The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-13

several guns were seized Governor Rusk OBJ
tanned from the Rock Island arsenal eating
gun and ample ammunition for small arms.
Two persons died at Milwaukee of wounds
received in the rioting, and two othors
are believed TO be beyond recovery -
Cleveland police circles were excited
when it was discovered that during the
night the city had been floored with circular,
printed in English and German, calling all
workmen TO arms TO revenge the killing OF
some OF their number in Chicago One of these
circulars was even posted on the front door of
the Central Police Station. 1t is reported that
Parsons is hiding in Cleveland
The machinery manufacturers of Chi
cago contemplate closing their places of bust
ness until the employees will agree TO accept
ten hours pay for ten hours work. Chicago
advices of Friday thus outline the industrial
situation in that city:
Some Of the smaller shops, where iron mold
ers and metal workers are employed, have given
eight-hour concessions To their men, but the
larger employers like the Crane Brothers. are
still standing out. The wood-workers have
agreed upon eight hours, but without extra pay.
The bakers have bettered their condition,
and the brewers now receive full pay with
shortened hours of work The furniture
workers have won in few cases, though most
of them are out on n strike against solid or
ganization OF manufacturers. At the McCor-
| mick works tho men are receiving an advance
of Is per cent in wages. There are $500 men
out at the car-shops of the Chicago and North
western, the Illinois Central and Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific. All of the men ut Pullman
are still out. In the tobacco factories there are
| 1000 girls and women working for 50 or 81 per
| week The Eight-hour League will try to benefit
| them. The fretght-handlers' strike seems tn be
Ilnxr
| to strike shortly il none Of the skilled unions
| come to their rescue. The brickyards are
working, the owners having compromised the
differences between the men and employers.
| There are strikes at the principal bridge
| building works. The employees ut the
coal and wood yards are nearly all
| striking. The furriers are formulating de-
mands to be presented soon. The BARRIERS
| are trying to have Sunday work done away
| with, but are not striking Every organ fac
| tory in the city is shut down, the men being
| out on strike. The planning mills have started
up. The railroads trying to run without
| their men, whom they are paying of and dis
charging. AT the soap works of Kirk & Co. 600
persons have obtained eight hours. hopeful
! tone pervades many of the striking commune
| ties, and they look for the ultimate success of
the eight-hour movement when the present eX-
| element has subsidized.
| About twenty tons of giant powder
are used weekly in the Menominee range mines
in Wisconsin. AS the Northwestern Road will
no longer transp ort the article, local factories
are to be erected
Southern Missouri and Kansas were
| last week visited by an immense rain-pour.
| Jordan Creek, which runs directly through
Springfield Mo-, rose higher than for many
years, OVERLOOKING the low land and driving
| thirty or forty families from their homes.
Some of the women and children were carried
to safe places on horseback and on mems
shoulders to escape drowning, the waters in
some places rising even into the second stories
of the dwellings. The total damage in Spring
field caused by the flood is estimated at
| $4,000, and in the surrounding country
at $4,000 A distressing case of drown
ing is reported from near Fort Scott Kan.
A dam broke, and the immense body of
water, uniting with the already swollen Buck
Run, rushed down the valley The house oc-
cupied by Sarah Brown, widow, was struck
| by the torrent and swept about one hundred
yards down the stream, where it lodged among
the trees. Mrs. Brown and four of her chill
dren were In it at the time The water rose
rapidly around it to the depth of several feet
The mother held her little -months-old in
FAINT in her arms above the water, leaving her
older children to care for themselves She
suddenly noticed that her fve-year-old boy
was drowning and in attempting to save him
the infant slipped from her arms and was
drowned before aid could reach it The re-
mainder of the family were rescued
Joshua Whitcomb," the charming
play with which Denman Thompson has de
| lighted theater-goers for the last ten years
has been shelved, and hereafter that sterling
actor will be seen in new play and a new
character. "The Old Homestead" is the title
of his new venture 1t is sequel to Joshua
Whitcomb," and is the joint work of Mr..
Thompson and George W. Ryer. 1t will be
seen at Mcvicker's Theater, Chicago, the pres
| ent week.