The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-06-22
LATE TELEGRAPHIC TICKS
FROM MANY POINTS.
Important News Items Received as We
so to Press.
Disasters, Accidents mud fatalities.

At Chicago the steamer Viola with a party
of97 ladies and gentlemen from the North
western university is reported lost with all
on board
A Chicago and Grand Trunk locomotive
exploued one mile east of Climax, Mich,
fatally injuring Engineer Wood, Fireman
Smith and Brakeman Parker, all residents
of Battle Creek. Mich.
What remained of the village Of Rock
dale, near Dubuque, Ia, since the disaster
of 1876 was wiped out by n storm Friday
evening No lives were lost.
Riotous miners have stopped operations
at the Minnesota mines, at Tower, Mimi,
and the shafts are filling with water
rwenty-one trains are tied up.
While two men were fighting in yard in
Chicago four women went on n high porch
to see what was going on. The porch fell,
end three of the women were fatally injur-
ed.
Edward w. Gould, n member of the New
York stock exchange, and conspicuous in
Wall street, was killed Saturday while par
ticipating in the amateur Wild west show
got up by the Staten Island Athletic club.
The accident occurred in the presence of his
family and thousand of his friends
Capital, Labor aud Industrial,
Two hundred employees of the John Por-
ter Company, firebrick manufacturers of
New Cumberland, w. Va, went out on
strike for an advance of from tl.3j to $3.50
sday.
One thousand dockers at Bilboa,
Spain have struck for an increase of wages
The police, fearing disturbances, have ar
rested three agitators. Six hundred work.
men in the Malaespera and Ollargan mines
have struck
The International typographical Union
IN session at Philadelphia repealed the So
hour law bya majority of TO As votes, it
being found impossible to enforce its pro-
visions uniformly.
The Columbia rolling mill at Columbia,
IA, has shut down for an indefinite period.
About 200 men are thrown out of work.
The Eclipse Bicycle Works, of Indian.
apolis, will be removed to Beaver Falls, Pa,
and capitalized at sl50,0oO Employment
Will De gwen 10 ZOO nhnus,
Convention New.
At Lansing, Mich, at the Peoples party
convention resolution was passed against
fusion, and Captain Il. S. Osborn vas nom.
mated for Secretary of State.
The Kansas Peoples party convention at
Wichita nominated candidates for the state
ticket and w. A. Harris fop congressman.at-
large, victory for the fusionists. A
woman suffrage plank was adopted, and
Mrs. NJ. Il. Lease Of Wichita was elected one
OF the delegates-at-large to the Omaha con-
vention. As soon as the convention met
Levi Dumbald chairman of the Peoples
central committee, made plea for money
TO conduct the coming campaign. II am for
free silver" shouted delegate from the
Seventh district, and threw on the platform
silver dollar. The action was contagious,
and money was rained on the stage by spec
tators and delegates, over 5000 BEN. real
i.ed.
At Cleveland, o., the cooper shop of the
Standard Oil Company, Loss, $4,000.
At jamestown, N. ", the Pearl Furniture
Company's factory. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance sll 1000.
At Rich Hill, Mo-, five large business.
houses, the losses aggregating $4,000.
At Elizabethport n. j., large store and
six frame buildings.
AT Jamestown, n. Y, the Pearl Furniture
,ompany's factory. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance, $1,000
At Elizabeth, N j., damage of 100000 re-
suited from the burning of business block.
At Alexandria. La, square of buildings
including the bank and hotel were burned.
Loss, $4,000; insurance unknown,
Two spans of the Northern Pacific bridge
over Clarks Fork river. Idaho, burned.
This is the largest bridge on the Northern
Pacific. 1t is thought the fire caught from a
passenger locomotive.
Washington News,
Mr.. E. S. Lacey, controller of the cur.
rency, has resigned.
The sundry civil appropriation bill as il
passed the House appropriated 100000 for
the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
act. Mr.. FELTON, yesterday in the Senate
proposed an amendment increasing the
amount to $4,000.
The House committee on military affairs
has taken favorable action on the Senate
bill to furnish the Gettysburg Battlefield
Memorial Association with specimens of
arms, accontrelAents, ETC., used by the
armies in the battle OF Gettysburg.
Mr. Chauncey NJ. Depew left here Sunday
for New York. Mr.. Depew dined with the
President Saturday and there were rumors
that he had been offered the vacant cabinet
portfolio, but he refused to talk about the
matter
Political.
The conference committees of the divided
Louisiana Democrats have reached mutu-
allv satisfactory agreement for the sendinp