Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The demand of the Chicago Typographical Union for 40 cents per 1,000 ems for book and weekly newspaper work has been acceded to by the employers. An expect edatrika or lockout waathus averted. The Illinois House of Repre%mtative&, by ~a rote of 50 to 83, rejected a resolution for the submission of a prohibitory amendment to the people.... The (general Assembly of Virginia is holding ~ an exfim session, mainly to lake action regarding the State debt . . The Rhode Ifeland Republican State Convention renominated by acclamation the. present State officers, headed by Got. George P. Wetmore, The platform favors the readjustment of the tariff, but denounces a horizontal reduction; approves of civil-service reform, and denounces the national administration, and indorses the action of the State Senate in passings a resolution submitting to the eke-

I tors a proposed constitutional amendment abolishing the real-estate qualification us a prerequisite for voting. I The citizens of Rome, Ga., have con- ' Iributed $150,000 toward the erection of an j iron-furnace and rolling-mi 115,.... Coni tracts have been signed by representatives of the Southern Cotton-seed Oil Company, recently organized, for press-room, machinery for eight mills of a capacity of 150 tons each per day. Two hundred and fifty-six lint* rs and twenty hulling machines have also been contracted for, the whole to be delivered in time to work up the coming crop.