The Labor enquirer., 1884-03-08

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UTICA, March IA reduction of from
II to 15 per cent in the pay Of broad.
goods weavers in the Mohawk vallev
cotton mill led to strike Saturday. It il
expected the places of the eighty strik.
erswill be readily supplied, and thus
prevent the enforced idleness of S25
hands.
PARIS, March 8. The French author.
ties are aiding the English detectives in
their efforts to discover the dynamite
conspirators. The Fenians became
alarmed at this, and are preparing tn re,
move their headquarters from Paris to
Geneva.
SAN FRANc1sco, March 3.-The white
manufacturers locked out $500 Chinese
cigarmakers to-day. 1t is proposed to
substitute $500 whites from New York
The Chinese packers struck upon learn.
ing that their countrymen had been
locked out.
LONDON, March 3.-Four railway CON-
panies offer an additional reward of
81, 900 for the detection of the authors Of
the dynamite outrage.
LONDON, March SAN Irish man by
the name of Nellis who has SURRENDERED
to the Greenock police, says he knows
the murderers of Lord Leitrim.
ALBANY, March 3.-The governor has
signed the bill prohibiting the makingd
contracts for the labor of convicts in the
state prisons and the penitentiary.
P1rTsBuRa, March 3.-The green glass
bottle factory of Ihmsen 4 Co. (limited)
will resume shortly at last years wages.
This is the first break in the manufac-
turer's line, and the strikers claim that
others will follow. The factories have
been closed since last June, because the
employees refused to accept 20 per cent
reduction. j
\ LONDON, March 3.-The police are do
ing their utmost to discover the authors
Of the dynamite plots, but the clues are
not very promising. They are now irving
to find the cabman Hho, a little before
the explosion, drove three men with an
American trunk to certain house. No.
tices have been circulated describing two
Irish-Americans who arrived at Waterloo
station from Southampton on February
II, having an American trunk in their
possession.
LONDON, March 4.-Nellis, the Irish
informer who surrendered yesterday to
the Greenock police, states that the muir
derers of the Earl of Leitrim were Pat
rick Mclaughlin, travelling Fenian,
Thomas Hunt and Michael McGinn.
He says he heard Mclaughlin confess
that he shot Lord Leitrim. The murder
was planned in London. The, last he
knew of McLaughlin's movements was
that he went to Dublin in 1882 and gave
Cary two knives and ESQ of secret society
funds.
LONDON, March 4.-Extraordinary pre-
cautions are being taken to insure the
safety of Buckingham palace. The move
ments of all persons found lurking about
the neighborhood are closely watched.
BERNE, March 4.-The Swiss police are
searching the houses of the Anarchists,
The president of the Berne Anarchial
club has been arrested.
Cork, March 4.-Peter Jones, alias
Burke, and Thomas McGinnis, were ar
rested on suspicion, and we're unable to
account for themselves. 1t is thought
probable that they may have been i'm
plicated in the recent dynamite outrage.
Their photographs have been sent to
the London police.
LONDON, March 5.-Nellis, the Irish
informer, who surrendered to the Green
ock police and professed to give the
names of the murderers of the Earl of
Leitrim, is believed to be a lunatic.
CHICAGO, Illinois, March ga number
of workmen employed in the freight car
construction shops of the Pullman Car
company struck against reduction from
$1.50 to $1.30 per day. The strikers
place their numbers at 200, while the
officials of the company say they do not
exceed fifty.
BERNE, March 5.-The arrests of An
archists by the Swiss police still con-
tinue.
DEL NoRTE, Colo, March 5.-The town
has been full ofimen for week past, as
the result of the completion of the
canal. These men have made consider
able disturbance, but Marshal James
Clark is equal to the emergency.
WASHINGTON, March 6.-Representa-
tive Finnerty to-day presented petition
from several hundred representatives of
mechanical pursuitsin his district, pro-
testing against Chinese laborers coming
into this country. The petition asks that
the present laws be 80 amended as
to prohibit Cinnamon coming to America
under the guise of students or merchants
to find employment. Mr.. Finnerty says
he understands similar petitions are to
be presented from all the principal cities
of the country.
LONDON, March 6.-Advices from vi
emma and Berlin concur in sustaining the
report that Germany, Austria and Rus
oio houo onforod into formal o11;opno