The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-04-30

or labor be abandoned until more
propitious time, and the rate of wages
remain as at present, but that on Satur-
day eight hours be accepted as a days
labor.
One hundred blacksmiths in the
Hiram w. Davis Carriage Mandatory
at Cincinnati quit work Friday morn
ing. They are striking for return to
their former wages. They claim that
they were cut down in the last year,
some Of them twice, to wages that they
cannot live on. The men III the black
smith shop are almost to man mar
ried men. They say that they cannot
average S. per week the year round.
The carriage-makers' strike at New
Haven, Conn, has extended from the
body-makers o every branch OF the in
dustry, including painters, trimmers,
and blacksmiths, resulting in COM
plete shutdown in the shops of that
city. The trades-council has taken the
strike in hand. and requests for dOna-
tions to aid the strikers will be sent to
similar organizations all over the cOun-
try. There are now nearly one thous-
and men out of employment by the
strike.
The two months strike at William
Skinner & Sons silk mill in HolyOke,
Mass, continues. The executive board
of the district assembly, Knight of
Labor, has sanctioned the request for q
boycott and will notify every assembly
| in the district. The Central Labor
Union Of New York has also Endorsed
the boycott and is pushing it hard. An
application has been made to the gen.
eral executive board for general boy
colt. The employees did not strike UNI
til the firm refused arbitration.
w. T. Dowdall has been nominated
to the senate for postmaster at Peoria,
Illinois.
The Grant monument fund raised in
New York and itsvicinity now amounts
to $120,64S.75.
1t is stated that three Chicago rail
roads will within eighteen months ex-
pend $40 ,000,0 900 upon extensions.
The widow of Wendell Phillips died
in Boston on Saturday evening. She
| had been an invalid ever since her mar
riage, half a century ago.
A commission to select u site for a
state soldiers home i'll Iowa, met in
| DeS Moines. Nineteen towns have Of
fered lands or money rs an induce
ment.
A conference of leading Iowa anti
fusion greenbackers met at Cedar Ra-
pids Friday and issued call for con-
yention to be held ut Cedar Rapids on
May 6.
Acquittal was the result of the third
trial of Joseph Kuhn, formerly ~
banker in Detroit, who was indicted
for obtaining money under false pre-
| lenses.
ID. Ii. Scott, who committed forgeries
to the amount of $4,000 on bank at
Winnipeg. has been brought back from
Mexico, where the authorities surren-
dered him.
Mrs. McDermott, of Dodgeville. Wis
consin, hanged herself with sheets tax
en- from her bed. She had nearly So, 900
in notes and money. She leaves Two
young sons.
The Union Pacific and Burlington
roads have ordered an advance to $50
for first-class unlimited tickets and $50
for limited from the Missouri river to
California.
BY the burning of q railroad board
ing-house near the famous Kinzua via
duct, in Pennsylvania, six italian
labOrers lost their lives, and two Others
were seriously scorched.
Greece has definitely decided TO dis
arm. The combined fleet Of the pow
ers has departed from her waters, and
her claims against Turkey are to be
submitted to arbitration.
Ii. f. Harmon, flour merchant in
Boston. who is an uncle of Miss Frank
lie Folsom, authorizes the statement
that she is engaged to President Cleve-
land, her fathers law partner.
Geronimo's band recently attacked
the ranches at Casita. on the Sonora
railroad, and killed fifteen Mexicans.
A company of soldiers pursued the In
dams toward the Sierra Madres.
Henry Fryer, an aged gatekeeper in
Druid Hill park, Baltimore, lost his
life by catching his foot in the crotch
of a tree and hanging head downward.
His body was warm when discovered.
An incendiary fire at Manistee, Mich
igan. destroyed the Union school and
its library. the loss being $45, 200. Six
hundred pupils will be accommodated
in the skaling-rink and Methodist
church.
Gustave Mendelson. travelling salec-
man for Marshall Field 81 Co.,. OF
Chicago, killed himself with a revolver
in house of ili-repute at Milwaukee.
His life was insured for $4,000 in favor
Of his wife.
An Omaha dispatch reports that
| MISS IL TdllCeS -. EOlSOUl, WHO 10 SOOIl
to marry President Cleveland, is the
probable heir to $3.50, 900 worth of prop
erty in Nebraska. now held by heI
childless grandfather.
A cattle company of st. Louis has
leased over two million acres of grazing
land in the British Northwest territory
for twenty-one years without taxation.
The transfers of this land are from her
majesty the queen.
A jury in New York. after being
locked up all night, failed to agree as
to the guilt of General Alexander
Shaler. who was tried for accepting a
bride for his vote to purchase arm0ry
sites from Monmouth Wilson.
Governor Marmaduke. of Missouri,
represents public sentiment in the
southwest as demanding that railway
traffic be no longer disturbed by strikes.
lie holds that the bayoneG should be
used only when absolutely necessary.
a dispatch from st. Louis asserts
that but for the newspapers the public
would not be aware of a railroad strike
at that place. A grocery on the Illinois
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