The Union Times, 1894-12-14

mout workers employe*! by Strawbridge & Clothier, at Philadelphia, and female helpers to tho number of two hundred, struck Thursday morning beer* inc of a proposed reduction in their wages. A ranchman named Francisco ."Morales );as reported to the authorities at I'res, Mexico, that a lmnd of Yn*jui Indians visitod his ranch and killed three sheep herders and drove oft* a large number o. cattle. A detachment of troops will be sent in pursuit. The Shenungo g'ass works at Newcastle, l'a., were entirely destroyed by lire Sunday morning. Tho loss is $100,000; insurance $dl),000. The origin of the lire is a mystery. Three hundred men are thrown out of emi ployinent. The works will be immediately rebuilt. The J'Vcc hi fin's Journal, a Dublin 1 newspaper, says: "Forged American 1 bonds to the value of several thousand r pounds are in the hands of Belfast in vestors. The bonds were bought in the usual way. It is reported that a broker ' has been sent to tho United States to inquire into the matter. The Fidelity Building and Loan Association, of Washington Pity, I which has become so involved in lawsuits at Pittsburg and other points, stole a march upon its creditors bv securing the appointment of n receiver ? to take charge of the business of the concern in Washington and elsewhere. The socialists made au exceptionally aggressive demonstration during the debate on the royal civil list in the Brussels chamber Thursday. Their attacks were so bitter that eventually II tho conservative deputies arose in a body and, led by the premier, drowned the socialist speeches with cheers for the king. The Mexican government is receiving many otters of assistance in putting extra troops into the field in case of war with tSuatemahi. In extraordinary session the legislature of the state of (^uoretaro has voted that its members would draw no salary during the ( war, should hostilities ensue, and that ( the amount thus saved be applied to purposes of war as the general govern^ incut may see tit. r Diptheria is raging throughout the t city of St. Louis, Mo. In some quartern the disease is assuming such pronortioiis as to lie considered an eni.

varrunts applicable to t he payment for j ? ill classes of public lands, wiih passed. j I 1 11.' conference report oil the hill to i\ vgulnto tin- ]>ri 11 tin;; ami t li?- distrihu- . i >11 of |>nl>1 it; documents was called up ' t it I :ir>, ail.I occiipi. .1 tlio attention of n lie house for the lest of the after- . loon. I The fortifications and pension up- r iropriation lulls for the year en.ling J I line '10th, 1 were reported to the J { louse at Thurs.lay's session. The first i vill he called up immediately after the n 'ailroad pooling hill is disposed of. . I'he house tin n proceed..! in theinorii- i ng hour to consider the hill to protest ' . he public forest reservations. After a i e\v minutes discussion the hill went i >ver till I ri.lav. At request of Mr. j ; layers, (dem. of T. \as), the revenue i narine hill was laid over till Saturday, j i Jonsideration of the hill to amend the ' . nterstate commerce laws so as to per- ' i nit t he rail roads to pool t heir business, ' . vas resumed. The discussion of this 1 , neasurc occupied the balance of the I lay. i Among the executive coinniuniearioiis laid before the house Friday vas one from the secretary of tliotrcasiry, submitting an estimate for an nil- ' litional appropropriation to me. t the 'xpciulitiirea of the civil service coinnission for the year ending Juno ">(), ( .s'.?.r?. On motion of Mr. Martin, dem- 1 ?crat, of Indiana, the order for a ' light session for the . >nsi.leratiou of I he pension 1 >i11 was vacated. A reso- J lit ion oiler.'.I l>v Mr. Springer, deino rat, of Illinois, was agreed to, giving lie committee on hanking and curren y ]>. rin issioii to sit during the sessions ?f the house." < ?n motion of Mr. ' A lison, (democrat), of West \ ir inia, the house went into coiuuiitee of the whole to distribute the several Sections of the pl'? side-Ill's Incsage among the r. opr. >pnat ion coin- | nittees. Mr. (iiow, (rep.), of I'.-nn- < ylvunia, addressed tli" Imuse,suggest | ng certain amendment* to the ?? .

