Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 158, Hammond, Lake County, 21 December 1907 — Page 4

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

Saturday, Dec. 21. 1907.

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HAZING IN

There are men over the country who will swear that Robert La Follette Is the one great political genius of the present generation and ascribe to him Qualities of statesmanship that put him in the same class with Webster, Calhoun and others who have made history for their country. There are others who think the man with the high pompadour 1s little better than a horse thief and a political buccaneer. However, opinions may differ, the fact remains that La Follette has made a decided impression in politics in his own state and has many warm admirers over the country who persist that in him there is the most excellent presidential material. Some time ago La Follette left the scene of his political combats in Wisconsin, where he had stood out successfully against the opposition of Senator Spooner and his "half breeds." and accepted a seat in the United States senate. That august body of sticklers for "senatorial courtesy" had heard of the pugnacious La Follette and his pernicious activities. In spite of his political standing as ex-governor of Wisconsin; in spite of his reputation as a fighter, orator and statesman, their attitude toward him was that of an tipper classinan who is desirous of impressing on the mind of a raw, uncouth, rampant freshman the fact that a certain amount of reverence is due the man who has .worn his fried egg cap four years instead of four months. There are no mavericks in the senate. Every "useful" senator has at one time or another been subdued and branded. Those who are not useful are not repeatedly returned by their constituents. La Follette's usefulness could begin only when he had submitted to the terms of the surrender. La Follette, however, did not do as hundreds of his predecessors have done. It will be remembered that he is a fighter and the independence of the individual appealed to him as being a cause well worth fighting for, even if he did run the risk of a terrific whaling at the hands of his colleagues. During his first term of office, whenever he began to speak, the other sanators quietly arose and left the room, one of the most despicable insults that could be devised. This summer, however, he found himself among the people again. They were willing and anxious to listen to him and as he went from place to place on his lecture tour, he took the opportunity to square himself with some of the men who had been trying to teach him lessons in senatorial courtesy. His punishment came in big doses this winter when he returned to the senate. He was vegetating on several unimportant committees when it Mas thought wise not to further martyrize him but to give him the chairmanship of a committee. There was so much opposition to this plan, however, that after several berths had been suggested, he was finally made chairman of the committee to investigate, the condition of the waterfront of the Totomac. This committee, however, has never met and never expects to, but La Follette. was honored by the chairmanship of it. In the meantime, as a sample of how little reputation and how much pull counts for. Senator DuPont of the powder trust, was made chairman on the committee on ordinance, which recommends appropriations for powder. Of course, Mr. DuPont probably knows a great deal about powder, but he doubtless knows more about DuPonfs powder than any other. La Follette, the man spoken of by thousands for tho presidency. A man of undisputed mental acumen, is languishing on his committee to investigate the condition of the Potomac and probably wishing he was back in good old Wisconsin with a political light on his hands just to make things interesting.

WITH THE EDITORS THE IMMIGRATION FLOOD. More immigrants have come to our shores in the past fiscal year than ever before in the country's history. When in one year of the present decade we receive a number equal to more than a third of all that came in the entire ten years of the decade just past, it is natural that the question as to whether our ability to absorb foreign elements is not on the verge of boyng overtaxed, should become unusually prominent. Yet we have seen scores of thousands returning home in the weeks just past, the, mobility of foreign labor lias been appreciated as never before, and there is little of the consterna

tion that might be expected by an announcement, unaccompanied by such an experience, that more than a million and a quarter foreigners have been added to the immigration lists. The great oxodus of immigrants become emigrants is a material fact in any just appreciation of the situation, and with other facts of like significance it red ices the proportions of the immigration bogy very materially. The immigration commissioner's statistics showed that in the year ended June 1907, there were C 4 t,'.' 'J outgoing steerage passengers. This, no doubt, included a small contingent of native citizens, but on the whole it represents the returning immigrant. Add to this the names counted twice by immigration authorities that is, the names of persons who had been in the United States before and who, having visited their old homes, returned to the United States last year; the number of iin-m-igrunts who died during the year, the. number of the foreign born in the United States at the beginning of the year whose large losses by death the Incoming flood made good add these various elements together, subtract them from the commissioner's figures, and the total net immigration would in ill probability be small indeed in comparison. During the decade 1890-1900 the absolute Increase in the foreign born population was only 930.000, though the total immigration recorded . '. ,. .. i .. . ,

