Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — BOOM IN IRON TRADE. [ARTICLE]

BOOM IN IRON TRADE.

BIG CONCERN RAISES WAGES OF ITS MEN. Chicago Jurist Ignores a New LawGermany’s New Tariff Measure Oper-ative-Death in the Electric ChairPrecocious Young Georgia Murderer L ' < Thousands Get Better Pay. The increase of 10 per cent, in wages recently announced by the Illinois Steel Company went into effect Monday. Over seven thousand men will be benefited by the change. The advance has been made at the South Chicago works, tho North Chicago rolling mills and the plants at Milwaukee and Joliet. All classes of employes are included in the advance, with the exception of the tonnagemeu, who work on a sliding scale. That is, the rate of wages of those paid according to the actual amount of manufactured material is regulated according to the market price of the material they are employed in making. When the price of steel, rails, for example, advances, the wages of those employed in making steel rails advance in proportion. When the market price of steel rails declines the wages of the workmen decline with them. All this class of workers are not interested in the change, but all who work at a given amount per day will be benefited.

Judge G oggin Kefjeia, ~ Judge Goggin of Chicago doesn’t think the Fletcher prison parole law, passed by the last Legislature, constitutional, and Monday refused to sit in the Criminal Court and try cases according to its provisions. He discharged until further notice the jury which had been selected, and declined to hear any of the cases on his call. The witnesses were also dismissed, and so far as his branch is concealed" Judge Goggin put a stop to criminal^court business, declaring the law was unconstitutional, and that to try cases under it was a waste of time. The law which made the Judge strike provides that, except in murder and treason cases, the jury can only return a verdict of guilty or not guilty without fixing the length of sentence to the penitentiary. Under its provision's a prisoner will be sentenced to the limit of the law and the question of reducing the sentence rests entirely with the warden and the prison board, who are to reward him according to-bis good behavior. The jury has nothing to do with fixing the time of sentence. The new law went into effect Monday.

Imposition of Retaliatory Duties. The new tariff measure passed by the German reichstag early in May went into effect Monday. The most important provision is that authorizing the government to impose retaliatory duties whMiever other nations discriminate against German products. Discriminating duties on goods now on the free list are, however, limited to 20 per cent, ad valorem. The measure also raises the duty on.perfumes containing alcohol from 200 lo 300 marks, and imposes a protective duty on Quebracho wood, which is used for tanning. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan Electrocuted. Dr. Robert W. Buchanan, the wife poisoner, was electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. Y., Monday forenoon. Mrs. Buchanan made a last effort to induce Governor Morton to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. The woman sank on .her knees before the Governor and pleaded for her husband’s life, though her almost prevented her from speaking. Morton was plainly overcome by the woman’s pleading, and tears stood in his eyes as he lifted her to her feet and told her that ne could uot grant her request. Eleven-Year-Old Boy Kills a Child. Information received from Harris County, Georgia, states that Henry Thomas, an 11-year-old negro boy, had just killed his second victim. He was hired by his uuele, Jasper Thomas, to care for a child about a year old while the father and mother were in the field working. Henry grew tired of acting ns nurse and took his uncle’s pistol while his uncle and aunt were in-the field and shot the child dead. Henry then laid it on the bed and fled to the woods. He has not been seen since. This is the second child he has killed. Under the Wheels. The Cumberland accommodation on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran into an open switch at Laughlin Station near Pittsburg and collided with a switch engine. The crew of the shifter all jumped except Harvey Louther, a brakeman, who was instantly killed. Fireman Mcßeth, of the accommodation, also jumped and was seriously injured. A number of passengers were bruised and cut by broken glass.