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Newspaper
The Evening News
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1887
Page
3
Akron readers hear a letter recounting factory labor abuses. A local girl details pay for shirt fronts backs and other parts, showing high work hours and meager earnings. She notes custom shirts paying best but still far below living wages, linking wage competition to crime and poverty.
The Board of Education last night elected W H Morgan to direct the University replacing Dr Wise whose term ends January 1 1888. A contract was approved for Elm and Canal Tenth District School Building work with Henry Behrens carpentry 12310 The Witt Cornice Company roofing 2875 Wm Gravison & Co cut stone 18954 John Grace & Bro painting glazing 1008 B Dannen yng work Al weger 3 & Son ae 3sruella Brown the colored Foote Saecmactl was advan ced from
A grouped list of marriage licenses appears with names including Henry Schmedes and Mary Rumpke, Talbott McClentick and Rosa Riggs, Peter James Craig and Anna E Landfri, Albert N Gellenbeck and Gertrude Briaden, Chas McDevitt jun and Margaret O Nei, Sebastian A Walters and Florence FE Moore, Budd KR Davis and Henrietta Jones, Friedman and Rosa Grossman, Hunter and Blix Le Fores, Angela Ana Lauretta McKeever, Harry D Daniel Angert and Bhssie Sciariner.
The voters weigh a bid by Squire Anthony to seek election as city magistrate while being a recent resident of Bones Hill in Mill Creek Township. Critics question his long standing ties and tactics used to secure nominations before Republican conventions, raising doubts about eligibility and integrity.
The Union Labor Party at a state convention denounces syndicates and monopoly influence. It calls for abolishing the fee system, criminalizing bribery and liquor bribery, revoking corrupt corporate charters, taxing real estate mortgages, ensuring school books are state funded, requiring banks to yield a portion of deposits, and halting life necessities speculation. It urges protections for workers and stricter corporate taxation based on capitalization.
A historical platform proposes land rights for all, a graduated land tax on large holdings, opening Oklahoma to homesteads, and protection against corporate land ownership. It calls public control of irrigation, state ownership of transportation like the postal system, and a national monetary system favoring producers with free silver coinage. It favors arbitration over strikes and labor reforms to reduce contractor use and encourage efficiency.
The document outlines demands on income tax equality, Senate election by direct vote, exclusion of Chinese labor, armed private forces ban, voting rights regardless of sex, temperance link to wealth and poverty, and a constitutional platform endorsed by Colonel Winston. It calls for platform adoption with optional state variations.
An elder streetcar conductor informs a News reporter that newsboys constantly jump on and off cars to sell papers. He cites Rule 24 prohibiting newsboys on cars and Rule 5 restricting youth sellers for safety, saying violations annoy the public and the company.
The Board of Revision hired B O M De Beck, ex Clerk of the School Board, as Expert Examiner of the city books replacing W J Munster who was recently ousted. DeBeck, a staunch Republican, will probe for irregularities in City Buildings and Comptroller Eshelby's office, with prior delays in extending investigations noted.
John Stapleton, 19, of 42 Broadway, was struck from behind with a brick near Pearl street and Central avenue. He fell and suffered a fractured skull. He was taken to the hospital and remained conscious, unable to identify the assailant as police investigate the case. Stapleton is expected to recover.
John Drennan, elected delegate from Precinct D, Twenty-fifth Ward, accused Davidson of not contributing to the nomination and defended the Free Setters as a social club of respectable young men, noting all members are active and good business people.
The line of march for the Grand Army procession Thursday begins at 2 30 PM. It travels south on Vine to Twelfth, then Race, then Ninth, west to Central Avenue, south to Fourth, east to Race, and north to Fifth. It continues east to Walnut, south to Fourth, east to Pike, and north to Fifth where it will be reviewed at the Highland House.
Since July the Brotherhood of Carpenters has granted charters for thirty two new unions nationwide. The year ending July shows general receipts of 10 416 13, benefits paid 15 215 26, cash in bank 3 833 65, with the balance pied and waslie iieak. SMO 1
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