Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-05-06
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A ,IAss meeting was held in Washington
on the 18th, to sympathize with the efforts
of Gladstone and Parnell to obtain home
rule for Ireland, Representative Randall
presided,
JEFFERSON DAVIS and General Gordon
addressed an immense audience ut Mont
gamery, Ala, ON the 18th. Both Of the ex-
Confederate chiefs received an ovation:
GEORGE F. EMMoNs, chief engineer df the
United States navy, Oh the retired list,
died recently at Baltimore, Nd.
The House Committee on Foreign AT
fairs has ordered favorable reports On thr
Chinese Indemnity bill and the Morrow
Restriction bill.
DR.. PHILIP kRoHN, who was recently i'm
plicated i'm gross SCANDAL at junction City,
Kan, has written letter to the Presiding
Elder of his Methodist district, denying
the charges, but at the same time with
drawing from the church and the ministry.
He claimed that he was the victim of anti
prohibitionists.
The Mexican Congress has passed law
authorizing the issue of 100000 in copper
cents to be legal tender in sums not over
% cents and silver five cent pieces at the
pleasure of the executive, The nickel law
of 1851 is rep called.
THE London Ddily Telegraph, referring to
the recent demonstration at Montgomery,
Ala, said: 1--WE think it would be better
if Mr. Davis allowed the past to sleep as
Lee and Benjamin did"
THE House Committee on Rules has
agreed to report a resolution fixing ths
hour of meeting of sessions of the House at
eleven O'clock.
TIE President has vetoed the bill to
make Omaha, Neb., port of entry as
wholly unnecessary.
JOSEPH c. HENDRICKS has been i,omi=
mated by the President ftr the bostmRste,-
ship of brooklyn, N. Y; also Frank Brown,
at Baltimore, Nd.
THE New York Tribune of April 80 says
the family of ex-President Arthur err ex-
ceedingly hopeful that he will get well.
He has been steadily improving for several
days. Yesterday his condition was better
than for several weeks. With the return
of strength has come buoyancy Of spirit,
and the ex-President feels confident that
he will recover.
THE household effects of the Austrian
Minister, who has withdrawn from dip.
lomatic relations with the United States,
April so.
THE National Liberal Federation of
Scotland has adopted resolutions favoring
Mr.. Gladstone's home rule bill.
srrsYa,a SATn.
OLIVER Bros. & PHILLIPS rolling mills,
Pittsburgh, Pa, closed recently because
about 800 workmen struck on the ground
that they were not included in the recent
advance in wages.
TWENTY stone cutters of Mayer & Sons.
of Newark, n. j., struck recently for d
quart of beer instead of pint. The firm
granted the increase and the men went
back to work.
TIE Ohio & Mississippi railway has grant
ed the increase for which the handlers and
yardmen at Storr's Station, O.. struck.
SEVERAL of the largest furniture factories
of Milwaukee, Wis, closed the other day
because of strike by 800 finishers and
wood carvers vino demanded ten hours
pay for eight hours work.
THE Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company has declined to grant an in
crease in wages and the adoption of the
eight hour law to its car shop employees
on the ground that the business of the road
will not justify it.
WESTERN boot and shoe manufacturers
to the number of go have formed an asso-
citation for mutual protection. They declare
a., ~. IL, -. Il,
ing hours to eight, but they are willing to
pay ten per cent. more wages than at pres
ent.
A PASTORAL letter was read in the Catho-
lie churches at Montreal recently from Car
dinal Taschereau, condemning the Knights
of Labor as a secret organization. in imical
to the interests of religion and good morals.
The Cardinal, it was understood, before is
suing it, had conferred with all the pro-
vincial Bishops, who all agreed with his
decision.
FIVE hundred employees of the Bruins
wick-Balke-C ollender billiard table factory,
Chicago, have struck again because a non
union lumber measurer was retained by
the manager.
The stonecutters and masons of Ale
gheny City, Pa, have joined the movement
for reduction of hours and propose to
strike unless their demands are acceded to.
The employees Of the Allison car works.
Philadelphia, nearly 100 in number, struck
recently and the works will be clos d down
indefinitely.
AN extensive strike for eight hours
among the switchmen and freight handlers
was threatened at Chicago on the Goth.
THE tanners of Milwaukee, Wis, number
ing 1000, have made q demand Cor eight
hours mar dav