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. , . j Any Other Newspaper m Northern J THE SENATE. for that period was 3.f.30.nno. Something the same thing is taking place now that took rlace then. The immigration from Ireland has ,ioreised that from Germanv and i.- .,' m,ini ohot Rtntionnrv. that l l iliu c v inn iow -''- - . .......... ------ from England and Scotland shows a substantial increase. From British North America it has numbered 1 9,91 S, an increase of 14.SS5. But it is the increase from Austria-Hungary. from Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro, from Italy and from Russia, that remains the most conspicuous. Yet it is exactly the immigration from these countries that is the most temporary in character. The percentage of women and children from them has been low. They are mostly adult males, who easily come and easily return. During tho present exodus it is they who have predominated Next to general interest, the fact most interest in the commissioner's report, is the record of increase among the Japanese. During tho year 30.225 were admitted, an increase of 16.3il. This does not include those who made their way into this country by stealth. -oming across the Mexican or Canadian borders. It had been generally known for some months that Japanese immigration had doubled, though the secretary of commerce and labor did not see fit to confirm the report. Japan, however, has lately given indication of an intention to put an end to further disturbance from this quarter. And if to this the treaty with Mexico and "harmonious arrangement" with Canada, recommended by the commissioner, be added this condition of affairs should adequately c orrected. New York Globe. BRYAN TO SUCCEED ROOSEVELT. The Atlanta Constitution under the above heading has an editorial, the conclusion of which is: "There is a large independent vote which might, in great measure, have gone to Roosevelt next year, anti-third term sentiment to the contrary notwithstanding, which must, perforce, go now wholly to Mr. Bryan as the original exponent of many of those policies which Mr. Roosevelt, quick to catch the public trend, has sought to bring into play. In addition to the foregro-

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PAGKY AGAIN MATCHED

Will Meet Tommy Murphy in Boston Jan. 7 Go Twelve Rounds. Boston, Mass., Dec. 20. Packey McDarland. the sensational Chicago lightweight, and Tommy Murphy of New York, considered one of the toughest men of his weight in the east, were matched today to box twelve rounds in the ring of the new Armory Athletic association of Boston on the night of Jan. 7. The weight will be 133 at 3 o't lock. The managers of the men and Miah Murray, matchmaker of the local club. hive been in communication for two - weeks relative to the match, but not until today were the terms agreed upon by all parties concerned. The purse will be guaranteed, and is said to be worth 3,000. Harry Gilmore Jr., manager of McPnrland, has wired that he and his protege would leave the Windy city one week before the contest, but Gilmole would not agree to a referee until he reached Huston. No trouble, however, is anticipated on this score, as Johnny Oliver, who looks after Murphy's interests, is willing to submit to the club's selection. IiR TALUS ALL OFF Baseball Invasion in Chicago is Not so Formidable as in the Past. Chicago, Dec. 21. Talk of invasion and war against organized baseball by the American association was at ebb tide in Chicago yesterday. The promoters of the plan to lift the St. Paul franchise and place it on the north side have apparently gained the opinion that too much talking has been done, and tl it it will be a more strategic plan to wait for developments at the annual meeting of the association, which is scheduled for Chicago on Dec. 28. President John I. Taylor of the Boston American league club was in Chicago yesterday for a short time on his way to California. lie was credited with a statement that he "did not have any objection to the American association putting a team in Chicago." This statement was later discredited by President Comiskey of the White Sox, who was host to Taylor during his short stay in Chicago. Reports from all the cities in the American association show that opinion is about evenly divided on the proposition to establish a club in Chicago under war conditions. Columbus, Toledo, and Indianapolis are on record as opposing anything in the way of war. St. Paul, one of the most interested parties in the deal, is also opposed to a change, according to statements made by President Lennon. Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Kansas City, and Louisville are the clubs expected to farther the proposition in case it really materializes. Tho idea that many of the minor leagues would side with the American association In case of a declaration of war was laudged at by President Murphy of the Cubs. President 15. P.. Johnson of the American league is expected home this morning from Cincinnati. Columbus, Toledo, and Indianapolis, where he has been on "official business." lie made a careful canvass of the situation in these American association cities, and may have some interesting announcements to make. ing, there are certain well established democratic policies, notable among them a tariff revision that will strike at the root of present evils, in connection with which no relief can be expected from republican sources The I , . ,. J irrowth of these in national xavor .imi the fact that democracy stands tor all these reforms which are now most in popular demand, can mean only one thing and that is democratic success. And it is a foregone conclusion that democratic success means President Bryan." DENVER AND DEMOCRACY. The choice of Denver for the democratic convention leads the Boston Transcript to speak of its distance from the center, of the likelihood of a small attendance, and of the fact that Colorado is republican. It goes on to say: "The significance of the choice of Denver for the convention lies deeper than any friendliness for Bryan, past O" prospective. The 'honor' virtually j went a-begging. No city of first rank and thorough availability wanted the democratic convention. This situation accurately reflects the disorgan ation of the party itself; Bryan, and yet it nominate him." it does not want is apparently to State of Ohio, City of Toledo, (ss. Lucas County. ) Frank J. Cheney makes oath tnat he is the sen or member of the firm of F. J. Chenev fc Co.. doing business in the Citv of Tel --do. County and State aforesmI rid that sr. i d firm will pay the slim' of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and e .-ery case of catarrh that cannot be c arej by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December,, A. D. A. W. GLEAPON. (Seal.) Notary Public. Hail's Catar h Cure is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and' mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O. Sold bv all druggists. 75c. Take ilall's Family Pills for constipation. A merchant who has the "fonrajf " to pay high rent, nnd to buy costly stock of roods, should not vreakea vrhea It comes to advertising:.

