Evening journal., 1889-08-06
TELEeRAeHlc BREvlTlEs.
News Notes Of Interest Carefully Con
densed.

uensod.
Owing to a reduction in wages from
IA to II cents per d. zen in the stocking room,
100 young womsn employed by the firm Of
Hunseker & c., Of the Reading PA hosiery
mills, have struck. The girls held a meeting
and resolved MT TO 60 back until their griev-
ances were righied.
The Lebanon (Pa) Iron company's, Lights
rolling mill and the West End rolling mill
puddleIs have notified their employers that
after Aug 10 an increase Of 35 cents would
be expected; $50 per ton is the present rate
No action has been taken by the firms on the
new demand. In the three mllls over 500
men are employed.
The American schooner Vidette, seized at
Canso, Saturday, for customs violation,
after being detained a short time, was ro-
leased. She belongs 70 Gloucester. Her
captain, John Bredell, says that the officials
were too hasty in their action
On account Of the scarcity Of coke caused
by the strike, the blast furnace at Topton,
Pa, will have TO lie Idle some time.
The Catholic Review has received from rs
Roman correspondent cable dispatch an
nouncing that the Right Rev. Mgr. Doane,
Of Newark, n j., has been made prothono-
tary apostolic.
Herman CarInan, the wealthy German who
fired one bullet into his brain a week agc
Sunday at Chicago, and another one Tues.
day, Is dead.
The steamer Athos, from Hayti, reports
that up to July % Port-au-Prince still held
out against Hippolyte's bombardment. 4sss.
The old paper mill at Mi River, Mass.
leased by A. T. Hind, Of New York, wa
burned. Loss, $4,000.
II Is said that secret agreement had beer
made between the sugar trust and the out
side refners, whereby the latter viii refn'
80 per cent of the total output Hitherto
It is understood, the trust has taeitly con
ssnted to an output Of % per cent by thI
outsiders, but the recent increase in the de
mand for sugar has encouraged the independ
ent rainers to demand more Mr Spreckel
is said to have negotiated the agreement Hi
new factory opens Oct Is. He is TO buili
another one, and when that is completed hi
long promised war against the trust will be
gin, if he still desires to wage it,
The president accepted the resignation o
Stephen A. Walker, United States distric
attorney for the Southern district Of Ne'
York, to take effect when his successor is al
pointed.
Patent Commissioner Mitchell has refuse
! to grant an application for trade mark e
a medical compound bearing the name :" Re-
Cross on the ground that the legend j. Il
name of the noted international society whiC
uses it on its medicines, tents, etc
] Attorney General Miller has gone to 1
+ dinnapolis 70 be gone two weeks.
! A wagon containing a family Of fly
] father, mother and three children, W
blown from the road into Black creek du
7 Ing the storm at Mitchell Ind. All fl
were drowned Many houses were unrooie
e Capt james II. Rigby, commander Of /
famous "Rigby's battery" in the late wa
( dropped dead from heart disea-e at Bal
S more. He was aged 30 years.
Professor Miller has found traces Of arsen
; in the stomach Of David Ramsey, the Eimi
printer, supposed 70 have been poisoned
his wife, now Mrs. Isaac Artz
Thirty. one deaths from bloody aux ha
Y occurred at Whitehall, Ills, and sixteen
Warsaw, lis
Private letters from King Kalkakua
!, Sandwich Islands state that he has Civ
> up his contemplated trip abroad.
President Hewitt, representing the Was
Z ington Baseball club, has sold TO A. C. SnC
y the option and lease which the club holds
Capitol park for handsome advance oy
{ the original price. Mr.. Hewitt denies III
o the club is to dsband and says IL will hav,
? new park next season.
E sgMartin Burke has arrived at Chicago a
q is quartered N Lingg's cell Judge Hort
has overruled the motion to quash the indi
e ment against Coughlin, Beggs, Woodrl
q and Kunzs In the case of O'Sullivan
granted the motion for a change Of ven
Q and sent all five prisoners TO Judge McC,
r. nells court The men will be tried togetL
Aug &C.
,. Over $50 delegates attended the natiol
n convention of St. ratrick's Alliance
, America. The not onal president elect
* was Jere Henuessey, Of New Brunswi,
8 n j.. first vice president Hugh Carney,
New Brunswick, n. j.; second, M. }.
;, Kiernan, Of Orange, N. j.. secretary, FRI
( els Mccarthy, New York treasurer, Mich
c. Green, New York
Y The Boston has arrived at the Brook
Ie navy yard TO have her injured hull repairi