Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-03-13

The senate committee on public lands have
reported favorably the bill to allow home
stead settlers within railroad limits, who ac-
quired only eighty acres. to take an add
tional eighty acres adjoining the original
claim, if any adjoining lends remains va
can't The committee agreed upon an origi-
nal bill, as q substitute for those already in
troduced providing for the taxation of rail-
road lands. 1t provides that all earned land
grants within the lines of the ROAD, and in
organized counties, shall be taxable, and if
the payment of the fees for selecting and
patenting the lands is not made upon de-
mand, the secretary of the interior is re-
quired to notify the attorney general, who
will bring suit.
Senator John F. Miller, of California,
died in Washington. His death was the re-
ult of complication of diseases, arising
primarily from a severe wound in the eye
received during the war twenty-thrae years
ago. The bullet remained in his head for
about twelve years before it could be extract
ed, and the wound Slapped his strength and
made him an easy victim to disease. Loss
of sleep and asthmatic symptoms kept him
in constant pain. Bright's disease began
its insidious work, and then dropsical disor-
ders were developed. But through all his
illness the senator showed much nerve and
will power that his physicians were encour-
aged to hope he might possibly recover.
Several operations were performed, and
seemed to give much relief.
The conflict between the Knights of Labor
and their late employers, the proprietors of
the East street reaper works, of Springfield,
o., promises to be long continued. VIM. n.
Whitley. who is at the head of the works
wants no employee who cannot testify to and
sign the following: "This is to certify that
have withdrawn from the Knights of Labor
or other associations of like kind, and am no
longer under their dictation, and hav-
ing restored myself to manhood and indie
pendence as free American citizen" The
men refuse to sign this, and everything now
awaits the arbitration board of the Knights
of Labor.
, Four thousand members of the United
Order of Joiners and Amalgamated Carpen-
tiers and Joiners of New York stopped work.
The journeymen complain of low wages.
They are paid at the rate of 81 per day of
ten hours. The strikers now demand that
the average wages paid to journeymen shall
be $3.50 per day of nine hours each, for five
days, and eight hours on Saturday. Six
hundred shops are effected by this move
ment, and shortly after the strike was ordered
eighty-six bosses had agreed to the demands
presented. The men in these shops at once
resumed work.
About seventy-fve employees of the Cham
pion Machine Company and Bar and Knit
company at Springfield Ohio, were discharg-
ed for refusing to work in the works of the
Champion maleable iron company. The
men discharged were Knights of Labor
almost without exception. The men claim
the action is a scheme to get the Knights out
of l,n Sh MI
in the new Champion Works were ordered to
go to work in the Malleable iron works, and
they refused. They were paid off and dis
charged. Only one blacksmith of the num-
Der went to work, and he soon returned.
A dispatch from Woodbine, KY, says:
Blood continues to flow freely in the noun
tain section. The Turner and Howard fac
tons, numbering about fifty on either side
have been at war for years. Every now and
then a sympathizer Oh one or the other side
is caught out and killed. So it has been 60
ing on until a number of graves scattered
about over the county mark the progress of
the feud. A few weeks ago Jordan Turner
and six of his confederates killed William
Lane in Bell county, and some little time
before that John Howard had stabbed to
death Walker Burkhart.
The remains of Congressman James
Laird's brother. A. W. Laird, who was killed
recently near Albuquerque, New Mexico,
were brought to Hastings, Neb., where they
were inferred. Congressman Laird was
present. The verdict of the coroner's jury
states that young Lairds death was wholly
the result of an accident. He had been visit
ing an Indian village near the Atlantic and
Pacific junction and on returning at about
8 O'Clock in the evening in attempting to
board freight train while in motion, miss
ed his footing and was thrown under the
wheels.
fire broke out in the extensive oatmeal
mills of Ford Shumaker at Akron, o. These
mills were the largest in the country, and
consist of several immense buildings. The
flames spread with alarming rapidity.. The
fire communicated to the dry house, which
was also destroyed. 10000 bushel elevator
next caught fire, and at last reports another
mill was threatened with destruc-
lion. The Universalist church, across the
street, and the freight house of the Cleve-
land, Akron & Columbus road were burned.
The Windsor hotel, valued at $4,000 was
also damaged. The loss is 100000.
During the month of February, the secre-
tary of the treasury purchased 1,450, 600
ounces of silver for coinage into standard
dollars, being about 100000 less than the
usual monthly purchases. 1t is explained at
the department that the amount of silver
market rates. The price was higher owing
to the increased expenses of transportation
during the bad weather which prevailed dur
ing the month. This was, however, sufficient
bullion on hand to allow the coinage of dol
lars to the minimum limit.
w. S. Thorn, for several years in charge
of the union ticket Office at the Union depot,
Chicago, is short in his accounts and is prac-
tically under arrest. The amount of the
according to the best authenticated
statements, is alleged to be not less than
500 Thorn is said to be man of good
habits. The Fidelity & Casualty company,
the purpose of insuring employers against
the defalcation of employees, had issued a
$25, 600 policy on Thorn, which secures the
railroad company.
The trial of James Holland for the murder
of Tom Davis, the gambler and crook, was
in New York City. The district
attorney made the opening address to the
jury. The prisoner, who sat beside his
keeper, was cheered by the presence of ex-
Senator B. B. Paddock, of Fort Worth, Tex,
an old friend, who guarantees the good
character of Holland, and who came on here
purp0sely to assist him in his trial. Hol-
land seems to lack neither friends nor
money, and the former are confident of an
acQuittal.
Near Milledgeville, Ga, Ella Humphreys
and Carrie Payne, daughters of respectable
farmers, accompanied by Frank Humphreys,
uncle of the woman first mentioned, started
to walk from the house of Elisha Hum
phreys to that of their escort, distance of
four miles. When half the distance had
traversed Humphreys outraged one of the
women and then killed both, cutting their
threats from ear to ear with a hunting knife.
that lynching WILDE attempted.
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