as compared with 1856: The totals
are believed to include at least nine tenths
of the total number of industrial and
transportation company employees who
have struck within two years
past. There are reported 8S4
strikes, involving 100000 strikers for
1857, as compared with $50 strikes (Of
note) and 450, 900 strikers in 1886. The
outbreaks have increased two and one-half
times, but the number engaged in 1887 was
but three-quarters Of tie total engaged in
1856 There were twenty lockouts of
46, 900 employees last year, and ten lockouts
the year before, effecting directly So
600 people. Seven-eighths Of the locked
out employees were beaten last year and
three fourths of them the year before.
Two thirds of the strikes were for higher or
against lower wages, c. for shorter hours
at unchanged wages, and one-fourth OF
them concerned trades union demands
not relating to wages or hours directly.
OF the total striking last year, 340,-
600, about 40 per cent succeeded, as
compared with 30 per cent succeeding in
1886. These figures point to there having
been at least /, 800 industrial strikes in tina
United States within two years by some $780,
000 employees, of whom about 80 per cent.
gained their points wholly or in part Out
of $40, 900 strikers, Pennsylvania reported
11,317, or nearly 80 per cent, and New
York 62, GJ6, or Is per cent, or these two
States together one-half of the total
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

A SMALL boat capsized on the 10Th near
Victoria, B. c., and fourteen Cinnamon, in
tending to smuggle themselves into Wash
ington Territory, were drowned
THE steamer Cascapadia collided with and
sunk the steamer Oxford off Gibraltar on
the 10TH and twenty persons We're
drowned. a.sM
A CROWD on the ] 9th hooted and insulted
Chief Secretary Balfour upon his appear
ance in the streets of Dublin.
WHILE four thousand workmen were on
the 10Th making q breakwater. to stem the
Hoangho floods in China they were ingulfed
Ey sudden rush of water and nearly all
were drowned
In an interview at Venice on the Goth Don
Carlos said that Spain must strengthen her
army and navy and become one of the
great powers. He said unless the present
monarchy was replaced he thought re-
public would soon come
ADvICEs of the Goth say that, in reta]ia-
ton for the hard fight being made by tho
temperance people of Leeds County, Ont i,
eleven buildings had been burned at Irish
Creek, and the Methodist church, and a
tannery at Kemptville.
On the 20sh William O'Bren, editor Of
United Ireland, was released from Tu!la-
more Jail, where he had been confined since
October 81.
THE snip yards at Granville, France, We're
burned ON the 21st. throwing eight hum
dred men out Of employment
A FIRE at Montreal, Can, on the 21st de-
stroyed property to the value of $500, 600
THE cash accounts of the late Manitoba
ministry showed q shortage OF $315, 900 on
the 23d
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
FROM WASHINGTON.

TIE Committee on Appropriations in the
House of Representatives made ready on
the 19th the annual Pension Bill Itappro-
PIRATES $50, 275, 500
The new law relating to permissible writ
ing and printing on second, third and
fourth-class mail matter went into effect on
the Goth.
THERE were 276 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 20th, against 312 the previous seven
days.
AT twenty-sx leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 21s5 aggregated $917,-
054, 37S, against 1913, 463, 1862 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1887 the decrease
amounted to 5 e per cent
On the 23d the United States Supreme
Court affirmed the sentence of death passed
upon Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias W. Fl. Maxwell
who murdered G. A. Preller in st. Louis
hotel in 1885 t+s
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on the Esd nomi-
mated Marshal Mcdonald, OF the District of
Columbia, to be Commissioner of Fish and
Fisheries.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
BURNED TO DEATH.
Terrible Result of a Boarding House Fire
in ADMINISTRATION of the Inmates Lose
Their Lives

