ro - A GREAT TIETP. ‘Twenty Street Car Lines in New York Stop Running, #0 be borna, The railr bold front, submit to before daybreak. : three o'clock in the morn wera Seng lo very depot took a As each car h Bently i who had t before. hen they appeared tho news, Accord to re. they accepted the situation cheerfu day was a stirri by scenes o the n they The wild or, Were apparently against the companies, for they joined with mst and even nd . slaughts, fortunately, did not result serious except in one case, were frequent collisions with the police. Only fifteen cars ware placed on the streets by the tied-up companies, and these H were manned, guarded and occupied by blue | coats, locusts and revolvers in band. of the cars were overturned. Many strikers’ heads were broken. Others were arrested and fined or held for trial The inconvenience and delay caused by the lack of transportation facilities probably cost the city thousanis of dollars, Bome | Fourth Day. 150 the day before, No attempt was made to run oars on the Second avenue, Eighth avenue, Ninth avenue and Belt lines, With the exception of thest four,all the surface railroads in the city were in operation, Few strikers returned to work. The places of the disaffected em- ployes, however, were being filled by ne men, and the Siod-up companies wore fnning to resume their regular schedules, oe police remained on duty, Collisions of a trivial nature ocou and Madison avenues. Poli Lily, who was attacked with bricks, fired his revolver and wounded a striker at Fifey- seventh street and Madison avenue, A starter of the Broadway line was and stabbed on Seventh avenue, Other afs frays occurred in different parlor the city. Violence had almost nd the a surdity of making barricades on the streets | had been abandoned by those who followed it so vigorously for some digs. It was estimated that fe railroad com- nies had been losin L000 a day, and about $12,000 sach The men sent asking him struct the t the strikers lost r to Chairman M strike, @ in the retail dry iced, four cars were run on Mr, ines, all stro Fifth Day. ployes of the street raiiroad companies in New York city had been awed into sub jec- tion at least, was plainly indicated by the running of a Beit line car over the entire route without serious hindrance or attack in spite of the prophecy that it couldn't be done, Altogether the tied -up lines ran more than 250 cars, against 155 the day before, and there was comparatively little attempted violence, Cars were running on Broadway, Fourth avenue and Sixth avenus apparently without any trouble. The President of the last- | named line said that ke bad got 200 new men { and was prepared to operate his line without { the help of any of the strikers. The State Board of Arbitration opened an | investigation into the trouble. The Railroad Presidents refused to attend or notice it. In Brooklyn there was a similar state of affairs. The strikers were determined. and succeeded in preventing a single car from running, The police protection seemed inadequate to cope with the strikers, and is | was thought the military might have to be called out to quall disturbances, Second Day of the Strike, The second day of the wholesale tie up the New York city car passed with a great number of sions between the police and crowds of strike sympathizers colli- Much progress was made by othor street railroad companies in operating cars, and both police officers and railr ad managers vei that the worst of the fight was over. The effort to run cars on the Atlantic Avenue Railroad in Brooklyn was confined to the Fifth avenue and Boerum place line, and trips did not extend bevond the bridge entrance. Forty-five trips in all were made. Of these forty-five trips forty-four passed off witho' it the slightest trouble Sixth Day. The sixth day of the railroad war in New | York city was marked by an outhreak on lines | the | There were | a few cars run dufing the day on most of the | lines. No steps were taken toward a settle ment and the compan and the 7000 men who usuall were devoting their efforts to them from running. More how- ever, were Jaca on the tracks than there Were on day. Violent mobs damage to the roiling stock and rails of the sn 2 | and Grand