Western Kansas world., 1886-03-27

to be erected on the capitol grounds there
in memory of the Alabama soldiers who die
in the civil war. Mr.. Davis will be ther
about the last of April. His lecture will b
delivered in large warehouse, with a seat
ing capacity of five thousand people. II
will lay the corner stone of the monument
which vii. cost So, 600, of which $40, 900, o
enough to complete the pedestal, has alread
been raised. John w. Daniel, of Virginia
has been invited to deliver an address o.
that occasion. All men who bore promi
nent part in the civil and military service o
the confederate government have been in
vited to be present to meet Mr.. Davis
also many prominent men in the north an,
ex-union generals not now in active service
All of the Alabama state troops, some thirt
companies strong, will be there, and invita-
tions will be sent to militia companies of al
the states north and south. Great interes
in the occasion centers in the fact that OF
the porch of the capitol building there JEFF
ferson Davis took the oath of Office as presi
dent of the confederacy, and that govern
mant was there organized.
Special kilograms to Bradstreet's CONNER
cial agency report but slight improvement
| in the movement of general merchandise
throughout the country, with the exception
of the increase in eastern traffic of CalifOr.
MIA railways, owing to the cut rates at St
Louis and points west. There is continued
stagnation and Impotence manifested in
business centres throughout Kansas and
Texas, owing to the continuance of the
strike. Prices moderately active, on de.
| mand, seasonable goods are reported from
Cleveland, Detroit, Burlington, Iowa, Chi.
cago and Kansas City. At eastern centers
business has not improved, but 1s equal in
| volume and promise to that of week ago
In general it has been uneven, but the most
y,<,%hc cl< IL Tha
industrial situation has not improved, and
the strikes of the southwestern railway en-
ployes, of the coal miners, of the textile mil
operatives continue. The strike at Pitts
burg of ], 200 employees, of the national tube
works, and ], 800 cloak and suit makers al
New York bring the grand total of those
now on strike up to 5000.
The secretary of the interior has rendered
decision in the ex-parte case of James
Baird, reversing the decision of the COM
missioner of the general land Office, of No.
vember 12, 1885, which held that under Sec
ton 2,261 of the revised statutes, person
entitled to but one preemption right could
not, after perfecting one pre-emption right,
be permitted to commute his homestead
entry into cash entry, under section 2,3O1
of the revised statutes, as this would be
equivocal to second exercise of the same
right in respect to interests involved. This
decision is regarded by land Office officials
as the most important public lands decision
made by the interior department in many
years. The secretary of the interior says
that he concurs in the construction of the
statute as construed by his predecessors, to
the effect that the law was sintendedt to secure
to those who had Heretofore availed them
selves of the pre-emption right, the benefit
of the homestead law in addition thereto.
In the district court at Palestine, Tex,
the Missouri Pacific Railroad company fled
q petition in suit against 104 members of
the Knights of Labor, alleging that they, to-
gether with about 100 more, had conspired
to prevent the running of trains over the
the proper working and management of the
railroad shops; that they we're not employees
of the company, but we're tresspassers who
assembled on the premises of the company,
and by dint of persuasion or intimidation
prevented those in the employ of the COM
pany from discharging their duties, and that
by their interference, ETC., the company has
been damaged $1O0, 600. The petition closed
with prayer for an Injunction against the
defendants, which was granted.
Receiver Sheldon, of the Texas Pacific,
received by telegraph report of the inter-
view held at Marshall, Tex, between United
States Marshal Reagan and j. A. Carbie,
superintendent at Marshall, and a commit
tee of the Knights of Labor from Goulds-
boro. The committee wanted Mr.. Carbie to
make a statement in the case of the man
Hall, whose discharge caused the trouble.
Mr.. Carbie declined to make statement be-
fore the committee, or to recognize it in any
way. The marshal told the committee that
he was in charge of the road, and that if Mr.
Carbie had accepted the proposition to arbi
trate, he would have been arrested on the
spot for contempt of court.
The president has sent the following nomi-
nations to the senate: William l.. Trenholm,
civil service commissioner of South Caro-
lima, to be comptroller of currency in the
place of Henry Cannon, resigned; John b.
Oterly, of Illinois, to be civil service COM
missioner in the place of William L. Tren-
holm, nominated to be comptroller of cur
rency; G. Lyman, Connecticut, new chief
examiner of the civil service commissioner
in the place of Dorman B. Eaton, resigned.
The president said that the three men
named were selected without recommeda-
tons, and solely on his personal knowledge
Of their character and capacity. All of them
are now in the public service.
Senator Blair, from the committee on
pensions, has reported bill to provide that
every person specified under the several
clauses enumerated under section 1888 or |
he revised statutes, who served six months |
n the military or naval service during the |
var of the rebellion, and who was honorably |
who is, or shall become disabled |
rom any cause not the result of his own |
yross carelessness, shall, upon making |
proofs of the fact, be placed upon then pen
ion rolls at a rate proportiopate to the de-
.ree of disability. Such pension to COM
nence at the date of the pension. The high
st of pensions granted under this section is
ixed at $24.
The house committee on invalid pensions
leld a long session, at which it considered
he bills to pension ex-union prisoners; to
the rate of pension for the loss of a
eg or arm, to increase the rate of pension
or the loss of an eye, etc. The Elsberg bill
o pension all honorably discharged soldiers
from performing manual la
'or, was amended so as to provide that all
discharged soldiers, who served
inety days during the war and become dis
bled from performing manual labor, unless
uch disability was occasioned by their own
TOSS carelessness or vicious habits, shall be
ntitled to pension. In that form the bill
Fas ordered to be reported to the house.
Dispatches from Murrayville, Pa, of the
LIST inst. report aserious condition of affairs.
here are fifteen wells pouring all their gas
nto the open air and through the town.
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