Terrible Result of Boarding House Fire
in ADMINISTRATION of the Inmates Lose
Their Lives.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan, 23-Word has
reached here of the burning of boarding.
house and the loss OF ten lives early Satur-
day morning at the village of Tower, St
Louis County, this State. The place where
the horrible cremation occurred was a
three-story wooden structure occupied as
a saloon and boarding-house by n. Barn
ably. A large number Of people lived
there, and when the fire broke out all were
asleep Some of those on the second floor
were aroused shortly after 1 O'Clock by the
cracking Of blazing Tafters, and sprang out
Of bed to find themselves surrounded
by fire. The cries. of alarm soon
awakened the rest of the inmates,
and all except those already overcome
made for the doors and windows The
night was one of the most bitterly cold
ever experienced in the place, the Their
mometer registering 56 degrees below zero,
and the terrified boarders, being unable to
dress themselves owing to the terrible
rapdity with which the flames spread, were
compelled to rush into the icy atmosphere
half dressed. Several persons who occupied
rooms on the top floor jumped from the
windows in their eagerness to escape, and
all who did so were more or less seriously
injured.
The best information obtainable puts the
number of deaths at ten, but the names OF
only four could be learned. These are as
follows: Robert Whitford, William Byrns.
Michael Trump and Daniel OConnelL The
firs.-named was an original settler of the
village in 1880, the others being woodmen-
Nearly every inhabtant of the village
was at the scene of the terrible disaster, and
every assistance was given to those who es-
cared with their lives FROM the blazing
buildings Some of the rescuers and near
ly all the rescued were frost-bitten to
greater or less degree The financial loss
through the fire will reach So, 900, with
. only small insurance
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
THE NEW s.
Compiled From Late Dispatches
FfFTIETH CONCRESS.


THURSDAY, Jan. II. In the Senate a
bill was introduced to grant a service pen
sion to all survivors of the late war. Teso-
luton was adopted directing the Secre-
tary of the Interior to report a plan OF leg
islation for disposition of the public timber
lands so as to secure the preservation of
National forest lands, and to give settlers
legal means Of providing themselves with
timber. Adjourned to the 23d In the
House the invitation extended to the United
States to participate in the Melbourne ex-
position was accepted The Invalid PEN
sion bill was reported
FRIDAY, Jan 2O-The Senate was not in
session In the House Mr. Thoebe, the con-
testant for Speaker Carlisle's seat, appeared
and asked for full Investigation of The case
A resolution providing for such an investf-
CATION, offered by Mr. Lyman, of Iowa, was
defeated by vote Of 125 to 132, seven
Democrats voting in the affirmative. On
the majority report refusing an investiga-
ton Republicans refrained from voting, and
the matter went over
SATURDAY, Jan. 21-The Senate was not
in session In the House it WIS impossible
to secure quorum TO declare Mr. Carl sic
seated. A resolution was placed on the cal
endar directing the Committee on Manu-
features to inquire into the charges that
certain individuals and corporations had
combined for the purpose of increasing the
price of necessities of life, thus working in
jury 10 the people.
MONDAY Jan. %. In the Senate bills
were introduced for the admission OF the
State of Dakota and the organization of
the Territory of Lincoln; to authorize the
sale to aliens Of certain mineral lands, and
to regulate elections for members of Con-
gress A resolution was adopted to invest-
gate the alleged participation of Federal
officials in the suppression of the votes of
the colored citizens at Jackson, Miss
Senator Frye spoke in opposition to
the Presidents tariff policy In the
House bills were introduced to ap-
ply the surplus money in the Treasury
that may accumulate prior to June 30-next
to the purchase of United States bonds; to
amend the Civil Service law by forbidding
the debarment of any person on account of
age; to reduce the tax on bank notes;
to provide for a constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the repeal of general
pension laws; to extend the legal
tender quality of the half-dolar, and
for the issue of silver certificates on the
same; to punish the dealing in futures in
agricultural products, and to provide that
school catalogues and reports OF benevo-
lent societies shall pass through the mails
at one cent per pound The majority re-
port of the Committee on Elections con-
trming Mr.. Carlisle's title to his seat was
adopted-yeas 1874; nays, 7,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
WEST AND SOUTH.

