Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-09-06
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TO enforce raise of wages promised by the
new bosses association.
The Mississippi constitutional convention
is considering a resolution to the effect that
''this state shall ever remain member of
the American union and the people thereof a
part of the American nation, and ell at
tempts to dissolve the said union shall be
resisted with all the power of the state"
Representative Quinn, of New York. has
offered a resolution in the national house of
representatives, that the judiciary committee
be instructed to inquire as to need legisla-
ton to prevent corporations from employing
large bodies of armed men, known as ''de-
tectives, ~ but clothed with no legal functions.
The Chicago stockyards strike has been
declared off. The Chicago & Alton strike
has also been settled and the men returned
to work.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes passed his s1st
birthday at his summer house in a very quiet
way. Speaking of his birthday, he said:
''This is my 81st and kind of an off year. l
realize l am not as vigorous as thirty or forty
years ago. but life is enjoyable and pleasant
to me still"
A cyclone passed over Coldwater, Mich,
doing great amount of damage. The car
company's paint shop and store room, a
was entirely demolished, and great guam
tity of partly finished work was ruined. the
damage amounting to several thousand dol
lare.
There is no doubt that the standing of the
English aristocracy, as body, Is much i'm
paired, even in the opinion of the middle
classes who usually worship lord, by recent
exposures, and it is fact that the divorce
and bankruptcy courts find their chief occu-
patton in dealing with aristocratic spend
thrifts.
Guatemalan officers attempted to seize a
general of that country, an enemy to the
government, while on board the Pacific mail
steamer Acapulco. He resisted and was shot
in his state room. Similar cases have oc-
CURED in the past, the last one while Mr..
Bayard was secretary of state, who decided
that a foreign power has right to seize a
person in transit while upon an American
vessel.
Special constables has been enrolled to
guard the city of Melbourne in view of threat
ened riots. The city is without gas and the
suburbs are dimly lighted. The mail service
over sea traffic continues. The shipping
companies are employing non union men.
The wharf men at New Zealand ports have
struck. The service between New Zealand
and Queensland is partly maintained by nom
union men.
All advices from Berlin agree that the Ger
man emperor is not satisfied with the result
of his visit to the cZar. He found that the
monarch unalterably determined that there
should be no recognition of Bulgaria by
Russia until the Bulgarians had accepted a
Russian protectorate, and this the kaiser
knew to be impossible. Bulgaria is the
leading state of the Balkans. and as power
full a barrier to Russia as Poland was in an
earlier age.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
hold their biennial convention at San Fran
ciso, Cal, September 8. Grand Chief Fire
man Sargent will doubtless be reelected as
the head of the national organization. All
the present railroad troubles will be fully
and carefully discussed, and committees will
be appointed to consider the various ques-
tons and report on them during the conven-
ton. 1t is probable that some very material
changes in the ritual will be made.
The committee on Indian affairs favorably
reported joint resolution giving the con-
sent of the congress and confirming certain
leases of coal rights acquired from the Choc-
taw nation by the Choctaw Coal and Railway
company. The favorable report of the reso-
luton was opposed by the secretary of the
interior on the ground that it was against
public policy, and that gross monopoly
would be created by the company becoming
q mine operator as well as q carrying CON-
pany.
ST. Louis has Citizens Coal association,
with a committee to deal with the coal prob
lem, which has been very successful, and
which was able to procure coal for it's mem.
bers last winter at So a ton, while the Kansas
consumer was paying S11 to S13. The fact that
one city by such action can save itself from
fho 20 Ia 30 a.
special rates from the railroads, both east
and west of Chicago, indicates that there is
hope for other cities with equally determined
men to take concerted action.
The Farmers congress, at Omaha, listened
to speeches on silver from E. Rosewater, OF
the Omaha Bee, and Josiah Wheeler, of Kan
sas; on 'sNew England's Condition" by
William Freeman, of Maine; and on ''Im-
ponderables," by n. F. Work. of Indiana:
and Organization" by Z. S. Porter, OF
Michigan. Work sailed into social eccen.
tricities and tariff. The congress voted tc
meet in Missouri next year, and changed the
date of meeting to the first Tuesday after the
10th of November.
The increase shown by the census, in the
past ten years. in ten leading republican
states Is 6, 313, 900, and in ten leading demo-
critic states 8, 49S, 0O0, Should the new con-
Rressional appOrtionment have the same
basis, 154, 200, as at present, thereby in
creasing the number of representatives about
100, the electoral vote of Kansas would be
raised from 9 to 13; the same apportionment
would give 297 republican electoral votes tc
200 democratic electoral votes. But should
the ratio be increased TO 10000 population,
it would leave the number of representatives
about as now, giving Kansas an increase of
one member, and give 225 republican and
161 democratic electoral votes. This Ii
counting the states as they voted in 1888.