ai = ( OLD SERIES, XL. S {| NEW SERIES, XIX. THE CENTRE REPORTER, FRED, K URTZ, Eprror and Proe’s i ————————————————— A number of New York strikers have been indicted by the grand jury and put under $1000 bail for trial. Let the 8 hour strikers bear in mind, that by cutting the figure through the middie nanght remains on either side. sn A A Sr ——— Hon. Thomas M. Marshall is not en- chanted at the bill of fare the Republi can bosses hold out for this year. He denominates Mr. Beaver “as very small notatoes.” but will be satisfied with his nomination should Major Montooth be put up with him; but Beaver and the “old ticket,” or Beaver and Norris, the pet of the machine, Mr. Marshall repu- diates in advance. In addition the other independent leader, Charley Wolfe says the Republi- can party is no good and he will vote with it no longer. Hon. Chas. 8. Wolfe has quit the Re- publican party. In an interview with a Pittsburg Dispatch reporter he said: “] cannot vote the Republican ticket any longer,” adding his reasons, which are about the same as those which led to the Independent movement. He furth- or stated that he is not going over to the Democratic party, but is “going to vote the Prohibition ticket.” As to his atti- tande toward Gen. Beaver, hesays: “Per- sonally, to myself, not to Gen. Beaver, I rogret that I cannot vote for him, to show his friends and my friends, that I have naught of personal enmity to him,” hat Gen. Beaver will be nom- nated in a manner which will not meet with his approbation. interview with the reporter is somewhat lengthy, -— * v sey at forcasting t The but the above are the sharp points. - - Archbishop Taschereau's edict com- - manding the Ron not to join the Knights of among Yo Labor has cansed great agitation Roman Catholic workmen in Ontario. The fol- lowing is a statement from Archbishop Lynch, the Archbishop of this Province: “T of the Knights of La- Lor was sent to Rome for the approval f the Pope. It was returned with con- demnation. An amended . ynstitution of the Knights of Labor was then sent to the Holy See and is still under con- sideration. Meanwhile the church here, while awaiting the decision from Rome, he constitution does not order any Catholics who may have joined to resign, but simply forbids any Catholic from becoming a member until Rome finally decides for or against the order.” : —— — Some of the disappointed applicants for license, in this county, have held an informal conference, with a view to car- rv the matter of non-granting of licenses to the Supreme Court. Having all the requirements of the law, and in the ab- sence of any charge for having violated the liquor laws, it is contended the Court had no right to refuse a license. The object of the disappointed landlords is to make a test case, and have the Su- preme Court pass upon the d'scretion and powers of the courts below upon the subject of granting licenses. This would be a proper move. judges hold they have power to refuse or grant, at discretion. Other judges think where the applicant bas not vio- jated the liquor laws and in other re- spects fills the requirements of the li- cense laws there is no discretion with the court but to grant a license to the applicant. Some i The Curtin Investigating committee began its proceedings in 8t. Louis on Fri- day by sending in success'on for several prominent business men with the view of getting their opinion of the South- western strike, then for Mr. Hoxie, Gen- eral Manager of the Missouri Pacific, and several of his chiefs of departments, and lastly for the general officers of the Knights of Labor. After being closed with each of these three parties in turn the Committee anounced that it would begin to take testimony next morning and afterwards would divide into two sub-committees, each to proceed on its own tour of investigation in different di- rections. 76 AND 86, 1776~8trike for your homes and your firesides. 