lu jn-vninn. JI i, \ *II119 i?i i lutmii, lVored ii resolution r< citing that tho udepciidenoe of ('ulm was an object I >f gront importance to tho United >tatos, and requesting the president o open negotiations with Spain for ho recognition of tho independence >f the island and lor tho guarantee by i ho United States of tho payment of ? ueh a sum of money as shall be agreed j >11. On objection it went over. The i iresidont pro torn, announced his sig- < mture to the bill for the dedication of ho Cbickamauga and Chattanooga f National park. .Mr. Morgan called up i ho Nicuraugua canal hill and sjH>k.o in ts KUppoe*. In coiichi'doii tie do- ] dared that tho United States must net low or forever abandon the canal, md ho did not think the American ( icoplo were willing to abandon it. dr. Morgan held tho attention of tho icnuto and galleries until 1 o'clock, vhen he was .ollowed by .Mr. Mitolidl, rejniblicau, of Oregon, who riellv endorsed the remarks of Mr. ' dorgan and favored the eauai as beng in the interest of tho l'aeilic tales. Mr. Dolpli, repuhlicnn, of 1 >regon, secured the lloor, lnit yielded ' o a motion to go into executive ession. After a short executive sestion, tho senate, at i:-10 o'clock, ad- 1 oiirued. ' rnk, 11011*1:. N In the house, Wednesday, Mr. Illair, if New Hampshire, presented a resoution asking the immediate conside- ( ation thereof, calling upon tho prcsi- ' lout, if not incompatible with public * litcrcsts, to transmit to congress all < ho corrospondenco by tolograpli or 1 ithcrwiso with tho governments of , dhina and .bipan, relating to the pond- j 1 ng war between those countries. Ob- I eetion was made to tho present con- | I adoration and tho resolution went to j ' lie committee on foreign affairs. The ( I louse bill to prevent the free use of j iinher on public lands and to revoke , t ill permits heretofore issued in certain ii dates, and the senate bill asking land

u-orge lv. Mioulo, Koocrt -Alaclay, 'lnirlvs T. Harney and Simon Woriner, 11live agreed to act as u committee, imlcr an agreement lileil with the ivniekcrlioeker Trust Company, to Toteet the interests of the. Northern I'ueilie anil Montana bondholders. The total loss resulting from the turning of the Keel Hank cotton faeory, in Lexington county, S. C., on ait unlay night last, is about ?50,000 ibove all insurance. About 500 people or the present are left destitute by the ire. About three hundred of these .vi 11 have to remain so through the a inter, as all other mills are crowded vith employes. The Southern Hotel building at 'luittanooga, Tenn., the handsomest usiness block in the city, was destroy d by lire Monday. The lire was -iiuscd by the explosion of a gas meter n the cellar just underneath the olliee. L'lio entire building of five stories went ip in smoke. The following firms on he ground tloor saved all their stock: Yeples, l'itner Kros., tobaeconnists, 'alace I >rug Store, and Payne A Co., iijtiors. Short's steam saw mill at Washingon, N. C., was wrecked at an early ionr Monday by the explosion of one >f the four big boilers that furnished team to the big saw mill and its six >ig dry kilns. Tarts of the iron work vere thrown blocks away, demolishing . very thing in their path. Mr. Short, lie owner; the engineer, two firemen ind a drayman were killed, and two ?ther operatives were injured. The anlies of the two dead men were teribly broken up and mutilated. Monday was an eventful day in the hnitli Carolina legislature. Followng New York's lead, the house passed i bill forbidding the selling of pools >n horse races in the state and providng a heavy penalty for the violation if the law. A bill was introduced addng seduction to the list of crimes, miking it a felony and sending a man o the penitentiary for six months ipon conviction. Another hill was inrotliiccd, and will become a law, pro -

For Kale by Tho Union 1 >ni'( Company ami ii. 1". J'osrv, Unioll, IS. 0. TllKSFi ROllllKRS (i()T COM). Tlioy IIol<l l'p a Train in Toxns lo tho Tunc of Jj> 1 -4<>,<><M>. Ouo of tho most during train robhories ever committed in Texas took plnco right miles west of Forth Worth Thursday evening nl>out f? o'clock. As v an easthouud Texas and Pacific passenger train was Hearing Mary's creek it was brought to a sudden stop by a danger signal displayed on thctrcsth. Tho engineer was covered by three unmaskt d men, who boarded the cabinet ordered that tho train bo backed tip f \ about a half mile, when the llremau 1 was covered and ordered to break in \ tho express door, lie refused, biitth ) V rob!:L"y pulled the triggers of thoi? guns, ..nd a nPMiber of shots iu tho air brought tlso liromuu to terms. Jbj burst iu tho express ear door with ? piekax. One of the robbers then kept the fireman and engineer while t id others went into the express ear. Fort Worth is the end of the impress run and the safe doors were open. ! One of the robbers rilled the saf? s ; while the other kept guaid over Ilia I messenger. At f> o'eloek the train wan stopped and thirty minutes later it | was in I\ rt Worth. The ex let amount j the robbers secured is not known, but it is said to have been near I 10,000 in money, gold bullion en route from San Francisco to Washington, and Texas Pacific cheeks. '.fter the hohl-np the robbeis Ji mounted their liorscs, told tho eiigineer to go aloud and then made leis? ^Hjj urely oil' in a northwesterly direction. The express odiciuls say they do no^H^H know the amount taken, but Unit it ^^HHj the only through train from the and carries every ? veiling a amount of money. On the liijflHBMI the train at Fort Worth posses were immediately organized to close in every direction, thereby making i - apo impossible. !>! : I.IOSSKPS I >10A I).

