The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-01-04

IA Congressman Butterworth introduced . -
providing for the annexation OF Caaada 10 ~
United STATES. &.
LABOR DISTURBANCES.
JANUARY
4 Forty colliesies ON the Heading Railroad -
tenn are idle
TwBRUARy
Riot among miners ut Shenandoah, Pa.
II Eviction OF twenty-five families OF stxikfns
cigar makers In New York
10 Riot al Billings. Montana Territory.
10 Work generally resumed in the Reading o.
lleries
n Chief Arthur. of the brotherhood OF LocoupI
tive Engineers ordered the engineers and an.
men Of the Chicago. Burlington and 0aisv
railroad to strike
MARCH
Z c.. d and 9 striking engineer fatally shot 6
Springfield, Mo-, by deputy marshal
2. The c., u and Q engineer strike extended -
the Burlington and Northern railroad
10. Engineers and lremep ON the santa Fe syy-
ten struck in u body Result Of tho c., D. an0
O. strike: Broken next day 1
%. Riots among c.. b. and q. switchmen &C Chs-
cago
railroad
a. Strike IN tho Pittsburg. Fort Wayne A.d Chi
cago railroad In progress
81. Traffic stopped an the ST. Paul railroad usar
Chicago
APRii.
s. Strike on tho Michigan Central at Chicago
Strike Of Boston paper hangers succcsdcd.
II Brewers men struck In Chicago
~ Strike Of bakers az Chicago.
ID Brewers lockout began In New York, Brook
Ign. N.wars. Jersey City. Paterson and Stases
Island Five thousand men out Of employ.
ment.
10 Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel wosts
ut PttSburg with non-union men.
- More ahootng reported at Galesburg, Ins.. o.
the Chicago. burlington and Quincy railroad.
q Strike at the Edgar Thompson steel works do
clared OF by the Knights Of Labor.
JUNE
Is One thousand five hundred cottoa operatives
on strike ut Hartx, Austria
n AL window glass factories In Pittsoarg and sAs
west shut down.
10 Miners IN the Connelisvillc Pa. coks regio.
out on q strike. .seH
~ Conference between the Iron manufactures
and the Ainalgamatcd association resulted -
the closing Of the mills, $4,000 men besaI
thrown out Of employment.
July
Division Chief Bauereisen Of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers and three others g.
rested charged with being implicated In .
plot To wreck property OF the G., b. and @
TO Chairman Hoge and Murphy OF the 20" enge.
! necr's and nremen's grievance COMMITTEES an
Secretary Kelley and McGilvery arrested b
connection with tho alleged dynamite cor
spirncy 10
H. George Clark. brotherhood engineer. arrestse
ut 0alesburg. His, In connection with alleges
dynamite conspiracy on 20" road
- Unconditional surrender Of tho iron manMfsue
urers TO the Amalgamated association.
AUoUsr.
o. Street esr strike In Brooklyn. Ended nenb
day.
| 10 Large rolling mills az Chicago shut dow.
Fffteen hundred men thrown out OF employ
ment
| u Fifteen hundred hands thrown out Of wonk u
shutting down Of mills In Delaware coaaty. ~
Railroad employees on four Indiana lines ~
out on strike.
Strike Of ahip riggers In Philadelphia.
Twenty -ninc window glaas factories in 0ls
Western association rasumc work.
| 2. Street car strike on In Chicago.
q Rioting between the Chicago street car stsi1-
ers and the police
r. Thomas wardel, wealthy coal operator 9
Bcvier, Mo-. killed by striking miners.
| u Strife among the street car men In Chicago
practically ended.
| q. Street car riots In Chicago.
| NOVEMBER
| 8. Strike o; swtchmen on the New York CoutE0
and Boston and Albany railroads at Albany
- General strike Of switchmen ut Indianapolis
DrcExDrR-
q T. B. Barry organized a labor organization. n
dependent Of the Knights OF Labor.
| The trial Of the alleged 20" dynamitsrs begun
at Geneva, Ill
10. Fresh trouble at Bevier Mo-, necessitased tle
calling out Of the troops.
THE YEARS POLITICAL MiLESTONEB.
| April.
4. Rhode Island election. Carried by the Repub
licanS
n. louisiana election. Carried by the Democratic
MAT.
| 10. Union Labor convention at Cincinnati nomi-
mated Allison J. Strcator Of Illinois for presk
dent and Charles T. Cunningham, OF Arkansas
for vco president.
| IL. United Labor convention at Cincinnati n0na8-
mated Robert IT, Cowdrey. OF illinois, OR
president, and w. II. l. Wakefield. OF Kansa2
for vice president
| a. Equa, Rights National convention In Dss
Moines, la. nominated Relva Lockwood Tor
| president
81. Prohibition national convention nominated
Clinton r. Fisk for president and John A.
Brooks for vice president
James q. Blaine's famous Paris letter received
| D. Oregon election Carried by the Republicans
O. Democratic national convention nominatsl
Grover Cleveland for president Of tho Unitae
States and Allen q. Thurman, OF Ohio. 69
vice president.
| 70 Republican national convention nominaAae
Benjamin Harrison. Of Indiana, for prssidGk
| and Levi +. Morton. of New York. for vico
| president
| AUGUST
| 10 National onvention OF American party g
Washington nominated James L. Curtis ~
| president.
| sEPTEMBER.
10 Maine election Carried BY the Republicsns
| NOVEMBER
g. Presidential and congressional elections
throughout the United States: BENJAMIN Hsc-
| risop and Levi =. Morton elected respectively
| president and vice president
THE WHiTECHAPeL MURDERS.
April 8-Body Of Emma Elizabeth Smith fosaA
| Aug 7-Eody OF Martha Turner found
| Aug 3i-Body OF Mary Ann Nichols found
| Sept 7-l,ody OF Anna Sievcy found.
Sept 2l--Body Of unknown woman found -
Cateshcsd, In north England; bad been dead souD
days; mutilated like those In whitechapel and 60
| OF same class
Sept 2s--Just before midnight body OF Elizahda1k
| Stride found, still warm aud bleeding.
Sept 3o.--Just after midnight and but Gsw.
minutes after preceding find, tho body Of CakAS
| ~~su> UdAoxwoa uas fot,nd ~xfd~otlw Accl