Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A St. Loris dispatch Of the 6th inst. says: “The following notice was read at the meetings of .'the several local assemblies of the Knights of Labor: The strike is still on on the Gould Southwest system and all men looking for work will stay away until official notice from the Knights of Labor Executive Board. By order Executive‘Board Knjghts of Labor. Secretary Turner, of the Knights’ Executive Board, states the struggle witii the Missouri Pacific has Just begun, and will lie fought to the last ditch. The interview which the National Committee was to have had yesterday with Mr. Hoxie was given up. The policy of the national as well as oyth(> local executive committee# now h to induce all of the employes they can to quit work. The only means which will be used, they say, is persuasion, and they think that they can induce enough of the present employes to quit work to seriously cripple the road and eventually , bring the company to terms. A new development in the strike in East St. Louis, and one which occasioned considerable surprise and uneasiness among the railway officials, occurred yesterday when the Chicago and Alton switch engineers struck. They say they will not go back to work until the trouble between the railroads and their employes’ shall have been settled. Reports from Kansas City and Parsons show that the situation at these points was quiet.. At Parsons the militiamen were running trains, and no interference was offered by strikers. The Knights of Labor declared, however, that none of the strikers should resume work. At Kansas City many of the striking employes were paid off and discharged.’’ A Bort Worth dispatch reported the -situation strained. Five hundred militia and ’’26o armed citizens were patrolling the city, which was virtually surrendered to the State authorities. Every male citizen of ma-' ture age has secured arms, and there 'were .more than twenty, organizations of citizens in process of formation. The Knights were ugly and defiant, and open expressions of communism were heard on all sides. Jay Gould said, in an interview at New .York, that Mr.’ Hoxie would not meet the strikers, but that such" of them as applied for work and were needed would be taken back. More than this, said he, the Missouri Pacific management will not do. It was clearly understood in New Y’ork that Gould proposed completely to ignore the strike.

Senator Logan’s army i>i 11; was again <iiscussed in the Senate on the sth inst. Mr. Cockrell spoke in opposition to the bill. There was, he said, ample pon er to protect our institutions without a single regular soldier. Our foreign wars had been fought by volunteers ; our civil war—the greatest war in history—had been fought by volunteers. The people of this republic could successfully resist the combined nations of the earth. Mr. Logan spoke at considerable length in further explanation of the details of the bill, —and in reply to criticisms made against it. He believed full}' iu relying on the citizens in time of trouble, and whenever a large army was wanted, but said citizens to be effective had to be organized. Mr. George reported in the Senate, unfavorably, a bill from the Committee on Territories to enable the Northwest Trading Compant- to purchase certain lands in Alaska. Indefinite postponement was reeoinmended. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations : Caleb W. West, of Kentucky, to be Governor of Utah ; Edward R: Fogg, to be Reesivexurf Public Moneys at Beatrice, Neb, Con uls—Louis D. Briluudj of Pennst Ivtinia, at Kingston, Jamaica ; L. J. Dupre, of Alabama, at San Salvador; J. Cecil Legare, of Louisiana, i.t Tampico; H. Sawyer, of Connecticut, at Trinidad. Postmasters—M. Weismantel, at Naperville, Ill.; Herndon C. Travers, Hockdale, x'ex,; 'J. H. Woodman, Northville, Mich ; Clayton F. Collins, Homer, Mich. ; John H. Saxton, De Witt. Iowa; Shannon Clements, Bucyrus, O.; John W. Davis, New Richmond, Ohio; Eugene C. Wilson, Clay Center, Kan.; George W. Clarkr Lyons; Kan.; W, H. L. Peperill. Concordia, Kam ; Henry C. Hunt, Delavan, Wis.; Samuel 'Chamberlain, Waupun, Wis.; Wesley E, Hugnes, Fresno City, Cal.; James Tyson. Placerville. Cal.-; John McCann,- Martinez, Cal. ;G. J. Evans, Hastings, Neb. ; Frank Abt, Lead City, Dakota. The Senatewnfiniiett 'William T. Trenhblm'as Comptroller of tire Curreney. The House of Repfeseniatives passed the Mexican Peiisioii Bill by 158 to 68, as also bills for ' public "biiildiiigs at Duluth'** and 'San Antonio, Tex. Mr. (O’Hara, the colored member from North Carolina, iutoduccd a resolution for an investij-ation of the massacre of negroes at Carrollton, Miss. Among the new bills introduced in the House was one providing for the reduction cf letter postage to one “ and a half cents per ounce. to appropriate $30.),090, tr be immediately available, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in the purchase and distribution of subsistence stores ' and other necessary articles to. aictin the relief of destitute persons in the of Alabama.