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The Judge, The Type of Frisoners Who Line up Before the Tribunal of Justice and the "Audience" Which is Present Each Bay at the Police Court.

Did you over spend a few hours in a tribunal of justice wh-ro the poor, the! iTXa SS ! ten their troubles, confess their fail-1 ings and accept tluir sentences while a stern iaeeu '! judge peers at them over i his spectach-s? In other words did' you ever pay a visit to the city criminal court? Thousands come and thousands go in every c ity in the country, and in e ry town or hamlet, where the justice of the peace or the squire holds forth. They come on business, they come to prosecute, they come to be prosecuted, and then the majority come because it Is interesting, they are curious and they have nothing else to do. But they are there nevertheless and tomorrow morning many of them are in their old places, with the some wondering look and the saint Interest in the case. The .Judge. Tho city court, or as it is known the police court, is an institution that Is a necessity to any big city, or to any city where there is a police force. Its small brother, the Justice court, is on the same plan and the squire's office is a distant relative in the town. Willie there seldom arises a knotty point of law in the police court, the judge who occupies the bench lias problems to solve that the supreme court never faced, and although his knowledge of law may be limited, his knowledge of human nature must be great. He must break up families or reunite them, he must educate the foreigner and lie must care for the poor, the sick, and the unfortunate. Many are the sides on which he mast look before he sends the unfortunate to serve his time or pay his Sentence, thus perhaps blasting the life and hopes of some young hopeful, by adding a prison stigma to be carried the remainder of his life, or breaking the heart of some dear mother or fond father, s " that their life may be permanently ended, or their shoulders bent, their heads lowered or their hair whitened. But it is all in a single day. The same thing in a different coat comes along tomorrow. Day after day, week after week, and year after year, the same judge sits on the same bench and sees the same unfortunates come and go, new ones . to swell the ranks of the departed on the same old charges. Is it any wonder that he becomes calloused, that the most pathetic story which brings the copious tears from the eves of the spectator, never so much as gives a tug at the heart of the judicial person. It is nothing now to him, it is the same old story of the downfall, of the tempter and of the tempted, only it has a new cloak. No Favorites. In the many thousands of police courts where each morning the grist is taken up, the same problems face the judges. Each and every one of them are pronounced at times, hard, heartless men, while at other times they are spoken of as that soft hearted Judge So and So. They are cursed beneath the breath, sneered at, often threatened, but they deal out justice with an impartial hand, tempered with mercy, although perhaps they err in adding an ounce too much of justice or an iota too much of mercy, once in a while. But who ever heard of a Judge In a police court playing favorites? They are many and they are of various kinds. There is the judge who says that one man's word is as good as another, whether he wears a blue coat with brass buttons or a patched and ragged one. There is the judge who will always take an officer's word before that of the defendant. There is the one who places little credence in the policeman, feeling that the officer is there to convict under any circumstances. Then we see the model justice who weighs carefully every bit of evidence in the case and sticks closely to the law book. But after considering all the evidence, after listening to the weird stories of the prosecuting witnesses, whether they be officers or civilians, and the more weird stories of the defendants themselves, they have their hardest duties to perform. They must judge the man or woman, not the crime of which they are charged, and they must deal with them accordingly. Since the establishment of juvenile courts in this country, a load has been lifted from the shoulders of the police court judge. Now a specially appointed justice looks after the little ones, and spends his time in correcting, starting them out on new paths, touching them here and there or putting them where they cannot blast the lives of their little playmates. In the past this was another of the duties of the police court judge, and in many cities he must still go on with the work. The Type of Prisoner. Let us look at the type which faces the judge of the police court judge day by day. Day and night the police are patroling the city, arresting the intoxicated, bringing the petty thief to the station, sending the disorderly before his desk sergeant, and in fact gathering in all who break the statutes of the city in one way or another. Then there is the excited individual who races to the station and then to the police court for a warrant for this one and that one who has done him so injury, or defaced or destroyed his property, or Interfered in any way with his rights as a citizen of the L'nited States. The luckless individual is brought to the police station. where he is held or gives bond for his release to appear in the police court the next morning. Then there is the crook, the murderer or the man who commits a felony, which reaulres a

