Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — EATER NEWS IETMS. [ARTICLE]

EATER NEWS IETMS.

At their fourth session in Cleveland, the Knights of Labor adopted a resolution requesting Congress to declare the national election day a legal holiday. It was resolved to appoint at once and send to Washington a special committee of three to look after the labor legislation now pending before Congress. The Committee on Legislation presented the following propositions, in the nature of demands of Congress, which were ratified by the convention:

First, that patents fer the public lands be given to actual settlers only; tecond. that all land owned by any individual or corporation in excess of 100 acres, whether improved or unimproved, shall be taxed to the full value of improve d land; third, calling for the immediate forfeiture of all lands where the conditions of the grant have not been complied with; fourth, asking that patents on lands where the conditions have been compiled with be issued forthwith, so that taxation may take effect at onfce ; fifth, calling for the removal of the fences from the public domain; sixth, that after 189 J the Government shall by purchase and right of eminent domain obtain possession of all lands now held by aliens ; seventh, that after 1835 aliens shall be prohibited from acquiring title to lands; eighth, asking the abolition of all laws requiring a property qualification for voters; n.nth, requesting the passage of a law levying a graduated income tax; tenth, protesting against the cutting down of the appropriation for the Labor Bureau; eleventn, asking for the passage of the bills approved by the Congressional Labor Committee; twelfth, asking for the passage of a law prohibiting the employment in mines, shops, factories, etc., of minor&’for more than eight hours a day. Congressmen who ignore these demands will be put “on the list.” The Knights of Labor at Reading, Pa., met and officially declared the strike of bat-fiuishers off. The proprietor of the Champion Machine Works at Springfield, Ohio, has been arrested at the instance of the Knights of Labor for ejecting objectionable characters from his premises. The Chicago Tribune's weekly review of the labor outlook in that city shows that the retail furniture dealers have returned to ten hours; that the evil effects of the eight-hour agitation are still felt in the building trade; and that in other industries the movement has about collapsed. Near Goose Lake, lowa, a train ran over three meu who had gone to sleep on the track. Two were killed, but the third escaped with slight injuries. In tlie Maxwell trial at St. Louis phys cians testified that the}' had made an examination of Preller’s bod}', which had been exhumed for the purpose, aud found the organs claimed by the prisoner to be diseased in a normal, healthy condition. The General Secretaries of the Young Men’s Christian Association have been holding their sixteenth annual conference at Harrisburg, Pa. The Dominion i'shing-cruiser Lansdowne has received orders to put to sea from St. Jolm. The police-boat L. Howiett is cruising in the neighborhood of Canso. Three American schooners have, been officially reported as having purchased bait within the Canadian line, and their captains fear seizure.

United States Judges Pardee and Billings rendered a decision at New Orleans in favor of the Bell Company in its suits against the National Improved Telephone Company ct aL The Porte claims that the Greeks are dilatory iu disarming. According to the Pall Mall Gazette, it is extremely doubtful whether the British army could be relied upon to force Ulster to submit to Parnell. James Whelan, a Nova Scot‘S seaman, was hanged in England for murder upon the high seas. His crime was the killing of the mate of the vessel. At a meeting of the Chamberlain party, held in London, forty-six Liberal members of the House of Commons resolved to vote against a second reading of the home-rule bill. The Conservative whips estimate the Conservative vote at 252, the Hartington and Chamberlain section at 96, the Liberal absentees at 25, and the vote of the Gladstonians and Parnellites at 297, making a majority against the bill of 51.