The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-05-16
Our Chicago Letter.
CHICAGO, May 18th
EDITORS TELEGRAPH:

Our Chicago Letter.
CHICAGO, May 18th.
EDITORS TELEGRAPH:
In view of the fact that ga prophet is not
without honor save in his own country" l
don't propose to claim much credit for fore
seeing the result of the eight hour strike, but
it is with feelings of mingled sorrow for the
.dupes who suffer by the chimerical REFORM"
and of satisfaction at the failure of the fanci-
full and injurious scheme, that now contem-
plate the situation. Happily I have little
more to say of the strikers" today than that
they are few in number, and doing no mis-
chief to anyone except themselves and their
families. The sturdy preparations made by
the authorities to check them in the excuses
which marked the first two days of the strike,
awed them into submission, and since then
they only indulge in big words and delusive
hopes. Each day few blatant leaders call
together, in three different halls, little bands
of dupes who still believe and hope, and howl
to them loud and long harangues full of cant
and set phrases about the dignity of labor"
"inalienable rights" tyranny of capital"
etc. They tell these poor men that their mo
BILE and holy cause was never so sure of sue
cess as it now is'';-they misrepresent the re-
suits of similar strikes in other places, they
even dare to lie about the condition of affairs
here, while the hum and rattle of machinery,
the shriIl whistles from scores and hundreds
of manufacturing establishments, and the din
of multitude of heavily laden wagons in the
Istreets are resounding in their ears, they dare
to tell these men that ''industry is stopped"
capital is crushed, employers are forced
to bankruptcy or submission" and that very
soon the eight-hour system will be triumph
ant. The facts are, however, that new work
ingmen, in droves, arrive here every day, that
employers are, without any material trouble,
filing their shops with all the men they re-
quire, on the ten-hour system, that several
who experimental during the past week on
the eight-hour plan have renowned it as I'M
profitable and injurious to all concerned, and
that the determination among all classes of
employers is to resist to the utmost any re.
duction of hours Of labor is even stronger now
than eve before. Most of the strikers who
were arrested on q charge of riot have been
discharged, but few are still in custody or
out on bail. The men who should be put in
limboas the real leaders and held responsible
for the excuses of the mob Cameron, Schla-
ger, Taylor and few more of that ilk, are
stil atIarge.
A HORRIBLE DEATH.
At the time Of the burning Of the Merchants
Hotel in this city, on the 4th inst, it was gen.
orally reported that every inmate of the build
ing had been saved, and it was not till last
evening that the fact was discovered that Mr.
r. AZ Cooke, of Joliet, who was at the time
boarding in the house, had been burned to
death. His friends, missing him, came to the
city and instituted a strict search among the
ruirfs, where his charred remains We're found
He had evidently been struck down by fall
ing beam while endeavoring to effect his es-
cape.
1919 SUICIDES.
Three bodies, all believed to be those of sui
cides, one young girl and two men, were
drawn from the river here within the past
thirty hours.
FREE RELI GIoN.
The Liberal Christians L eague," new
association formed here, have started a series
of Sunday evening services, free to all who
choose to attend upon the ministrations of
some of the most distinguished divines of the
country who win be engaged for these occa-
sions.. Last evening the first of these meet
ings was held in the Crosby Opera House.
Which was filled by an attentive and apprecia-
tive audience. Rev. Geo. II. Hepworth, of
Boston, delivered the sermon, which was, by
the way, a remarkably fine one. This looks,
indeed, like practical Christianity, and cannot
but be productive of much good.
AFTER THEM
} The bankers of Chicago, composing the
Clearing House Association, have formed a
large fund by assessment, to be used solely for
the prosecution and conviction of forgers,-I
Col" j. B. Cross, the notorious eastern for
ger, is to be their first victim.
THE CHICAGO MEDICAL JOURNAL,
has. passed into the hands of DR.. j. Adams AL |
len, one oft the ablest writers and most skilful
medical men in the country. He has for years
been q leading member of the Faculty of Rush
Medical College, and to his talent and indus
try that institution owes in a great measure
the prosperity which has attended its career.
To all medical men, therefore, the fact of his
assuming control of the journal named will be |
earnest of its future improvement,
that it will hereafter rank among
the first medical periodicals of the world.
COMMERCIAL.
The grain markets are all lower in conse-
luence of unfavorable adviccs from New York.
The clears" have the 'bulls" in tight place
on corn, and are bleeding them badly. Flour
$500 q S14, 80 for spring extras Wheat 81, SO
for No. l, 3, a SECS for No. 2; Corn % q
99c for No. !, 81, 81 a 81, 49, for No 2, and &c
q Use for rejected; Oats GA q 66c for No.
Rye Sl,55 q S1,57 for No. l, 81, so for No. 2;
Provisions dull and unchanged.
Don.