Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-11
Minor Mention.

on Une chesapeake O OnlO ROAD, on Uno & Tn
inst, Engineer Davanball, Brakemen Shee,
Ballard and Scheerman were killed, and
Engineer Higgins and Fireman Harris prob
ably fatally injured.
Rufus II. Stickney, of Boston, was killed
on the 9TH, by being thrown from a tri-
cycle.
Patrick Gallagher was killed and an Ital-
ian fatally injured by the cavi1g in of a
trench at Valley Falls, R. l., on the 7th.
At Huntsville, Mo-, on the 9th, W. O.
Brockman and his son shot at each other,
each mistaking the other for thief. Both
were seriously wounded.
: Four tramps were cremated in Sheldon 81
Co.. burning elevator at Red Wing, Mimi,
on the Sth.
The disabled North German Lloyd steam
er Vera. from Bremen, arrived at Boston
on the 7th. Her shaft was broken, but all
well on board.
The yacht race for the Goelet cup at
Newport, R. l., on the 7th, was won by the
Mayfower.
A Paris dispatch of the 9TH says the
Pope is seriously i'll and his life despaired
of.
One hundred and fifty thousand new SUBJ
scribers have applied for the new bonds is
sued by the Panama Canal Company. The
number has exceeded the most sanguine
hopes of the company.
Gen. Butler announces his intention of
becoming candidate for Congress at the
coming election.
The Kansas Democratic state conven-
ton, in session at Leavenworth, nominated
Thomas Moonlight for governor.
Peter Richardson, present state treas
urer. has been nominated for governor by
the Democrats of South Carolina.
A pleasure yacht was capsized by sud-
den squall in the harbor at Portland, Me-,
on the 4th. Seven of those on board were
drowned.
Prof 81. c. Harvey, the New York
geologist has gone to Abingdon, Mass, and
announces his intention of forming stock
company to work the silver mine recently
discovered there.
The yacht Brunhilde, owned by J. J..
Phelps, member of the New York Yacht
Club, is at San Francisco, where she will
stop for short time on her voyage around
the world. The Brunhilde is the first Ameri-
can yacht to attempt the feat.
Labor Notes.
What is considered partial adjustment
of the trouble between the employees of the
packing houses OF the Chicago stock
yards and their employers was ef-
fected on the 9Th, and the MAORI
ty of the men who had left the Hately
Bros. establishment because of the adop-
tion of the new scale signifed their inten-
ton of returning to work. About half Of
the $50 men who went out have returned.
The general impression is that the hour
system will be adopted by a majority of the
packers in the yards and that the men will
accept the terms. 1t is believed that the
new scale will be put in operation some
time during the month.
Eight hundred men employed in the Hate
ly packing house at the Union Stock Yards,
Chicago, have quit work on a refusal to re-
turn to the ten-hour working day. Mr..
Hately endeavored to inaugurate the
method of working by the hour irrespective
of the number of hours worked each day.
The men refused and quit work. Forty
men employed in Fowler's packing house
stopped work when they were asked to
work on the ten-hour plan. No trouble is
reported at any other houses.
There was a break on the 4th in the ranks
of the New York cigar manufacturers, who
contracted to employ only Knights of
Labor in their factories. In three of the
shops, where the men had been told to give
up their Progressive Union badges or leave,
they were told to resume work as union men
or Knights, as they pleased. The men went
back as union men. The employers are
These shops were Stahl's, of Eighth Street,
seventy.five men; Rentz's. Pitt Street,
seventy-five Gloeckner & Co., Cortlandt
and Greenwich Streets, fifty. Cooper
Union Hall was packed in the evening with
trades unionists, who gathered to show
their sympathy with the Progressives in the
stand they have taken against the Knights
Strong resolutions were adopted with
cheers, denouncing the Knights and urging
an amalgamation of the two associations
of cigarmakers.