Street and Forty-second Street thihaslves confident of victory. i wenty street-car lives were still tied up | operate them | pe stop i tinue the struggle, did | H | companies had not yet Third avenue, the Broad way and other lines. | The police wounded many of the rioters. A fow shots were of an immediate settlement of the strike. erhaps the curred about 5 o'clock at Tenth avenue and Forty-second street. About 4:15 a large part of the police stationed on this line bad been sent to other stations, not an officer in sight for a block in either di. rection. The few strikers then banging avout saw their opportunity, and in about two min utes had secured crowbars and were tearing There was no | | t outbreak of the day oc- | At bo'clock there was | up therails. The crowd gathered around therm, | aud when the fourth rail had been torn up | full wi 3000 people stood around and howied glee. In the meantime word had been sticks to arrest right ple tly with toe and even smyll the crowd. Then the of- t the wounded had all been Third Day of the Strike. Bloo ished marked the James or less in The Srfhers Sure far t an was generally supposed, They numbered betweeen sixty-five hundred and seven thousand on the third day; when loaders made a review of they found that foctives, fe i ; £2 i E i own three da NN. their forces there were only sixteen de- | First avenue which necessitated the pros ence of a large foroe of policemen, who used their clubs vigorously. No cars were running on First, Second, Seventh, Eighth or Ninth avenues, nor on Avenues B. C and D, nor on Broadway or the Belt Lines, Madi. son, Houston or the Biue Crosstown Lines. The Fourth and Bixth Avenue Lines ran out a complement of cars. The strikers held meetings and decided to con- They claimed that only thirty men had deserted them and that the succeeded in hiring 300 competent railroad men, Brooklyn enjoyed a calm in the surface railroad tie-up. Not a car was run and not a policeman’s club descended on an offending BURNED IN MID-OCEAN, A Pet Monkey Discovers a Ship on Fire and Saves the Crow With every sail drawing, aloft and alow, even to her skysails, the British full-rigged ship Stephen D. Horton passed out of the barbor of Calcutta, India, in a spanking breeze, bound for New York. One hundred tons of saltpetre were stored in her hold, be- sides $500 tons of jute in bales, The store | room held provisions of every sort, the | Advan | § i ! Pernambuco, weather was fair and everything looked favorable for the homeward voyage Now the charrel bull of the ship lies fathoms deep, over four hundred miles east of Pernambuco, and with the ship perished two of her crew. The others reached land after terrible privation and on the steannsbip Iately arriving at New Yor from razillan ports were Captain Lewis and his wife. They saved not even a change of clothing and were glad to Jcape from the burning vessel with their ives. With themy was Mra fire on the il fated Horton, voyage up to December 27 was very | uneventful, Captain Lewis said. The shi | had touched at St. Helena on Decomber 16, and was at eleven o'ciock of the 27th about four hundred and The weather was almost dead | calm and the scorching heat of a tropical | sun beat upon the slowly moving vessel. Suddenly Chief Mate William Coalfieet's attention was attracted Ly the strange act. | fons of Jocko, the pet monkey, who was more determined in | | : : i i ie history of the third | the strike in New Yo " perched on one of the ventilators leading down below. The monkey would sniff at the | ning, and then running along the deck, tter at a great rate. The mate went over to the ventilator, but before he reached it | uietly informed the C n, who gave or- after hatches creased and rolled shard in a black cloud, & square hol decks and water poured in upon the burning ey at the rate of | i Australia Governor Hill to Ee ~ | be that of Rosalind. rd of Arbitration to | ! Claxton's company, Merchants Tol the | factory at Hamburg which is to cost $36 | has been produced on sn elaborate scale ! Berlin, | has made a sensation in i by j Lewis's pet | {| monkey, who was the first to discover the | twenty miles from | | mst year, ! inting in Canada. Picking up Jocko he went below and | | Columbia out of a total of 20,000, O'BRIEN IMPRISONED perate Fight Against Assum- ing the Conviot Garb. , William O'Brien has been taken to Clonmel Jail, Dublin, Ireland, to serve the tence imposed upen him for offences der the Crimes act, The prisoner refused to undress and don the prison costume, and the wardens stripped him and shaved off his beard by force. Mr. O'Brien made a desperate resistance to the wardens, but he soon became exhausted and was prostrated by weakness. His con. dition grow so bad that a priest was sent A or. His jailors evidently felt that their pris- oner would die from the effects of the rough treatment given him. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mavpax Risront is now in Paris, Mus. LAxoTRY has a fortune of $550,000. | Gronae MiLx, the preacher-actor, is in Tux next part Mrs, Potter will essay will Tuxng are seven red headed actors in Kate Bovcrcauvur's school of acting in New York begins to show signs of a break-up. Mane GrsTiNGer, the great German | motress, is dying at Kiagenfort, Switzeriand, | A PiAx0 is being built at the Steinway i PAULUS, the comic singer who has made | Boulanger, receives an income of $20,000 a | | year. That the lawless spirit of the striking em. i Hernrio's festival drama, “Martin Luther,” | | A THIRTREN- YEAR-OLD girl, named Dautin, | ‘aris by her violin | playing. | Farstary will be personated next season | William H. Crane and William J. Florence, i Eveexe Wernenerr's will bas been probated. He left $500,000, all to his wile, | Emma Abbott, the singer. Tag two thousandth performance of ‘The Little Tycoon” was celebrated recently at | the Academy of Music, New Orleans, La, Sim Monrerr Mackexzie attends pro- | fessionally the leading actors of \ingland. He is something of an actor himself, it is said, i Many, the daughter of Charles Dic kens, the novelist, is playing a part in "Little Lord Fauntleroy” upon the Eaglish provincial stage, BY a careful estimate, the box ownership in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, represents an aggregation of capital of $500, 000,000, Tue great Auditorium at Chicagoistob opened in November with the most elaborate | presentation of Italian opera ever attempted in this country. Tur inscription upon the urn in which are the ashes of poor, cremated Mme, di Murska in Gotha, is: "These ashes are all that re main of a nightingale.” S16xoR IT41.0 CaMPANINT made a sucoms- ful debat in English opera at the Boston, Mass, Theatre, in “Carmen,” with the Bos ton Ideals. He sang in Italian, however, Ix arun of twenty weeks “The Oid Home | stead” has been witnessed in New York by $445,000 persons in exchange for $220 000, Out of this Denman Thompson's profit has been $85. 000, Mus. W. G. Jowes, has studied more lines than any other woman on the American stage, baving played everything, from a midshipman to Lady Macbeth. She is sixty. one years of age and still on the stage. i Prixce NicnoLas, of Montenegro, is the latest recruit in the ranks of the noble army of dramatists. He bas just produced, at the theatre of Cettinje, a drama entitled “The Czarina of the Balkans,” which is said to be | a highly exciting work OSE night recently Patti sang to S000 peo ple in Albert Hall, London, and received £500 in, say musical experts, is the largest sum ever paid to any singer in Fng land for one evening's work. Mme Patti a according to the same authorities, in won derful voice. Mus Jaxrs G. Brave, Ju. has signed a three years' contract with Mr. Daniel Frohman, manager of the Lyceum Theatre, New York city, to star under his direction Bhe will open her season at the Star Theatre | early in November next in a society drama, | and will then go on a tour of the country. NEWSY LEANINGS. | [ow a has 25,000 teachers i Curis is sending wine to France, i Vestvivs has lately been very active i MALL POX is raging in Texas towns, ! JIREGOX fe sald to be a hunter's paradisa ] Great Britax bas fours: en obsolete iron. | ads, | A¥% ice trust is being formed by New York | enlers, | Neanty S000 suicides occurred in Paris Tiere are 110 chrysanthemum societies in | England. i Tree are upward of 50,000 club men in | New York. Ti EASER gets $100,000 a year out of ber convict hire, Covxrearerr