Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-09-07
THE EAST.

A riot occurred at the United coke
works near Greensburg, Pa, on the
30th ult. A number of families of new
worltlnen were moving into the com
pany houses. The striking IIuns and
Slavs, who had been eSicted from the
same houses, attacked the newcomers.
Much of their furniture was destroyed
and six or seven persons were seriously
injured.
Masked robbers broke into the resi-
dence of DR.. A. Mercer, at Beaver Falls,
Ia, on the night of the 10Th nit. and
after beating the doctor and his son
into insensibility, ransacked the house.
The robbers secured but SO and IA few
pieces of jewelry 1t is feared the doc
tor will die.
Ex-Secretary Whitney has, it is said,
consented to run for governor of New
York on the democratic ticket this fall.
Mrs, Lizzie Bent, of Lynn, Mass, has
just recovered her daughter who was
stoicn from her thirteen years ago. The
child was born in New Hampshire, and
when but three years old its father
eloped with another woman, taking
the baby.
Edward Weihl, secretary of Chi
cago building and loan association, was
arrested at New York City on the 18th,
charged with embezzlcment of S3, 700
| belonging to the association.
On the 3lst nit. at Bath, Pa, Palmer
Smith, aged II, was fatally shot in the
abdomen by Harry Meyer, of Allen
town, his guest. The young men were
engaged in shooting at target when
the accident occurred.
One hundred employees of the River
Spinning Company at Woodsocl1et, Il.
l., went on a strike on the 3lst ult. be-
cause of the company's refusal to re-
turn to day pay system instead of pay
ing every employee by the pound of
yarn, which, according to the help, is
an additional cut down of - to 20 per
cent. on top of 20 per cent. cut last
spring.
The Stewart Iron Company started
its coke plant near Uniontown, Pa, in
full on the 31st ult This plant was
one of the first in the region to close
down after the strike began and is the
last in that section to start up.
Business failures during the week
ended August 81 numbered 1873 in the
! United States against $50 last year,
and 40 in Canada, against % last year.
A statement has been issued by ex-
Vice President Levi p Morton in
which he says that his candidacy for
the New York gubernatorial nominal
ton is In the hands of the delegates to
the republican convention.
The commission appointed to investi-
gate what length of span, not less than
1000 feet, would be safe and practical
bic for railroad bridge over the IIud-
son river between New York and Jersey
City has reported. The commission
finds that 2,000-foot span cantilever
bridge, with a pier in the center of the
river, would be safe and practicable,
and that its cost would be $50, 723, 600.
Gen. Nathaniel p Banks is dead at
his home in Waltham, Mass. He was
born January So 1916
The drought in western New York is
causing great damage. The dry vege-
tation has taken fire in many places
and valuable timber tracts are throat
ened with destruction. Farmers mourn
the damage to crops and fear further
losses by fire.
Samuel Livcrmore, aged so, blew out
the gas at the Leslie house, in New
Castle, Pa. on the night of the 10Th
ult., and was found dead in' bed the
next morning.
On the 4th notices were posted in the
Lawrence mills at Lowell, Mass, to the
effect that the work which had beer
partially suspended for several week,
in the cloth departments would start
up with full force.
The 200 employees of the Hazard pa.
rope works We're served ON the LIST with
n notice of 10 per cent. reduction in
wages. The superintendent of the
works says it is necessary to reduce
prices in order to meet foreign compe.
tition; hence the cut in wages.
Beyond an occasional shower of short
duration no rain has fallen at Kings
ton, ". V, or within a radius os TWEEN
ty-iive miles, since May. Crops of al
sorts are complete failure
At pit.eburo on the I'd an orr.op1,oeni