Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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If reductions in wages of workingmen follow the enactment of the democratic tariff bill, the investigating powers of the department of commerce and labor will be called in to establish whether they are of a bona fide nature. Secretary Redfield Monday declared that was his purpose. Sustaining the contempt charges against the American Federation of Labor leaders, the district court of appeals at Washington, D. C., Monday afternoon held that President Gompers should serve thirty days in jail and that Vice-President John Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morrisdn should pay SSOO fines. Maj. Robert Wilson McClaughry, for the last fourteen years warden of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans., and one of the best known criminologists in the United States, forwarded his resignation to the department of justice Monday. In making known this fact the warden, who is 74 years old, said he thought he “had been on the job long enough.”

A contract was let Monday by the Canadian Pacific railway to the firm of Foley, Welch & Stewart, of St. Paul, Minn., for the construction of the Rogers pass double track tunnel through the Rocky mountains. This company will also build seven miles of double track approaches on each side of the tunnel, making a total of twenty miles of double track, including five miles of tunnel. t '■ The Fall River Iron works at Fall River, Mass., Monday posted notices stating that the seven mills of the plant will be closed for an indefinite period next Saturday. No reason for the shutejown was given. The corporation, which is owned by the American Printing company, operates 500,000 spindles in the manufacture of cotton cloth to supply the print works. It employs 5,000 hands. Um our Classified Column.