People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A crusade has been started by New I’ork monometallists against the advocates of the free coinage of silver. Syndicate article* are to appear in 1,000 newspapers throughout the west and south, it is said. The Tennessee house adopted by a vpte of 43 to 30 the senate resolution declaring in favor of the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. Ex-President Harrison has come out for a larger use of silver in the currency of the country. Representative Cogswell of Massachusetts has been seriously ill, but la improving. . Five hundred garmentmakers are on strike at St. Louis against the sweating system. ' s Gov. Altgeld has appointed Philip Goethe of Chicago and Eugene Ackerr man of Carmi fish wardens. The Minnesota senate passed the general appropriations bill. It amounts to *1.927.000. Kentucky’s republican state central committee will change the date of meeting so that it will not occur on Decoration day.