The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-05-21
WHOLE NO. 3l4

month on account Of competition at all
western points. About $50 leading
! textile manufacturers of Pennsylvania
have organized to establish uniform
wages, prevent strikes, and settle diff
ferences with employees.
William Weber, a Chicago anarchist,
now soliciting funds in Cincinnati to
aid the wounded socialists of Chicago
says, that after the outbreak at the
Mccormick factory it was resolved to
prepare twenty bombs for the Hay
market meeting, and that he knows
that they were distributed to members
OF his socialistic group.
There is not much cohesion to the
strike movement in Cincinnati now,
except among the furniture-makers
and safe-makers. The executive board
of the former has declared in favor of
eight hours and 10 per cent advance.
One of the safe-making firms has COM
promised by allowing an advance in
wages and shorter hours.
The Police Department OF Chicago
has made its official report Of the
bomb-throwing affair, and gives a COM
plete list of the policemen who were
killed and wounded that dreadful
night. A recapitulation shows that
siXty-siX were wounded, five of whom
died, and ten have returned to their
beats, leaving fifty-one who are still
laid up with their wounds.
Special kilograms to Brddstreet's Sat
urday indicate that the agitation for
| short hours has largely disappeared eX-
cept at Chicago. They estimate that
100000 men have been concerned in the
movement and that 10000 others Sc
cured concessions without striking,
while only $4,000 of the strikers have
succeeded. Business is slightly better
as the industrial situation improves.
The last of the trouble at T.. II. Allis
e. Co.'S works at Milwaukee ended Fri
day when the molders and men in sew
eral departments, who repudiated the
action of their committee in accepting
Mr.. AlliS' proposition and resolved to
enforce their original demands by q
strike, resolved to return to work. AS
many as were needed were accepted,
but quite number found their places
had been filled by other men. and are
now looking for employment else
where.
AT Chicago the trades out on strike
consist of metal workers 1900, lumber
showers 10000, tallors 25,000, principally
female. In addition many smaller
trades have some on strike. About
5000 in the various branches of the
building trade, in which there is har
mony between the employers and the
men, are out of work on account of
the general decentralization, building
being virtually suspended until the
labor question is settled.
The wholesale clothing dealers of
Chicago, thirty-three firms, employing
some 6C0 cutters, and, indirectly, about
1,100 shop tailors and over 10000 hands,
have suspended manufacturing for an
indefinite period. This action was
unanimously agreed upon at meeting
held by the Wholesale Clothiers' Asso-
citation. There is solidarity of inter-
ests at the basis, each firm being
pledged not to resume until every
member of the association does so.
Secretary Mayer. after the meeting,
exhibit ed price list to the representa-
tives Of the press III which an advance
Of from 35 to so per cent on the cost of
manufacturing is asked by the boss
tailors. "Our action was necesstated
by the unreasonable demands of the
tailors" said Mr.. Mayer. "We have to
fight the keenest competition imagin-
able. In the East no such eXorbitant
demands have been made. and they are
not likely to be made. To accede to
them here would simply drive us out
of the business or bankrupt us. When
our cutters asked ten hours pay for
eight hours work we granted it. That
is the utmost we can stand"
The Ohio Legislature adjourned
Wednesday.
Ex-President Arthur is reported to
be steadily improving.
The total exports from New York
for the last week were valued at So
680,0JU.
The Senate has confirmed the NOM
ination of Gen. Rosecrans as Register
of the Treasury.
The papal secretary Of state has in
formed Archbishop Gibbons Of his
elevation to the rank of cardinal.
President Clevelend intends 70 re-
view the professions on Decoration
Day in New York and Brooklyn.
John Kelly is not as well as former
ly. EX-President Ar,hur's condition
is also steadily growing worse.
Captain Price, with company of
the 9th cavalry, is eXpelling several
hundred squatters from the Cherokee
strip.
Bar silver touched 45d per ounce
Saturday in London, the lowest price
ever known. The market is in state
of collapse.
The dry-goods house of Charles S.
Clark, of Kalamazoo, Michigan. estab-
lished forty years ago, has gone into
bankruptcy.
ID. II. Patterson, son-in-law of the
late President Johnson, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Home, Tennes-
see, at $24O per year.
The widow of Louis Riel has never
rallied from the shock of the execution,
and her death is daily expected by the
residents of st. Vital.
The Ohio State Sinking Fund Com
mission has effected one-year loan Of
$1,000 with Albert Meter of Cincin-
natl at 1-2 per cent interest.
DIR. III. l.. Harris has been lodged in
the penitentiary at Joliet, to serve five
years, for the murder OF DR.. George
w. Barton at Saybrook, Illinois.
BY an explosion of gasoline in a
theater at Wellsville, Ohio, seventeen
persons were seriously burned. Three
of them are not likely to recover.
An ample gas well has been devel-
oped at Richmond, Indiana, by boring
o.