The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-11-23
TELEGRAPH|C BRIEFS
Happenings The World Over.
aLEANINos OF INTEREST rERsB
L1 TOLD. BOTH DOMESTIC
AND FOREIGN.
Financial ana Com M crciai.

the pushing Of the tin plate industry
in new markets. II was also re
solved to appoint a committee to watch the
development of the Am e lean tariff as af.
fecting the tin plste trade.
General manager Odell. Of the Baltimore
and Ohio rail- oai gave orders for the EN-.
ployment of 2,COo additional men in the
workshops of the company in Baltimore
Glenwood Pittsburg, Newark. o.. and
| Grafton. W. Va, which will add over 500.
00o per month to the salary list. Mr.. Odell
has also oriered the construction of a mum
ber of box cars with q carrying capacity Of
35 tons, and lot of gondolas. This, in CON
necion with an order for go new locomo
tives given to the Baldwin Locomotive
Works yesterday, and the further order for
40 locomotives. which will be placed in
few days, indicates the preparation this
road is making for the Worlds Fair traffic.
The Rockford 0ll) Plow Company made
an assignment. The liabilities aggregate
nearly s70,0 900, and the assets are estimated
at $4,000. The company has been in bad
shape for several years, and the managers
concluded to make an assignment and close
up the business.
Titus, Sons x Co., plush manufacturers, OF
Bridgeport, Conn, say they willreturn to
England ifthe tariff is changed. The New
York firm controlling the Union Metallic
Cartridge Company and the Bridgeport Gun
Implement Company asserts they will so
out Of business il the tar n is altered.
Crimo aud Prpniiie..
Edward skamdt, of near Winnipeg, was
robbed of considerable sum of money
the proceeds of the sale of his farm and
stock, then murdered and placed on rail
road track. He was found with his head
cut off.
Two masked burglars got into the bank at
Woodstock, Mimi, and compelled Cashier
| Perry and his assistant, who were working
late, to open the vault. II is is said they got
only 81 900 but 1t is thought the amount is
larger posse is in pursuit.
Guiseppi Piiana, an Italian living in Bos
| ton, whose wife died about six weeks ago
murdered his two children. age 8 and H.
and then endeavored to commit suicide by
cutting his throat. 1t is not thought he can
| live.
OUe uunuItu uui my uriucu iucH III
Webster parish, La, are searching for Link
| Waggoner, the desperate. Last Saturday
Waggoner's gang fatally shot William Hol.
land while the latter was holding his baby
iu his arms at his own house,
miscellaneous.
After many delays and vexatious changes
of program. natural gas from the Trenton
/ h,l r,h, In
rests, was admitted to the dstributive main
in Chicago on Wednesday.
During the month of October there We're
only 3.67l steerage passengers landed at New
| York. the lowest number since 1877. In the
same month in 1891 there were 36,79S.
President Harrison has appointed Sila.
Alexander, of New Mexico, to be Secretary
Of that Territory.
tnpitni. Labor md lndustr riai.
| At Providence, II. l.. the Lonsdale com.
pany and the firm of lI. b, and Il. knight
notified their employees of an increase of
wages to go into effect December 5. The
amount of the proposed increase is not
given ont. This action will doubtless be
followed by other cotton manufacturs in
the State.
The Blackstone Manufacturing Company
cotton manufacturers, of Blackstone, Mass,
will advance wages December .. Prices
have not yet been made known. At Lowell,
Mass, the Carpet Corporation has followed
the lead of the cotton mills, aud raised
wages : per cent beginning December 8.
assnt Dyon rrofcsses to think that business
sin hardly warrant the increase.
The lie, rrph operators employed by the
Baltomure Il Ohio II. Il. Company II va
won partial victory. the company granting
an Il ease Of $4,000 year, little more
than u quarter of the amount demanded.
Hoylcstown. n. f.. was visited by de
structive fire, which destroyed the large
bakery and tobacco factory of Harvey & Co.
erected on the site of u big lire last July
Loss, $3.50 900; fully insured.
| Political.
Complete but unofficial returns from the
entire State of Illinois give Cleveland 422,.
s42 Harrison 3oj,7Sj Altgeld for COVER
nor 420, 1853; Fifer, 39s,5i2.
| Sanitary.
The smallpox epidemic at the general
hospital at New Haven, Conn, continues
unabated, Despite every possible effort to
check the rogress OF the disease, new cases
are breaking out each day.
DISASTERS. Accidents and Fatalities
One life was sacrificed and two persons
were seriously injured by collision on the
crossing of the Nickel Pate and Delaware,
| Iackawana and Westarn Railways naar