Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1898 — No Chicago Papers. [ARTICLE]

No Chicago Papers.

Saturday morning, of all times when people wanted their Chicago papers, for news of the great battle at Santiago, there were no papers to lie had. It was first supposed that the fast train had carried them by; but when the other mails were opened the newsdealers received cards from the Times-Herald in which it was stated that a strike of stereotypes was the cause of the non-appear-ance of the papers. The stereotypers were getting $3.25 per day for 8 hours work. They struck for $4 per day for 7 hours work and per hour or fraction of an hour over time. The papers mentioned as refusing to accept these evidently very extortionate demands, were the Times-Herald, Tribune. Chronicle, Record and Inter Ocean. Two good houses to rent. Enquire of Laßue Bros.