THE coroner found 81, 600 in gold on the
10Th hidden in the hut of William Price,
who died recently of starvation at Girard, O.
On the 10th three men broke into hall
at Kansas City, gathered all the Bibles,
song-books and printed sermons of Sam
Jones and Sam Small, who were holding
their reviyalS there, and burned them in
the stove
-Four masked men attempted on the 10Th
to rob an express train on the Wabash rail-
road, east of Kansas City, but were foiled by
officers who had received notice of the in
tended attempt
WISCONSIN Prohibitionists will hold their
State convention at Madison May %
IN Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa
another great storm was raging on the
10Th, with the mercury far below zero
OK the 205h near Little Rock, Ark, two
farmers by the name of Baker and Hit
quarreled while div ding their land be-
tween a son and daughter of each, Who
were about to be married. and stabbed each
other fatally with bowie-knives
AN epidemic Of meningitis was on the
Goth depopulating Asheville, N. c.. at the
rate of dozen deaths day, all attempts
to check it proving futile. Many inhabit-
ants We're leaving town
STRONG resolutions were adopted by both
branches of the Ohio Legislature ON the
10Th condemning the free trade views Of
President Cleveland
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
DAKOTA.

man in Flint County has published a
| card in the Redtield Journal requesting sa-
| looms to sell him no drinks under any cir
cumstances. He has got tired of @swelled
head"
| At Huron recently a meeting of members
| of the Constitutional convention of 1885
adopted memorial to Congress asking for
the admission of Dakota as two States
One hundred emigrants from Belfort,
France, started recently for Dakota. There
were signs that emigration from France was
increasing.
The great depth of the snow in many por-
tions OF Dakota enables the rabbits to de-
nude the apple trees of their twigs
The Sioux Falls druggists have published
| notice declaring that they will not sell
| Intoxicating liquors of any kind except
upon the written prescription Of physi..
clan.
Incendiary fires are Of such frequency at
Pierre that should an offender in that di-
rection be caught he is very likely to have
his trial before Judge Lynch.
1t was believed that Rev. Henry H. Spring
| er, Methodist minister, persisted in the re-
cent blizzard near Clark. Emil Gilbertsou,-
formerly of Chicago, was frozen to death
two miles west of Hitchcock, while on his
way to his claim.
The Pope has made Sioux Falls the see
city of the Catholic diocese of South Da-
| kota.
1t is said that near Parker, a small town
IN Turner County, twenty eight school chill
dren persisted in the recent great storm
From one school the entire number-seven-
teen-were overtaken by the storm and all
frozen to death.
Carpenters general store at Bath was
| burned the other night Loss, $4,000
The Omaha, Yankton & Northwestern
railroad, to extend northwest from Omaha
into Dakota, was Incorporated recently at
Lincoln, Neb. /; capital, So, 000,0 00
Governor Church has issued proclama-
ton giving the official results of the recent
election on the division OF the Territory.
The to5al number of votes cast was 81, 61S;
37,7S4 for division, and 80, 913 against
The result, barring few scattering votes,
gives majority for division of 5, ISL Local
option was carried in sixty-four out OF the
eighty-sx counties
The mining excitement on the North Fork
of Powder river is on the increase. The
White Pine mine, situated on the high dl-
vide between the two creeks, is the center
from which the excitement and prospect
ing Iadiates
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
FORCED TO SUSPEND.

An Auburn IN. W Bank Compelled to
Close It's Doors Through the Detalca-
ton OF Two Employees, Who Are Miss
ing.
AUBURN, N. Y, Jan 24-The First Nation
al Bank ot.this city did not o pen its doors
yesterday morning. Charles ..O'Brien, the
cashier, is absent from the city, and there
are rumors, at present impossible to verify,
that his accounts are involved The bank
was one of the Oldest in the State All
claims will be paid in full It's capital was
$4,000
C@shier Charles O'Brien and Bookkeeper
E. e. Morse left town together Saturday
afternoon. United States Bank Examiner
B. s. W. Clark is in charge of the bank, and
with the directors is making an effort to
ascertain its condition. All information
is refused, but it Sc ems that OBrien took
$4,000 in securities with him.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
MINNESOTA.