American bills are circu Toe vintage of claret for 1588 was the most abundant on record, Gross earnings of many railroads continue to show a moderate gain. Tuz English beer syndicate controls thurty breweries in this country. Tue yield of wheat in South Australia will average four bushels per acre, Oxy M00 Indians attend school in British A STRONG Jesting of animosity to Germany is taking definite shape in England Austin, Nev., has [000 population, yet no dentist has been there for two yesrs, Tux number of sharpshooters in the army of European Russia has been doubled, EXGLAND has 100 seventeen knots cruisers; France, 145; Italy, 12]; Germany, 101, Mone than 535,000 men will walk in the Harrizon and Morton inaugural parade, Tux paupers of London exclusive of in. ud n asylums and vagrants) sumber 100, ‘ Urwano of 2,000,000 youths of India are Jnlay receiving a liberal English educa: SBevesry-oNg with records of 2.20 or better, deed in 1598 from accident or dis New York is to have an pa restricted by Ia miarest, EAST, a too sky sho the mG afer to sont Avrren the | entertained at dinner by THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Presipest CLEVELAND kas commuted to a term of five years the sentence of James I, Fish, formerly President of the Marine National Bank of New York, who is serving a ten-yoar term at Auburn, N. Y., under a convicilon in April, 1855, of misapplying the funds of that bank. He will be released May 11, Ix joint convention the Maine Legislature elected George I. Beal, of Norway, State Tranwurer, o received 112 of the 115 votes ny Govervor Gueex, of New Je , has “wigned the bill repealing the law which re quired ballot-boxes to be closed at sunset, Tox Knights of Labor have instituted a eneral tie-up of all street car lines in Now (ork city except two, Twenty-one surface systoms are at a standstill, About 10,000 men are idle. The strike is because of an alleged evasion of the ten-hour day law. The fourth day of the Brooklyn strike passed without a car being run. The directors con- sented to hold a conference with the men (ie of the seven tied-up lines has yielded to : the strikers terms Nan Ashburnham Junction, Mass, Nosh Trombley and Robert Joy, Western Union linemen, were killed by an engine, Five mon wers upsot in New York Bay by n forryboat, Two were drowned, THe socond trial of ex-Alderman Thomas Cleary for alleged bribery in connection with the Broadway railway franchise has been re moved from New York city to Binghamton, Broome County. It was impossible to get a | Jury in the metropolis, + from Southsmpton for New Tix Pennsylvania Senate has passed final- | Iv the prohibitory amendment by a vote of | Ueto 8 MiciaxL CLixe and bis son were drowned in the St. Lawrence River, near Dickinson's Landing, Canada, by the upsetting of their Mi. Pups, the American Minlter to England, and his wife sailed n fow days ago York, Tie French Chamber of Deputies voted confidence in the Government—00 to 240, The Grand Council of Annam has elected Bunlay, King. He is the son of the former ng. Lown Brawiey, of Preston, Governor General of Canada, in opening the Dominion Parliament, referred to the rejection of the Fisneries treaty, and said that Canada must recur for the present to the treaty of 1818, LATER NEWS, Tae handsome residence which P, T. Bar. num was erecting and had nearly completed, near the historic Waldemar, at Bea Bide ! Park, Bridgeport, Conn., his been destroyed by fire, Canon, Ind., has been entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000, Tue neighborhood of Warsaw, IL, is alarmingly aflicted with black measles Over 500 cases are reported. There Is an average of five deaths a day. A. J. Kixo, a conductor, was run over by his own train and killed at Balleville, Ma, An old deaf toligate keeper named Abrs- | bams, while looking at the remains, wes run down by a freight train and his body ground to pieces, John Frye, a blacksmith, a by- | stander, was s0 overcome by thew events Tyruom fever and diphtheria are decimat- | Mercer County, Penn. South and West, Tux Duluth (Minn) Opera House has been destfoyed by fire, $250,000, AT Omaba, Neb, David Kimball, sixty nilding | ing the little village of West Middlesex, | The vol