Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1888 — THE NEWS GRIST. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS GRIST.

Important Happenings in Every Quarter of the Civilized Globe. The Very Latest Intelligence Flashed Over the Telegraphic Wires. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. LABOK RIOTS IN PENNSYLVANIA. Colored Non-Union Ironworkers at Pittsburg Fire Revolvers at Jeering Boys, Several of Whom Are Shot. There has been bloodshed at Pittsburg as the result of non-uuiouizing of the Solar Iron Works. The mill had been idle for two months because the firm and the employes differed on the question of allowing William Simms, a roller, to retain two jobs. Saturday morning the mill was filled with negroes, the furnaces lighted, and the machinery set in motion. At 4 o’clock p. m. work ceased for the week, and eighty of the negioes, escorted by a score of policemen, started for their homes. They were followed by a crowd of about, three hundred men and boys. A short distance away from the mill one of. a crowd of boys threw a brick, which hit a ‘policeman. Nearly all the negroes at once drew revolvers and fired at the boys. A policeman also fired one shot and the boys scattered in all directions. Joseph Kenny, aged 17, was found unconscious in the street He was shot in the face. Two other boys are said to have been wounded and spirited away by their companions. A serious riot occurred at Shenandoah, Pa., between the men working in a Beading mine and the strikers. Several persons were badly beaten. Many of the strikers have armed themselves with revolvers.

DEATH’S bKEAD DECREE. It Comes Without Warning to 111-fated Passengers of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. A passenger train on tho New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad was thrown from the track by a broken frog while passing Bteamburg Station, N Y. The engine and first two cars passed over safely, but the third coach left the rails and dashed into the caboose of a freight train on a side track. It is reported that four or five persons were killed, including Conductor Edis and one lady. Several others were wounded. The fo.lowing persons were kilted: Miss Hattie Abbott, aged 17, of Sheffield, 111., in company with Mrs. Cyra and Miss Bessie Battey. George Ellis, Meadville, l'a., brakeman of freight train. Injured—Mrs. Cyra Battey, Shemeid, 111., left shoulder and body bruised —no bones broken—will urobably recover. 51 iss Bessie Battey, Sheffield, 111., right arm cut and bruised; nothing serious. George Kimball, passenger en route from the West to Bradford, l'a.; slight concussion of the bruin and left side bruised; resting comfortably. William McNeil, electrical engineer, Covington, Ky.; broken rib and bruises; nothing serious. Henry Schaller, Meadville, Pa., brakeman of ireignt train; scald wound, with concussion of brain; will probably recover. Two or three other passengers sustained slight bruises, but continued the journey. Doctors were brought from Randolph and tSalamanca, who made the injured ones as comfortable as possible. EUROPE’S SENSATION. Excitement at All the Capitals -Over the Publication of the Austro-Gerinan Alliance. A special cable dispatch from Berlin says that While the semi-official press affects to regard the publication of the Austro-German treaty as having a pacific intent, official and diplomatic circles know its real aim is to force the Czar to. an immediate war or compel him to submit to terms for a permanent peace dictated by the allies. The substance of the treaty has long been known to both the Russian and French Governments. At the time of its inception at the conference between Prince Bismarck and Count Andrassy at Gastein, in August, 1879, confidential disclosures stating the character of thd compact were made by Prince Bismarck to the Czar as an inducement to break off negotiations for a RussoFrench alliance.

BRAVE MISS BOYCE. A Nebraska Teacher’s Sufferings—The Result of the Terrible Blizzard. An Omaha telegram says: “Miss Louise Royce, who remained outfall night with three pupils at Piaiuview during the terrible blizzard, the children all dying in her arms, is in a most deplorable condition. A consultation of physicians was held Saturday, and it was decided to amputate both feet and one arm. Several thousand dollars have been raised for the heroic teacher, and the people of Nebraska and lowa are still responding liberally to the appeals for aid. ” Telegrams In Brief. Judge Norton of the Missouri Supreme Court declines the nomination for Governor. It is said that Gov. Gray and Gov. Hill favor holding the National Democratic Convention in Indianapolis. By the explosion of a boiler in a saw-mill near Belmont, Ohio, five men were killed outright and two more fatally injured. Agents of the Panama Canal Company are negotiating with members of the French Chamber of Deputies for permission to issue a lottery loan of 775,000,000 francs. The White-Lowery contested election case occupied the exclusive attention of the House on the 4th inst. Mr. Cockran, of New York, made a ten-minute speech in favor of White, saying the whole case rested on his own testimony, that he had naturalization papers, and that he for one was unwilling to indicate a disbelief in the testimony of the brave soldier who helped to cement the Union with blood, or to tear open afresh his wounds received in defense of his countrv. The bill fixing times and places of holding United States courts in Minnesota makes dates as follows: In Duluth in April of each year; St. Paul in June and December; Winona in January. The urgent deficiency bill, as reported to the House, permits the use of money left over from the amount granted for tie rods on the postoffice building last year to be devoted to general repairs of the building. There was no session of the Senate.