Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Labor notes: Nearly every member of the United Nailers, Rollers and Heaters’ Association has signed a petition asking for reinstatement in the Amalgamated Association. A strike of bakers at Pittsburg resulted in a bread famine, as the few small establishments in operation can only supply their regular customers. The Ajax Forge Company and the car works of Wells & French, Chicago, opened short-handed at the *old rate of wages. McCormick’s reaper works, Chicago, are running with a fuR force for the first time since the strike. Nearly all the railroads opened up at Chicago on Monday with a full force of freight-handlers, and the strike seems to be over. Many of the old men who applied for work were taken back, but some of the roads refused to re-employ their old hands. The Malleable Iron Works, Chicago, started up. with 800 men at nine hours’ pay for eight hours’ work.

A fire broke out at Gainesville, Fla., destroying all the buildings and contents on the south side of tho city square. The aggregate loss is about $70,000, with very little insurance. The Quincy, Missouri and Pacific Railroad was sold at St. Louis to a representative of the bondholders for $1,000,000. Companies have been organized in Indiana, with ample capital, to develop gaswells in Wells, Jay, and Delaware Counties. News has been received in Tombstone, Arizona, from Fort Huachuca, to the effect that the Mexican forces were repulsed with great loss in their attack on the Cojene.-.’ stronghold on the Yaqui River. Under a decree of foreclosure, the Quincy, Missouri and Pacific Iload was sold by a special master at St Louis. Edwin Parsons, of New York, acting for the first-mortgago bondholders, paid $1,000,000 for the line. William Fordyce, of Wabash, Ind., overtook Alf Watkins, a married man, as he was walking with Fordyce’s daughter, and cut him dangerously about the head and face. Watkins is likely to die and Fordyce has been placed in jaiL During the recent rjpts in Chicago, Bohemian anarchists sacked and destroyed a drug-store at the corner of West Eighteenth street and Center avenue. It now develops that nearly a dozen nihilists who participated in the looting of the store have died from drinking poisonous concoctions under the belief that they wore swallowing tangle-foot whisky. A half-dozen more are sick nigh unto death, and with small hopes of recovery. It also transpires that several of the participants in the riots were buried in the Bohemian Cemetery without permits, which leads to the conclusion that the policemen fired their pistols with better aim and more deadly effect than was at first supposed. Tho owner of the building occupied by the Nihilistic Arbciter 'Zeitung filed a bill to set aside the lease granted to the backers of the paper on the ground that the contract lias been broken by tho storage of explosives in the office, and the lease was canceled. At the meeting of the Chicago Methodist ministers resolutions were passed denouncing the rioters. There is a decided improvement in the labor situation at Cincinnati, and no violence is now anticipated.

A resolution offered by Senator Logan, directing the Committee on Pensions to report back to the Senate tho Ingalls bill, providing for the ropeal of the limitation on the arrears or pensions, was agreed to by the Senate. A bill to limit the commercial privileges of vessels belonging to foreign countries which restrict the privileges of American ships was introduced. The same measure was offered in the House. Mr. Beach (N. Y.) introduced in the House a resolution amending the rules so as to subject to a fine of 55100 every member who is absent during a call of the House. The House passod a bill to punish the advertisement of lottery tickets in the District of Columbia. With the intention of putting to service the sum of 555(1,507,005 lying in the Treasury at the close of April, Mr. Breckinridge introduced a joint resolution directing the calling in of 831,000,000 in 3 per cent bonds by the end of August. Mr. Bland introduced a bill providing that any holder of standard gold or silver coin may deposit the same with the treasurer or any Government depository in sums of not less than 810, and receive therefor notes to bo called “coin notes" of the United States.