Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-21
QUIET REsToRsn

CHICAGO, May 7.-Order and ,u;'.
vadcd every part of the city ve,,o,i
Officer Barrett died at the county ho..'
in the morning, and Officer Mill or ovaa
in his brothers arms just before midnF =
StAte's-Attorney Grinnell and Nj.
%sistLnt. Mr.. Walker, as we'll as sa,.
other lawyers, are looking up the law ,s'
a view OF ascertaining if Spies and III.
low-Anarchfsts can be prosecuted ior.
son. Ii they can be convicted OF t,oo.
they can be made to suffer the deatb
atty.
The police from some source received
formation of localities where the
chists had arms in concealment and ,;l
were made on q number of places VIII
were the regular meeting places oi :,
Anarchists or the homes ct pronir
members. The total result Of
search was the capture OF a Law
amount OF arms, usually OF oM
lete pattern, and OF a number
red flags andintlammatory placards. N
spirit which animates the Anarchists N
fully illustrated in the discoveries modo
man named STANCE was arrested on
dence tending to show that he was encan
in the manufacture on dynamite bombs
use by the Anarchists. a reward OF So
has been offered by pub)ic-spirited citin
for the capture oil the person who threwt
murderous bomb Tuesday night. II
Knights of Labor held a meeting al
adopted a manifesto d~enouncing the
OF violence OF the past days as well as tn
instigators.
At Milwaukee all was quiet ~yesten!J
and the trouble is thought to be over. |
number OF those prominent in urging I
the riots have been arrested. In thehouj
OF two OF these We're found a number
arms and ammunition.
a hopeful tone %pervades many OF Il
striking communities. and they look I
the ultimate success of the cight.ho|
movement when the present cxcitemej
has subsidized. When they begin telling
their success already attained the packil
houses are mentioned first. Then tn
proudly assert that the building trad
got al! they asked The plumbers g
less than full pay for eight hours, b
the h~od-carriers got more. The cloth
cutters, who were granted eight hou
are temporarily out of pay owing to
strike among the sewing girls in the sh
shops where their work is made up.
seamstresses have promised to elect d,
gates for an organization conference
day. They are working at very low WAC
and will take into their order the fem
employees i'll tobacco factories and CLUES
soap shops. Some OF the smaller sho
where iron molders and metal workers
employed, have given eight-hour CON
sions to their men. but the larger empl
ers, like the Crane Brothers, are still sta
ing out. The wood-workers have agl
upon eight hours, but without extra p
The bakers have bettered their conditi
and the brewers now receive full pay v
shortened hours OF work. The furnitl
workers have o in a few cases, tho
most OF them are on q strike agains
solid organization of manufacturers.
the Mccormick works the men
receiving an advance of fifteen
cent. in wages. There are $500 men
at the car-shops OF the Chicago
Northwestern, the Illinois Central.
Chicago, Rock Island q Pacific. All OF
men at Pullman are still out. The Cler
Union has secured a reduction OF hours
Carson, Prize, Scott & Co.'S, Seas, and
or two other places. The union expects
better the condition of the clerks in
city, although it does not hope for e;
hours, either with or without full pay.
the tobacco factories there are IL
girls and ONE working for tn
dollars or four dollars per week. .
Eight-Hour League will try to ben,
them. The freight handlers strike see
RI no hn,,alac, frt,o,, ,>,,,.+ ~, rod
hands to strike shortly if none OF
skilled unions come to their rescue.
brick yards are working, the owners Ii;
ing compromised the differences betw,
the men and employers. There are stril
at the principal bridge-building wor
The employees at the coal a
wood yards are nearly all str
ing. The furriers are formulate
demands to be presented soon. The b
bars are trying to have Sunday We
done away with, but are not strikiI
Every organ factory in the city is 81
down, the men being out on strike. I
planning mills have started up. The r.
roads are trying to run without their IN
whom they are paying off anddischargil
At the soap works OF Kirk & Co. 600 p
sons have obtained eight hours.
telephone and telegraph operators did Il
enter the movement.
The switch-tcnders on the Fort Wa,
at Thirty-ninth and Forty-iirst sire
struck yesterday for an adva!
from thirtv-six and forty to fl
dollars per month.
Eighteen switch-tenders OF the Weste
Indiana road employed in the town
Lake went on a strike yesterday, demal
ing that their monthly wages be increas
ten dollars.
freight was being taken and delivered
most OF the freight depots Yesterday, b
was hauled very slowly. and hundreds
oaded wagons, after waiting in line neai
all day, were compelled to return when
O'Clock came without having been serve
The new freight-handlers receive no int
ference from the strikers. 1t is the opini
OF the managers that if the present COM
ton OF things continues the roads will
able to handle the usual amount OF freig
by Monday.
About 100 members of the Metal Man
lecturers Association, representing oy
10000 employees, assembled at the Graz
Pacific yesterday afternoon. 1t was vot
that al! the shops should shut down sa
urday Tor thirty days, or until employ
consent to work under the old plan OF tt
hours.
CHICAGO, May AT the Deering Tia
vester Works the company agreed toa
vance the wages Of the men fifteen per cen
This was accepted aud the men agreed
20 to work. Later in the day the strike
claimed that they understood that til
agreement Included eight hours woF