Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-08-31


AT Fall River. Mass, the great tex
tile strike has developed into a lockout,
and as result %, coo mill operatives in
Fall River will be idle. Notices were
posted in the mills on the 93d that
every mill operated by members of the
/ Manufacturers association would at
once shut down indefinitely. These
mills include every establishment en-
gagged in the manufacture of print
cloth, and the shut down throws %. 645
men and women out of employment.
Edward Weihl, secretary of Chi
cago building and loan association, was
arrested at New York City on the It'll.
! charged with esnbczzlemcnt of S3, 700
belonging to the association.
Fifteen policemen and a sherifrs
posse of twenty-five mcn put to fight
Count Ribauwslli's army of $50 hoboes
AT Buffalo, n. y, on the 24th, after a
pitched battle in which twenty-five of
the hobocs and two deputy sheriffs were
injured. Nine hoboes were SO badly
hurt that it was necessary to take them
to the hospital. The count and 1870 of
his followers were arrested
James W. Converse, principal owner
of the Converse Manufacturing Com
Fcany and the Phoenix Furniture Com
rany, of Grand Rapids, Mich, and
president of the Mechanics National
bank, Boston, Mass, died on the Goth
at 'Swampscott, Mass, aged Sc years.
He left an estate of $7,000.OoO
Mrs. William Cannon. of Sugar Loaf
Pa, on the 25th, while temporarily in
sane, tried to poison her entire family.
She placed paris green in the coffee
and bread in sufficient quantities to
make death certain. A number of goats
happened to be the first to get the
bread and their deaths aroused Mr..
Cannon's suspicious 1t was then that
he discovered the poison in the coffee.
The city button works at Allentown,
Pa. shut down on the oath for an in
definite period, paid all its employees
and dismissed them, The works will
be kept closed until the fashion for
wearing fancy buttons is inaugurated
again.
Laborers digging ditch at Dunlsirlz,
n. y, on the 2oth found skeleton of
mastodon. The head measures five
feet across. One tooth weighed four
pounds, was seven inches long by four
broad and was highly polished.
An eastbound passenger train on the
Baltimore & Ohio branch ran into a
huge boulder near Cairo, w. Va, on the
27th ult. The engine was thrown from
the track, killing Fireman Shaughnessy,
of Grafton, and injdring Engineer
Flannery fatally.
A benefit game was rendered Charles
Bennett, the crippled catcher of the
Boston Baseball club, by members of
that club and picked nine on the eth
ult. The game was played at Boston
and about $1,000 was realized,
After shutdown since July 81, the
Cocheco mills at Dover, n. H., started
up on the 27th ult., giving employment
TO 1000 persons.
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher, brother of
the late Henry Ward Beecher after a
f'''VS'"US Va AOi1 y JSulS, uuS TcbHeu
from the active duties as pastor of the
/ Park church at Elmira, n. Y.
In the court of sessions at Buffalo. n.
Y, on the 27th ult Count Rybadowski,
commander-in-chief of the late indus
trial army, was arraigned, charged
with being a common tramp. lie was
found guilty and sent 70 the peniten-
! tiary for six months The members of
his staff were all found guilty and sent
to the worlhousc for nin1 days each.
George W. Reader, employed in EN-
inert Bros, planning mill at liagerstown,
Md, met horrible death on the 18th
While adjusting belt upon revolving
pully. he was caught by the machinery
and mangled almost beyond semblance
to human form. Death was instan-
/ tancouS.
Nathan p Coburn died suddenly at
Newton, Mass. on the 10Th, aged ~.
lie was one of the most prominent
manufacturers in the country. Mr.
Coburn recently gave $4,000 to the
Colorado college for a library.