The news., 1886-04-27
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received 5000 in drafts and postal money
orders for the strikers fund One CON
trfbution of $25O0 was received from the
New York Protective Association Com
pany, with the information that ia like
subscription would be sent each week if
necessary until the settlement of the
strike"
AT midnight on Wednesday night G9O0
employees of the sugar refineries of Brook
Ign, struck because of Il noncompliance
with the demands presented on Tuesday.
1t is believed $500 of the 5000 strikers are
employed by Havemeyer & Elder
The employees of the Lucy Furnace, at
Pittsburg, struck Thursday for 20 per
cent. advance in wages, and the fires were
banked pending settlement OF the trou-
bic About 100 men are affected.
The Philadelphia Traction Company
Thursday notified the grpmen on the
Market street cable road that their wages
had been increased % cents per day, their
pay now being 50 %.
William Snedeker, charged with compli-
city in the lynching of Mingo Jack at
EatOntown, New Jersey, was Thursday re-
leased in 5000 bail.
The employees of james Irving & sons
cotton mills at Irvington, near Chester
Pa, have struck for higher wages and the
mills are closed.
The Domestic Sewing Machine Comma
ny's works ut Newark, have shut down
throwing 800 persons out of work. The
mouiders had asked for restoration of
their old wages, but the management said
demand had nothing to do with the sus-
pension of operations.
Sixty pupils of the South Boston public
school struck on Monday for a single ses-
sion. They marched TO the city proper
and tried TO persuade the pupils of the
Quincy and Briminer schools to Join them
Failing in this they returned to South
Boston, where they had several banners
painted. Tuesday morning they again
assembled, and standing in line across
Beach and kneeland streets, prevented
other boys from entering the schoolhouse
They were dispersed by the police but
met an hour later, and, with flags and
banners flying, marched to the seminary
and Brimmer schools, singing and yelling
Before dispensing they opened the win
dows OF the Brimmer school and threw
stones at the assistant master.
1t is reported from Pittsburg that John
jarrett, ex-President of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel workers
and Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire
have In contemplation the organization Of
an immense cooperative store and hank
The stock is to be taken by members of
labor organizations exclusively and No
person will be permitted to have more than
500 worth of stock III the scheme is sue
i'll different parts of the country.
The Secretary of the Treasury on Tues
day issued call for ten millions of Three
per Cent. bonds. The call will mature on
June ISt
By the breaking of q dam at reservoir
two and half miles above the village of
East Lee, Massachusetts, early Tuesday
morning, much property in the VILLAGE
was destroyed, and Il number of persons
were drowned. Eleven bodies have been
found. The loss on property is estimated
at $20O,000
The lasters ut the A. d. Howe shoe fac.
tory. at Tayville, Massachusetts, struck
last fall for higher wages schedule of
prices Was agreed upon TO remain in force
until April l. The lasters then demanded
higher prices, but were refused. The fac
tory was closed and 1t was announced on
Tuesday that it will not reopen for six
months. Two hundred EN- Jloyees are
thrown out.
A Telegram from Boston says that Wig
gin Stevens, proprietors of the New Eng
land sand paper factory, ut Edgewater. on
Tuesday anticipated Il strike for more nav
and against the dismissal of two Knights
OF Labor tor drunkenness, by discharging
their forty employees and shutting down.
The National Tobacco Works, in Louis
viile employing 300 hands, on Thursday
adopted the eeight-hoursystem without any
reduction of pay
The independent coke manufactures
operating nearly 800 ovens in the Connells-
Vile region, and employing COCO men have
followed the example of The Coke Syndi-
cate, and advanced wages from five to six
teen per cent, to take effect May lst
A telegram from Pittsburg says that.
since the introduction of natural gas into
that city, the output of the mills and fac
tories has been increased twenty per cent IA
large number of new plants have been
erected, and nearly 1000 0aaditional men
given employment.
FIVE hundred employees of the Missour;
Car and Foundry COMPANY in ST Ionis
on Thursday morning struck in obedience
toan order OF the knights of Labor. This
move had been contemplated ever since
the knights found that the company were
supplying repair material for the Missouri
Pacific and Iron Mountain shops, where
1t is claimed by the strikers, the new men
are not sufficiently skilled to make their
material"
The Executive Board of Knights of Labor
at st. Louis received on Thursday up to
noon for the strikers fund $4,000 in drafts
and telegram from the East saving that
10000 had been forwarded from sympa-
thizers in that part of the country
The employees of the National Foundry
and Tube Works Mt Scottdale, PennsvIva-
mia, struck on Friday for higher wages.
and the works were closed in consequence
The plasterers in San Antonio. Texas
struck on Thursday for So per day of eight
hours, and 81 for ten hours
The card strippers in the Edward Com
pany's Mills, at Augusta, Maine. strucls
on Friday morning for an increase of paw.
Their wages are now said to average only
30 cents per day.
The Nickel Plate Railroad shops in Cleye-
land, Ohio, where closed on Friday on ac-
COUNT Of the switchmen's strike at Chi
cago. Three hundred and fifty men were
employed. Only two freight trains day
are now run on the Nickel Plate. Before
the strike the average was thirty.
The Matthieson & Weiehers Sugar Re
finery Company of Jersey City on FriGav
announced an increase OF ten per cent. in
the wages of each of the 1900 men employed
at the works. The superintendent of
Hayemeyers Sugar Refinery Companv,s
Works, in Jersey City, where l40 men are
employed, says that the company will also
increase wages
:, The trouble at Wiggin s stevens New
England Flint Paper Conpany's mills at
Boston, has been settled by the knights of
Labor. Wages Will be increased from 81 to
$l.5o per week,
J. Simpson Africa, Secretary of Internal
Affairs, said on Friday that he would ac-
eept the pemoeratic domination for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, "if rendered him.
On Friday evening George Daut, 50 years
old, fired two bullets from revolver into
the body OF his wife, Lena, infiicting prob
ably fatal wounds, and then discharged
one ball into his own brain, and died In a
few minutes, at their home at the north
west corner of Fifth and Powell streets.
Philadelphia Mrs; Dant said her husband
was crazed with drink at the time. The
couple had an infant five months old.
William Rush, colored, p years old. on
Friday IhoTning shot and killed his re-
puted wife, Mary Johnson, colored, 26
Years old, at her home 'ir Jeagep's colrt
In the rear Of 704 st. Mary street He sur
rendered himself at the police station TN
Lombard street. below Eighth. He had
just finished serving two years sentence
in the Eastern Penitentiary for the theft
of money from an Office uptown.