hearing but is beyond tho Jurisdiction i of the r-li.v curt judge. a.d must! EaV" bnJS f ! Thpv p h,.r,. t.fh...P ...v...,nt i

for the lu,.k !n,livi,ual furnishes I a surety, and In the pen t:iey go. i Their eases are heard one ft a thne ;

and each and everyone.-' story must be , that I am retiring to accept an aptold to the judge, and lie must decide j pointment to some high political of

on the guilt or innocence, remember ing that the law requires him to find1 the man guilty beyond a doubt, or else j must release him. The Drunk. j The drunks come first. Blear eyed and tousled haired, some clad in rags

and tatters, some in fine raiment, the "The volume of new orders for tin- oi.no.op vouuuiss.cm m uie invictims of a supper with the boys or a J ished iron and steel is still light and tercational Typographical union benight in the tenderloin. They line up ; mtle improvement is expected during pan a two tla-VK" conference. It is without rank or title. "John Smith."; (h rrr(in, 1Tlnn,h c.- fir n? fi cures I'hmned to establish technical schools

,n r V I, ., ' TV are available they justify an estimate up and moks into the eves of the J Judge, and at the prosecuting officer. ! aurm -November of about 40 percent The officer is call.-d and tells the court! of he capacity of the t mills. Until that lie found John Smith drunk, stag- j lately the steelmakers were most radgerlng about the street, while his I ical in blowing out blast furnaces.

.olio anq John .saiuu stands breath smelled strongly of liquor. John has a chance to plead guilty or not guilty and the court looks up the man's record. Ilow many times convicted, is ho a resident of the community, what has been his previous life, h;us lie any family depending on him, does he work regularly, and whether he Is a common drunkard, an occasional jag, or an unfortunate man who has fallen once from the path, and not likely to do so again. All must be considered and then the sentence. When the fatal word is pronounced, with a scowl, or a sigh or a burst of tears, he sits down to pay or go to jail as the case may be. There is a stiffled sob that wrenches the heart of everybody but the judge, from the back of the room, as a mother, a wife or a sister hears that he must go to jail, and staggers out of the court Voom. One after another the cases are called and when the last drunk has faced the judge, they are separated, the ones who are liberated leaving the room with a smile and a determination never again to face the disgrace, while the ones who are sent away, with blackened and saddened looks, file back to their cells, where they await the "Black Maria" to the bridewell, the county jail, or the "Island." Others charged with different crimes then line up for a fuller recital of their woes and the same old story of misfortune, caused by drink and poveity comes to light. Some of the most simple little incidents furnish cause for a court case, and the most trival misdemeanors take up more of the court's time than a big case. The Audience. Then there is the audience, the gallery of the curious, who are present every morning. Morbid curiosity brings them to witness the sufferings and the troubles of their feliowman. Tiiere is scarcely an intelligent face amongst them, outside of the people who are there directly interested in one case or another. In some courts they have some excuse to gain admittance, but they pose as law students, witnesses and attorneys, to gain admission. With heads bent forward, they drink in every choice bit of scandal, their eyes bulge out when some thrilling crime is recited, and their fists clinch wh"ii the prisoner tells how he was abused by the officer who arrested him. They never are friends of the policeman. They do no work and they spend the best portion of their time in the police court. Many of them can tell you not a little about law, from their eperience in listening to cases, and the judge has nothing on these men (and of times women) when it comes to deciding the case. The Hammond police court varies little from the general run. It has its following and although the latter Is very small in point of numbers there are few. But Hammond is fortunate enough to miss many of the saddest sights of the police court, the absence of the slums and the poor districts, doing away with this altogether. If you want to pass an interesting morning, or make a study of human nature, go to the police court of a bis city. Sweet Ncture Story. A billygcat climbed a tall fir tree at Hood river on the ranch of Frank Chandler. The witness is Hans Lage. While on his way to the city Lage discovered one of Mr. Chandler's acrobatic billygoats up 50 feet in a large fir tree, browsing as contentedly as if swiping sweet peas through a neighbor's picket fence. Hcod River News Letter. Explanation cf Consonants. In a recent book of Col. L. A. Waddell on "Lhassa and Its Mysteries," he puts forth the theory that the excess of consonants in the Thibetan, Russian and most Arctic languages had its cause in the cold climate, which leads the people to keep their mouths nearly closed, while talking. In order to exclude the eold air Hiked Up. "Fcr goodness' sake!" exclaimeu the boy's mother, "what are you complaining about? Ycu wanted reg'lar suspender pants, an' now you've got 'em you ain't satisfied." "I know, mdm." Drotested the bov. "hut T'm j knder ,frad the arms. The Catholic Standard and Times.

