Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-09-12
SEVENTH YEAR.
NEWS SUMMARY

NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.
The striking coal miners of Peoria hav.
resumed work at their own terms.
At Sheldon, Iowa, II. II. Winchester, 6
commercial traveller, took his own life.
During August 2s2 wells were COMPLETED
in the Oil regions, Of which all but SO art
recorded as productive.
A brakeman named Sonnet, crossing ths
bridge over Salt river, near Mexico, Mo,
was struck by the timbers and killed.
An order has been received by the Eli
Rapids Mich iron company for 400 tons
OF charcoal iron, to be shipped to England
Two boys, Harry and George Zimmerman,
accidentally set fire to their fathers hay
NOV at Harlem, ILL.,, and were cremated-
Judge G.. w. McIlvane, of the Ohio su-
preme court, has declined the Republican
nomination for reelection, owing to i'll
health.
Henry Hahn, a well known German mu-
sician, 70 years of age, committed suicide at
Indianapolis by throwing himself under q
moving train.
Jno. E sick shot and killed VIM. Wise, at
Greenvilie. OAio. e sick, while in his
back yard, heard his wife scream in the
house, entering, he saw Wise, q neighbor,
run oft of the front door. Selling q shot
run, he fired and sent q charge through
Wise's body. Wise died. Before his death
he denied he was at E ,sicA's houss with
any wrong intention.
Regarding the Texas fever in the Good
win herd at Kankakee, ILL.,. a special dis
patch from that point save: Goodwin pur-
chased 200 head Of steers at the Chicago
stock yards, where they were reported to be
Michigan cattle, though 1t ia now said that
genuine Texas ticks were found on them In
large numbers. Six head have died and ten
more are sick"
At Wilkerbarre, Pa, as the shaft of the
Lehigh Valley Coal company, large one
on which nine men were being lowered, had
nearly reached the bottom mass of
loose coal and rocks fell from the side of
the shaft, striking and demolishing the
cage, instantly killing four of the work
men, and fatally wounding two, while the
other three were seriously injured.
The annual parade Of the labor organize
tons of New York city and vicinity took
place recsntly. 1t is estimated that fully
Is, 900 men were in line, repr ssenting every
trade that could be named. The procession
marched d WI Broadway to the Battery,
and was reviewed at Union Square by
prominent labor re CORNERS. After dis
banding the paraders went to park where
the remainder of the day was spent in
games and festivities.
The following figures taken from a state
ment complied by the secretary OF the
board of trade, Chicago, shows the amount
of grain in sight in the United States and
Canada on August Goth, together with the
increase over or decrease from the preced-
lug week: Wheat 4S 1854 bushels, in
crease $50, -052; corn 5. ala, 459 bushels in
rease LOIS, 800: oats 8, S63, 537, increase l.
765, 1856. The amount of grain in store in
the Chico 90 elevator on the date was wheat
1855, 9S7 bushels; corn l, i9l, 733; oats 1885,
233.
Cotton mills in Baltimore county, Mary
land, which have been idle for several
months, are about to resume operations
with several thousand employees. The strike
of the Baltimore glass-blowe which has
continued since last winter, has ended in q
victory for the men. The striking coal-min
ers of the Mahoning valley have resolved to
stand out for IS cents ton. Coal-miners
on the MonoDgahela river, in Pa, have de-
cided to strike for an advance to cents per
bushel. BsIbed-wire workers at Joliet have
scruck against 10 per cent. cut in their
wages. The strike of tin can makers at
Baltimore has become general. Glass-works
three hundred men, have resumed opera
tons, after nine months suspension.
The general executive board of the
-. T oh hcu crh tod hn FL.
lowing ultmatum to managers of the Wa
bash railroad. This must be accepted by
them or strike will follow.
First-That q general order be issued
along the Wabash lines, insti ucting the
master mechanic and foreman that no dis
elimination must be made in the employ
of men on account of their being members
of the Knights OF Labor.
Sscond-That all employees who have in
any manner taken an active part since the
10Th of June in the settlement of the
trouble, be at once given the position thus
held prior to said 10Th of June.
Third-That all other employees who
were locked out June 10th, he reinstated
on or before October LIST, 1885.
Fourth-Thet all who have gone out
since then, in support of those turned o 1t
on that date, be reinstated on or before o.
tober LIST, 1885.
Joseph Jarvek. q saloon keeper, is under
arrest for shooting three children at Mil
waukee, Wis. Jarvek purchased q gun and
loaned it to q neighbor TO 60 hunting. It
was returned day or so after, the man be-
ing unable to discharge it. JarveK took
the gun into the back yard, and when fif-
teen feet from the fence discharged it, in
tending, he says, that the shot should en-.
ter the ground. The cartridge passed
through the close board fence and exploded
rs three children we're passing. Oae of
them, Francis Karresd0wtky, fifteen
months old, occupied . baby carriage,
which was wheeled by Frank, her seven
year-old brother. Frank received nearly
twenty shots in the chest, abdon en-, should
or and head. The doctors have little hopes
for their recovery. A twelveyesr-old girl
was also shot in the arm. Jarvek concealed
himself in his house, but was only saved
from threatened violence of q mt b by the
arrival of the police, who placed him unde
arrest.