Passaic City record., 1896-10-17


pany and Mtdvale Steel Company.
Domestic.
William Delth was killed, Emily Rue and
diary Schnadke were fatally and two other
girls seriously injured by a runaway team at
Union Hill, N. j, =.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works, Of the
Carnegie Steel Company. Braddock, Penn,
were put in operation in all departments
after suspension, which was due to total
lack of orders. New orders were received.
The Homestead Steel Mills of the same COM
pany have also been started after an enforced
shutdown.
An alleged plot Of Highbinders, in Boston.
Mass, to assassfnate every member OF the
Chinese Christian Union in that city, has
been revealed to the police by Il member OF
the Highbinders.
John Krueger a sleep-walker, went into
Saloon Keeper Metschele's bedroom, New
York City, aud was shot dead under the inn
preston that he was burglar.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company re-
ports the largest gross and net earnings in
its history.
Theodore Meyer, head baker of the Man.
haitian State Hospital. on Wards Island, New
York City, was killed by an insane patient,
who struck him in the head with an ak.
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chant who discharged twelve clerks because
they said they were for Bryan. was arrested
for Intimidation on a warrant the Democratic
State Committee got out.
The Marine National Bank of Duluth,
Mimi, closed it's doors and the bank examiner
is in charge. The bank has a capital of
$3.50 900. Inability to make collections and
heavy Withdrawals are given as the cause of
the failure.
Major Mckinley received at his home in
Canton 800 early settlers from Cuyahoga
County, Ohio. not one Of whom was less than
seventy years old. Many women were among
them.
Three men we're instantly killed by a fall
of rock in the Latin Mine, at Wilkesbarre,
Penn.
Walter Hunt of Plainfeld, N. H., shot and
killed Irving Smith, farmer, and then
killed himself.
In a fight between sheriff's posse and
the Green gang of outlaws at Oolagh, Indian
Territory, two of the outlaws were killed
and the others were captured. The Greens
have been actively con the road" for three
months.
Three women lawyers were appointed as
receivers in as many cases by Justice Mac
Lean, of the Supreme Court, New York City.
The Indiana State Board of Elections de-
cided that the National Democrats should
adopt the title "gold standard on the elec-
toral ticket, instead Of National Democratic,
as was desired.
The spot cash price of No. 2 red wheat, the
standard grade, in New York, was eighty
cents on October 13, the highest point
reached In the present upward movement.
A care 'ul canvass of the political situation
indicates that fusion has been effected be-
tween the silver forces in seventeen States.
The price of bar silver dropped to 641s
,%r %hn a z l.,
reached in three years.
George Jessup and Frank Thompson, of
Brooklyn, while wheeling in New Jersey
were held up and robbed by two masked
tramps.
County Clerk Knopf was arrested at Chi
cago charged with issuing 1000 fraudulent
naturalization certificates.
Mary Hepler, eighty years old. was run
down and perhaps fatally injured by truck
in New York City. Police had to rescue tho
driver, John Hunt from mob.
The body of Miss Grace Dickerson, who
disappeared from her home in Brooklyn
September %, was found in Wykoff Swamp,
near Canarsie. Long Island. by hunters. She
had been dead one day, and the mystery is
unsolved
The people of Oxford, Mass, are greatly
alarmed over the presence of a firebug. He
got In his work Wien the farm house owned !,
Wy tuo Cndloo DrOluer3, ABOUT one ana q
quarter miles from the town, and occupied
by William Troreau and his family and Eli
Duprey and his family, was entirely con-
sumed, with all Its contents. Willie Duprey,
an eleven-year-old son of Eli Duprey. was
burned to death.
Large sums of money were raised for mis-
sions at the meetings of the Christian Mis-
slonary Alliance in Carnegie Hall, New York
City.
A f1libustering expedition in aid OF the
Cuban revolutionists, which left Florida
waters, carried 200 men aud one of the
largest cargoes OF war munitions sent to
Cuba since the rebellion began.
The Indiana State Board of Elections by a
vote OF to decided to deny the petition of
the National Democrats to 60 on the ballot
under that name. Governor Matthew had
the deciding vote and cast it against the
petition.
Governor Morton, of New York, has dis
missed the charges of malfeasance in neglect
or duty against Superintendent Lathrop, of
the State prisons. but recommends that he
Investigate the state of affairs in the Auburn
prison.
The Baltimore Baseball Club won the Tenn
pie Cup series from the Cleveland team. de-
feating the latter in four successive games
The players of the Cleveland team will each
get SLY for his share of the proceeds. The
Baltimore men will divide about $25OO as
their share, and each man will get about
5000. "o"'
An explosion occurred in the big rolling
mill OF the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road Company at Danville, Penn. man
and boy were killed. six men Seriously
hurt and seven other men iniurad Tba