The sixteenth annual meeting of the
State Firemen's Association was held at Al
bert Lea a few days ago, delegates being
present from twenty-eight cities. The
treasurer gave the balance on hand at $12,
394
The members Of the police force at St
Paul presented the Little Sisters of the Poor
with 81 IA so a few days ago. m
According to the best estimates, the
value of the new building improvements
in Minneapolis in 1887 was S12, 200, 000,-
the greatest in the city's history. The real
estate transfers amounted to 100000
A remarkable discovery is reported in St
Paul of geese, that divide their time be-
tween shallog river and gravel bank,
being killed and found to have gold in their
crops.
William Wood went into the army twenty
five years ago, leaving a young wife and
child in New York. The wife died while he
was in the service, and the child was cared
for by strangers He was never able to
learn who hal the child until recently he
found her a servant girl at Bronson, Mich.
He is wealthy, and would take the girl to
his home in Minneapolis.
Bishop Foss, of the Methodist Episcopal
church, has made nearly $500, coo in Min
neapolis real estate.
OF interest in railway circles is the action
of the Minneapolis & ST. Louis Railroad Com
pany in their letter to the Railroad Com
missioner5 Of Minnesota informing them
that their action has ruined the company's
business. The action referred to Was
ruling based on the "long and short haul"
clause of the State law.
At the annual election of the Duluth
Board of Trade recently Owen Ferguson
was reelected president
The State Horticultural Society held a
three-days' session at Minneapolis recently.
Secretary G. L. Smith, of the State Forestry
Association, read a paper in which he pre-
dicted that the timber of the Northwest
would be exhausted in twenty-five years
unless the Government took steps to pre-
vent it,
Lumbermen from Little Falls, who have
crossed the country from Princeton, con-
firm the recent report that Swede had
murdered his wife and seven children The
Swede was farmer named Henry Ostrum,
and the scene of the crime is a Swedish
settlement about twenty miles from
Princeton Ostrum gave as reason for
the crime that he feared his wife and chill
dren would freeze to death
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27

sented after the expiration of the four days
there had been no such abuse of that discretion
In this case as would justify a reversal
of the judgment on that account. That
part Of the decision is certainly not
repugnant to ally provision of the
constitution or laws of the United
States and it is of itself conclu-
sive Itdisposed Of the constitutional question
presented in the argument without a direct de-
cision, and upon a ground which was not
eVasive merely, but real, and which can not be
reviewed by us. Such being the case the de-
cison OF the Federal question was not neces-
sary to the Judgment rendered, aud conse-
quently was not sufficient to give us iursdic-
ton"
ST LOUIS, Jan. "a The decision in the
United States Supreme Court in the case of
Hugh NJ Brooks, alias Maxwell unnerved
the little chloroformer when it was told
him. For the first time he showed I'M
mistakable signs of uneasiness, and paced
up and down the corridor of the jail with
a nervous tread, his face displaying
gloomy and deathly pallor He would
not believe the statements made to
him, and refused to talk until he had seen
his attorney. Mr. Fauntleroy, one of the
attorneys for the defense, was much taken
abacB, and said the only hope he now had
was to apply to the Supreme Court for re-
hearing, and, in event of another failure, to
seek Executive clemency, from which
source he had some hope.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
THE EAST.