1886-—8trike for 8 hours, nsssosssisii i A ASA The strike for eight hours was inaugu- rated on Saturdy, 1, in all important ci- ties, and has become a formidable move, Eight hours’ work for eight hours’ pay is founded upon some regson; but eight hours’ work for ten hours’ pay may not look as clear to those who have the pay- ing to do. The number of workmen over the country who have gone into the strike for eight hours as a day's work’ runs into scores of thousands and is likely to be the next excitement which willibe general all over the country. The Philad, Times remarks: There is a pretty general movement in labor cir- <les where labor is rated by the day, to enforce the limitation of a day’s labor to eight hours. The movement can’t be universal because in many channels of industry neither employers nor employ- ed can afford to lessen the hours. Em- ployers can’t pay more than they are now paying in some industrial enter- prises, and there are very many laborers who cant earn in eight hours what they need for the support of themselves and their families. Any attempt, therefore, to make the eight-hour rule general must be a failure, There are many channels of industry, especially in the more skilled industry, wherein it can be made optional with workingmen to work eight hours or ten hours, or more or less, as may be most agreeable to either party or both; and with them the question of dispute is about wages. The natural desire of la- bor is to command ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work, and the natural de- sire of employers is to avoid an increase of twenty per cent. in the cost of labor. In some cases employers may be able to pay it, and those with important con- tracts in course of fulfillment may be compelled to accept for the time any de- mands made upon them; but it must be obvious to all who disappointedly view the industrial situation that there are very few employers who can increrse wages twenty per cent., or even half as much, and hope to have any profit from their business this year, ern GIGANTIC COMBINATIONS WEALTHY CORPORATIONS, A very interesting story is printed in New York concerning organizations of capitalists intending to antagozize the The story runs that from the day last summer when Mr. Jay 1 was forced to bow the knee to the Knights and grant their demands for an adjustment of grievences on the Wabash OF Knights of Labor. 1 Crouic tem, capitalists and corporations have 8 been uniting to contest the demands of labor. A great union of moneyed inter- ests has been in thé? course of forma- ti It is stated positively that the Presidents of the street railroads in New York have joined this organization of zigantic capital, and 1 $1,000,000 to its fund. Ml. above To this union i said to be due the defeat of the strikers on the Southwestern Gould system, the defiant attitude of Mr. Hoxie, and the defeat of the Third Avenue strikers in New York the past week. When Mr. Hoxie turned his back « the Knights he knew $25 subscribed by the roads leading into East St. Louis to defeat the strikers, Ie knew that all the railroads in the eoun- try had subscribed or were willing to subscribe hundreds of thousands of dol- lars to crush the Knights of Labor and the labor unions of the country, The big sugar refiners were the last to come into this big Union and subscribe to the big fund. They are more arrogant than Hoxie, and declare absolutely that they will shut down entirely rather than take the strikers back at anything like the former wages. The President of one of the trunk lines said that his company stood ready to subscribe £500,000 to the fund at the first indication of trouble from its employes. Whether Mr. Gould is the General Master Workman of the Knights of Capital cannot be learned, but such is the report, This big fund has enabled the corporations toscour the country for non-union men, and it can be stated positively that in the event of a general tie-up of the railroads in any of the large cities these men tand ready to take the places of the strikers, A huge organization of textile manu- facturers has been discovered in New England, and includes 49 large woolen mills with the cotton mills, It has been organized to protect its members from striking workmen, and the discovery of its existence caused the sudden collapse of what threatened to be a serious strike at the Whitten mills at Taunton, Mas- sachusetts, A second union embracing all the im- portant cotton mills in the states of Maine, New Hampsbire and Massachu- setts was completed in Boston lately. The society has taken the form of a mutoal insurance company, organized on the ba- sis of the respective pay-rolls of its mem- bers. It is not a corporation and has no stock. The yearly pay-rools of the Mas sachusetts mills that have already joined amount to $15,000,000, Every leading cotton mill in the state has already join- ed. The aims of the society are not in any