Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The area weeded to winter wheat in the United States this year-, is 3 per cent, lefts than that seeded in the. fall of 1884, but 14 per cent, greater than that harvested last summer. The w eather of last month was generally favorable, the worst outlook so tar reported being ill Kansas. Rather large areas in that State have been abandoned to other crops. The jirospects in Ohio and Indiana are believed to be somewhat better than the average for several past years at this date. ■Five thieves entered the magazine at Colon, Culm, for- the purpose of stealing powder. During t heir operations oue lighted a match, causing an explosion, which killed seven persons outright, wounded thirtyeight others. and wrecked twelve houses. . The April report of the National De-. partment of Agriculture shows a reduction of live per cent, from last year in the area seeded in winter wheat. Illinois leading the decrease. California exhibits the best condition. The damage by the Hessian fly haft been very slight. Everythin*} was quiet at East St. Louis on the 12th inst. Seventeen companies of Illinois_State —troops, under command of Gen. Reece, covered all strategic points in the city. -The funeral of the victims of the recent tragedy occuiTed on Sunday, and was attended by 1.500 Knights of. Labor, Knights of Honor, and other organizations. At Parsons, ' Kan., : and Fort Worth, Texas, several strikers were arrested, and them - was —more-—er lees ex* citement. The troubles on the Union Pacific at Omaha were-adjusted, and the men Will hereafter be paid by the trip system. The freight brakemen on the Mo-, bile and Ohio Road struck for $55 for twen-ty-six trips of one hundred miles each. The members of the paid fire department of Philadelphia have decided to join the' Knights of Labor, in the hope of securing an increase of compensation. At Sedaiiir, Mo., a woman shot /at a Deputy Sheriff who was doing guard duty at the Missouri Pacific shops. Many telegrams from Knights of Labor have been received in Washington], asking for speedy action on the Curtin resolution for a Congressional investigation into the Southwestern strikes. T. V. Powderly has written to Congressman O'Neill that the labor arbitration, bill is the best that could have been passed, although it will not be the means of settling all disputes between capital and labor. A New Y'ork dispatch says the Ynmlerbilts, Astors. and Gould are closely guarded by private detectives against cranks. The Executive Board of the Knights of Labor at St. Louis sent the following telegram to Jay GouUl: “To Jay Qould, New York : “The following advertisement appeared in many of the leading, papers of the ?th inst.,'' dated from the office of the agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company : “Ten good men from here are wonted as Depute Marshals at East st. Louis to protect Louisville and Nashville employes. Five dollars a day and board will be j aid. Also a number of platform men can be given employment. Only men who have plenty of grit and mean business need apply. Apply at once to T. S. Gen ung, agent. “How well this advertisement has been answered is seen by their work iu East St, Louis. Six men slid one woman were murdered by those whn ‘had plenty—of grit aml meant business.' Bv your actions in refusing the peaceful negotiations solicited by the Board of Arbitration you and you alone ’must be held responsible by the world for the lives of theseinnocent people. "