Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-03-22

KNOWING lDdt cOulu not defend
them. and they are now in hiding.
Fire destroyed between 100000 and
$3.50, 600 worth of Kansas City property
at Fourth and Broadway Wednesday
evening. Flames burst out of the win
dOws of the biz f0ur-StOry building at 40
West Fifth street occupied by the Eng
lish Supply Company. dealers in engine
supplies and wrought iron materials, and
spread with almost incredible rapidity
The Western Newspaper Union and the
Great Western Type Foundry building
was destroyed. The Western Newspaper
Company supplied ready prints for 200
Western weekly newspapers and employ
ed big force. The loss in this building
alone will exceed $4,000. The English
Supply Company carried an insurance of
100000.
Cashier FentOn of the National Bank of
the Republic of Chicago, said judgment
had been taken against the Walter a.
Wood Harvester Company of st. Paul,
Mimi, because the bank officials had no
information regarding what the harvester
concern intended doing about its obliga-
ton TO the bank. Mr.. Fenton said the
bank held the Walter A. Wood company's
judgment note for $4,000. 1t was two
weeks overdue. and, as nothing mad been
heard from the company. the bank decid-
ed TO be on the safe side by taking judg-
ment and putting the sheriff in possession
of 1000 rcapers and mowers in the local
warehouse of the company. No. At Taylor
street. The company has its plant and
general Offices in st. Paul 1t is capital
lied for s., JOo. 000. II is Il separate cor
poration from the Walter \. Wood Har-
vesting Machine Company of HoOsac, y.
Y. Mr.. Fenton said the cOmpanys state
ment shows s. of assets for every 81 of
Indebtedness.
The wreck on the Nandalia at Terre
Haute, Ind. was lucky" one as TO the
escape of the passengers and the train
crews. only five being slightly injured.
but the loss of money in burning of the
express car containing the through sealed
safe from New York for st. Louis is
large. Just how much is not known, but
enough is known to warrant the asser-
ton that il is well up in the thousands
and may be more than 100000. The
New York office manifested great anxiety
about the charred contents of the safe,
and sent instructions not to open II, as II
is TO be sent TO the treasury at Washing
ton. The safe was in white heat and
smoke issued from the sides of the door
for several hours after it was removed
from the wreck. The paper money is
undoubtedly burned to ashes. Around
the sides molten metal had escaped, lead
ing to the belief that there was either
coin or jewelry inside There was another
safe in the car, the one used by the mes
senger. and its contents were also de-
stroyed. Little of the merchandise eX-
press goods was saved
The Supreme Court of Illinois gave
decision at Mount Vernon Thursday, de-
claring that the eight-hour law, or as it
is generally known, the swcat-shop law,
is unconstitutional. The law prohibited
the employment of women for more than
eight hours Il day, or more than forty
eight hours week. in any factory within
the borders of Illinois, In deciding the
case the judges also pronounced illegal
section 10 of the bill, which provided an
annual appropriation of $4,000 for fac
tory inspectors. whose chief duty was TO
that the eight-hOur clause was
forced. The burden of the decision is
that women in respect to contracts are on
the same footing with men, and that an
act which abridges the freedom of con-
tract between workman and employer in
Il lawful occupation is unconstitutional.
While the law related exclusively to the
employment of women, it was understood
at the time of its passage that Il similar
measure regulating the number of hours
men could be hired to work would follow
on its heels. Probably 10000 women in
Illinois who work in factories are affect
ed by the decision, -, 900 of whom live in
Chicago. They are employed in the main
in shoe factories, cloak and clothing
houses. candy factories, paper-box shops
and various other manufacturing estab
lishmentS.