sense aggressive, and its purpose is not to attack the Knights of Labor, but simply to protect its members agalost unjust persecution. The methods of self-defense which the society will em- ploy have not yet boen made public. -— nian THE WEST AND THE TARIFF, The New York Star says a western Congressman is roported as saying that his constituents insist on having cheap woolen clothing, cheap blankets, cheap lumber, cheap nails, cheap tools and implements, Without these, he as- sorts, “We can't live, and we mean to live-~don’t you forget that” He states furthermore, that when the western an} ryt Fad BN DE iDEN 4 n 1,000 had been permanently down in price, they make short work of this tariff.” The Star has more than once warned the eastern protectionists of the intensi- ty of feeling which exists against them and their tariff law in the West. The tures precisely the situation. The pro- blem presented in the West is one of living. It is apparent to any close ob- under extraordinary never again receive the former times for their products, being the fact, it is literally true that the farmers of the Western States live underthe existing tariff. Moreover, the western Congressman spoke very far within bounds when he said that hi constituents would make short with the tariff “when they once see that their products are permanently down in price.” Their products are not down in price, but the farmers know it. In thd six march 31 England imported high prices This work on 3 already months ending from the of wheat. In the corresponding six months of the year before the Engl importation from the United Btates was 10,264,000 hundredweights, At the time the English importations dia increased from 4 3 Rill fron {024.000 hundred- believes that d 11 The London Economist these movements are permanent, an that the United States before long wi be displaced from its domi i as a supplier of wheat grower has discovered to 1 uct of his i a knows that the prod been permanently cheapened and must be taxed less if he is to make a living from his farm. It is the consideration of thi tion of things that has created ! sectional feeling states, which is direct ¢ This part of the country as the principal beneficiary of the tection conspiracy, and inan is true; for most of the rich mo continue {0 A + i a si: th in y tariil has The does not know that in great distress by tariff law, and that some of facturers— notably the makers n to whom alone tl good, are here. western labor in the the operation the Be the conspiracy of which they been members. What the wheat gn sees is the reduced price which ceives for his product and the ending burden of tariff taxation He is, therefore, n pleasant mood toward the east, and w can get no favors from hi He not vote a dollar for ships, nor gu forts. More than this, he wil rise in his might, and in the words western Congressman, “make ah of this tariff.” e ods—are beginning to rebel bom ig s 2 ed upon him. ina ©" JEFFERSON DAVIS STANDS UNDER! THE STARS AND STRIPES On the Spot Where He Stood 25 Years Ago) and Recites Some Mournful Numbers i i on the Dead Lost Cause, | Montgomery, Ala, April 28, Mr. Jel ferson Davis left his home at Beauvoir, Miss., yesterday morning. Ie was companied by his youngest daughter. They were in a special car in charge of a committee of citizens of Montgomery, headed by Mayor Reese, who went to escort them, The arrival at every sta-| tion was the signal for a demonstation of people. Many one-legged and one-arm-| ed soldiers were waiting to see him, and, all had shouts of welcome, Mr. Davis stood or sat at the rear of the car. ace ty handshake to all, The train reached here last night, The scene has never been equaled, and eclips- ed the inaugural reception in Houses were illuminated, fire-works! brightened the heavens, artillery boom- ed and a dozen bands played, while the shouts of thousandg mingled with the roar and added to its volume, To-day will be memorial in the histo- ry of Alabama. Every locality was rep- resented, and many adjacent towns and villages poured their entire population into the streets, Atlan early hour the side-walks were so densely packed that locomotion was difficult, The entire ci- ty was gay decorated and on the City Hall were United States flags floating out of every window. Pictures of Con- foderate Generals are fastened to outside walls, while the names of General Rob- ert E, Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Albert