The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
MISCELLANEOUS,

ABOUT seven hundred operatives in silk mills at Paterson, N. J., struck on the 18th against ten per cent. reduction. The manufacturers say they will close the mills until the strikers come to terms. | IT is believed that all the stock of the Albany (N. Y.) Brewing Company has been transferred t9 an English syndicate. The company is one of the largest in that city.
 YELLOW fever has broken out at Colon, on the Isthmus of Panama.
 IT is said that a reign of terror pre- vails in the mining town of Leoben, Servla, where the whole population is on strike. All the small tradesmen, and even the civic fire brigade, have made common cause with the striking miners, and all commerce and industry are sus : Ipended.
 ON the 18th the Denver & South Park railroad was sold under foreclosure.
 THE British Government has accepted tenders for the construction of seventeen war ships. They will be built at the ship yards of the Clyde, the Tyne and tho Mersey.
 SECRET SERVICE men captured $21, 900 in coupterfeit money at Dayton, O., on the 18th.
 Ar Albany, N. Y, on the 10th, the Salt Trust was incorporated under the name of the North American Salt Company; capital S11 900, 000
 ON the 18th the convention of the Na- tional Association of General Baggage Agents at its session at Detroit Mich., adopted a code of rules to govern tho transportation of dead bodies and uni form transit permit a.nd death certificate to be filled out 5y the undertaken and re- ceiving agent
 ON the 18th the official trial of the gum boat Petrel was made. She left Balti- more, Md, at II a. m. and returned at 7:15 p. m. The average speed attained was IT. knots an hour.
 IN the shooting for the minor prizes in the Stewart contest, at Wimbledon, on the 18th, seven shots at 200 yards, the Americans did some good shooting, Far row making the top score, g out of a possible B. Fades, Sergeant Bull, Doyle and Hinman made 32 each, and Johnston, Merrill and Bumstead 31 each.
 ON the 18th m article was published in Pittsburgh, Pa., to the effect that Carne- gie, Phipps & Co.,, had reduced the price of steel plates $6 DOT ton, causing no little excitement in business circles, until Chairman Abbott of the firm emphatical- ly denied the report, stating that the ten- deGcy of prices is upward and his firm does not contemplate any reduction.
 ADDITIONS are daily made to the list of bodies found at Johnstown, Pa. Five were recovered on the 18th.
 PENSION cases involving rerating have been held up by the Commis soncr of Pensions pending the issue of new rules by the Secretary of the Interior defining the policy to be pursued in such cases.
 IN consequence of the threatened rising in Crete, the Porte will send several bat talions of troops to that island.
 THE Italian Government has abandoned the blockade of East African ports near Zanzibar.
 IT is said that over S7,O0C will be ex- pended by the citizens committee of De- troit, Mich, in entertaining tho members of the National Editorial Association, which holds its fifth annual meeting in that city August 27 2s, % and 30
 ON the 21st the steamer Northernor, re- ported lost, arrived at Milwaukee, Wis, with some of her machinery broken.
 A. l.. MAILER, assistant general man. ager of the Manitoba railroad, has con- pleted thorough examination of the wheat crop along the Manitoba system, and concludes that there will be at least 32, 100000 bushels for his road to traus- port
 IT is reported that q movement is on foot to form a trust of all the gas wells in Ohio and Indiana
 AN English syndicate is endeavoring to purchase the two largest breweries in Indianapolis, Ind.
 JOHN WILHELn
 of Forest.k -l, prominent merchant -. .ld., was arrested on the 20th n on the charge of counterfeiting. Mods and coins were found concealed on his premises.
 THE San Francisco, the steel cruiser be. ing built on the Pacific coast will so