HomeMy WebLinkAboutDocument 12813 FROM THE TRIBUNE'S FILES
Five years of protectionism
1888healthy
by Germany have been
for that nation's iron
works and machine industry.The number of
workmen employed has increased 32.2 percent,
and the wages paid per employee 14.2 percent.
German workman left no doubt that they favor
continued protection by their government.
■The University of Notre Dame and other
Catholic institutions yesterday joined in
celebrating Pope Leo XIII's 50th year as a
priest.
■A Martinsville,Ind.,father and son were
viciously attacked by a bald eagle while
returning recently from a fishing trip. The
father, Bone Walton,managed to drive away the
eagle with a club,but not before it had torn his
clothes badly.
■Seven people are known dead and an
undertermined number injured in the collision of
two trains Saturday morning a mile south of
Greenwood, Ky. The two Cincinnati Southern
trains,limited express No.1 northbound from
Chattanooga,and limited express No. 2 out of
Cincinnati,came together at a mountainous
location called the Summit,the highest point in
the region.
■New Carlisle's most serious fire in years last
night destroyed two buildings on Main Street.
The blaze, when first discovered by barber
William Waldron, was burning through the
barber shop's wall from the outside.The other
building had housed a grocery and the Deacon
Post of the Grand Army of the Republic.