J Joss is | that be deliberately threw himself in front of | a third train, meeting instant death, Dr, Canaries P. Boas, of Baxter, Ark., | | was shot and killed by Deputy Bheriff Childers, who had gone to the doctor's house to arrest him on a warrant, and the doctor | resisted him, three years oid and wealthy, was run over | and killed by a train of cars Tinex bundred and eighty-five cases of typhoid fever are ep rted at Lakeview, the | Chicago suburb, and day. Two school children of Aberdeen, Da- kota perished in a snow "storm and a third was not expected to survive Axxa Eviis, a colored man, has been banged at Raleigh, N, C., for the murder of his father, Joux M, Crayrox, brother of Powell Clayton, who was contesting Breckinridge's seal in Congress, has been assassinated at Plummervile, Ark Tux first National Convention of Furni ture Manufacturers met at Grand Rapids, oh, now cases develop every | | whether it was accidental SEvEN residences, two livery stables and | two business houses were destroyed by fire at Marietta, Ohio, The Josses aggregate $40 x, JuLiax C, MoCrLune,of Mitchell, Ind, has disappeared with £21,000 belonging to miners, of whom he was guardian, B¥ALLPOX has become epidemic at Mon. roe, Mich, Jaups H. Benny has been re-slected to the United States Senate from Arkansas Ir is authoritatively stated that Senstor Allison has declined the portfolio of the Treasury tendered to him by President elect Harrison, Tax reduction in the public debt during January amounted to 812,214,284. The total debt now, Jess cash in the Tre AsUry, amounts to §LIZ1LB45. 078 The net cash or surplus in the Treasury now fs $04 W $00,656,264 a month ago. L915 against ADVICES from Bamoa say Tamasese's sup porters are reduced to 20 Rev. Farner Consxyy, of Strathroy, Canada, was found dead in bis study with a bullet in his bead, It OF SuiCioe, hole is not known Toanen ™ firemen have struck work in Beotiand, Only two steamers sailed from that port and they were manned by officers USAXD seamen and Glasgow Manrixes from the United States man-of war Ossipee were landed on a whar! at | Port-au-Prince to resist an attack by a mob i of Haytians on a petty officer of the ship, Posey, Hepublican, has bess elected to Congress in the First Indians District by a majority ranging from 500 tw 100 to suo ced Governor Hovey, Ose pusnREd frauds have been found in West Virginia and i81 in Indiana, THE recount in the Phelps-Clunis contest | nine indictments for election | A yemiGHY train roaning into Beaver, North West Territory, precipitated down from the summit of the Rocky Mount smashing the engine and nineteen cars. CC Fiddier, fireman, and C. J. Phelan, was | ptgineer, and five Chinamen were instantly | killed, in the Fifth Congressional District of Cali- | fornia has clossd, given nine majority Oe Lansox, a prominent farmer. has been burned to a cinder in his residence near Kasson, Minn, Clunis, Detnocras, was | | mitted Basen Pu brew merchant « de. Maritoa Grswor TH HILD the wealthist He { Hartford, Conn., has com. LE EL Mi nD PaeLisonoy- | WEX, the widow of the vx Re retary of State, Tie heaviest snow storms since 1575 have | been raging in Alaska, Washington. Washington. One of his eyes which has canned him a great deal of trouble was re moved. Three physicians were in attend | Pittsburg recently died at Newark, N. J THE boilers of a towboat exploded at killing George Wilson, engineer, { and Robert Cochran, fireman. A sERtOUS surgicoa operation has been suo. | oessfully performed on Senator Vance at | 01710 KAYSER, a street car conda tor in Philadelphia, killed a young woman named | Annie Klaus, afterward cot his wife's throat, fow moments, ihe patient being sneesthe- | toed, Covoszl W, L. Taxxnorw, Comptroller of the Currency, has tenderad his resigna tion to the President, 0 take effect at hi pleasure Tue President and Mra Cleveland were the Secretary of Secretary Bayard's War and Mrs. Endicott Hanny I. Bavax, | Stnographet was ordered to procesd to Florida to obia in the election certificates of that State for use in counting the electoral vote of the Union, Tie President has sont a message to Con- | broke, and the horses, wagon and occupants gress on the Samoan question, accompanied