Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The riot part of the strike in Chicago is virtually over, and “quiet reigns in Warsaw.” Meantime the police continue their raids upon the nests and dens of’the anarchists, and the capture of flags, firearms, knives, and dynamite. The police stations contain large stores of such material. One of the most prominent devices captured was a red banner fully thirty feet long, to which was affixed the iucriplion: “Commune de Paris, 1871,” in gilt letters a foot high. Two more anarchists were arrested Saturday, who had in their possession dynamite. Like all the rest of the cowardly gang, they exhibited great,trepidation on being brought face to face with the laws they, have dared to defy. The “"Coroner's jury, in, the inquest upon the bodies of Policemen Barrett and Mueller, victims of the Nihilistic riot, returned a verdict that the deceased came to their death at the hands of persons unknown, and recommended that the said unknown persons bo apprehended and committed to the County Jail without bail; and that August Spies, Samuel Fielden, Michael Schwab, and A. R. Parsons be committed ns accessories without bail to the County Jail. Parsons is hiding somewhere in the city. The fund for the relief of the killed and wounded policemen has reached $50,000. Another death has resulted at Milwaukee from the rioting there, making five persons killed by the troops, who have been exonorated by the Coroner’s jury. The labor troubles have paralyzed business Pittsburg. Orders are" being countermanded, contracts broken, and manufacturers refuse to buy stock. The losses on the iron and steel trade will prove a serious blow to that industry. Tfiirty thousand men were idle in Cincinnati, aud an outbreak was deemed imminent, and Governor Foraker ordered four regiments of militia to proceed thither without delay. Herr Most, the New York Anarchist, was said to be in the city plotting mischief. A petition has been sent from Indianapolis to Senator Sherman, asking Congress to appropriate sufficient funds to erect a monument above the grave of General W. H. Harrison, near North Bend, on the Ohio River. About seven hundred members of the Freight-Handlers’ Union of Chicago, after a stormy session of several hours, resolved to declare the strike off. Six hundred hatmakers are idle at Newark, N. J. At Troy 150 molders struck against eleven hours’ work- - per day. Thu bricklayers at Omaha lost the strike and returned to work. Stein way & Sons’ employes disobeyed the fiat of their union to quit work. The street-car drivers and conductors at. Toronto. Canaua, have inaugurated a strike because the companies refused to employ Knights of Labor. The employing metal-workers of Chicago met and resolved to open their shops on the ten-hour basis, as also did the furniture manufacturers and the lumber dealers, none of whom will make auy concessions of any kind to their employes. The briekmakers of Chicago returned to work in a bodV, and other trades are expected to f0110w.... General Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, acting under the authority vested in him by the General Executive Board, has issued a call to the various assemblies of the order for a special session of the General Assembly to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, May 25. Fire at Hull, near Ottawa, Ontaria, destroyed all the houses on Lake and Duke streets and on Main street as far as the corner of Maine and Slide. The new postoffice was destroyed and one hundred and fifty families burned out. The loss will foot up $350,000; insurance small.