Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1886 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The strike at the Chicago Stock Yards was ended by T. P. Barry, a member of the Executive Board of the Knights of I Labor, ordering the locked-out employes to resume work on the ten-hour system, at the winter rate of wages. It is understood that the new men will remain at their posts. The packing-houses of * Swift <fc Co. and Nelson Morris will continue on the eight-hour plan, subject to a contract for three days' notice of a change. The total cash in the Treasury at the commencement of business on the 18th was $513,098,318.... .President Cleveland has sent SIOO to Buffalo to aid the sufferers by the recent storm... .The Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing again denies the story that there are counterfeits of the $lO silver certificates “in circulation, and says it would be impossible for such a counterfeit to be in existence without the knowledge of the bureau. The coke syndicate, at a meeting in Pittsburg, reaffirmed the selling price, and decided to run all the ovens at their full capacity. Trade has improved fifty per cent, since this time last year... .The big snake that recently broke away in the City Hall Park, New York, again escaped in a Boston dime museum, and was only caged after a “terrible struggle,” during which he bit a man in the wrist, squeezed the breath out of another, smashed joists, and wrecked the cold-air box of the furnace. Moy Ah Kee, a laundryman in Chicago, presented to the Cook County Court a certificate of declaration of intention to become a citizen, made in New York five years ago, and requested naturalization papers. For some years he was the official interpreter of the Circuit Court at San Francisco, and speaks English like a native. Judge Prendergast instructed the Chinaman to employ an attorney to argue the question of his eligibility to citizenship under the law of 1875... It has been discovered that R. M. Dall, confidential bookkeeper for Weller & Co., of Cincinnati, who assigned last week, issued fraudulent warehouse receipts to the extent of $60,000. • Herr Schmidt, the Austrian Director of Railways, died in Vienna from cholera, contracted in Pesth... .Proposals have been 'sehFtoßertinfrom the Vatican for the resumption of clerical negotiations.... It is stated that the Inman Steamship Company has entered into voluntary liquidation for the purpose of-reorganization... .A meeting of notable persons was held at the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the purpose of organizing a movement to erect a memorial church in. honor of the attainment of the fiftieth year of Queen Victoria’s reign. Mr. Gladstone declined to permit the use of his nemo as a member of a committee which was appointed. One Day’s Good Work. Thomas O’Reilly, of the telegraphers’ district, offered a resolution, at the Richmond assembly, on the 18th. that the Knights of Labor demand the passage of a bill by Congress authorizing the purchase by the Government of the telegraph system of the country. The motion to refer the balance of the revised constitution to the executive board and a committee of four was adopted. This leaves the matter of national trade districts exactly where it was before the convention. Similar action was taken with the balance of the report of the committee on law, including all documents on the revision of the constitution. The Committee on the State of the Order indorsed the report of the General Master Workman and General Secretary-Treas-urer. Reports of numerous committees were adopted and indorsed. A resolution expressing sympathy with Ireland was passed. A report suggesting the formation of a congress of thirty-eight Knights of Labor to Bit in Washington during the session of Congress, was .referred to. the local assemblies. All matters in relation to stamps, labels, or protective designs placed on articles made by Knights of Labor were referred to the executive board. Resolutions ’ were adopted fa vqnn g the establish- . meiit oflibraries devoted to labor literature at state capitals; against convict labor; recommending local assemblies to work arid vote only for candidates who pledge themselves to sustain the principles of the Knights ; favoring the admission of colored apprentices in shops on the same basis as white ones. A proposition favoring the establishment of orphan asylums for the children of deceased members of the order was referred to local assemblies with favorable mention. All other matters referred to the Committee on the State of the Order were referred to the Executive Board. It was voted that a committee be appointed to promote fraternal relations between the Knights and the Patrons of Husbandry.