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Chicago. John Mitchell, president

of the United Mine Workers of Ameri- president, of tho Massachusetts state ea. announced finally that he would branch of the American Federation of not be a candidate for re-election. Tho Labor, who was one of the three promminers" chief denies a rumor that he inent labor leaders assailed by an. inc n,,ftir-,p- the labor field to enter pane man in the statehouse. died at

Cities t w been persistently ru- ' ' in tne cabinet of iinooU Waited Mr .Mitchell if he would go aft- it. "I am Quitting the labor movement sole y because mv health is impaired." said Mr. Mitchell. "There is an impression fice. I wish to say that so far as I am concerned no tender of any political appointment has been made to mo. ; and if such a move is contemplated I know absolutely nothing about it." New York. The Iron Age says:

the United States Steel corporation and ability among printers and pressnow having only 45 per cent of its cieapig iron capacity in operation. Now, 1 Mexico City. Mexico, which for however, the merchant furnaces are years has been free from the question, pursuing the same course in inereas- is to have her labor problem. This ing numbers. It is expected that by was made evident when it was a lithe lGth of this month the greater nouneed that a meeting of delegates majority of the furnaces in the Malum-, from various branches of labor ing and Shenango valleys will be throughout tho republic will be held Idle." j in January. It is planned by certain Marquette, Mich. Through the ef-' of the newly created labor leaders forts of organized labor the manufac- to organize agre.it union society simiture of cigars in Marquette prison is lar to the American Federation of Lato be abolished. Tho contract expires t br of the United States. At present the first of the year, but the contrac- j railway workers and cotton mill operators have been given four months' ! lives are tho only branches of labor grace to wind up business. The con-j organized. victs who have been, making cigars j Minneapolis, Minn. As a means of will begin the manufacture of overalls. , inducing a good attendance cf mem-

The garment workers will take tip the ; fight where the cigar makers left off,

protesting against the convicts being i inducement to members to turn out to put to making overalls. There were i the regular meetings it has been deonly 100 of them employed at cigar j elded to have a drawing at each rnect-

making; there aro 200 now said to be employed in the new overall factory at the prison. Augusta. The Georgia Federation cf Labor went on record through an interview Issued by its president, D. P. O'Connell, after a meeting of the

executive committee, as deploring the j entreduction cf railroad rates and fares Duluth, Minn. Duluta is now inthrough legislation and opposing any , volved in a fight for the open shop in further legislation of the kind. Mr. 1 the building trades. About 1,500 men O'Connell contends, as does also the ' have been locked out by the conexecutive committee, that labor condi- tractors. The trouble is the result of tions In the south have been disturbed the employment of non-union men by by the legislation, which has caused , the American Bridge company. Tho shortening of hours, and thereby re-'building trades alliance threatened to

duction of wages, as well as being the direct cause of numbers of workingmen being laid off. Appletoa, Wis. The superintendent of the Little Chute Pulp company has been fined $03 on the charge of having in the mill's employ a boy of 14 years. It has developed since the trial that many children below the age limit are at work. Missoula, Mont. A reduction of about 25 per cent of the clerical and operating forces of the Northern Pa- j cine went into effect. Several hundred men were laid off here at the roundhouse, the car shops, and train crews. Youngstown, O. Work has been resumed in the Valley and Brown-Bon-nell steel plants which were closed down last week. Milwaukee Suit for 2JM has been instituted in federal court against the Western Union Telegraph company for the alleged failure to deliver a message during the recent strike. The plaintiff is W. G. Stumm of Staunton, 111., who claims that the failure to convey to him a message offering him a position in a mill in Venezuela, South America, lost him the $1,500 position and a chance for future advancement.

