prevented
him from getting work in the city of Rochester.

He finally was forced to go to another town, but he soon found that he was
a marked man. Word was sent from one branch of the Knights of Labor to
another to follow Curran, and prevent his getting work.

From being a prosperous, well-to-do man, he became very poor, and finally
suffered for food.

Then he went to the courts and asked for help.

His case has been before different judges for seven years, but at last it
has been decided in his favor.

The Court of Appeals, the highest court in the State, has decided that it
was not lawful for the brewers of Rochester to make a contract with the
Knights of Labor, agreeing only to employ members of the society in their
works. Further, that it was not lawful for this contract to be used as a
means of depriving a man of the opportunity to earn a living.

The Court ordered that Curran should be given money for the damage he had
sustained through the loss of his work, that the Knights of Labor should
pay him this money, and should besides pay all the expenses of the trial.

This Labor Trust has been one of the most dangerous of all the Trusts,
because the members of it have made it a practice to force every workman
to join it, or else treats them as it treated Curran.

Up to the present time men have been afraid to disobey the orders of the
Knights, but now that this very important case has been settled in favor
of a man who is not a member of the Trust, it is to be hoped that
workingmen will have the courage to seek the aid of the law against the
Labor Union, when it treats them unjustly.

* * * * *

President McKinley has chosen the various gentlemen who are to be his
advisers for the next four years, and his Cabinet is now complete.

On Wednesday, March 5th, the day after his inauguration, President
McKinley sent word to the Senate that he had a message for it, and almost
immediately after word was brought that he had chosen the men whom he
would like to have for his Cabinet officers, and would be glad if the
Senate would confirm his appointments.

The names of the Cabinet officers are as follows:

Secretary of State, John Sherman.

Secretary of the Treasury, Lyman Gage.

Secretary of War, Gen. Russell A. Alger.

Attorney-General, Joseph McKenna.

Postmaster-General, James A. Gary.

Secretary of the Navy, John D. Long.

Secretary of the Interior, Cornelius N. Bliss.