Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-05-21
Sticking Strikers.

The strike in Detroit has settled down to
question of patient endurance. The
strikers a rule are firm, quiet, and bound
to hang together to the end. \ number OF
men have gone back to work, but not
enough to make a perceptible timing out
in the ranks of the strikers a mass meet
ing was held the other night at which
about 1900 men bound themselves by oath
! to remain firm.
New York furniture workers will test
the question whether the conspiracy law
will work both ways, and will demand the
arrest and Indictment of every furniture
manufacturer who locks his men out
Twenty-seven laden coal barges were
sunk in the river at Pittsburg the other
morning.
Q Five policemen have died as the result
of the dynamite bomb thrown into the
mob in Chicago.
The supreme court has adjourned until
October.
The labor question in Grand Rapids re-
mains very quiet at present. with good
prospect of staying so. All the factories
are running under u basis agreed upon be-
tween employers and employees, and the
best of feeling prevails The situation is
certainly encouraging and will place Grand
Rapids among the banner cities for peace
full settlement of the great wage question
now agitating all large cities. The
brickmakers and teamsters have agreed
on basis of sixty cents and
seventy cents a 1000 for drawing brick
according TO distances.
w Wood of nnt+1a t'raaI- nd
commander of the Grand Legion OF the
| Select Knights \. q. l.. W, of Michigan,
has ordered all legions in MS jurisdiction
to take part in all public exercises ON
Decoration Day, in their respective To-
calities, in full uniform.
Michigan gets over 81, 100000 In the river
and harbor bill passed by the House of
| Representatives.
The latest advices received by the Ca
madam government from the Northwest
/. Territory state that all is quiet along the
frontier and that there is no danger of
any disturbance.
Fire broke out in Hull, Quebec, on the
9th inst, and before the flames were
under control, an area of about 10 acres
had been burned over.
The Greek ministry have resigned, de-
spite King Georges refusal to accept
their designations.
Judge Vincent NJ. Smith, law partner of
the Hon. L. Il. Hulett of Rochester, N. Y,
who has been stopping at the Avery house
at Mt. Clemens for some time, taking baths,
died recently from an overdose of choral
administered 10y himself. The remains
were taken to Rochester
Ionia county's new court house is now
| 90, ,1o toJ nd npn,nioJ
A freight train was wrecked near Come
maugh. Pa. on the 18th inst, and three
men were killed
The president transmitted to the senate
recently in accordance with joint resolu-
ton, approved March 3, 1877, his accept
of the colossal statue of liberty enlighten-
ing the world, presented 10y the French re
public, together with statement of its
erection upon a suitable site in the harbor
of New York. The president expressed tho
gratitude of the American people.
Leavenworth, Kansas, was visited by n
section of the tornado which wrought such
havoc in Kansas City. Several buildings
were badly wrecked, two bridges carried
away, and several persons were wounded.
The May crop report of the departments
of agriculture indicates an improvement
during April of two points in wheat with
general average of condition at o. There
is no marked change anywhere, but a
slight advance is noted in Ohio Valley
Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, the Carol!nas
Virginia and Maryland. The May average
I last year was 40. The season has been
favorable, and the crop is more advanced
than usual. The averages i'm principal
states are; New York, 96; Pennsylvania
| %; Ohio 81; Michigan, 81: Indiana, 90
Illinois, o. Missouri, lOl; Kansas, 81.