Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-01
PURELY PlTH.
Some of Yesterdays Noon Dispatches Stripped
 of SuperAuitieS.

The marriage of the Dowager Duchess 1 of Marlborough to Lord William Bers- ford took place in St. Georges church. 1 Hanover square, London, at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
 The New York assembly coneurred-in l the senate amendments to the New York 1 city police magistrates bill by a vote of | S6 to IT, and the bill now goes to Mayor | Strong for his approval.
 Representative Hitt's physician report
 cd his patient to be little better yester- day morning. His mind is clearer than it has been for two or three days past, but intense weakness prevails.
 The resignation of Theodore Roosevelt as member of the civil service commis- sion was received at the executive man.
 sion yesterday. He resigns to accept the
 appointment of police commissioner of New York.
 The Newmarket spring meeting opened yesterday The 2000 guineas
 trial plate of 200 sovereigns for all
 ages, the winner to be sold by auction for 2000 sovereigns, was won by M. F..
 Dwyer's Banquet II, Lord Wellington's
 Legal Tender second and D. D. Esmond third. Seven horses ran. Betting was to against Banquet II.
 A wholesale movement against the sweat shop system was inaugurated at Baltimore. Thirty-three hundred mem-
 bers of the Garment Workers union went on a strike and their action is likely to be followed by more than 5000 trousers
 and vest makers. Those who struck yes terday are coat makers.
 The Standard oil company has started oil downward by making reduction Of ,fsa crude oil They offered $2 a barrel for the product yesterday morning. This action affected the speculative market, and the first sale at Oil City was $2, drop of cents from Mondays close. A dispatch from Akron, O., says: The combination of pottery manufacturers known as the Akron-Canton stoneware agency, which has sold more than two- thirds of the stoneware of the United States for the last ten years, has been broken. The break came at a regular weekly meeting of the thirteen com panieS interested, held in the East Ak
 ron office Monday afternoon.
 The strike of the garment cutters at St. Louis is at an end. The strike was for better quarters and not for an in- | crease of wages, and satisfactory agree ment has been drawn up and signed by the clothing manufacturers and workers
 The employers agreed to furnish quarters | for the workers which will be approved | by the state factory inspectors.
 | The Oil City Pa.) Tube mills and Oil City Boiler works have notified em- ployes that after May 6 wages will be advanced 10 per cent. Big demands for pipe, machinery and boiler, following have caused the increase. The two con cerns pay from S45,000 to $50,000 monthly and employ 1000 men.
 Monday night thirty-f1ve of the fifty eight democratic members of the house
 of the Missouri legislature met in eau GUS and resolved that <"We, the democratic members of the house of representatives of the thirty-eighth | general assembly, favor the free | coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to1" | The vote on the resolution stood-ayes 22, l nays 9. Not voting, 4
 On Sunday evening Mrs. William Clan cy, an aged lady living near Dovers, | TeX was criminally assaulted and beat en until she became unconscious. Sev- eral posses at once organized and searched all night. Shortly after noon Monday a posse oVerhauled George Jones'
 said to be a half-breed Indian, near the
 Jefferson county line. and fatally shot him when he refused to surrender. The charter for the National College of | Sons of Masons will be applied for in | three weeks, and Pittsburg will likely se- | cure the institution. The endowment is | S4,000,000. The cities competing are Washington, New York St Louis and Pittsburg, but it is about definitely set | tied the latter city has preference. The l object, now positively stated for the first | time, is to provide high college educa- | ton for the children of Masons unable to | furnish it themselves.
 The Keehler Milling company's plant | at East St. Louis was damaged to the | amount of $100,000 by fire at o'clock yes- l terday morning. The total destruction of | the property was averted by the sprink- | Ter system. which flooded the building 1 with water. The origin of the fire is be- l lievedto have been due to some combus- | tible material getting into the rollers. | The loss is only partially covered by in 1 surance.
 w. w. Clark of the Sunday Observance | league Chicago. who led the crusade on | Sunday baseball last year. will make | another attempt to suppress games this
 season. He is fortified by Dr. Poin- | dexter Bishop Fallows and representa- tives from many churches. Judge Hor-
 ton, who granted the temporary injunc-
 ton last year, will be appealed to for
 similar document to be served on the 1 Chicago club next Sunday The league
 also purposes turning it's attention to | Sunday newspapers.
 Proceedings have been completed by
 the Chickamauga park commission and | the title acquired by the government for 1 fifty acres at the north point of Mission
 ,ary Ridge at Chattanooga. The purchase | will form part of the National Military lapark. It comprises the ground of assault | of the Army of the Tennessee, under i General Sherman, and the positions de- tended by General Hardee's corps of
 General Bragg's army. This purchase is