Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-05-20
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because the company refused TO pay for
Horseback" work, the rate for which, before
the new scale went into operation, was fifty
cents per square yard.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country for the week num-
bered for the United States 1876 and for Canada
20, as against total of 192 the week previous.
1t has leaked out that the employees
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company are
distributing a secret circular with petition
for signatures asking an advance of lOper
cent in wages and also binding themselves to
join the Knights OF Labor.
The former employees Of the lumber
yards in Chicago have quite generally return
ed to work on the old basis of hours and
wages, but the leading agitators were not re-
ceived
About four hundred men had resum-
cd their duties at Pullman up to Monday last
The carpenters of Milwaukee compromised on
small advance on hourly wages.
kilograms to BrGdstreePs indicate
that the industrial agitation in favor of fewer
hours work daily has largely disappeared
elsewhere than in Chicago. At New York
it has been q practical failure, while
at Chicago the attitude of manufacturers
in several leading lines in locking out some
1900 employees who demanded a shorter
working day promises to arrest the progress
of the movement Supplementary reports
show that within about two weeks there have
bsen strikes at leading industrial centers to Sc
cure fewer daily hours of labor aggregating
100000 employees, that 1900 have secured
concessions without striking, and that not over
A. 600 of the 1000 strikers have secured
their ends. This indicates that over 10000
employees are working fewer hours per day
than one month ago, small proportion OF the
total number claiming to be interested. With
the favorable change in the industrial outlook
general business is reported to have made some
advances
The country about Forest, Hardin
County, Ohio, was swept by q cyclone at an
early hour Saturday morning. 1t created
havoc at Dunkirk, wrecking houses, killing
four people and injuring fifteen or twenty.
The East-bound express on the Fort Wayne
Road ran into a clump of fallen trees, the
branches of which, crashing through the car
windows, seriously injured twelve passengers.
"A ncrvo ntoIur Ia50d I.Iid~y .-ioi-. - Wa
bash County, Ind. The Wabash River is out
of its banks and flooding the county. Timber
was leveled and wheat fields were destroyed
The Mayor of Attica, Ind, reports that the
storm deprived fifty families Of their homes
The indianapolis Board of Trade sent q car
load of provisions and bedding.
There was slight earthquake shock
in the county of Dumbarton, Scotland
Stephens, the Englishman who is
making tour Of the world ON bicycle, has
been arrested in Afghanistan.
Several manufacturing firms In the
Province of Ulster, Ireland, are considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of moving to Germany.
A meeting of the followers of Lord
Harrington was held in London, for the pur-
I pose of cementng the Wing and Radical oppo-
| sition to the home-rule bill Sixty-four per-
sons attended. The meeting unanimously
adopted resolution declaring that those pres
ent would oppose the second reading Of the
home-rule bill