ED CoFTEy, of Pittsburgh, who recently
cut his throat when refssed pardon by
the Pennsylvania board, confessed on the
10Th that he killed Mic Jacoby, for whose
murder Frank Small was hanged few
weeks ago.
The steamship Britannia, long overdue,
with eight hundred immigrants ON board,
arrived in New York on the 10Th.
The death of Mrs. Mary Man, aged one
hundred and two years and two months
occurred on the 10Th at Fairlee, vt.
AT Batter, Pa, two employees were caught
in grinding machine in the glass factory
on the 10Th and ground to death
A FAITH-CURE convention was causing
great excitement on the Gosh at Reading,
Pa, and many cases OF alleged cures were
reported
The execution OF James E. Nowlin took
place at Cambridge, Mass, on the Goth, for
the murder of George A. Goldman, his en-
ployer, January 4, 1887.
Mrs. CELIA HENDRICKS, the "woman's
bank" financier of Philadelphia, had, it was
said on the Goth, swndled friends and ac-
quain tances out of S100,000
JAMES MARTIN, an inmate of the Soldiers
and Sailors Home and hero of many bat
ties, was frozen to death ON the 2Oth near
Erie Pa.
NEAR Dunkirk, N Y, gas well was
yielding one million feet per day ON the
Dist
A PORTION of the Holyole Nfass. Envelope
Company's mill was burned on the 22d.
Loss 1925, 900
On the 21st Oscar f. Beckwith the Auster-
litz murderer, was sentenced to be hanged
March l, at Hudson, N. Y, This was the
sixth time he had been sentenced.
In portions of Vermont and New Hamp-
shire the mercury registered 80 degrees be-
low zero on the Dist
A FIRE in Philadelphia on the ODD among
millinery stores caused loss of nearly
$500, 600
THE doors Of the First National Bank of
Auburn, n. Y, were closed on tho Esd, the
result of Il defalcation of 5000 600 on the
part of its cashier, Charles O'Brien, who
had fed.
THREE earthquake shocks occurred on the
morning of the 23d at Newburyport, Mass,
and houses four miles from town were yio-
lently shaken
DANIEL DRIscoLL was hanged on the 23d
in New York City for the murder of Lizzie
Clarity on June 26, 1886
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The Secretary Of
State has received report from Consul
Crowell at Annoy in regard to the explosion
November 10 in Annoy of magazine con-
tanning about 400 tons of powder and other
explosives, by which over 200 lives were lost
and several hundred dwellings destroyed.
The magazine was located in the midst Of
a very populous suburb, and the foreign
settlement on the Island Of Kalangsoo in
Annoy harbor was badly shaken up. Over
100 panes of glass and several doors in the
UnfteI States Consulate building were
broken, but otherwise no damage was done.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27

gan to fail. She ELIZA B. dARFIRLp
dropped into deep sleep, and died at 5
o'clock Saturday morning. The funeral
will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock,
and the body viii be inferred at Lake View,
where rests all that is mortal of her beloved
son.
Eliza Ballou Garfield was born September
%, 1902. at the foot Of Mount Monadnock, N.
H; married Abram Garfield, OF Waterfowl,
Mass, in 1897, coming to Orange, CuyahOga
County, O., in 1884 when her eldest child,
Thomas Garfield now of Grand Rap DIS, Mich.
was years of age. She was woman
OF strong sense and spirit, and had
a singular capacity for managing ana
educating children. Abram Garfield died
when Tom, the eldest boy was 10
years old, leaving the widow with four
children and a cabin in the woods. Her care
and energy produced one of Americas greatest
public men, and carried the family in respecta-
bic poverty to the point where 1t could make
its own way. James A Garfield was her pride
and joy, and she has aged very rapidly from the
day that Guteaus bullet struck him down. Not
until December last, however, was she COM
PEELED to take to her bed.1
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-27
NECESSITY KNOWS NO LAW.
Rural Residents of Nebraska Who Lack
Eu.I Making. Rails ~, CnaI l,Iaius

Rural Residents of Nebraska Who Lack
Fuel Making Raids on Coal Trains.
OMAHA, Neb, Jan. dispatches have
been received at the Union Pacific head
quarters announcing attacks made on
the coal clrs of the company by set
tiers along the line in the western part
of the State who were suffering for
want Of fuel The terrible cold weather
and the snow blockade have resulted in the
burning up of every bit OF coal in these 10
calities, and the farmers have been
obliged to burn corn, hay, outhouses.
and in some instances even household
furniture to keep from freezing On the
18Th, at Cozad, freight train containing
several cars Of coal was stopped by 100
men, who uncoupled two of the cars, threw
the coal on the ground, and afterward
hauled it away At Shelton last night a
coal train was boarded, and coal thrown
off in tie same manner. Similar raids on
the coal trains are reported from Gibbon
and KeaTney.