Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Governor Stoneman has appointed George Hearst United States Senator from California, vice John F. Miller, deceased. The lowa Senate has passed a bill making drunkenness a misdemeanor, punishable with a severe penalty in an increasing ratio to tho number of offenses. The Postmaster General sent a statement to tho Senate showing that tho number of removals of fourth-class Postmasters during tho first year of the present administration wp,s 8,645. Of these there were 613 in Illinois, 499 in Indiana, 399 in lowa, 205 in Wisconsin, in Michigan, 124 in Minnesota, 98 in Nebraska, 125 in Dakota, and 258 in Kansas, •were were 1,053 removals in New York State J*ihe Republicans of Rhode Island ffiaye nominated George Peabody Wettmore, of Newport, for Governor The House Elections Committee has decided to go into the merits of the contest in which Page, Democrat, contests the seat of Price, Republican, in the Second Rhode Island District The act empowering the Governor of Ohio to appoint non-partisan Police Boards for Cincinnati and Cleveland has become a law.

session was brief, and at the conclusion of it the following dispatch was sent. Martin J. Irons, of St. Louis. Chairman of Executive Board District Assembly 101, Knights of Labor: President Jay Gould has consented to our proposition fir arbitration and so telegraphs Manager H. M. Hoxie Order men to resume work at once. By order of the Executive Board Knights of Labor. T. V. Powderly, General Master Workman. Mr. Powderly also sent the following order to the strikers: To the Knights of Labor now on strike in the Southwest: President Jay Gould has consented to our projKisitiou for arbitration and has so telegraphed to Vice President Hoxie. Pursuant to telegraphic instructions to Martin Irons, Chairman of the Executive Board of District Assembly No. 101, you aro directed to resume work at once. By order of the Executive Board, Knights of Labor. T. V. Powderly, General Master Workman. Jay Gould wired tho following message to Vice President Hoxie, of tho Missouri Pacific Railroad, at St Louis: Li resuming the movement of trains on the Missouri Pacific, and in the employing of labor, era In the several departments of this company, give preference to our late employes, whether they are Knights of Labor or not, except that you will not employ any person who has injured the company’s property during the late strike. Nor will we discharge any person who has taken service with the company during said strike. We see no objection to arbitrating any differences between the employes and the company, past or future. Jay Gould, President. It is alleged by a Portland newspaper that an association at San Francisco is negotiating to place six thousaud Chinamen in Maine at $4 per week for wages and board, the employers to build bunks and furnish Wickets. Louis Felton, engaged in mining in Mexico, and at one time a prominent citizen of Chicago, was recently assassinated by Mexican outlaws in the state of Durango. L. D. Munger, of Detroit, Mich., lowered the world's twenty-five mile bicycle road record at Now Orleans. He made the distance in 1 hour 24 minutes ‘Hi 3-5 seconds, which beats the lowest record by about nine minutes. A decree has been issued at Panama by General Santo Domingo Villa, suspending for sixty days the American newspaper tho Star and Herald, because a sub-editor declined to publish certain correspondence submitted by the authorities. It is now thought that the steamship Oregon was run down by the schooner Charles H. Morse, of Boston, from which nothing has been heard