Eastern Echos

About IO,OOU ctgar makers In New YorU City are out on a strike, and a eigar famine is threatened, as nearly uil tbe lrn;xrted(ï) cigars are made In New york. A number of leading business iirms of New York have petilioned Senator Evarts to use hls lnfluence toward tlie suspensión of silver colnage. The general assembly of C'onnectieut has been petitioned to grant a pension to Mrs. Philoe, formerlv Miss Prudeuee Crandall. who in 1883 met with physical in.iury 06 well a3 ustracislm beeause of her efforts to assUt Neero girls to obtftin an education. Striking nungiirians set fireicTears belongiug to the Baltimore & Ohio road in West Lelsenring. Pa., on tbe 22d inst. They also destroyeü a quautity of tools and a number of coke wagons belonghig to the coke eompany. A fire damp explosión oceurred in a mine ín Newburg, . Va., on the 22d. Thirty-live men are entombed and i' is doubtful if any of them are ever rescued alive. The national steel wlre assoelatlon was organized in Pittsburg a few days ugo. The New York state workingmen's eonventiou at Albany decided to boyiott all Chinese labor and tbe produets of such labor, and also all citizens who may in auy mauuer assist the Chínete. Thirty-nlne men were buried in the mine at Newburg, W. Va., by ! the explosión of Ure-damp. It iVvery doubtful if any of them are ever ■ 1 aliv.", althouirh a relief foree was at once set to work. The origin of the disaster is variously determined by experts who van in their theorie?. The generally atcepteil theory, which is that of the compauy's repre sentativeö, Is tbat a miner who was euttin :i dlteh through a brattls at the extreme end ol the working to let water off, knocked down i : door to give him a better ehánie a; this work The door played an Imporiant part in the svs tem of ventilation, whieh was thus derangëd. The foul gas eolle'Hed in great volumes and ' was tíred by a miner's lamp. The board of directora of the Northern Pa ; rallroad have let the contract for th tunnel to m K-s in leugth tbroasrh tbe Cas cade moun:aiii.s. It will coat ïJOO.UJU, and it to be completed by May, 1ÖS. New York brotherhood of eugineers wil) contribute 75c per capita to the support of th.. j cigar makers during the strike. Burglars robbed three houses in Tarrytown. N.Y., on the S2d inst, and earried away relies of three eeneratiou?. )Gov. HUI of New Vork Is to be walted upon by a committee from the workingiuen's I bly, who wlll ask him to communlcate to the i legislature a list of important labor measures. i Geo. Sí. Palmer of Phlladelphia, aged 'i. died Jan. 4th. niiklng tbe seventh death in that familv in less than'tvrenty months. The oyuiptAtii all pwditt t linti poïv"onln, aud an elfort is belug made to trace the polson to lts souree. On the uiorning of Jan. 25ih 14 hoiUps bml been recovered from the mine at Newburg, W. Va. The bodies were found ia various positions some with anus extended as if about to pursue their usual work, others with arms and limbs coatracted, as if in awful agony. All were teniblv burned and blackenedV and theii distorted features told of their terrible sullerlugs The funerals of three of the men were held on Sunday the 24th. The executive committee of the Irish national leaage yesterdav subscribed $40J to the Hendricks memorial fund. Mrs. Ur.iut has received a check of $350,000 83 the first returns of her husband's book. Her publishers are confident she will reeeivc at least Í70W03 royalty. Two hundred and tifty dollars worth oi propertv was destroyed bv fire in Phlladelphia Jan. 26. TLe questlon oT .mglous services in thi public schools is causing trouble at Chartitr' Borough, near Pittsburg, and may rcsult iii legal proeeedings. Kecently Prof. Mellwain. j the principal of the Chartier school, suspendet? eight Bupils whose parents were cathofics fo refusing to attend devotional exerclses. Tin tchool board sustaiued the actiou of the principal at a meeting last week, and now the par. ents of the ebildren threaten to test the matter in eouit.