The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-07-13
LATE 1ELEGRAPHIc TICKS
FROM MANY POINTS.
Important News Items Received as We
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hlOWa county, mas, "A. W. BaifOur, con-
stable of that town, was shot to death. The
officers are on the trail of the murderers.
A man named Thompson killed his wife
and an old woman with butcher knife at
Arlington, $. d. He expects to be lynched.
George Benger accidentally shot William
Cchs at Louisville, Ky, and then killed him
self in remorse.
Capital, Lnbor and Industrial,
The wages Of miners at Pine Forest col
liery, Schuylkill county, Pa, have been re-
duced 10 cents q wagon.
The Amalgamated association has declar-
ed of the strike at the Pottsville, Pa, iron
and steel company's rolling mills, which
was inaugurated on July /, 1890 the work.
men refusing to sign the scale. II is thought
that most of the strikers will be taken back
The rolling-mill of the Crum Creek Steel
and Iron Co., of Chester, Pa, Is shut down
owing to misunderstanding between the
lirm and the puddlers, and the refusal of
the former to sign the scale ofprices.
The trouble at Homestead, Pa. has
thrown 2OO men out of employment at the
North Chicago rolling mills, Chicago. The
men are heaters, rollers and helpers. Their
contract or scale expired July 1, and the
illinois Steel Company who owns the mills
decided to make no arrangements for fu-
lure scale until the result of the eastern
strike became known.
Nalmakcrs TO the number of 1000 in
ln,4 60 nf
wages.
The Amalgamated Association at Pitts
burg, Pa, received adyices that the follow
Ing firms had signed the scale: Wetheral
Rolling Mill Company, Findlay, o.; Car
ncgie, Phipps IL Co., Beaver Falls; New Al
bany Qnd.) rail mill; Nixdorf-Krein Manu-
tssturing Company, st. Louis.
The Moorehead- -McCleanc Company sign
I'd the Amalgamated scale Saturday. About
500 men returned to work. The following
additional firms signed the scale: Ohio
Falls Iron Works New Albany, Ind; the
Columbus Iron Works. which also includes
the p. Hayden Saddlery Hardware Com
pany and the Oliver q Roberts Wire Com
pany.
Two railroad strikers named Rodgers and
Benson were shot down by man at Sumner
Cal, for calling him ''scab." Rodgers was
killed and Benson seriously injured.
At Duluth the Catholic pro-Cathedral and
Bishop McGolrich's residence were burned
Loss on both buildings, $4,000,
At Providence, Il. l., the storehouse of D.
b. IL X. II. knight, together with o, 700 bales
of cotton and 1000 pieces of cloth. Loss
about s50O,0O0.
At Montgomery, Ala, the wholesale dry
goods department of George Etter, We'll IL
Co. Loss about 100000.
At Baltimore the large furniture manu-
featuring establishment of the r., Hanson
Hiss Manufacturing Company. Loss on
the stock $50. 000;insurancc about 100000.
Loss. on building, $4,000; fully insured.
The rolling mill of the tin department of
the Niedringhaus Mills, at st. Louis, was
totally destroyed by fire. The loss will be
about $4,000
At Rockland, Mich, 20 buildings, includ-
ing stores, dwellings and the Masonic hail,
were burned The loss will be up in the
thousands.
At Greenville, Tex, the Grccnyillc furni-
turc factory was burned. Loss $50, 900; in
surance, 5000.
l,t Pocomokc, Nd, thrty-eight business
places and one residence were destroyed by
fire and the loss will not be less than s20,-
600.
The greater part of Arcola, Miss, burned
Wednesday. Loss, $4,000, insurance,
$4,000.
A large part of shoshonc, Ida, was burn
ed.
The new mining town of Biwabik, about
so miles from Duluth was burned, causing
loss of $4,000
Disasters. Accidents ana Fatalities.
Herbert Slater and Mrs. Kellert were
drowned at Kingston, N. Y, by the capsz-
ing of pleasure skiif.
Two men and eight horses were burned in
a fire, which destroyed a New York stable.
Joseph, Zacharia and Henry Martin,
three brothers, aged %, II and Is, were
drowned in Kings River Cal, while bath
ing.
At Spring Park Lake, Minnetonka, row
boat occupied by Oscar Sandell, Rufus John
son. Laura Lewis and Ida Swanson, all of
st. Paul, Mimi, was upset and all but San
dell drowned.
-Four people were killed at Kansas City on
the Fourth Henry Hoover Ettie Leslie, AK
tell Patterson and Clara Wcsterman.
A hand cab on the Central railroad, of
New Jersey jumped the track when on an
embankment below Seawarden, and three
of the men on it were instantly killed.
BY fall of coal in the South Wilkesbare
shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarrc Coal
Company at Wilkesbarre, Pa, two civil en-
gnecrs and timber man were instantly
killed The dead are; John Williams, aged
25, civil engineeI John McCaiiery, aged n,
of Philadelphia. civil engineer; William