The Bessemer indicator., 1894-05-19

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tube works at McKeesport, Pennsyl
vania, struck on the l4th, for a restora
ton of the old rate of wages.
The coal famine in the east is be
| ginning to get serious. Factories ar.
being shut down and trains laid off
Coal is being shipped over from Wales
The Missouri Democratic state con
vention which met at Kansas Cit,
on the 18th gave the Bland presiden
tial boom start with much enthusi
asm.
Two thousand employees of the Pull
man company struck on the 1lth. The
men demand the restoration Of the 33'
per cent. cut which was made last
year.
President Hill Of the Great North
ern road has agreed to the demands oi
the men and those charged with crimi-
nal acts during the strike will be re.
stored.
Seven outlaws invaded Southwes,
City, Missouri, on the 10th, in broad
daylight, and robbed the bank of all
the funds, between So, 900 and 81, 600
They wounded several citizens, al
though no resistance was offered.
\ terribly atrocious murder was
committed at Milan, Missouri, few
few days ago, Gus. Meeks, his wife
and two children were killed and a
smaller child left for dead, bu, she re-
gained consciousness 1t is believed
that Meeks was killed so that he could
not testify against the Taylor broth
ers.
. The president Of the republic Of
Brazil has suspended diplomatic rcla-
tons with Portugal, giving passports
to Count Paraty and the personnel of
the Portuguese legation in Rio and or
dered the Brazilian legation in Lisbon
to withdraw This rupture of diplo-
matte relations is the result of the
action Of the Portuguese naval com
manders in Rio in affording asylum to
the Brazilian rebels
a big meeting was held at Le1ing-
ton on the 18th to denounce Breckiu-
ridge The best people of Lexington
and Fayette county, including several
hundred ladies', attended The meet
ing from a standpoint of morality, was
tremendnrs success. The opera
house was filled and 500 people were
turned away. The speeches and reso-
lutions strongly denounced Breckin-
ridge.
Boston suffered from great fire on
the 18th. The frc started in the
league ball park and covered twenty
acres before it was subdued 4 large
number of tenemcnts were swept away
and it is estimed that 1000 people
were rendered homeless. No lives
were lost but SIX persons we're injured.
The property loss amounts to 81 ,O00,,
900.
The situation at Blueiields is fan
from reassuring. Within forty eight
hours over 100 inhabitants, mostly
Creoles, have left the place for San
Ardreas and other islands to await the
result Of the revolution which appears
imminent. In all about 800 people
have fed Business is almost at .
standstill. Minister Bakers arrival
there on the 26th on board the Sar
Francisco was hailed with delight
Complaints are pouring in from every
direction re garding abuse at the hand,
Of the Nicaraguan officials. Advices
from the coast state that the indians
are sharpening their arrows and pre-
pairing for war.
The largest gas well in the Ohio o,
in the Indiana fields was drilled on the
Wallace farm. three miles west of Eos.
tora. The lease is owned by the
Chicago Oil Company, and the well
was started last week in territory that
was considered worthless. 1t came in
at o'clock Monday afternoon and
when the tools were thrown out the
workmen had to run for their lives.
The drill stem and ropes were thrown
fully 500 feet The well is estimated
at 80, 900, 900 feet of gas per day, the
largest well on earth. The gas caught
FIRE and as result the woods are blaz-
ing in many places. The flames shoot
up 100 feet above the tree tops. A
curious feature is that in more than n
hundred places water is spouting
through the ground to the height Of
ten to twenty feet.
Advices from Blue6elds say that
the condition of uncertainty which
still prevails there is due to the fact
.hat both the Americans and Mica
raguans are awaiting definite action on
the part of the United States govern
ment.
Mamie Sheehan, aged IL, a pupil Of
II Cincinnati public school, at a recess
jumped rope 600 times without stop
ping. At night she was unconscious
at deaths door. Her physician sus-
pected the rupture Of blood vessel
ia the brain,