Wire Works Strike At Cleveland

Cleveland, Aug. 1. - A crisis seemed imminent at the American Wire works, whare 2,500 men were on a strike. The company poseed a notice offering to pay $1.3ö perday for laboring men. This was uu advance of 5 cents over the old wage scale and '% cents less than asked for by tho striking laborers. Fifteen hundred men were gathered around the works, and as the strikers had avowed their in tention of preventing any men from going to work trouble seomed probable and a detail of pólice was sent to the mili. Tho day passed, however, without any trouble Liiite in the af ternoon Prosident Savage, af the American Wire company, stated that a proposition had been made to the strikers which he believed would settle the strike within twenty-Iour hours. A mass meeting of the stnkers was immediately called to consider the proposition of the company. The coinpany's terms were accepted, the striku declared off, and the men will all return to work between now and next Monday. By the terms of the agreement the laborers wlll get an increase to $1.3714 a day tu take effect at once. The flue wire drawers get the 10 per cent. advance they asked for, but in installments- 5 pr cent. Aug. 1 and 5 per cent. on Nov. 1. The coitrse wire drawars also get the 30 per cent. advauca demanded, in Installments ot 5 per cent. on the flrst of August, October, November and Janaary.