The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-07-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Political and Industrial.


A lease from the Chicago, st. Paul & Kansas
City Railroad Company to the Chicago Great
Western Railway Company was filed for record
in Waterloo, Iowa. last week. The instrument
conveyed the 922 miles of railroad owned and
controlled by the former to the latter for
period of SO years--The receipts from Gus
toms at the port of New York for the first 90
days of this month were s., S54. $50, an increase
of about 81 900, 900 compared with the receipts
of the corresponding period of last year.
The pudding department at the mills of the
Crum Creek Iron and Steel Company, in Rid
ley Township, Pa, resumed operations last week
with nOn-union men, paying the new Amalga-
mated scale, which is 81 per ton for wrought
scrap and So per ton for half-wrought scrap.
number of the old hands returned to work
later.-In Cincinnati so leading capitalists
gathered to discuss plan to organize steam
ship line between New Orleans and South
American ports. The sum of $4,000 900 has
already been subscribed and $4,000, 900
more Is asked from Cincinnati and
other cities that will be benefited by direct
trade with South American ports. New
York, New Orleans, Philadel phia, Chattanooga
and other points were also represen ted
Papers have been filed with the Illinois Secre-
tary of State for the incorporation of COM
pany that will undertake to distribute news
papers automatically in Chicago. The general
principle Of the automatic machine to dis.
tribute newspapers is similar to the nickel
in-the-slot" machines. The newspaper dis
tributors do not stop at merely handing out to
the customer his favorite sheet. They will
make change when required. If customer
drop 10 cents into a certain slot or quarter
into another, the paper machine will produce
eight or % cents III change as may be neces-
sary.-Gold, in great quantities, has been
discovered in Lower Saucon on the Lehigh
Mountain. The site is situated a little over
mile southeast of Redington. The land is
rendered fertile by the irrigation of Sinners
Creek which runs through the fields. The
tract as a whole is hilly.-The iron miners at
Belvidere, N. j., are on a strike because Super
intendent Lukins notified the men that their
wages would be reduced so cents ton on and
after Aug. /. Everything is quiet about the
works, but the men appear to be firm to hold
out against the reduction. The puddlers are
all idle, and this will necessitate shutdown
in all the departments except the blast furnace,
which has just been started up, and the COM
pany will endeavor to keep it running
Crimes aud Casualties.
A most disastrous explosion of gas occurred
in the tunnel of the first lift of York Farm
colliery, near Pottsville, Pa, July %, by which
nine men are known to have been killed out
right, and probably three others, whose bodies
cannot be found, while at least 10 men are more
or less badly burned and mutilated, some of
American Powder Mills, at Acton, Mass, July 90,
blowing one of the mills into atoms. Benja.
min Ingham, who was running the mill, was
instantly killed, his mutilated body being
found some distance off in the woods. He
leaves widow and four children. The mill
was new one.-In the Hennessey and
Cooney Building. Providence, r. l., fire broke
out last week which took tho entire fire de-
partment to conquer. The total loss by the
fire will foot up $4,000. Cooney's building
was valued at $4,000, and contained wool be-
longing to Messrs Peck Il Co., worth $50 COO,
and J. j. Cochran, stock worth probably -, 900.
The Health authorities of New York City
are exercised over the reappearance of typhus
in the crowded tenement quarter. The
Health Board has decided to leave nothing I'M
done that will render the city safe from cholera
from abroad. Inspectors have been sent out
to make a thorough inspection of every yard
and cellar in the city.-Milwaukeean are
being treated to another sensation in the line
of shortages in the accounts of public depart
men!s. Mr.. Jackertz the expert accountant
who found that the late Secretary Schattenberg,
of the School Board, robbed the city of nearly
$4,000 before he committed suicide, and that
Public Librarian Linderfelt swinded the city
out Of 10000, now finds discrepancy of s4 600
in the meter accounts of water Department.
At Burton, Tex. one night last week, Alex
ander Mccain, the 1l.year-old son of Elder
Mccain, WAS left at the residence of Moses
Watson while the two families went to church.
Moses Watson has an 11-year.old adopted
daughter, Matte Ellis. When the parent, left
the house the children were washing the dishes.
The boy quit, whereupon the girl picked up
butcher-knife and plunged it into the boys
heart.-At Fall River, Mass, while Prof.
Castaldi and DR.. Terry were fencing the button
fell from the foil of the former, and the weapon
pierced the eye Of tho Doctor, who Immediately
sank into chair. Before the physicians ar
rived he had diagnosed his case and told the
nature aud cxtent of the accident, pronounce