The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-05-14

the Ohio State Senate arrived in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, recently. They left Colum-
bus secretly and met at Covington, KY,
where they took the car for Chattanooga.
They left the State of Ohio in order to get
beyond the jurisdiction of process that
might be issued to the sergeant-at-arms Of
the Senate.
The miners of Ksnawha Valley, W. Va,
have decided to return to work at the old
rates of two cents per bushel.
LABOR TROUBLES.
WOLF & LowMAN, shoe manufacturers Of
Cincinnati, have assigned to Sam Wolf
stein; assets estimated at $4,000; linhili-
ties, $4,000. The failure was attributed to
strikes.
The Chicago police raided . hall and
captured several hundred rifles the other
night They belonged to a company Of
zouaves composed of foreign socialists.
The Chicago lumbermen claim the con-
dition of trade will not justify them in &C.
ceding to their employees demands for
shorter days and more wages.
RIoTING in Chicago was renewed on the
4th, with serious loss of life. In attempt
.
Haymarket part Of the city, bombs were
thrown by the mob, the result being that
four policemen were killed and twenty
two wounded. The anarchists lost about
forty wounded.
The iron workers at Cincinnati, Coving-
ton and Newport struck for eight hours on
the 4th.
The Chicago Trades Assembly on the
4th issued circular to the workingmen Of
Chicago, which says: ''Our advice is, that
where disagreement as to terms exist, in
terview the employer through a committee.
Determine to secure the adoption of the
eight-hour system, even if concession to OBJ
tain it must be made"
SPIES, Fielding and Parsons, the anarch-
lists who melted the riot at Chicago, were
arrested next day.
MKssRs. CURTIN, Stewart and Burnes, of
the Congressional Investigating Commit
tee, opened the inquiry into the South
western labor troubles al Kansas City ON
the 5th.
THE strike on the Union Pacific was COM
plete on the 5th. No freight trains were
running.
Four laborers were killed under the fallen
walls of the Crockett block at Minneapolis,
Mimi, recently.
RIoTING was partially renewed at Chica-
60 on the 5th. The police raided many of
the houses Of prominent anarchists, cap
turing weapons, bombs and dynamite. A
policeman named Madden had an encoun-
The anarchist was shot dead after he had
MORALLY wounded the policeman.
A woRKINeNEN's mass meeting was held
recently ut New York under the auspices
of the knights Of Labor. Resolutions were
passed denouncing tho violence at Chicago,
deploring acts looking to anarchy and So
cialism, and asking for Q State labor arbi-
tration board.
The London Standard, commenting ON
the Chicago tragedies, says the bombs and
dynamite were probably originally in
tended for the destruction of foreign po-
tentates. It would help Congress to get
out of its indifference in dealing with So
cialistic conspiratorA
SEVENTEEN members of the Bohemian
Bakers Union of New York, engaged in
boycotting Mrs. Langraf, were arrested re-
Gently.
SEVENTEEN hundred employees Of the
Deering Harvester Works, at Chicago,
struck on the 5th. Three thousand men en-
ployed in the car shops also quit work At
Chicago the same day.
The Third avenue New York; street car
strike has ended. Many of the strikers
were dissatisfied with the agreement, as it
only stipulated for the re-engagement Of Q
portion of the old hands.
Two hundred Government troops were
sent from Columbus O., to Cincinnati re-
Gently to guard the Government building
there in anticipation Of riots.
The Deering Harvester Company at Chi
cago acceded to the demands Of its en-
plsyes on the eightrhour question.
A MOB, ON the 5th, threatened to attack
the rolling mill at Bay View, near Milwau-
kee, Wis, when they were fred on by the
militia. Four of the rioters were shot dead
and four MORALLY wounded. Milwaukee
was in a ferment Of excitement.
The switchmen of the railroads coming
in over the Chicago & Western Indiana
track struck on the 9th. They demanded
SIS per month, . raise of SO. They were
followed by the shopmen of the same road.
The action of the switchmen seriously colu-
plicated railroad matters.
AMONG the places in Chicago closed for
fear of riots by order of the mayor was the
Casino rink, where the Rev. Dwight L.
Moody was conducting revival services.
The blockade on the Western Indiana
track at Chicago, caused by the strike, was
raised on the 7th. Labor matters were re-
ported quieting down everywhere.
THREE hundred builders and laborers in
the employ of Mertz & Sons, Rochester, n
Y, struck on the 18th for nine hours work
except Saturdays, when they want eight.
UNEMPLOYED workingmen held mass
meeting in Manchester, Eng, the other
day. Eight arrests for disorderly conduct
were made.
THREE hundred employees Of the Pitts
burgh glass factories have struck for an in
crease in wages.
SIXTY hands in Knapp, Stout & Co.'s ex-
tensive saw mill, st. Louis, struck recently
for ten hours work instead OF eleven, As at
present