Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03

years before becoming the owner will be
changed and so as to reduce the time to thlr-
ty months, with a provision to the effect that
at least ten acres be under cultivation Tor
that length of time. This is in addition to
the other recommendations the pre-eInption
and timber culture laws-to be repealed,
which have already been published.
Mrs. Henry FRANKIE, aged AZ years, living
near Reading, Pa, on truck farm, klndled
fire with coal oil and while so doing the
| flames were ignited to the can, which ex-
| ploded with terrific force. The burning oil
scattered over the body of the woman and
upon her two children, agen and IL years.
The frantic woman ran into the yard and
jumed into the istern and was drowned.
The children We , so terribly burned about
the face and booy that they can not recover.
A Piedmont, w. Va, dispatch says: The
miners strike in the surrounding bitumin-
Gus coal fields is assuming very serious as
pect, all the mines beng boarded up, and
to morrow the men will be paid off and dis
charged. Besides the thousands of miners
idle, several hundred railroad men here are
$4,000 per day. Foreign labor will proba-
bly, be introduced by the mine owners.
A dispatch from Ell Paso, Tex. says:
Trouble is again brewing among the brake
men, and other freight employees of the
Southern Pacific at this point, and another
strike may result to-day. The freight men
are greatly dissatisfied at the recent pro-
motions of men who but recently entered
the employ of the company, over the heads
of many old employees. 1t is claimed by
the men that this breaks an agreement in
the settlement of the recent strike.
A petition is being circulated for sigma
lures among the employees in the Chicago,
Milwaukee q st. Paul railroad shops and
yards in Milwaukee asking that the working
time be reduced to eight hours and pay the
same price as now paid for ten hours. The
petition asks also that time and-a- half wages
be paid for over work, and double wages for
Sunday work. The circulation of the petit
tlon is causing good deal OF uneaslness.
The boycott instituted against the publish
ers of the Kansas City directory by the
Knights of Labor because of the work being
done in a job Office employing non union
printers, who at the same time are members
of the Printers Protective fraternity, has
broken down. The contract for the perform
ance of the work was placed with the pro-
scribed firm.
The river and harbor appropriation bill,
as completed by the house committee, makes
total appropriation of SIS, 164, POO, will be-
come available Immediately upon the pas
sage of the BILL as there was 10 appropria-
ton made for river and harbor improve
ments last session. The present appropria-
ton virtually covers period of nearly two
years.
The labor committee of the house held
protracted session, which was entirely con-
sumed in a discussion of the western strikes
and the feasibility of formulating some
measure or measures that will prove effica-
cous in relieving the strained relations of
the strikers and employees now existing, and
no formal agreement has yet been reached.
The great strike of four Thousand work
men at the National Tube works, at McKees-
port, Pa, ended satisfactorily to the strikers,
and work will be resumed in all the depart
ments at once. General Manager Flagler
restored the wages ruling in 1884, and ad-
vanced the wages of laborers to S1.25 per
day.
The number of bushels of grain in store in
the United States and Canada, March 81,
and the increase or decrease as compared
with the previous week, was as follows:
Wheat, 49, 1889 bushels; decrease, S61, 1886
bushels. Corn, 16, 796, 1888 bushels; increase,
81 1872 bushels.
The Mississippi river at Burlington, Ia,
has been rising rapidly for a week past and
the bottom land on the Illinois side is be-
ginning to present the appearance of lake.
With the big rise coming from above, fears
are expressed by some of another bad flood.
All the inside operators in the dress and
cloak making establishments of New York
city, left work pursuant to call of the strike
committee. They numbered nearly two
thousand. Negotiations are pending for
settlement of the difficulties.
Two hundred and fifty men nployed in
the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee
freight house, at Grand Haven; Mich, struck
for an advance, and double pay for Sunday
work. They have been getting fifteen cents
an hour and want twenty.
There has been another drop in the trans
continental passenger rates. The Atchison,
Topeka q Santa Fe announced through
rate from the Missouri river to San
Francisco of Sc net, or SIG from Chicago,
good for ninety days.
The Knights of Labor have been very &C
tive on the Chesapeake d Ohio road lately.
1t is said that if the men are not granted
their request, that the ten per cent reduction
made several months ago be restored, they
will strike May first.
dispatch from Vincennes, Ind, says: A
warrant was issued for the arrest of Spears
Holllngsworth, county treasurer of Knox
county, on charge of embezzlement. He
Is alleged to be short in his accounts between
$4,000 and 100000.
The national council of the National Union
League held its annual session at the Ebbitt
house, in Washington, d. G. There was
very full representation of states. Officers
for the year were elected, including Presi-
G. II. Grosvenor.
An armed mob visited the Jail at Vicks-
burg, Miss, and after battering down the
doors secured possession of Fred Willerosa,
an Italian, charged with rape. The man was
taken to tree in front of the Jail and
hanged.
Judge Thacher and W. E. Curtis, of the
South American commission, addressed
subcommittee of the senate committee on
foreign relations, inesupport of Senator
Fry's bill for a congress Of American repub-
lies.
At recent meeting of the employees in the
tobacco factories in Baltimore, Nd, COM
munication was read from Gail & Ak, EN-
ploying 800 people, reducing the hours of
labor per day without reduction of pay.
The strike of the New York cloak makers
still continues. At the headquarters of the
strikers it was announced that the firms of
Opperheimer 4 Villinsky had yielded. The
strikers expect final success.
Three of the largest manufacturing estab-
hshments of Detroit, Michigan. have volun-
tarily announced a ten per cent advance in
wages, to take effect April LIST. Over two
thousand men are affected.
The Iowa house of representatives passed
the bill to abolish circuit courts ami reorgan-
ize judicial districts. It divides the state
into nineteen judicial districts, with forty
three district judges.
heavy snow storm is reported in Dakota,
about three inches falling. It Is particularly
regretted as the farmers had already COM