Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-10-13
THE TINES DIARY,
NOTES AND INCIDENTS OFTAE PAST
WEEK OF INTEREST TIC ALL.

VGCN VT IN - NLI
Lockout ofGarment Workers-yenow Fever
in Brazil l. Scarlet Fever Epidemic - An
drew Carnegie on the Tariff Columbus
Remains-Threats ned Strike al Lowell
Starvation in Mexic0-Notes.
The Clothing Contractors Association
of Boston, have declared war against the
| United Garment Workers Union. and
Monday last 5000 were locked-out. The
cause is that IN mbers of the Union refuse
to accept the usual winter cut-down in
wages. One of the largest contractors
says: "We anticipate no great struggle.
Just as soon as the men find we mean
business they will give in. They cannot
afford TO loaf as most of them are poor
men, dep ndiug entirely upon the wages
we pay them for their living. When that
ends what are they going to dof Starve?
Wei, guess not. They are class that
will not hold together"
An epidemic Of yellow fever has been
raging in Santos, Brazil, for several
months, and the dead have been buried
ln trenches of great length. 1t is claimed
hat more victims have been swept away
IN and around Santos than have died in
Europe from the cholera. Three hundred
turn to discharge valuable cargoes ship
ped from all parts of the world, aud they
will, it is claimed, be there year hence,
still waiting to be towed alongside the
discharge bir,h.
Special SCI wees as a part of the Colum-
hlan celebration were ht ID in most of the
New 1Ork churches last Sunday. In
some elaborate musical programs were
given, the pulpits and altars being
adorned with flowers. The discourses
were prepared with special c0nsidera-
ton for the children.
| Andrew Carnegie has written letter
giving his views on the tariff question.
He says that for a country of fully devel-
oped resources, like England, free trade
is Indispensable, but for a new country
like the United States, protective tariff
is necessary to facilitate domestic pro-
duction.
One of the Worlds Fair Commissioners
at Washington, has learned at the state
department that the remains of Christie
nh"r Columbus " ere offered to the United
States as security for loan Of $lOO 900 at
6 per cent interest, by Professor Ulysses
|
Scarlet fever has become SO prevalent
in several of the states, during the past
few weeks, that citizens and boards of
health are using every means to stamp it
out. Waltham, Mass, has 40 cases of
the disease, and in other places schools
have been closed.
The cotton mule spinners at Lowell,
Mass, threaten to strike unless their
wages are raised at once. As the mill
owners have refused to yield, I. serious
labor war may be precipitated. IL the
mule spinners go out, I'll The departments
| must shut down.
In spite of the anti-Chinese law in Vic
| tOria, Cinnamon have been constantly en-
tering the colony from Tasmania. The
Victorian government has therefore re-
sclndeu The pro clamation which permit-
ted the entry of Chinese from Tasmania.
Advices from the interior of Mexico
| give most deplorable state Of affairs at
Toluca. The poorer classes are dying
every day from starvation and exposure,
augmented by an epidemic of typhoid
fever. At Zacatecas 1872 ul d st Sunday.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Go. and
Wells, Fargo & Co. have telegraphed to
Coffeyvil Kan, $4,000 to be paid to the
men that killed the Dalton gang. Il is
stated that rewards offered for the gangs
dead or alive, aggregated $4,000 each.
| The residence of our consul, Nicholas
Smith. at Three Rivers, Canada, WAS
stoned, Saturday night, and the windows
broken, the citizens being incensed over
his report r, flecting on the sanitary con-
dition Of the town.
Over %, 900 school children paraded in
New York, Monday, the first day Of the
Columbus celebration, and in the evening
1900, 900 people witnessed the Niagara Of
fire, aud other displays set of from the
Brooklyn bridge.
Our minister at Venezuela has cabed to
the state department at Washington, that
Gen. CrespO has entered Caracas, and is
in full possession of the city. The presi-
dent and his ministers have fed and all
was quiet.
Hon. John r. Reading, at one time con-
nected with the old Boston Post, member
Of congress four years, naval stOrekeeper,
mayor Of the city etc., died at Portsm> uth
N. H., last Friday.
A costly monument is now being made
in Irelaud that is to be erected to the
memory of Cyl w. Field and wife, IN
the family burying ground at Stock
bridge, Mass.
II. B. Hollins &, Co., New York, have
given check for 1889, ,206,S4, and have
received from the Speyer syndicate all
the cOlaterals of the Georgia Central
railroads.
d. w Reeves, leader of the American
Ban P.OVidence. X l has been tend