Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1888 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

TRI EASTERS STATES. The Hon. G. W. Schuyler, a well-known politician of Ithaca, N. Y.. is dead. Notice of a 10 per cent reduction in wages has been posted by the National Tube Worka Company, of McKeesport, Pa, who employ 4,000 men, and a shut-down is threatened if the cut is not accepted. The United Labor party will hold a national convention in New York in April, saya a dippatch from that city. “The exact date is not fixed, but it will probably be early in that month. There is a heap of uncertainty in thia matter, and it relates to something more important, if not disrupting, than a question of time or place. Henry George and Father McGlynn are out Their difference is more than one of minor opinion. McGlynn is convinced that George is not a statesman, but a mere politician. McGlynn is fixed in his judgmeht that the Labor party should, in its convention, name a wholly independent candidate for the Presidency. George is earnestly bent on fusion with the Democracy, taking the free-trade doctrine as a basis for the amalgamation. The estrangement between the two men is complete.” After a medical examination of Joaef Hofmann, the boy pianist, in the Mayor’s office at New York, his Honor decided to permit the lad to give four performances a week. After the examination Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry announced that a wealthy gentleman, whose name he was not at liberty to give, had authorized him to offer Hofmann’s father $50,000 for the education of the boy, provided he were withdrawn from public performances until he became of age. Mr. Hofmann replied that he thought SIOO,OOO would be necessary for the purpose.