Western Kansas world., 1890-04-26
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Deserticns from the United States army
are becoming less In numbers.
Nearly all the trades societies in London
have signed a manifesto calling for demon
stration in Hyde Park, on May 4, In support
of the eight hour movement.
Committees from the County alliance,
union labor and other labor organizations,
] have been in secret session at Wichita, and
decided to hold a convention on the 18th of
May to place county ticket in the field.
The lower house of the city council of
Kansas City passed, by a unanimous vote,
the ordinance fixing eight hours as a days
work for all city employees, and for all labor
ers employed on city contracts.
The president has nominated William H.
Mcclure as postmaster at lola, Kansas.
The house committee on invalid pensions
does not approve of the Morrill, service pen
sion bill.
Augustine college, at Rock Island, Illinois,
has been closed on account of typhoid fever,
caused by sewer gas. Students who did not
eat or sleep in the building are none of them
sick.
The 15Oth anniversary of the battle of Lex
ingtOn was celebrated at that ancient bur
ough. Salutes were fired, bells rung and
an old fashioned breakfast served. Busi-
ness was generally suspended.
Two ex-governors died April 10; James
Pollock, who was governor of Pennsylvania
in 1874, who was so years old, and w. w.
Hoppin, who was governor of Rhode Island
from 1854 to 1856, aged 50.
Sherman, the boomers town opposite
Chamberlain, S. D., has been abandoned
and the buildings are being removed. This
ko1ro &
of the order to clear off the land by the mill
tary.
A dispatch from Australia says that the
Darling river is several miles wide around
BOurke, and that the only building not flooded
Is church. Rescue boats are kept busy re-
moving people and property to places of
safety.
A crowd occupied bridge at Springfield,
Ohio, to witness the ceremony of baptism in
the creek below, when the bridge broke down.
A dozen or more people was seriously injured.
A collection of drift prevented any being
drowned.
The Austrian miners strike movement is
rapidly spreading. At Ostrau, in Moravia,
the military occupied the mining district and
expelled all agitators from the pits. In
conflict with the troops two of the men were
wounded.
A wagon load of nitro-glycerine exploded
near Cygnet, Ohio. 1t was to be used in
shooting oil and gas wells. The team, wagon
and two men were blown to pieces. The re-
port was heard for ten miles, and many win
dows broken.
The Loyal Legion celebration, at Phila-
delphia, closed with reception in honor of
R. B. Hayes, and for three hours a solid
stream of people poured through the doors
of tie academy and paid their respects to the
guest of the evening.
Primrose day, the anniversary of the death
of the Earl of Beacopsfeld, was observed by
the conservatives. The queen sent two
wreaths to be placed on the grave of Mr..
Disraeh at Hugenden. Primroses were
generally worn by the admirers of the dead
statesman.
big failure in the silk trade is announced |
in New York, that of the well known firm of |
Lewis Frank Il Co., raw silk importers, Ill |
Grand street, who are also manufacturers of |
their own silk at Patterson, N. ]. Liabilities |
are said to be upward of $500, 200, with nom
inal assets of s., 10000.
The senate has bill to provide for the es-
tablishment of court to investigate claims |
on account of Indian depredations. The |
president is authorized by it to appoint three |
commissioners, who shall receive $1,000 a
year each, and sit for four years from date
of their first meeting, when the court shall
be dissolved.
Senator Cameron has introduced a service
pension bill which has been approved by the
Pennsylvania Service association. It pro-
vides that all persons who served in the late
war shall receive pension of 50 per month,
and in addition per diem pension of cent
for every days service. Widows shall be en-
titled to pension of $12.
The Hamburg senate has decided that all
men employed on state work who take part
N the demonstration on May 1 will be dis
charged. Manufacturers declare that they
viii close their works if their employees par
icipate in the celebration. The Hamburg
socialist committee advise the men to make
he demonstration.
number of prominent men and capital
SITS and some of the South American dele
yates to the Pan-American conference have
'een holding quiet meetings with " to
organizing and promoting the construction
# railway line from New York to Tampa
Ela., via steamer to Cuba, and thence to the
lorthern coast of South America by rail
long the Magdelena river to the region
Vatered by the source of the Amazon. The
south Americans proposed to have great and
aluable mineral and other land concessions
or the purpose, and all countries will be
sked to give to the road the mail contracts
low held by foreign steamers.
Better than Oklahoma