with from Commander Mullan, of the Nipsic and Consul Blacklock of Samoa, Tux Secretary of State bas appointed Charles M. 8 Lesila Vieo- Consul of the United States at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, vice B. D. Armstrong, resigned, Tur Sundry Civil Avpioptistion hill, an it the House, carried SXL470.530. he ouse by amendments added to the bill as it at from the Committee on Appropriations, 17,884, Tur President and Mrs, Cleveland gave a reception at the White House in honor of Congress and the Judiciary, Tux Post Office A tion bill as com- pod a total a tion of #04, 444. This total is $910.60 Jess than the estimates, and £5,755 210 more than the ap propriation for the current year, Prestoesxy CLEvELAND has sent to the Benate the following nominations: Jesse I), Abrahams, of Virginia, to be O ler of the C , vice William [. Trenholm, re signed, and Declus 8 Wale, of Montana, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana, vice Newton W, Mo- Connell, recigned, Arron a prolonged conferencs the Renate and House confererees agreed upon the bill establishing a new Department of A . ture, the chief officer of which shall be a member of the Cabinet, under the title of Secretary of Agriculture, Porelam THE heaviest snow storm of the season has Just prevailed throughout Canada, A MERCHANT from K Boudan, has arrived at Soakin, and says that Emin Pasha was oaptured by the dervishes, but Avvices from Tonquin that the King of Sima ib Sead -y Tre United States Consul at Boda-Pesth, Bouck, has been by a in ance and the operation was performed in a | inflicting a fatal wound, and then committed suicide A SWITCH engine struck a frog and Jumped | the track at Springfield, Mo., killing three | mon outright and fatally injuring three oth- ers, A coLonep butler in Chicago killed a Swedish girl who bad jilted him, and then cut his own throat, Mu. Axp Mas, Jauns Ousox, with their four children, were drowned in the Missouri River, at Bismarck, Dakota. They were ooming the river in a wagon, when the ice were all lost. Mu. axp Mrs, Frep Porriscen, of 8po- kane Falls, Washington Territory, left their two babies in their house and went visiting. While they were gone the house caught fire, and the children were burned to death. Mus. CLeveLaxD, for the first time since her marriage, allowed herself the enjoyment of dancing at the card reception given by Becretary and Mrs. Whitney, Mrs. Clove land waltsed with Representative Scott, of Pennsylvania, and later danced in several quadrilles Presioext CLeverasp, it is stated au- thoritatively, will return to New York at the end of his term avd will engage in the practice of the law in New York city with the law firm of Bangs, Stetson, Treacy & MacVeagh, A YOUNG Indy of noble birth committed suicide at Meyerling on the same night as the Austrian Crown Prince, A TRAIN at Brussels, Delginm, struck a pillar of a bridge, causing it to collapmn, Fourteen persons were killed and fifty in- Jared, Acumen, Sultan of Vite, Zansitar, Africa, is dead, His nephew, Tamobakari, has been proclaimed his successor, SEVENTEEN persons were drowned in two wrecks off the British const, Tux first number of the New York Herald's London edition was published, Ax Irish police inspector was killed by a mob while attempting to arrest an Irish priest at Dublin, A RELIO FROM SAMOA. The American Flag that was Ria dled by German Bullots, Bocrotary Bayard has received from Bamon the remnants of the flag that floated over the of an the MALIETOA’S PROTEST. Bamon's 'Deposed King Complaing of Germany's Action. 1 A copy of the Bamon Times and South Sea Advertiser, published at Apia, § y Decomber 22, has reached Washington. 1 contains the farewell letter of King Haliskowy who bas been exiled by the Germans, 1 Bamoan monarch ays . ‘I was repeats] tives of the Bri as é H protection A Going anything that m five mont i Buu” people” n ir promises 1 did ne the rebellion, p put dows “Now 1 flad that war bas been made upon ms by the Emperor of Germany and Tamas sono bas been proclaimed King of Samoa The German forces and the adherents of | Tamasess threaten to make war on ail Faw fond who do not acknowledge Tamasess 68 ng. | “Iam innocent of any wrongful act, and | hereby protest against the action of Gere | many, BuS, as the German nation { strong and | am weak, 1 yield to thely | power Wo prevent my people from befog | sinoghtered. 