Middletown transcript., 1892-09-15
General News i'm Brief.

General News i'm Brief.
The seventh child and first daughte
was born to the Emperor and Empires.
of Germany on Tuesday, at the palact
at Potsdam.
John Cumming Howell, Rear
Admiral, U. S. Navy, a native of Phil
adelphia, died at Folkestone, Eng, OIL
Tuesday.
Senator David B. Hill will formal,
open the Democratic Campaign in
New York in an address at a mass
meeting to be held in Brooklyn or
next Monday evening, Sept. 10Th.
Three men,. Foreman Volanski
Thomas Kane and Edward McNally
perished by suffocation In the receiv.
ing basin of sewer, in Jersey City,
Monday afternoon. Volanski was first
overcome, and the others died in trying
to rescue him.
Judge Hadley has decided that the
registration feature of the Indiana elec-
tion law are unconstitutional. His de-
cision is that the registration clause is
class legislation, imposing !. burden
upon one class of citizens.
During the performance Of Wild
West show at Rockfrrd, ILL.,, Mrs.
James Fisher was shot and fatally
wounded. She was looking at the cow
boys firing with supposed blank car
tridges, when a bullet from one of
their pistols passed through her body.
The entire company is under arrest.
DR.. Pierson of Philadelphia, who
officiated in Mr.. Surgeons pulpit in
the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London,
during the latters final illness, and
who later acted in the same capacity,
has been accepted as the permanent
successor 10 Mr.. Spurgeon.
All the 5000 miners in the river
district, of which Pittsburg is the
centre, $ formally" struck Monday
against the one-half per cent. reduc-
tion made by the operators. About
one-third of the mines have been in
operation, but these are now idle.
Half the miners are organized.
The tonnage system went into force
at the Homestead Mill, Monday. The
non-union men now at work will have
to depend on wages based on the
amount Of steel they turn out. In
future the men will be obliged to pay
for their meals. Heretofore the meals
were supplied by the company.
The custom house inspectors at New
York, Monday, seized several trunks
belonging to cabin passenger on the
steamship Britannia from Liverpool.
The owner is said to be society Lead
er in Philadelphia. The trunks con-
tanned valuable dresses, cloaks, gowns
and silks, laces and other property |
worth abou: 50 900.
The State election in Maine result
ed in the election of Cleaves (Rep. } |
for Governor, with plurality of 12,. |
900. The normal Republican major.
ity is over $4,000. The Legislative
branch of the House will stand 9S Re-
publicans and 80 Democrats, and the
Senate 20 Republicans and 2 Demo-
Gratis.
Three weeks ago Miss Kate Reed.
he 1S-year-old daughter nf Thomas
Reed, of Malianoy Tunnel, Pa, sud
ienly became deaf and speechless. She
cannot utter a word, and no noise is
oud enough to awaken echoes in her
ears. Her malady is puzzle. She
writes that she suffers no pain and is
perfectly happy.
The cruiser Chicago flying Rear
Walkers pennant left the
Brooklyn nayy-yard on Sunday, ac-
by the cruiser Philadelphia,
lnder sealed orders for La Guayra,
Venezuela, to join the Kearsarge and
he Concord alread; there. The mis-
ion of the feet of war vessels is but
natter of conjecture
Frank Garvin, a newspaper artist,
gtd twenty-three years, shot his wife
CORA through the hea rt at their home
n Allegheny, Penn. The couple were
married three days before, and the
ause Of the deed is supposed TO be in
ane jealousy. Mrs. Garvin was
wenty years of age and very pretty.
The hearing on the order issued by
udge Edwards requiring Labor Com
missioner Peck to show cause why he
hould not be compelled to show the
riginal blanks upon which he based
is report came before Judge Fursman
t Kingston, n. r., Tuesday. After
ome argument the hearing was ad-
,urned to special term at Albany ,
efore Judge Fursman, on the last
tuesday, Of this month.
Roberts Godfrey, supreme treasurer
the Order of Solon, charged with the |
of $50, 900 Of the orders |
lnds, was giving hearing by Alder.
an McMasters of Pittsburg Friday
I'd held for court. A. S. Mundorf,
,hn NJ. Ball and r. ]. Godfrey, all
ficers of the Supreme Lodge, were ]
so held for court on the charge of y
nspiracy. (
The Whaleback steamer Charles w.
gilmore, which went ashore near Coos v
iy bar, Oregon, Thursday, during :
nse fog, lies parallel with the beach, l
d every breaker is rolling over her. i
Il hopes of saving the vessel have been r
ven up. The Wetmore was loaded II
th z, 400 tons of coal from Tacoma to t
n Francisco, and her loss will amount
$1,000 !