The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-07-20
LATE 7ElEGRAPH|c TICKS
FROM MANY POINTS.
Important News Items Received ms We
so to Press.
Capital, Labor aud Industrial.

Company's colleries, employing over 800
men, started up after an idleness of over
four months.
The Fulton Boiler Works Of Richmond
Ind, employing large number Of hands.
has been compelled to shut down entirely,
owing to the labor troubles In the East.
They are unable 10 get steel enough to keep
their plant in operation.
A strike was inaugurated at Philadelphia,
Pa, among the lathers and skaters and plas-
terers and laborcrs that will afGcc, nearly all
the firms in the suburban wards OF the city.
The strike is strictly against the employ
ment of non-union men and Is not ques-
ton Of wages or hours. About 1000 men are
affected in the three organizations.
The workmen nt the Upper and Lower
mills In Lawrencevilc (pittsburg, Pa and
at the Beaver Falls, Pa, MILL both mills
owned and operated by the Carnegie Steel
Co., Limited, have struck because the man
agemcnt refused to enter into conference
or arbitration with the workmcn at Home
stead.
The men in the Eureka Iron and Steel
Works, Detroit, Mich, the largest in the
West, struck Wednesday All the strikers
are members of the Pittsburg division of
the Amalgamated Association. Boyd's
branch of the Pinkerton agency is employ
ing men TO send to the works. The strikers
are armed and trouble is feared.
The Findlay Rolling Mill company, Of
Findlay, o., signed the scale of the Anal
camated association. This makes 81 sigma
tures received from iron and steel mills out
side of those signed in the sheet mill confer
ence, which was 81, thus making Gs sigma
lures In all.
The 400 employees of the Eureka Iron and
Steel Co, Wyandotte, Mich, have struck.
They are members Of the Amalgamated
Association. No outbreak has yet occur
red, but trouble IL feared IL the company
should attempt TO introduce non-union en-
ployes.
The leaders of the locked-out workmen at
Homestead, Pa, have decided to turn over
10 the proper authorities all the rifles taken
from the pinkerton men that they can re-
cover.
The employees in the print cloth manufac-
wages increased 81 per cent.
All the Covington, KY, rolling mills have
signed the scale and 1000 men are happy in
the prospect of work. The mill men aud
their employers are under mutual contract
TO abide by the Pttsburg scale.
Telegrams received by Mai. Gen. Scho-
field at Washington, d. c., show that tha
labor troubles in the Cocur D'Alene Odaho)
mining district are at an end for the present
The rioters have dispersed and the State
authorities, aided by federal troops, are in
full possession of the field.
Disasters. Accidents and Fatalities.
At Portland, Ore, fire destroyed almost a
whole block of buildings. The total loss is
estimated at S250,0O0
Four persons who were injured by the ex-
plosion of the boiler of the steamer Mont
Blanc on Lake Geneva Saturday, died at
the hospital, making the total of the dead
26.
A CAREFUL estimate Of the total loss by the
fire at st. John, n. f., shows that the
amount will reach not less than 500, ,00O0 900,
with an insurance of but SO, so, 600. Relief
is pouring into the burned city. Thousands
of homeless people are sheltered under
sheds.
While Mrs Carr. aged 80, and her two lit
lie girls, aged respectively 0 and years,
were walking on the tracks of the West
Shore Railroad, New York City, they were
struck by an express train, which instantly
killed the woman aud one of the children,
aud fatally injured the other.
A freight train on the Ontario and West
ern Railroad, near Middletown, ~ Y, struck
wagon containing 10 persons returning
from a picnic and killed George Walsh,
Castle Mccoy and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank all
ofNew York. Three others were injured
A cyclone struck the steamer frankie
Folsom on the Illinois river near Peoria.
Ills, and the steamers boilers exploded.
The river was filled with small craft and the
exact loss of life is not known. Following
IL list of those known to have been lost:
Mrs. w. G. Wills, Pekin, Illinois; Mrs. Fred
Fisher, Pekin, and her daughter, Miss Cora
Fisher John Ahrends, Pekin; Miss Mary
Faith, Pekin; Mrs. Henry Druisdecker, Pc
kin; Rev. j. IL. McMien, of Benson, Illinois;
unknown body recovered with Initials on
bangle, ~. G. NJ; Miss Lottie Shade of
Shelbyville, Ills, and Mrs. Kate Beebe. of
Pekin, and Miss Hepler, OF Pekin. Some of
thevictims We're literally cooked to death by
the escaping steam. The river is being
dragged for more bodies.
Legislative.
The Congressional Committee appointed
to investigate the labor trouble at Home
stead, Pa, is now in session at Pittsburg,
Pa, taking testimony both from the mill
owners and the employees. Their report
will be submitted to congress at an early
date.
Cyrus w. Field, the famous promoter OF
the Atlantic cable project, died at his coun.
try home in Arusley Park, N. Y. Mr.. Field
wss associated with many enterprises, among