Syndey Johnston, Robert E, Rhodes and and many other Confederate Generals fluttered to the breeze on streamers. The Capitol was beautifully decorated, and from the topmost point on the high dome, towering far above evervthing in the city, floated the stars and stripes. The entire front was covered with streamers and devices, while there were suspended along the front columna im- mense Federal flags, reaching down al to most the heads of the por Sg More Federal flags were floating in Montgom- ory so-day an at any time singe 1860, the arrival of the ion at the Banitol Mayor Roeso ro to {most type of Southern manhood. Davis, nfederate States of America.” The scenes heretofore enacted were gone over as Davis advanced, and it was {8OmMe minutes before he could proceed. {It was the first time thousands in the ferowd had seen him since his arrival, it | Jetfeason ie {¢ ( reach him at the hotel. The shouts fi- [nally dying away, Mr. Davis, leaning on this cane, with a Federal flag over him {and Confederate veterans i feel ings, i» ill. {of hig hearers, he sa i “My Frigxps: It wonld be vain if 1 ishould attempt to express to you the gratification which 1 feel at this demon- i But 1 know that it is not per therefore I feel more deeply is a sentiment far myself. You have errible ordeal of war, not seek, When she y grievous for farther ight the peaceable so- i 1 her, the une ringing over the rsle rose in her ma- sires and beardless It was that alone approved grateful 1 dearer passed thro which Ala elt her wr leration, she BO n. ng denies Well do 1 re boys, &« phrase, they e¢ed-corn, ve and fearless and their vier ense, ar gentle mao 80 i Ox ed cks and than theboys of a er's tears, mot! : passed. Many ! ave found nameless graves, but they are not dead. They live in sir epirits stand out, the olumn which march- faltering step toward i | liberty. [Appaluse] attempt, as | rES II Wem Dave thin iit goal of constitu i It were in vain if 1 sl slready said Have gr alls vers Your ch + Then had n the 4 of 3 y his elognence could hh far exceeded my me in, that I was comin r to a land where lil sede % fa wu 11 1:3« niimenss will 2 I have been pro i not i itherefore irtfeit old oth- houts were so wi - : i is ackno {rovernor lon followed, oT ants F600. 000 wisco Losses && 0,000, Baltimore, April 30.—The most disas- ty for many years broke out shortly after 7 o'clock [ast night in the five-story ware- houge 318 West Baltimore street, occu pied by 8. W. Floss Co, wholesale dealers in notions and white goods, The flames spread with almost incredible ras pidity, and the entire fire department was called upon, bat the brisk wind cars ried the fire to adjoining buildings, and they were badly damaged before water could exert ita influence. Among the firms burned out are Terry & Sone, straw goods; M. Ring & Co., clothing; Cross & Dunbraco, furniture; Imwald & Mehring, carpets; Albert Bros, bardware; J, H. & Knapp & Co., book-binders. The total nies, FIRE IN BAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, Cal, April 80.—The building occaopied by L. & E. Edmunds, furpitore, and A. L. Bancroft & Co, sta tioners, burned to-day. Loss, $510,000, One man was killed and several others reported missing, AP Mp A HEARTRENDING HOR ROR. A WOMAN DRUTALLY ASSAULTED BY A HALF-WITTED MAN WHO DISEMBOWELS HIS VICTIM, Frantic Sorrow and Suicide of Ier Hus band on Ilis Retwrn ~The Author of the Crime Lynched, Topeka, Kansas, April 28, —Last Sat urday the wife of Jacob Freimate, a homgsteader, in Seward connty, was as saulted and murdered by Fritz Rubin, a halfwitted German, who bad for some time been enjoying the hospitality of the Freimathe', he being homelos aud with. out friends, During the absence of Mr. Freimuth, Rabin gesanlied his benefac- tress, then hound her hand and foot and cut hor throat, He then took au rusty | the front and said “My Counrryumx: It is with profound § + hoe, and while the woman was dyiog, MAY. 5, 1886, iment, Mrs. Freimath was en ciente and {lated babe lay near the. mother’s body, { Mr. Freimath returned home next day, {On discovering the body of his wife he became agraving maniac. A neighborin the sparsely settled country who hap {pened to be passing, found Freimuth {for fear of his fury. He drove to the nearest settlement and told the story. A party was at once organized and went to unfortunate people were buried. {murderer and found him in a small ra. muth place, near the Cimarron river. A fractious horse was secured and saddled. One end of a long lariat was fastened {around Rubin's neck and the other end dle. The horse was then started And cracking of revolvers and rifles eéxhavsted and the lifeless body of the murderer was loosened as the men came His head was almost gevered from his body. The carcass was left lying on the prairie uncovered for the coyotes, / out on A ‘strike. NM Y MANY FACTORIES IDLE IN DUSTRIAL CFNTERS, ni 3d IN. | The Eight-Hour De Ti cd M ade, Resisted | and J of Toilers Granted— Thousands oyment, Out of E ip Chicago, May 2.