The Bessemer indicator., 1893-12-23
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Fighting In ths harboe Of Rio Jansiro eoe'
unuss iatsfmitteatiy.
Pittsburr Is providing work In her parks
for ali unsnployed men at d per day.
Tho Federation Of Labor passed rssolu-
tiou fAvoring free coinsge Of silver At 10 TO !.
There was . $500, 600 DIRE at New York on
the 18th big furniture house VA destroy
I'd.
Ths strike 10 The mills at Providencs,
Rhode leland, ID over, and the operators afs
Wild with Joy.
An enthusiastic irrigation convention was
held al North Platte, Nebraska, q few days
ago with An attendance OF $50 dclegates1
The Liberal party In Utah At = meeting 10
Salt Lake, decided TO dissolve and ~ inul-
vidual members join the party OF their &C.
lection.
The Meyer trial In New York wa. adjourned
until Thursday on account of the condition OF
Juror Lowe, who is suffering from acute de-
mcntla.
There were destructive frcs at Buffalo and
Troy New York, on the night Of the 18Th.
The iosu at Troy was el5o, ,OOO and $3.50, 900 at
Buffalo.
Chris Evans, the noted California outlaw,
was found guilty OF murder In the first de-
gree aud the penalty was fixed at imprlson'
inent for life.
A large portion OF the crews OF the vessels
bought for Brazil at New York threw up their
jobs upon reaching Brazil, rs they don't rel
ish fighting.
Valuable records Of 100000 to $4,000 Of
money order business kept In the Office oil the
sixth auditor Of tho treasury, al Washington
| have been lost
A fire In the Kansas City Times office caused
apanic among the compositors. They had 10
| get out by the hre escapes Tho building was
not badly hurt.
Chancellor McGni at Jerscy City ordered
| bs Mai al
United States Cordnge Company for t,OcO,-
| 0OO, the sum bid
| The October statement OF the Union Pacific
railroad shows gross decrease OF 81 ,0o6, ,d3o
net decrease. ss55,ll6. The net decrease for
| Ten months was S. o56, ,941.
Chaves county produces nne sweet potatoes.
One man sod his crop this year at five cents
pound. Sweet potatoes will be paying
/ crop In New Mexico hereafter.
| The several receivers of the No rthcrn Pa
cic property asx SIS, 600 each for their yearly
services. Judge Jenkins of Milwaukee hss
the petition under consideration.
| The depot at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory,
was robbed by masked men aud both mail
pouches and considerable express matter and
the cash in the office carried OIL
| The great billiard game between 1ves,
| Schafer and Slosson closed on the 10TH II
was won by Schafer who broke all records on
the last night BY making n run of sos.
JOnn Y. hicntrUSOn u tne nhu6 ot tnc CA
press messenger killed In tho Southern Pacific
| train robbery on Monday night He was 3j
years old, married, and lived In New Orleans,
A train on the International road was held
up near Austin, Texas, on Sunday night The
| robbers cleaned out the express car and then
relieved all the passengers Of their valuabes.
In the English House OF Commons the
other night the Conservatives tried to pass
vote of censure, but after Mr.. Gladstone had
made a spirited reply It was defeated 204 to
240.
A westbound passenger train on the San
Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad was
dltched near Winchester, Texas, and Clark
Dyer, the newsboy, was killed. Several were
Injured.
Bank clearings continue to show very
heavy decrease compared with the cor
responding time last year. In both New York
and Chicago the decrease last week was over
8s per cent.
William B. Boynton, who was arrested 10
Rio de Janciro for attempting to destroy, with
q torpedo, Admiral de AellO's flagship, the
Aquidaban, arrived In New York a. q polit-
cal prisoner.
Nebraska papers ali praise Judge Dundy
for refusing to raise the salaries of the Union
Pacific receivers to 81, 900 = month. He said
he could get competent men ~ receivers for
3,cC0 year.
Five thousand dollars was awarded to
young Marchese, whose father wns among the
Italians lynched In New Orleans, March II,
1891, by jury before whom the, damage
case was tried.
President Dole OF Hawaii, in reply to an Of.
fer from the people Of Los Angeles, Califor-
mia, to equip a company to enlist In tho ila-
wnilan army, states that he has force sufficient
at the present time.
I. D. PURGE, president of the defunct Bank
Of Commerce at Springfield, Missouri, has
been indicted for continuing the banks busl-
ness when he knew II was insolvent. PURGE
was also mayor Of Springfield.
1t has been announced officially that the
Planet carpet and yarn mills At Brooklyn,
New York, would shut down for an indefinite
period Immediately after ChrlstmAs. By clos
ing the mills 500 hands will be thrown out OF
employment
The symphony orchestra Of New York led
by Walter Damrosch refused TO play the
other evening ss a concert was about TO open.
They were hissed by the audience. Their re-
fusal was due TO vlolncellist named Hegncr
who WAS pon-unlon.
The span Of the new bridge being built
across the Ohio river between Louisville md
Jeffersonville gave way Friday pro cipitatIng
forty men Into the torrent below. Twenty
one workmen were killed outright and = large
number injured, some Of them fatally.
The American Bimetallic League has an
nounccd that It Will open offices in Chicago.
W. II. Harvey, proprietor of the Chicago
executive committee, which will be In charge
OF the Chicago headquarters Of the league.
The commissioner OF the general land office
has approved and submitted to the secretary
OF the Interior supplemental lists Nos. 10 and
IL for land patents on tho main and branch
lines on the Southern Pacific railroad. The
lists Involve 24,079 acres Of land located In
California.
The Grand Island, Nebraska, sugar factory
has closed for this year, having made $685.
900 pounds Of sugar, and having In the ware
house 10000 gallons Of third syrup and 49,
5s5, 600 pounds of sugar. The Norfolk fac
tory is still running, eud TO date has made
1850, 900 pounds OF sugar.
At the conference between Receiver Trum-
bull Of Union Pacific, Denver Il Gulf, and
Receiver Anderson and General Manager
Pacific WAS granted the use Of the Gulf
tracks between Julesburg and La Sale, the
cut OF between Omaha and Denver, and the
Gulf secured the use OF the Union Pacific de-
pot at Cheyenne. The question Of the owner
ship OF the shops at Denver is still under dis
cussion.
Friday night wreck occurred on the New
York & PennsylvanIa, sig miles north of Dun
kirk, New Jersey. 1t resulted In the loss Of
eight lives. Others were injured. The west
bound passenger train that leaves Buffalo ut
$3.50 p. m. went through trestle near Sheri-
dan Crossing, which had been weakened by
foods incident TO the heavy rains, precipitat-
Ing the tender, a baggage and smoking car
into the creek. Two Of the crew were killed.
The bodies Of six passengers have been taken
out of the wreck.
AT meeting Of the locked-out employees In
the woolen mill district Of Providence Friday
evening, II was resolved that they should
march 10 the headquarters Of the operators Of
the mill and make formal demand for the
settlement, as the strike has reached that
point where the operatives therein must be
supplied with food. The Catholic clergy who
have charge Of the parishes In 01neyville and
| vicinity have undertaken TO try and bring
about some action by which the deadlock be-
tween the manufacturers and the strikers