The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-08-03

average 10 per cent. There is not likely to
be any trouble
Brown 4 Co., propri.tors of the Wayne
iron and steel works, Pittsburg, Pa. signed
the Amalgamated scale with the under.
standing that IL any reduction be made in
the scale during the ensuing year they bene.
fit from II. Their 900 men have resumed
work
Mexicans driven from home by drouth
are flooding FL Paso and offering to work
for Is cents day and board.
tSt. Louis the Belleville Steel Company
has signed the Amalgamated scale and
works have resumed.
The two Dunbar pa furnaces were shut
down for lack of orders. About 300 men
have idleness forced upon them.
AT Martins Ferry o., the Laughlin Nail
Company signed the scale and resumed
work
The $4,000 anthracite coal operatives in
Eastern Pennsylvania and the 1900 train
hands in the Philadelphia and Reading
system are preparing to organize union
similar TO the Miners and Laborers' Be
1875. $4,000 men will resis, the wage policy
of the Philadelphia u Reading combination
Miscellaneous.
The case of young Iams, who was drum.
med out of the Tenth regiment at Home
stead, Pa, on last Sunday, will be taken in.
to the courts by the friends of the young
man, who consider that he has been harshly
dealt with.
The first armor plate test on the proving
grounds of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Com
pany took place on Saturday and was a
complete success, the lol.inch Harvyized
nickel steel plate resisting the impact of a
25O-pound projectie. the velocity of which
was l., 700 feet second. The Government
officials present approved the test as highly
satisfactory.
The Oklahoma craze has broken out
among Tennessee negroes, and they are
hocking like sheep to the new territory.
Harry Sullivan, who was fatally stabbed
at Denver by an Italian named Augusta, has
confessed that his real name is u. C. M. Nc
Lennigan, and that he is the man who be-
! trayed the Pennsylvania Molly Maguires."
Augusta is thought to be an avenger Of that
order, who has been hunting McLennigan
for years.
Twenty-eight men from the Gem and
Burke who where paroled a few days ago
were re.arrested and brought to the Wallace
uo.) military prison.
At Boise City, To-, Judge Betty fixed the
bail for the nineteen prisoners from Wallace
and the six from Wardner. in Jail charged
with contempt of federal court at 81 500
each. None have furnished the required
bonds yet,
w. A. MacCorkle, Of Kanawha county,
was nominated for Governor by the w. Va.
Democratic State Convention.
The Minnesota Republican Convention
nominated Knube Nelson, of West Alexan.
dria for Governors David NJ. Clough of
Minneapolis, for Lieutenant Governor, and
Fred p Brown for Secretary of State.
At the Wyoming Democratic State Con,
vention, DR.. Osborne. of Rawlins, was nomi.
mated for Governor.
| n fbfLt L Ahlh NltIbhN,-lHe silver
convention held at Denver, Col, under the
auspices of the State Silver League concud.
| ed its deliberations in stormy all day ses.
sion. The fight was over the motion to en-
dorse the full ticket nominated on the pre-.
yious day by the Peoples party convention
and substitute to approve the electoral
ticket only, A faction opposed to both of
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Patterson, the boiling democratic editor of
the News" urged an immediate adjourn
ment and the future calling of new silver
convention to put State ticket in the field.
The Peoples party element won the battle,
and their State and electoral tickets were in.
dorsed. Editor Patterson is now out in the
cold. He has bolted the Democrats, Peo-
pies party and Silverites, =
At New York, the New York Biscuit
Company's six-story building on Tenth ave-
nue.. Loss, about 100000. The building
was only completed about three months
ago.
The Standard Oil Companys warehouses
at Ludlow, Ky, with 250,000 barrels of ros-
| ln ooOO barrels OF turpentlne ana o,UoO bar
rels of benzine, eight freight cars, two tanks
of turpentine and 1000 feet of the Cincin-
matt Southern railroads track burned.
AT Bodie, CAL every business house on
both sides of Main street and several dwell
ings were burned. Loss, s75, 900. Thirty
stores were consumed
AT Wheatand, Ia, the store of A Lille
and considerable adjoining property was
burned Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000
Mrs. John Snyder was burned to death,
Crime and Penalties.
A. Alexander, drummer, was shot and
killed by his brother-in-law, A. H. Jones. at
New Orleans. Jones had accused Alexander
Of abusing his wife.
At Philadelphia, while drunk, Winches
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