Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-06-16
DOMESTIC.

The Iron and Steel Workers Nationa
assembly and the Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers met at Pittsburi
| Tuesday to fix the scale of wages for the
ensuing year. The two organizations arr
separate, but will not antagonize each other
| A new attempt to break the telephone
monopoly of the Bell company was begur
in the United State court before Judg,
Blodgett Monday, 8. D. Cushman anC
| several local capitalists claiming priority OF
invention of electrical transmission o.
speech.
| An examination of tho operation of tn,
parole or ticket-of- leave act in Ohio peniten
tiaries has proved to be successful, only five
per cent. of the parole convicts being found
| to violate the provisions of tho law an(
| commit crime after their release. The &C
| applies exclusively to first offenss prisoners
and the state assists them in securing homes
employment.
Tho mayer Of Chicago has vetoed thu
| saloon ordinance passed by the city counci
! two weeks ago on the ground that it wa
special legislation and unconstitutional
and submitted q new ordinance for approval
which after considerable wran2hng, va
laid over for one week.
The Bell Telephone company threatens to
cease business in st. Louis owing to a re-
cent ordinance passed reducing the annual
rental of phones from 500 to $50.
The important information comes from
Racine that one of Jay-Eye-See's legs is
"off, )" and that he will not trot this season.
Upon their return to Columbus the
members of the Ohio delegation paid visit
to Judge Thurman at his residence, and the
.sOld Roman" made them rousing good
speech in which he said that he felt twenty
years younger than he did before the nation
al convention was held.
Mayor Roche. of Chicago, has decided
that firecrackers and other explosives must
not be discharged in alleys and back yards
on July 4. The firing of guns, cannon, or
pistols is prohibited anywhere within the
city limits.
The house committe on public lands re-
ported substitute bill demanding the
forfeiture of all unearned land grants
within the time contemplated by the grant
ing act. The prospect is that the bill will
be holly contested in the house, and even if
it is passed will die tharA
Judge Gresham has written to Pitts
burg club, which had Endorsed him for the
presidency, letter in which he says he has
done nothing to influence the acts of the
convention, and shall not be disappointed
whatever the result may be. The letter was
not intended for publication.
The eminent Unitarian divine, James
Freeman Clarke, of Boston, ia dead.
Seventeen-year locusts have made their
appearance in Bloomin gton, Illinois.
The weather during May was not favora-
BILE to the cotton crop in the Memphis dis
trict.
Fire destroyed the Appleton, Wisconsin,
5 1sp'F- mills and caused damage OF si'0'-
An amendment to the salt paragraph in
the tariff bill to exclude bulk salt from the
free list and admit only dairy and table
salt was rejected.
When Representative Cox announced
Thurman's nomination in the house, it was
greeted with wild enthusiasm.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad,
over 100000 of the capital stock was
represented. The report showed the net
earnings of the company for the year end
ing May 81, 1888, to be nearly SIC, OOO, 600.
Herr Won Puttkamer, Prussian minister of
owing to the contents of an autograph letter
received from the emperor.
Two ball players collided while running
after q fly at Lima, Ohio, and one of them,
Harry Parker, catcher of the Toledo club,
was 80 badly injured that he is in danger Of
dying.
For exacting IN exhorbitant and illegal
fee from a widow for whom he procured
pension, John L. Taylor, Chicago attorney.
has been held in 81 200 bail fer trial IN the
United States court.