Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

A court at Toronto has unseated Mayor IV. N. Howland, elected last January, on' the ground that he lacked the property qualification. A new election has been ordered. The -liquor " interest commenced the proceedings to remove the Mayor. The sinking-fund commissioners of Ohio have signed a - contract with Cincinnati bankers to place $2,250,000 of ten-yvar bends nt 2.73 per cent, interest—the Iqjyesfc rate ever known. .: The Secretary of the Interior has rendered a decision in the ease of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company; in which he holdsYfiat it has no'legal claim to the land along the line of. the road from San,-Buenaventura" on the Pacific Ocean, in California. to' San FranciscoThis decision restores to the public domain 2.45L200 qeres. Gen. Santo Domingo has ordered the suspension of the Star and Herald, < an American newspaper printed at Panama. The United States Consul will seek redress by diplomatic means. . . .Rev. Sam Jones last Sunday informed a Chicago audience that he had eeased to use tobacco, as North-

era Christians deemed the habit * stumbling block ...The belief is now expressed that the steamship Oregon was Wrecked by collision with-the schooner Charles R. Morse, of Boston. The latter has not been heard of since the Oregon disaster. J, A Portland newspaper is responsible for the allegation that an association at San Francisco 14 negotiating to place 6,000 Chinamen in Maine at $4 a week for wagea and board, the employers to furnish bunks and blankets for the celestials. Contehencrm between Jay Gould and T. V. Powderly at New York, Sunday and Sunday evening, March, 28, resulted in orders from ench of them to the parties to the Southwestern strike, directing immediate resumption of work and truffle pending arbitration. A New York dispatch of Monday Hays;.. Tha. great strike- on the-Gotfid system of "railroads is ended, and work has been resumed on its 8,000 miles of road. In response to an invitation from Jay Gould, plr. Powderly, Muster Workman of the Knights of Labor, went to the railroad magnate’s residence yesterday morning. Mr. Gould and Mr. Powderly discussed the strike from its very beginning, ’l'he conference lasted until bne o'clock and Was again renewed in the evening. During the conference the railroad king intimated that he was tired of strikes, and hoped for another meth-

od of settling labor troubles. Mr. Powderly told him that the Knights of Labor bad long since , discovered a method' in “the shape of arbitration. Mr. Gould finally consented to arbitrate the present difficulties and abide the decision of the arbitrators. He also said that in future this would be the method employed to’ settle all disputes between his company and its employes. At the close of tiie evening talk, Mr. Powderlycalled a meeting of the Executive Board of the Knights. .1. W. Hayes, of New Jersey, and W. H. Bailey were present. The session was brief, and at the conclusion of it the following dispatch was sent: Martin J, Irons, of St. Louis, Chairman of Executive Board District Assembly 101, Knights of Labor • . President .lay Gould has consented to our proposition for arbitration anil go telegraphs Manager H; M. Hoxie. Order men to resumo work at once. By order of the Executive Board Knights of Labor. T. V. Powderly, , Genera) Master Workman. Mr. Powderly also sent the following order to the strikers: To the Knights of Labor now on strike in the - Southwest:President Jar fronhl has consented to our proi<ositiou for arbitration--and has so telegraphed to Vice I‘,resident Hoxie. Pursuant to telegraphic’ instructions to Martin Irons, Chairman of the Executive Board of District Assembly No. 101. you are direct- d to resume work at once. By order of the Executive Board, Knights of Labor. T. V. POWDERLY, General Master Workman. Jay Gould wired the following message to Vice President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific Railroadrat St. Louis: In resuming the movement of trains on the Missouri Pacific, and in the employing of laborers in the several departments of this companygive preference to our late employes, whether they are Knights of Labor or not, except mat you—wfH-not employ any-person J '"who has inJured the company's property during the lute strike. Nor will wo discharge any person who has taken service with the company during said strike. We see no objection to arbitrating any differences between tfie-cmployes and the company, pastor future. Jay Gould, President.