The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-09-07
LATE 1ELEGRAPHIC TICKS
FROM MANY POINTS.
Important News Items Received as We
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pany have advanced the wages of its iremen
~ per cent. the increase being based ON the
wages OF its engineers.
Iron strikers at Rhinelander, Wis, have
been running non.union crews out of the
mills by force.
Disasters, Accidents and Fatalities.
The schooner City of Toledo was caught
IN the north westerly gale and driven on
the beach at Pierport, Is miles north of
Mans;ee, Mich. She turned completely
over and all hands on board were lost She
was commanded 10y Captain John McNIllin,
Of this city. His two eldest daughters were
on board with him. The crew consisted Of
six men.
A sad accident took place on the Reading
railroad at Laurel station ON the outskirts of
Philadelphia. Four little boys named James
Powers, - years old his brother Thomas
Powers, 10 years old; John Duffy, f. years,
and Garrett Dollard, II years were sitting
on the track of the railroad talking when an
express train suddenly shot around u curve
and before the boys were aware of it the
engine was upon them. The two Powers
boys were killed and the others were badly
injured
At Newburg, n. Y, the fast mail train on
the Hudson river road going at the rate of a
mile minute, ran into the New Hamburg
draw-bridge before IL was closed En-.
gineer Joseph Owens, of Albany; Fire
man Edward Best, of East Albany, and
Mail Clerk J. II. Kane of Cohoes, were
killed.
Mrs. Catherine Koran, while walking on
the canal boat G. Hayden, at Ceres Lock
near Syracuse, fell on the deck and lead
pencil which she had in her Land pene.
trated her brain through her left epe killing
her Instantly.
The town of Rocky Bar, Idaho. was en-.
trely swept away by flames leaving 100
people homeless. Noestimate of the loss
Ar Des Moines la, the old State house
was burned. The state house was built in
1856 and used until 1881, when the new
State house was ready for occupancy The
fire started through the carelessness of
tramps, who have been allowed to lodge In
the building.
AT Conculy, 0konogan county. Wash.
about all of the town except the courthouse,
schoohouse and one drug store was burn,
ed. Loss, about 100000, with only about
10 per cent of insurance.
At Tunkhannock, Pa, A. II. Macl's
spool mills were burned. A large number
of hands are thrown out of work. Loss
estimated at $4,000. Cause unknown.
Washington News.
A ptatan,ant pra,,rad nd H. fr,a..,..--
Department shows that there have been
filed 6,763 applications for license as sugar
producers, during the fiscal yeas 1868 under
the law paying bounty for its production.
They were made up as follows: Cane sugar,
$40; beet O. sorghum ., and maple, 6,l06
Last year the applications aggregated 1880
The increase in the number of applications
is in those producing maple sugar,
The President left here for Loon Lake.
His letter of acceptance will not be made
public for few days
Pubic DEBT STATEMENT Following Is
the public debt statement: Interest bear
ing debt, 1885,, ,03l, ,0sO; debt bearing no in.
terest, 1879, 65S, ,574; certificates and treasury
notes offset by an equal amount of cash in
he treasury, s6l5 455, $50; aggregate cash in
the treasury, 1871 ,5l4 ,9s2 aggregate demand
liabilities. $751; 514 ,0s2; cash balance in the
treasury July 81, sl27 $50, 2s6; cash balance
in the treasury August 81, sl29, 1852, ,3i4; in.
crease s2,l0205s.
Assistant Secretary Crounse, of the
Treasury Department, has rendered his
resignation in order to enter the guberna-
torial campaign in Nebraska.
Up to and including the 3lst of August
the treasury department has shipped to
various points in the United States $1,000,
600 in small notes for the purpose of facili-
tating the movement of crops.
Crops.
Potato bugs are numerous and destructive
In Missouri
The vicinity of Chambersburg, Pa, is
loaded with peaches this year.
The drouth in North Carolina has been
broken, though too late TO benefit some of
the crops
Michigan weather for the past week has
been generally favorable to farm work and
crops. In the northern counties, potatoes,
root crops, meadows and pastures were
greatly benefited by rains, and ground is
now in fine condition for fall seeding
Rain storms have almost ruined the cot
ton crop in Henderson county, Ala Several
farmhouses and barns were destroyed by
iRhtnine.
Political.
1t is estimated Tllman's majority at the
Democratic primaries in South Carolina
will be from 10000 to 5000. Tue Alliance
Democrats will have five of the seven con-
grcssi0nal nominees.
The Democratic State ticket of Wisconsin
Gas renominated.
General J. G. Fields, Peoples party Vice
Presidential candidate. addressed an aud