The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-11-03
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Happenings The World Over.
aLEANINas OF INTEREST rERsE.
LIZ TOLD. BOTH DOMESTIC
AND FOREIGN.
Capital, Labor and iudu.trIe,.

LABOR UNIONS SUED.-JOhn ii. Havlin,
manager Of the Walnut street theatre, Gin.
cinnati, brought suit for $4,000 damages
and injunction against the s ate Employers
union, the Carpenters Union, the Amalga.
mated Council of Building Trades and the
Central Labor Council The suit, allege
that these organizations have interferred
with the business of the theater by threat
ening boycotts aud otherwise.
The Durham miners who have voted
against legal working day OF eight hours,
now have an average working time of only
seven hours.
A late census bulletin says that at 81.
Joseph, Mo- the averages wages per hand
increased from So 81 in 1850 to 81 SO in
1880, or l4.ll per cent
Disasters, Accident. aud Fatalities.
A broken rail wrecked an East ST. Louis
and san Francisco passenger train near
Phillipsburg, Mo A. A. Dickerson, Of
Springfield. Mo-, and News Agent Harwood
were killed and IL others were injured
A collision occurred on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad, near Palatine, Ills,
between a gravel train and an extra freight
train. in which two men were killed and
one injured. The kilel were: John Bar.
ron, conductor of the gravel train, and
Thomas Curran, brakeman ON gravel train.
Two Chicago printers, Bortis Goddard and
John Gasimer, were asphyxiated in their
-oom the other night 10y odorless fuel gas.
4 locomotive exploded at Palos. Ala,
killing Engineer Monroe and Fireman
Crunch.
Three unknown colored men from Mem.
phis went into II caisson of the Bcllefonte,
lil., bridge and not understanding the air.
tight door, were smothcrcd.
fires
A fire broke out in s'x-story tenement
house on East Broadway, New York. The
4.vear-old daughter of David Schfibner, who
was alone in the room when the fire start.
ed, was burned to death. The fremen sue.
ceeded in putting out the flames with slight
damage.
At san Francisco fire destroyed block
OF property between Sacramento and Clay
streets in'the heart Of Chinatown. A large
number of Chinese butcher shops, cigar
manufactures and opium joints were burn.
ed out. Losses aggregate between 100000
and $4,000 heavily insured. Cause, the
carelessness of a cook in Hong Fong Lows
Chincss restaurant.
sanitary.
William Bonner acarpenter residing on
Jersey City Heights, was taken suddenly III
l'aIfd dfe,I 'tA '6,ss- pR5ninG, IN. ierrihle
agony. The attending physicians pronounce
1t a genuine csse of Asiatic cholera. and
great excitement exists in consequence. The
usual precautions have been taken.
wnshingou News.
General II. Williams, Adjutant General OF
the Army, in his ANNUAL report. says that
the National Guard now numbers Ill, us.
He recommends that the appropriation be
increased from SioO 600 a year to 81, ,0O0 600.
Miscellaneous.
George Simmons, an old employe of the
Chicago Telephone Company has eopcd
from that city with three sisters, who were
employed by the company. lie left fam.
lily.
At Lewistown, H., Mrs Christina Bord.
ner celebrated her lO3d birthday anniyer.
sary. She is well and hearty.
Intensely cold weather prevails in Scot
land. The locks in Perthshre are covered
with thick ice, and snow lies deep on the
mountains
There has been less rain at Pittsbure in
October than for any October in Is years,
and there is none IN sight, according to the
maps OF the weather bureau. The normal
rainfall to date for the month is half inch,
which is lG7 inches below the normal, The
temperature is about the average, though
the late couple of d,ys have been colde,
han usual lhe first killing frost occurred
on sunday.
A great storm is prevailing along IN.
British coasts causing the delay of steam.
erS and the wreck of small crafts In Lou n
Strangford, Ireland, the schooner Ami.
was capsized and six persons drowned.
G. J.. Judson, president OF the Economic
Fue! Gas Company, of Chicago, says THAI
within Il fortnight all that part of Chicogo
south of North avenue and east of the river
will he supplied with natural gas for domes.
tie purposes, from the Indiana fields,
Five hundred prisoners in the Boston
House of Correction rioted the other day
and were not subdued till the police locked
Ip l75 of them.
The Hot Springs Valley Bank Hot
Springs, Ark, has closed its doors The
Liabilities are $4,000 The president has
turned over all his property
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