The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-05-11
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The News From Many Points at Home
and Abroad.
The Happenings Of the Times In Con-
densed Form.
Disasters, Accidents md Fatalities.

Robert Bloodgood who lived near Mata
wan, n. j., died from blood-poisoning
caused by being scratched on the hand by
cat week ago. He was aged So.
n freight train on the Erie railroad struck
COW near Carrollton, y, Y. The engine
and seven cars were derailed and ditched,
and three train hands seriously cut and
bruised
The bridge across the Tennessee river at
Florence Tenn, fell in, preciptating a
freight train 20 feet into the water. The
brakemen fatally hurt,
A man, woman and two children were
overtaken on n trestle bridge across the
Desplaines river at Elgin, ILL., The train
was running at a 40-mile an hour rate The
imperled people lay down outside the rails
and hngged the ties. A car struck the wo-
man and boy, killing the latter The
woman was swept into the raging stream.
When nearly senseess she was rescued by
Charles S. Ellison.
At Telluride, Col, David Dingle and Jas
Lucas, employed on the Sherman mine,
were blown to atoms by attempting to pick
out an unexploded shell of giant powder.
At watertown, Mass, Willie Reardon
and Willie Clohessy, aged about II years
each, were playing when Reardon met his
death, the prong of pitchfork penetrating
the brain. Clohcssy says Reardon slipped
and fell on the pitchfork, but Reardon be
fore dying said: willie Clohessy did it,"
A slx-year-old boy claims to have seen the
affair, and says that the two boys guar
relied and Clohessy struck Reardon with the
fork
At Tombstone, AriZ., the residence of
Samuel Barrows was burned and Barrows
3-year-old son and l7-year-old brother-in-
law burned to death The origin OF the fire
ln1s unknown.
Capital. Labor and Industrial,
The lockout in the Lancashire (England)
cotton trade has been settled, both masters
and workingmen having agreed to resume
operations. The total number locked out
has been about 6000O, 40 900 of them opera
tors under the Manchester Federation, and
10000 under the masters of the Bolton dis
trict. The operators consider the result
practical victory.
One thousand granite stone cutters struck
at Barry, Vt.
The strike of lumber mill hands at Otta-
wa, 0nt, to gain permission for them to
quit work at 4 p. NJ. on Saturdays without
decrease of pay, has been successful.
Nine men who arrived on the steamer
Westerland under contract to work on the
farm of John Conchi S Bentoro, Cal, are
detained at Ellis Island, n. Y. Two Italians,
who were hired to work on Boston rail.
road, are also held. Seven Russians who
came in on the Westcrland, under contract
to work in mine near Kingston, Pa, for
81 so a day were detained. Two men ar
rived on the Teutonic who were to 60 to
work in Western Minnesota. They are also
held.
The carpenters strike at Decatur, H., has
been declared of.
Miners near Hartlepool, Eng, rioted be
cause non-union man was employed and
wrecked two houses and injured several
policemen.
II was learned that The executive council
of the American Federation of Labor intends
issuing n circular in short time warning
workmen to remain away from Chicago, q,
there are now 10000 men walking the street,
ofthat city Since the Worlds Fair build
ings were started workingmen from all part
OF the country have hocked 10 the Windy
City and the result is that an army of mer
are idle and some of them are in suci
financial straits as to prevent them from
leaving the city.
Crime and Penalties.
At Cleveland, o., Ralph X, Paige, the Paines
ville o. bank cashier was sentenced TO II
years in the Ohio penitentiary for forg
cry.
w. II. Warren, banker of Wellington
Kan. while on his way to court TO stand
trial for embezzlement, was shot by Georg,
Timons, who had lost 5000 in Warren's
collapsed bank.
Thomas Lawton was hanged in the peni
tentiary at Carson City, Col, for the mu
der of John Hemming August II, 1891,
during train robbery.
Z. f. Liddell was killed at Pratt Mines
near Birmingham, Ala, while burglarizini
ajewelry store. He was identified as Q
burglar from New Orleans.
J. Theodore F. Hunter, ex-president o.
the Farmers and Mechanics National bank
of Phoenix, Pa, was given hearing before
United States Commissioner Bell on
the charee-of making false reports TO thu
comptroller of the currency as to the con
dition of the bank, and held in $4,000 bail
Three masked men robbed Mrs. Eazen
berger and lady friend at Salt Lake City
the other night, of $4,000 worth of diamonds
The thieves got away
Abel Smith of Brooklyn, colored, quar-
relied with his wife Sunday. finally killing
her by shooting her through the breast H
then threw himselfin front or a passing
train and was horribly mangled.
t Washington News.