Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The Sheriff of Cook County sent two hundred deputies by Special train Lake Shore yards south of Chicago, where injunctions were served upon twelve striking switchmen. A car load of new em-

ployes woa taken along. An engine wo* run obt from the round-house, guarded by ten Deputy Sheriffs, but the engineer was quickly persuaded by the strikers to reverse the wheels.... The Chicago Typographical Union has advanced the rates of composition from 40 to 45 cents on morning papers, and from .‘l7 to 40 cents on eveuing punera. The l f niou also reduced the working hours from seVen to six.,', The strike of six thousand men ip the sugar refineries on Long Island was followed by ir riot ntGreerr Point: hrwhich three police - men were injured. Several wagon loads of sugur were dumped into the street. . ;,On an order from an assembly of Knights of Lalior in St. Louis, five hundred employes of the Missouri Cra —Company quit work because repair material was being supplied to the Missouri Pacific shops The independent coke manufacturers of Pennsylvania, operating nearly BCHI ovens in the.Connellsville region, and employing 0,00(1 men, have followed the example of the coke syndicate aud advanced wages from sto 16 per cent.,., .Twenty-two servant girls at Tarrytown. N. Y’., walked out of their mistresses’ kitchens. The girls demanded an increase of wages, which was not granted, and a strike ensued. The steamship Labrador, sailing from New Y’ork for Havre- last- week, took $L- ■ 865,000 in gold bars. France is drawing gold from all the countries in the world at present, from the fact that that nation is tryingTo float a loan of s‘2oo,ooo,ootb C. P. Huntington has l>ought control of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company. The road is 354 miles long and reaches Cincinnati, Toledo, Indianapolis, and.other important points. It has about $4,0(10,000 stock outstanding, anil is bonded for about $4,000,000. This brings Air. Huntington within 183 miles of Chicago. Huntington now has a line from the Atlantic to the Pacific and controls a line which practically covers the country from Indianapolis aud Chicago to Toledo and Cincinnati. To get a New York outlet now and ah entrance to Chicago is comparatively easy. Business failures throughout the country for the week were 169 in the United States, and 25 in Canada, a-total of 194, as against a total of 182 for the week previous, and 215 for the week before that. Tele-' grams to Brmlsireet'h from leading trade centers show' moderate gains in the movement of general merchandise at Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Detroit, Aleinphis, Peoria. St. Louis, St. Joseph, Kansas City, and Sim Francisco. The greatest activity, relatively, is at Kansas City, Detroit, and Cincinnati. The heaviest movement of products is eastward by the lakes, including nearly 7,000,000 bushels of wheat and half as much com. At Eastern centers trade is irregular, but generally of moderate volume. The general industrial situation' is more aggravated than a weet ago, there being at least 43,000 strikers reported, against 31,000 last week A great lawsuit has just been decided in the City of Mexico. It was that of Andres Tello against the Maravillas Alining Company of Pachuca, the ownership of mines of immense value being involved. Themining company wins the ease. The expenses of the suit have amounted to $500,000. Commodore Russell, commanding tlie Alare Island Navy Yard at San Francisco, Cal., will probably be ordered to command the South Atlantic squadron to succeed -Rear Admiral English, retired. Commodore Belknap, at present Superintendent of the Naval Observatory, will be ordered to succeed Commodore Russell in command of the Alare Island Navy Yard.