Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1891-08-04
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL THLEaHApHIc AND
GABLE CUTTINGS
OF Brief Items ST interest From
Various Sources:

So 4
The cotton and .woolen mill of Camp
bell & Elliott, at Philadelphia, was burn
ed Friday night. Loss between $1,000
and $3.50. 1000 81
TIE fatal ''5eilpwsh have made their
APPEARANCE in the peach orchards sf
Maryland and it Is said the crop will be
shortened 100. 600 baskets. 20 -.
A Philadelphias dispatch says: The
strike among the plush weavers of Dob
sons mills, Falls of Schuylkill. which
has been in progress for the past ten,
weeks, was declared off Monday.
A cablegran from Lisbon, says: The
employees thrown otit of employment be-
eatise of the dull times caused by the
at Evova, Portugale, Sunday. Great
damage was done.
Over two thousand steel strikers at
Harrisburg, Pa; turned out Monday af-.
ternoon to parade and to listen to
speeches from leaders. They counseled
quietness and patience, and .prophesied
victory for the men. 50
The big textile mill of Campbell &
Elliott, at Philadelphia, was totally de-
sttoyed by fire Friday night. The total
insurance is placed 100000 The value
of the plant is placed at a half million
dollars. The loss on the stock and raw
material is yariously estimated at from
$3.50 900 to $3.50. 900. - a 81
Mrs. Mark Hopkins Scales, wife of
Edward F. Seaiies, the New York archi.
tect, and widow Of the millionaire, Mark.
Hopkins, of the Pacific coast, died at her
al GofY low
morning, as the result of an attack of
the grip. Her first husband left an estate
valued at $50, 600, 900, and Mrs. Searles's
wealth is estimated at $40, 900, 900.
A dispatch from Dayton, o., says: A
Hamilton and Dayton excursion train at
Middletown. was run into, by a freight
train Saturday night, causing fearful
wreck. Three persons were killed out
right: Vim. Matthew, aged thirteen !;
Miss Lydia Freyer, aged twenty two,
and Frank Simoner, aged seventeen.
Twenty excursionists were wounded,
four off whom will die.
At Omaha, Neb., Justice Brewer, of
the United States Supreme court, Mon
day morning. ann ounced his dec sion in
the famous Union Pacifc-Rock Island
bridge case. The decision is against the
Union Pacific, and holds that the con-
tract entered into by the Union Pacific
with the Rock Island and Milwaukee
roads, permitting trains of the latter to
use the Omaha bridge, is valid.
Exports of specie from the port Of New
York during the week ended July 25th,
amounted to So, 200. 500 of which ST..
.S!2, 229 was in gold and $487 307 in sill
yer. Of total exports, SO, 131, $50 in
gold and $4S3, 3O7 in silver went; to Eu
rope, and $3.50, 800 in. gold and $5, O54
in silver to the West Indies. Imports oil
specie amounted to $500, 726. of which
| $500, 594 was in gold and 500, 178 in sill
yer.
On Monday five hundred coal miners
at Duquoin, i'll, marched in a body tt
the Tingley House and served notice or
Robert: Cummings. an anti-labor. agi
tatcr, to leave town Cummings is a Goa
miner, but is against the locked out
miners attitude there +. in not resumine
work, Sheriff Clark is on the scene 4
prevent any trouble. Cummings says ht
won't CO.. The miners say he will.
q London cablegram says: The house
of commons, on Saturday. in committe,
of supply. voted $500, 900 as salaries anC
| expenses for the relief of the suffering
poor of Ireland. The chief secretary TO
Ireland, Balfour, made detailed state
ment in regard 10 this relief, saying thai
it was the governments intention thai
the works should be permanent means
of promoting the welfare of the inhabi
t;tnts. 20 3. '+ - So f5.7-'. =.
A Reading. Pa, telegram states tina
the West Hamberg rolling mills, operated
BY the Pottsville Iron and Steel Com
| pany, which has been idle several week.
because of difference between the EN-
ployes aud lessees, who refused to sigr
the amaIgamated scale, resumed opera
| ton Monday The furnaces are in bias
with non union men, and strong effort
will be made to increase the number.
A New York dispatch says: Monda1
morning all parties having lead trus
certificates standing in their names re
ceived copies of circular, signed by thu
president and secretary, announcing tina
special meeting of stockholders would
be held on August 9th for the purpos'
of acting on the proposed plan of recr
ganiz4lion. The plan provides for th'
scaling down of the capital from $S7,
| O0O, 900 to $50. 900, 00Qs e .tssea 2.
On Friday committee On civil ant
| religious rights of the Union of, Ameri
can Hebrew Congregations through theil
officers resident at Washington-Si1nor
Wolf, chairman. and Lewis Abraham
secretary-have presented memorial t.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury Net
tleton in behalf of Russian refugees
landing in New York designed to. SHOW
that they are not paupers nor assisted
immigrants. The department, it is un
derstood, viii take early. ACTION
A Washington, dispatch says: Ship
ments OF, currency to, the west to mov'
crops opened up lively Saturday, $638,
600 in small notes being shipped from
the treasury. to Cincinnati; and Chicago il
exchange for deposits at New York. 1.ht
department has been preparing for TIN
transfer for some time with the view tx
meeting the demand for small notes fol
the purpose Indicated. According to
present indications the demand will b.
unusually large this year. one official es
timating it at SIS, 600, 900.
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