—Whith the first of {May came the demand for the 8-hour {scheme to be put in operation, A num- ber of firme acceded to the demand, but there were many that resisted it. In a few instances concessions were made on both Business in railroad circles and large manufacturing establishments was virtually idle. Nothing lon whatever, and the scene that the laboring element ing The {are not prone to do mischief, and if were t alone it is believed the existing state lof affairs would be s dea was going indicated Ct of Chicage a holiday. strikers 1 amicably Ninety factories are closed, so are many {wholesale houses, and aboat every insti- tution in the city where 50 men ere em- ployed, and 40000 workmen are settled, idle, of merchandise were received daily were deserted all iday. People are unable to account for ithe rapidity of the uprising. It took all il surprise, All who were asked to rike did so without the remotest con- isideration of results, To-morrow will shut down. | Monster mass roeetings at which 20,000 people were preseut were held last even- ling in various parts of the city, Speech- les, some inflamatory and some jodicious, | were made. The purpose of the former it necessary, and ithe latter not to give in until employers recognized the demands of their em- iployea. The police anticipate a break of isome kind and are preparing themselves {for the ordeal. They believe that'45,000 imen, excited as they now are, will not igive in without trouble of some kind oc- earring, and the men say they will live or die on the eight-hour rock, The mi- litia are drilling in their armories, ready t o respond should a riot occur, oo AFFAIRS AT THE QUAKER CITY. Philadelphia, May 2.—The 8-hour agi- tation yesterday resulted in a number of strikes in this city, principally among cabinet-makers, and the situa. tion gives promise of fresh treubles to morrow morning. The employes in the Allison Car Wotks last evening decided that unless their demands are acceded on Monday all the men employed shonld be ordered out and a general strike de- clared. The employes of Watson Robin. son's plaining mill at Germantown struck yesterday for 8 hours work per day. The wood-carvers have decided to co-operate with the cabinet-makers in their stand for 8 hours. About 80 carpenters em- ployed on John Wanamakers's store at Thirteenth and Chestnut streets struck at noon yesterday for 9 hours work a day at $2.75. At the meeting of the Car- penters’ Union last evening it was stated that Mr. Wanamaker had decided to grant the concessions. - UNITED AT 8ST. LOUIS, 8t. Louis, May 2.—About 15,000 work ingmen assembled last night in Locas Square to listen to the labor orators on the eight hour question. The meeting was held ander the auspices of the Cen- tral Labor Union, and the unions were counseled to enforce their demands at all hazards, Many of the unions ap- ared in uniform bearing torchlights. he 8.hour movement among the trades yesterday was not as oconoe ss the men desired it should be, and the ac tions of the employers have been some- what erratic, AT THE COUNTRY’S CAPITAL. Washington, D. O,, May 2-The § hour rule adopted by the various build- ing trades-unions will go into effect in this city to-morrow morning, and as the master builders and contractors are determined to resist the demand for short hours, building operations will be practioally | nded until a compro: mise can effocted, “What we propose s So. on Mondays said a N presentati : wor en's organ ork a. We will NO. 18 | propose to strike,” Vrom present indi- cations 10,000 men in 1 city will out to-morrow on astrike {.r 5 hours as { a day's work. —— rr $20 Sm— THE DAY AT CINCINNATI Cincinnati, May 2.