St. Louis mill $7,000 on New Yorl bunks. In the South Carolina legislator! Thursday a house bill passed to a thin reading which makes intoxication am drunkenness and the use of profane 01 obseno language a misdemeanor, pun ishable by lino or imprisonment. Tin use of an ordinary profane word wil cost from $5 to $50 under the law There was a big tight, many legislator pointing out the laughable nature o such a law, attempting to lcgislat morality into the people. The directors of Clifton mills, Spar tauburg county, S. ('., have deter mined to build a new cotton mill which will make the third mill opera ted by this company on I'acolet river The new mill will be built at Thomp son's shoals, which has a water powi capacity of 20,000 spindles and NO looms, without the aid of steam pow or. The mill will la! finished and ii operation by the 1st of next October and when finished this mill will giv live cotton mills within a three-mi! radius. (it IT TRANSIT CO.MI'ANY. A New Orgaui/.atiou Willi lleailipiar ters in Florida. Notice has been given that on o about January 10th, next, applicatioi will be made to Governor Mitchell, o Florida, for letters patent, granting i charter to the Gulf Transit Company with I'ensacola as its place of bttsines and a capital stock of $200,000, Tin organization of this company is par of the plan of the Louisville and Nash villo Railroad Company to increase tin export and import business of the t'en Micola port. M. 11. Smith, president o the Louisville and Nashville ltailrom Company, will be president of tin Gulf Transit Company; II. \V. Ilruoi will be vice president, and W. II. lley Holds will lie secretary and treasurer Those gentlemen are all residents o Louisville, Ivy. The company will In authorized to buy, sell and expor

past week the Indians have committed nnnieruus depredations, such as killing the cattle of the settlers, and otherwise terrifying the whites of that part of the country. For New Federal Prisons. Jteprcsentative Livingston is authority for the statement that tho general deficiency hill, which is soon to ho I considered by the appropriations com- I niittee, will contain a provision for the building of two new federal prisons at points to ho determined by tho secretary of the interior and the attorneygeneral. The cost will he limited to ?500,000 each. lie anticipates no trouble in the house. The erection of these prisons i^. very much needed. The attorney-gdieral has several times called for an appropriation for these buildings and tho president also urged an appropriation in his last message. Currency Committee <<etting Heady. The house committee on hanking and currency, Friday morning, on motion of Mr. Warner, adopted tho following resolutions: "llesolved, That beginning with Monday next at Id n. in., this committee take up the recommendation of the president and the secretary of the treasury with reference to the currency, ami that there he invited to appear before us the secretary of the treasury and the comptroller of the currency. llesolved, That the chairman of this committee ho authorized to invite such persons as he may think proper to appear hefore us in the aamo matter, and to arrange for hearing them with a view of completing all hearings on or before the 15th instanat which date all hearings shall he closed, llesolved, That tin* meetings of this committee for the purpose of these hearings may he called by the chairman at any time during the coining week, and that five members present shall ho u quorum

SOUTHERN FLASHES. A SUMMAKY OF 1NTKKK9TINO ]IAITKMIN<iS, And Presenting nn Fpltome of tlio South's l'ronrc.ss and Prosperity Barclay A Williams, furniture dealers, at Newport News, Vn., have assigned. Liabilities, $10,000; estiiimted assets, $1'2,000. Tlio Manchester spoke mills, nt Richmond, Vn., wliieb luive been shut down lor some mouths, hnve resumed epilations with n full force ?<f hnuds. The state liquor commissioner of South Carolina, Mr. Truxler, who wiih appointed hy Governor Tillman when the dispeusary law beeaino operative, lias tendered his resignation to Governor Evans. The cause of the resignation is not known. Notice of contest has been served on Congressman-elect Jos. M. Kendall (democrat) of the tenth Kentucky dis trict, on behalf of N. T. Ilopkim (republican) who charges conspiracy with the county clerk to defraud him by issuing spurious tickets, omitting his name from the republican ticket. Thursday night a terrible collision occurred between a special and uu ox trn freight near Rockingham, N. C. One engineer named Wells was scalded to death. The other had his skull fractured and ouo leg broken and if not expected to live, both firemen jumped and did not receive any in juries. Firo broke out Thursday morning in Pai-ham's mattress factory in Chattanooga and for a time a conflagration was threatened. The firo department, however, responded promptly and succeeded in getting the flames nndei control before they could reach adjoining buildings. The mattress factory was milted. The loss is ubotil