Bethlehem, Pa. Because of dissat- arrested on the charge of inciting the isfaction with the tonnage scale, in- miners to strike, in violation of the stead of the per diem rate of wages, Canadian industrial disputes act, was most of the expert workmen at the ; found 'ji!t-v and sentenced to six new rail mill in the Saucon plant ol I months imprisonment, the Bethlehem Steel works are on; Butte, Mont. By an overwhelming strike. ! vote, the Miners' union has accepted Claremont, N. H. Instructions have j the reduction of wage3 from i to been received from the Boston office i $3.50, in accordance with tho conof the company ordering the running ! tract that the scale sh-uld be $3 "0 time oi the Monadnock cotton mills j when copper is below IS coats aci here reduced to seven hours daily.: 5 hen it is above. Five hundred operatives will be af- j Washington. The British arntassafected. j dor has suggested to tho departn.er.t Bethlehem. Pa. The strike at the; of state that owing to tho existence of Sauquoit silk mill is sympathetically': industrial depression in Car Tcwn. growing. One hundred and six cf the' persons seeking err dej tront h 175 weavers are out, together with a earned against migrtirg to that dozen spinners. ! place. Hazelton, Pa. A movement has I Lynn, Mass. NVtie were posted been started here to raise a fund of at the works of the Camera', Llectric $20,000 among the United Mine Work-1 company IVcenibor ? to the effect ors of AmoriM a testimonial to! that the 7,5 Cm) r-r.;r!oo would re-

John Mitchell upon his retirement from the presidency of the union. Mr. Mitchell's retirement is due to illhealth. It is proposed to hand him the testimonial at the national convention in Indianapolis next month. Orange, Mass. Notices of a reduction in working time were posted by the New Home Sewing Machine company here. The factory will be operated only - five days a week. Eight hundred employes are affected.

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Boston. Edward Cchen of Lynn. the Massachusetts General hospital, Dennis D. Driscoll. secretary of tho branch .W condition is considered critical, was reported as sh.h y mv u. j.nn A. i.ee.e, m, u.u no snooting. wa;; arraigned in the municiI'a' court, and at the request of tho state s attorney his c;ue was continued one week, bail being placed at 5100,000. Chicago. Plans for the establishinent of a eorrepp.onder.ee and technical school of national scope for tho education of apprentices and journeymen printers were taken Up when the in the large cities and to establish a traveling -school of lectures, charts, and diagrams, which will be rent to the smaller local unions in turn. Tho object is to raise the standard of work bers at its meeting, the Millwrights union has adopted a novel plan. As aa ing, which will give some member a receipt for a month's dues. Names of all members present will be placpd on slips and banded to the secretary), and at the next regular meeting one. of these will be drawn. In orcer to get the prize a member must be pres' call .out all union men. The contractors anticipated their move and locked out all men. The fight is directed against the alliance rather than the unions. Altoona, Pa. Seventy-five thousand union railroad men on f.5 lines east of the Mississippi river are voting on demands for shorter hours and more pay to be made on the line managements this month. The decision may causa or prevent a monster strike In January. The ballots are to be counted in Chicago, beginning on December 28. Holyoke, Mass. Tho American

in ! Writing Paper company, which operI ates a score of mills in this vicinity,

has announced that several will be closed on account of a curtailment ia orders. About 200 hands will be affected. Brazil, Ind. The demand for coal in this state has been falling off the lat few days. The Brazil Block Coal company has only one mine at work. Similar reports come from the bituminous district. This i.s the first time in many years at this season that the companies have closed even temporarily any of the large mines in thia district. Cobalt, Canada. The president of the Miners' union who was recently ceive their pr.y and that the works would close on Friday and Saturday. The same schedule will obtain next week, but. after that the company officials will make a weekly announcement of the working hours. Lowell. Mass. Notices were posted to-day at the Talbot woolen mlUa, in North Billerica, which have been closed for the past week, that they will reopen on an eight-hour scheduj four days a week.