—The great farni. ture factories, employ S00 work- men, were quiet yesterday, nearly every 16 } Si ng ing tm dal indef one being closed for an nite time, for Phoenix Works is the by hey haying conceded all that was asked. Although a formal strike | was inangurafed at most st there was nothing approaching disorder al ary place. The men in 1 peveral branches of industry wade det { #thorter hours and t however, has heen i the movement in all cases coming | the shop organizations on their own sponeit and as individual | tions, {to await a settlement of the struggle The y establishment not affected the sr 1008, oti er mnre wage given by the from Pion ity organizi N IN Xi ~The labor demos. | stration in this eity and ! ‘ : . : been uppermost in the minds of the citi- zens of the two cities for t few weeks, and in the last few days the inter- est has become more intense. As the day set for the grand demand for 8 hours work approached, there has baen a con. centration of that interest, and not only have the citizens pr liveliest concern, but all parts the municipal governments have been aronsed. Inthe evening John Sw ldregeed a crowd of 15,000 in Union Square, Brooklyn ave x mart if past rirayed the f of inton SHITTY 3 ea — Yilue A : 3 indy \ I SE J } TO. Boston, May 2.~In this Trades-Union of Carpznters, the hood of Carpenters and Joir the ica, g ters and Joine Drother- ers cf Amer- ty of Carpen- ombers Un- v4 A “ # ~ ¢ Amalgamated TS, } y 00K) men in demand 8 hours 3 a de [pie : ov the I H—=have strike if th "yay L HI804 age a demand for the ad hour system Fur yesterday decided to sh unless the employes shoald igl hours work. led the i.zchange ‘a WOrks » pay pasand Liere a BL } - Shamokin, sy 2.~The miners st Hickory ridge have agreed to accept 8 bours pay for 8 hours work which they nandod hould constitut 8 da work. Them at Green Ridge = Hickory Bwamp mines will probably ask the same terms on Monday, The miners in the Shamokin region in general have deferred demanding 8 hours work nntil those in Luzerne county comp their organ four 1, When a general { eight hours work will in, Gen & § - 3 n na igle matic] eIniba D2 mo ii do do "ON bh | May 2.—The furniture man- ufactu ing refused fo grant their employes demands for a redaction i 10 hours to Shours, a general strike was inaugurated yester- day. Nearly every forniture factor; Pittsburg and Allegheny City is close and over 800 men are idle. The stone- cutters in the two cities are also out on nine hours a day, but will retarn to work on Monday, the employers generally occn- ceding the demands. The carpenters will strike to-morrow, inaday's |} ASKING FOR NINE HOURS. dochester, N, Y., May 2.—The cigar. makers in this city commenced to work on the S-honr plan yesterday. The manufacturers do not ebject as the men are paid by the piece. Carpenters, ma- sons and bricklayers have demanded that 9 hours be considered a day's work, the carpenters asking $2.50 for nine hours work. It is thought the men will reach an agreement with the contractors with- out a strike, nA A is ~1{ a piece of charcoal is laid on a burn the pain will submde immediately, and if left on the burn for an boar, wii cure it. This seems almost incredible, but as a piece of charcoal’ is readily pro. cured it should be kept in every honse, for immediate use, and its efficacy tested. Dr. Richmond's Samaritan Nervine will cleanse the stomach, tone the vital organs, give a parfect digestion, parily the blood, clear up the complexion, and fproduce a state of mental and physiosl electricity, which gives symmetry of form, bright eyes, white skin, glossy hair and a uine type of female loves liness, which no cosmetic can+ compare with, $150 at druggists. - Some time in June the new mem- bers of the Lock Haven Salvation Army wiil be immersed in the river, A grand banquet will be prepared and a big time is expected on the occasion. doctor bills can be saved if peo- ple will place confidence in the fact that most of the ills flesh is heir to can be cured by Keller's y. Pas rify the blood. See adv. ~eln some sections of Huantingdon county the farmers are plowing their a i cate Jaret of SIE ou ow to such an extent that this course was nec essary, * What is more disagreeable to a lad than to know that her hair has he lost ita color, bat is full of dandroff? Yet sach was the case with mine until I used Parker's Hair Balsam. My hair is now black and perfectly clean and glossy. + wmweThe village of Fairview, in Erie Shanty, was nearly swept by fire on & # A
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