Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1893 — GRANT COUNTY CRUSADE. [ARTICLE]

GRANT COUNTY CRUSADE.

Fslrmount Invokes poivlne Aid, end Incidentally Asks the Commissioners to Keep Saloons Away. Falrmount sent 300 citizens to Marlon. Tuesday, to remonstrate against thr granting of licenses to sell liquor in their town. The commissioners are now considering the four applications to establish saloons there and the citizens will continue to use the determined efforts which in the past have been successful in keeping the grogshop out of their town. At 5 of Falrmount held a meeting, invoking assistance in their hour of trouble. At 5:30 the bells were rung calling the people to get up and inako ready for tho trip to Marion. At 7 o’clock the long procession left for Marion.

At a meeting of the Iron and steel manufacturers and a committee from the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers at Pittsburg, last week, the manufacturers informed the men that the mills of the company were ready to start if the finishers accepted the 10 per cent, reduction. This the committee refused to do, and the conference was off. The committee has written to each lodge of the association asking them to decide what they shell do. Muncle has five lodges. Monday, Hoosler Lodge,' No. 4. held a meeting and by a said accept the cut and start the mills. ■ This cut only affects the highest-priced laborer* in the mfJjpnr-mfR who«wn from W to f&fcj day ap4 so*** of <*, Pittsburg receive as nigh as *4O per day, The ■ puddlers accepted their reductloh, but Are irfcjit frCm wwli vy the persistent bolding out of the finishers, who have good fat bank accounts. J