Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

Jedge Thi rman says it has been determined definitely to bring the Bell /Telephone patent suit in Columbus, Ohio, ami that the papers will not be ifiled in any., court for several days, ns they have not been completed. ~ .Iron of all descriptions, with the exception of bar, is in good request, and prices are steady,.. Bessemer ore is firm, ami the railmill product is sold for several months ahead. ... Montreal, with a debtof ?<12JI0yi0(l(); proposes to add thereto !?l,()(M),()oO 4 per cent, bonds to pay the .deficit caused by the smallpox and improve the sanitary condition of the city. A ScaLe of wages and - rules, formulated by the Knights of Labor, were signed by the cigar manufacturersT»fyMilwaukee. A gen-<-‘ral nrtvnTTce irrwages is conceded, and after May 1 eight hours shall constitute a day's work, Fifteen hundred cloakmakers in New York City have gone on a strike. They do not ask for increased wages, but demand that the contract system be abolished. Nearly fifteen hundred men and boys employed in the National Tube Works, at McKeesport, Pa., struck for an advance of 15 ’ pen cent, in wages. A strike of the street-car employes at Columbus. Ohio, wasTeguh bn'flic 18fli'inkti' In answer to the communication of Grand Master Workman Powderly requesting a conference. Vice President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific Road, declines, stating that as previous arrangements with the Knights had been violated by them no guarantee could be given that future.arrangements would be of a stable character. He reiterates the statement that the Missouri Pacific had nothing to do with the discharge of Hall, of the Texas and Pacific line; but is willing to meet Mr. Powderly or other citizens, not, however, as representatives of the Knights of Labor, to discuss the present difficulties.... An advance of $5 per month, demanded by striking farm laborers in Pettis and Saline Counties, Missouri, has been conceded, and most of the, men have returned to work. In discussing the propositions of the Governors of Kansas for- a settlement of the troubles on the Gould: roads, H. M. Hoxie makes a qualifleation that the Missouri Pacific Company cannot re-engage men who have injured or destroyed its property, but will pay a rate of wages equal to that of other roads in the same section of country.