The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-06-01
LATE 1ElEGRApHIc TICKS
FROM MANY POINTS.
Important News Items Received 90 We
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Crime md Pennlties.

shooting OF three men.
J. w. Avirett, editor of the Cumberland,
Md, Times, was sentenced 10 90 days in
Jail and fine of 500 for libeling Judge
Hoffman.
AT San Francisco Abe Jones was SEN
fenced TO 20 years imprisonment by United
States District Judge Morrow for the rob-
berries Of the Reddng stage on the nights of
October ls and ~ last
Patrick Fitzpatrick was hanged in the
Jail at Pittsburg, Pa, on Tuesday for the
murder of Samuel Early. The hanging was
the first in that county for the past eight
years and the first in the new Jail. The
crime which lead to the execution of Fitz-
patrick was committed on the night Of
September 2, 1891. He was in the bar-room
of a saloon. Fitzpatrick had been in the sa-
loon for perhaps an hour before the mur-
dered man, Samuel Early, same in. Fifteen
minutes after Early came in he called for a
drink Of water. Fitzpatrick walked up and
knocked his hat of, when man came
around nom behind the bar and put Fitz-
patrick out on the street. The testimony
was that Early was also put out and while
going out of the door, Fitzpatrick was
awaiting him there with knife in bis
hand. A few seconds later Early rushed
back into the saloon, exclaiming, Look
there ~ and fell over. He died in few min
utes. The knife had penetrated vital spot
in the groin
Captain A. J.sloan, aged 81 years, Of
Jackson, Ga, was murdered by burglars
The robbers secured about 81 600. Lynchers
are securing the country for them.
C. f Montgomery president of the Ger
man bank at Lincoln, Neb., was shot and
killed in the dning-room Of the Lincoln
hotel by w. II. Irvine of Salt Lake City,
member of the Utah Territorial legislature
and o former resident of Lincoln. Irvine
surrendered. lie claims Montgomery ruined
his wife and broke up their home.
Capital. Labor and Industrial.
The striking carpenters made final ap-
peal to Laughed, Modisette q Co, of Union
town, Pa, to lay off w. A. Custer, the sus-
pended member of the trades council. The
firm refused and said that Custer could stay
as long as they had work for him 70 do. As
all trades were ordered out. A prolonged
strike is anticipated,
The tin and sheet iron workers and cor.
nice makers at Chicago decided to 20 on
strike for an eight-hour day and a minimum
rate of 35 cents an hour.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin.
GERS in session at Atlanta, Ga, reelected
Past Master Arthur Grand Chief Engineer
for four years He desired to retire, having
served Is years, but the convention insisted
upon his taking another term.
The car strike at New Orleans was settled
by arbitration. None but union men are tc
be employed, except the few at work before
May /.
The Durham Miners Federation has is-
sued a manifesto, which says that the at
tempt to effect settlement with the mas
tiers has failed; that the deadlock has conse-
quently been accentuated, and that the
whole responsibility for the awful struggle
that is now inevitable rests upon the mas
tiers.
All the union employees at Laughead' 8
planning mill, Uniontown, Pa, have quit
work because they could not secure tn,
discharge of an obnoxious employe. II il
said there will be trouble to fill theil
places.
At the sheriff sale of the property of th,
defunct Swogger organ factory at Beaver
Falls the employees TO whom large amount
is due for wages, bid on the unfinished work
and material by permission of the sheriff
and by permission of other creditors wer,
allowed to start the factory this morning t.
complete the unfinished organs. 1t viii
require some weeks to do this. The bull.
ing, machinery and grounds will be sold N
June.
Two hundred Louisville painters are on
strike for higher wages.
Washington News.
The secretary of war has authorized the
use Of military supplies for food sufferers
The G Government has awarded larg,
contract for "a, 900, 600 double postal cards &
new device which has long been considered
by the Postoffice Department. The caro-
will be 81 by 81 inches, and will be folded
In the middle presenting four surfaces. The
outside surface is for the address and the in
side for the message, At the fold the card
sperforated, so that the recipient will teal
OFF one-half and then answer on the other.
Representative Johnson, OF Ohio, intro
duced in the House bill to admit free o.
duty glass windows imported for the use Of
churches.
An amendment appropriatng $40 900 wa.
proposed to the agricultural appropriation
billto continue experiments in the produc-
ton Of rainfall by means of explosives.
Secretary Rusk and assistant Secretary
Wilets, of the Agricultural Department, ap-
peared before the Committee on Agriculture
and endorsed an appropriation for artificial
rainmaking.
Formal proclamation was made by Presi.
dent Harrison of the establishment Of re.