The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-01-14
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yards, owing to assaults made by Union
men who, being unable to secure their
old places III the packing houses,
busted themselves in going about the
yards abusing the non Union men,
stoning them and st liking them with
sticks as they passed in and out of the
gates. About 400 in all were engaged
in these outrages, and several of them
We're arrested and marched to the
police station at the point of the revol-
yer, followed by hooting crowd Of
| their friends. Most of the strikers,
and all of the reasonable ones, are at
their halls, but should the arrests con-
tinue it is feared that they will join il
the trouble aud cause blooished. The
police authorities regard the situation
as critical, and have transferred large
force to the stock yards.
The funeral of Frank Leslie, the we'll
known publisher, took place yesterday
from Rev. Dr.. Chapin's church, New
York. Nearly all persons employed in
Leslies establishment were present.
The pall-bearers were: Governor Rice,
Of Massachusetts,; Sinclair Toucey,
John Mckeon General Graham, L. S.
kimball, Isaac w. England, Whitelaw
Reid, Justice Fitch, Senator Anthony
and Henry S. Gillig.
Charles L. Wallace, a young lawyer,
was waylald on Sunday night and shot
and mortally wounded, while passing
along the street in Weir City, Kansas,
Wallace refuses to give any account of
the shooting, or any information re-
garding its causes. 1t is stated, how
ever, that there is a woman in the case,
and that the assassination Sunday night
was the result of conflict for her
hand.
Correspondents of the Press Associa-
ton report the distress in Ireland as
increasing. Five hundred inhabitants
of Skulebog District, County Limerick,
are ON the brink of starvation They
proceeded yesterday in a body to
Groom and obtained four cart-loads of
bread, by an urgent representation OF
! their extremity.
Belford, of Colorado, introduced a
bill on Monday providing for the crea-
ton of a Mining Bureau, somewhat
similar in it's organization to the pres
ent Department of Agriculture. Its
chief officer is to gather information, in
person and by competent deputies, con-
corning the mineral resources of the
various regions of the United States.
G. L. Blanchard, representing the
Erie Railway, spoke yesterday in OPP
position to the Reagan InterS State Com
merce bill, taking strong grounds
against positive legislation by Congress
| affecting the different interests in
volved, and favoring the appointment
of commission to suggest legislation
on the subject.
AT Cabul, Mahomed Jan, having sur
rounded Ghuzni with strong force,
killed the Governor, Abdul kadir, and
looted the city. He is now endeavoring
to raise tribes to attack the British.
The priest Mooshi Alum has severed his
connection with -Mahomea Jan in con-
sequence of the behavior of the insur-
gents in looting Cabul.
The Republican members of the
Maine Legislature organized an indie
pendent Legislature, and adjourned
until next Saturday. Both Houses of
the Fusionists assemble regularly, but
those summoned to appear before the
Bribery Investigating Committee re-
fuse'to appear.
The New York Times says that so
far the testimony of Assistant Post
master-G General Brandy only deepens
the impression left by the exposure of
the management of the ''Star service"
that extremely loose methods of admin
istration have been allowed to prevail
in the Postoffice Department.
A dispatch from jackson, Mississippi,
says Senator Lamar was stricken with