The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-08-31
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new scale for telegraph operators. The
minimum has been fixed at s45 per month
and all salaries have been advanced about
$40 per month, making the average about
eos.
The coal miners who have been out OF n
strike for the past eight weeks AT Boggs
Run, Wellsburg Moundsville and Elm
Grove, W. Va. asking so cents ton for
the run of the mines, are beginning TO
weaken. The ranks are being broken by
some Of their number returning to work AZ
the operators prices.
The plumbers OF Memphis, Tenn, went
on a strike. Two years ago they struck for
shorter hours and after long fight sue.
ceeded in effecting q compromise. This
time they have one grievance, and il they
succeed the foreman will he a man of ele.
giant leisure. The plumbers demand
that the foreman do no work, inter.
fere in no way with the tools, but merely
superintend affairs.
The Excelsior Furnace at Ishpemin.,
Mich, has gone out of blast, throwing out
of employment 70 men. This is the last of
the five Marquette county furnaces to close
on account of depression in the iron trade.
STRIKERs' WIVES sTARvING.-In the mail
that reached the Baltimore Md Mayors
Office the other morning was letter from
the wives of the striking coat-makers, who
have now been out of employment for six
weeks. The communication states that
they are starving and suffering from neg
lect. The mayor is asked to send home the
walking delegate from Brooklyn, named
Reichers, who is charged by the women
with the cause Of their trouble. The mayor
replied that he could do nothing in the mat
ter.
Two hundred miners of the Pocock mine,
near Massillon, o., have gone on strike
against the checkweighman employed by
the company.
Five hundred hod carriers and as many
brick-layers are on strike at Anderson
Ind, and work on 500 houses has ceased.
The strike is caused by a difference between
the carriers and brick layers as to whether
work shall begin at $3.50 or 3 o'clock A. NJ.
MusT LEAVE LABOR UNIoNs.-There is
considerable excitement among railroad
employees at Wilkesbarre, Pa, over the
order of President Mcleod, to the effect that
all employees of the Lehigh Valley and
Central railroad Of New Jersey must sever
Connections with all labor unions. There is
considerable talk of striking.
Disasters. Accidents md Fatalities.
Two Italian girls, aged and 7, were run
over and killed by Philadelphia cable car
The parents and their friends tried TO lynch
the gripman.
Three girls at New Brunswick, n. j.,
amused themselves by rocking boat.
Lizzie Burgundy and Sadie White never got
out of the water alive.
A wild steer broke loose in st. Louis
streets and gored a woman to death
Five persons were killed and IS injured by
train leaving the rails on bridge between
Beziers and Cessenon, France.
Prof. William Daniel, so years of age, was
accidently burned to death while taking a
sweat bath at his home in Milwaukee The
blanket covering him caught fire from a
lamp.
Three powder mills at Gainesville, Tex,
blew up after stroke of lightning. Houses
dows were smashed, number of cattle were
killed and many persons were injured, but
no human lives were lost. Damage, sl5, 600.
In Madison county, Georgia, woman
named Nelson went to spring, carrying her
baby, and while there hearing screams from
the three children left at the house, dropped
the child and hastened back, only to find
txv<. <f har rnb;l Al
ing, from the bite of a rattlesnake, which
they had disturbed under the house. Upon
returning to the spring she found the baby
had crawled into the water and been
drowned.
Chill has ratified the arbitration agreemen,
with the United States.
Good harvests are promised all over
Canada.
! illinois corn has been slightly injured by
the drought.
II has been raining hard over the agricul
tural district of Texas for many days past
Although not specially needed, it will prob.
ably help the late corn, stimulate cotton, re-
plenish streams and do good in assuring a
larger section crop OF nay than the hrst.
This will long he remembered as a phenom.
email year for crops in Texas.
The New England hop crop is in criti.
cal condition and the supply of the old is
about exhausted
Two weeks more of favorable weather will
place Dakota grain crops beyond danger OF
early frosts.
The wool industry in Northwestern Penn.
sylvania is growing. One Mercer firm has
purchased 100000 pounds of wool this sea.
son.
Russian winter crops in all the provinces
except 10 are in satisfactory condition The
condition of the summer crop is unsatisfac
tory in 10 provinces.
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