1 shall deliver myself hogy the German forces to prevent bloods | shod. I desire. to remind you of the profs | Ison repeatedly made to your ( rovernments | and trust that you will 86 far redeem them As to onuse the lives and Mberties of my chiefs and people to be respectad { "wish to inform you that | fear that the | Germans will compel me—as they are now forcing my people-—to sign papers acknowl. ng Tamasess as King, and if I wign | pa it will be under compulsion, and to avoid war made upon my people Bigned) “Marreroa King of Samos” THE LABOR WORLD, | Tueneare 4700 female printers in Eng land, Tur Bakers’ Unions io Connecticut have a State federation, THE satlors’ strike at Liverpool is assuming serious proportions New Haves, Conn, thinks of pensioning ber retired policemen. Tie Cement Laborers’ Union has increased its death benefit to $100 Tux native Samoan dos not work, All labor in that country is imported Oven 70,000 000 pairs of suspenders werd made in the United States last year, Two nrsopne: makers have Joft New Y« cisco J AOE Tour, A000 for a school Bohemian women cigar wrk for Ban Fran- has donated girls" training of Baltimore boys’ and A COMPAXY is being formed in Melbourne, Australia, for the importation of domestic servants lock-out of the two thousand miners 11., bas been ended by 8 Tur at Spring Valley Con prom we, A rrosucT now on foot is 8 movement 10 furnish protection to the operatives in sew ing factories Tur striking seamen at Liverpool are using viclence 10 prevent men shipping on vessels in port Mas, Avzriz Rives Caaxien the author. ens, bas given $100 for the best essay on the subject of child labor. Connors, XN. Y.. the chief seat of the knit goods industry, reports that sixty-five per cont, of its mills are idle BEVEX MILLION fest of spool wood was lately shipped from Bangor, Me, to a firm of Beoteh thread makers, Tuenk is a war of races between the Hungarian and Italian miners at the coal pits near Carbondale, Pena. Tur colored washerwomen of Albany, Ga., have warned away several Chinamen who Bought to compete with them. Firty rive cents a day is the average earnings of the American working people, counting in women and children, Tuung are six Knights of Labor and Trade Unionists among the Representatives and Senators in the State of Indiana, THE cooperative stove foundry of Somer. sot, Mass. bas resolved upon a reduction of ten per cent. in the wages paid this year. | Numerous Pennsylvania and Ohio manu- facturers have been forced back to the use | of coal, as the natural gas is running low, Tug Duchess de Galliera bas founded an institution in Paris for payiug the rent of | respectable working people in momentary distress, Tux Diamond Match Company of Cone necticut has signed a contract to locate its | immense straw-board and paper works in | Wabash, Ind, | Kxirrens in Donegal, Ireland, are paid | three to four cents per pair for jong socks that the most nimble fingers cannot finish in lows than a day. Boston's labor unions want the Legisia~ ture to abolish the system of fines in textile mills there, as well as to make eight hours | aday's work for employes of the State and the city. A mL has been introduced in the Penne sylvania House requiring employers of foreign born unnaturalized laborers to pay a tax for every person so employed of twenty- five conta a day. Tux number of men in American Subariut 18 101,084. ath Shaheen dee pendent on fisheries, 204,74 seamen, steamboatmen, canal pilots, and water men, 100,02, make a of 282308, THE hair spinners lately beld a convention in Maltimore and formed a National Union and eected officers. There are only about 200 hair spinners in the United States, most of whom are in Boston and Hyde Park, Mass, A youxe working girl of Auburn, Mass. objects the Jot of the working may be a o. ‘ PROMINENT PEOPLE. Kine Jada, of West Afrion, is fifty two, Oma Dioxa méans Osman the bearded, AY BRASS postiumous Wort just aid Primos of Wales is forty five years yorn-xrecr A. Hiccixs, of Delaware, Moi
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