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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-27
THE LABOR WORLD.

CHICAGO plasterers want 81.
Iowa railroaders will federate
OMAHA fights convict labor goods.
BosToN has an Electrical Exchange
A TEXTILE NATIONAL UNIoN is coming.
IL Chicago thousands Of laborers are iilr.
NEW YORK has an Italian Tailors' Union.
TIE international Bricklayers have 1900.
A SECRET society Of cooks has been organ
ized.
Nav YORK will hold an eight-hour confer
encc.
JERSEY CITY HEIGHTS, n. j., has work
mems free school.
CARRIAGEMAKERs and wheelwrights will
form n national boiy.
THE Greensburg PENN coke strike in ten
days cost a half million.
NEW York Government laborers recently
struck against nine hours.
THE Operative Painters Union, of New
York, was organized in 1872
THE Flint Glass Workers Union has 700
members and 700 in bank.
FoR the loss Of an eye by shuttle sl0jl
was awarded at Dover n. IL.
PITrsBURG's builders society talks Of
working with the mems unions
A BILL preventing the employment of per-
sons under fourteen years passed IN Ohio.
THE Lehigh PENN Iron Company has re.
duced the wages Of its employees ten per cent
A BILL before the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture fixes the number Of cars for each brake
man.
THE Knights Of Labor decided TO send
c-< Onn e., ff,a 900 tooxad ont Qlofhiuor
workers at Rochester.
The strikers in the coke region OF Penn
sylvania have been defeated, after sacrific-
ing nearly $1,000 600 in wages.
The Lords of the Admiralty have granted
an increase Of wages to employees in the
Government dock yards in England.
In England. the average annual produc-
tion of each employe is si9j, OF which the
laborer receives 1926 and capital 800.
OVER 100000 miners, metal workers. and
other organized workmen will strike In Bel
GUM on May to gain the eight-hour work
day.
THERE are about six hundred woman type
settlers in New York. They are employed
chiefly in the publishing houses and on tho
afternoon papers.
FIFTEEN conductors on the Michigan Cen
trail Railroad have lost their places by show
ing sympathy for penniless unfortunates,
who turned out TO be spoilers"
liz suit for wages tried before Justice
at South Bethlehem, Penn, tho fact was
brought out that carpenter was receiving
IS month and board, and blacksmith $40
a month and boord and that their hours OF
labor were from o'clock in the morning un.
III O'Clock at night Cor the carpenter, and
from the same hour in the morning until
o'clock in the eveoing for the blacksinitp,
for every day in the year.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-27
CURIOUS FACTS.
Scientific men live longest.

Scientific men live longest.
The rarest Of cents is.ihat of the year
1899.
The ancient name of the city of Paris
was LutelIa.
New York City is the home of 1000
millionaires.
The City of Intelligence is the city of
Berlin, Germany.
A vessel is building in Boston, Mass,
which is intended to carry molasses in
bulk.
1t is said to be a Psychological fact
that staring at person sound asleep will
wake him up.
A Chinese laundryman in Chicago was
adjudged insane because he starched the
stockings of his customers.
The oldest architectural work known
to exist is believed to be the rock cut
temple at Ipsamboul, in Nubia, on the
left bank of the Nile.
A man with mania for starting en-
gines has been arrested at Fresno, Cal.
He has started several engines that wele
side-tracked and caused much damage.
The composition called pinchbeck
used in manufacture of cheap watches
an6 jewelry derives its name from Chris
topher Pinchbeck, London (England)
jeweler, who first made it.
The Esquimaux trade seai.skins, wal
rus teeth and seal oil to the Danes
through the small Danish settlement in
Alaska for tobacco, shotguns and am
munition. The Danes invariably get the
better of the bargain.
An Italian nobleman, the Count de
Lorgues, is owner of an ancient wood
engraving of Christopher Columbus
which is believed to be true likeness.
1t will probably have place in the CON-
ing American exposition.
James Storey, of Parsons, Kan, has
patented an artificial egg, said to resem-
BILE the hens natural product in all par
ticulars. The inventor claims that with
a $500 plant he can manufacture car
load every day at cost of three cents
per dozen.
The form used by the King Of Sweden
in addressing the members of Parliament
differs from that used by many other
rulers. His speeches begin with "Good
gentlemen and Swedish men," They
end, usually, also with 1.-THE blessing of
God be upon you, good gentlemen and
Swedish men,"
A wealthy Russian married girl wife
at eigbty.fve, aud has just died aged one
hundred and twenty. He survived the
girls expectant relatives, and leaves her
a wealthy but middle aged widow. The
ioy which this malicious old man took in
attending the funerals of his wife's peo-
pie is said to have been Gigantic.
If the value of pictures be judged by
their prices per square inch, some of
Meissonier's must certainly bepronounced
the mcst precious art "gems' in the
world. The Napoleon, for instance,
which Mr. Ruskin bought in 1859, was
sold in 1882 for s9O,45O. The little
picture is only 124 by 9t, so that it was
worth $3.50 the square inchl
Miss Mathilde Sharp, Of East Camden,
N. J., recently spent an evening at a re-
ception and on returning locked up her
iewelry in a box. When she again de-
sired to wear the jewelry she was unable
to find the key to the box. On Sunday
she was surprised on awakening to find
thc box open, the key in the lock and
the jcwelry just as she had left it. AS
Miss Sharp is something of somnambu-
list the theory advanced is that she dis
covered the hiding place Of the key in
her sleep.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-27
Butter a Luxury in South America.

Butter is as rare a luxury in South
America as bread. The sort one pays
thirty cents a pound for here sell there
for 81 a pound. For every pound oil
this commodity manufactured in that
part of the world 1000 pounds are i'm
ported from abroad. Again, it is the
climate that is at fault. There are cows,
plenty of them, and the milk has the
usual amount of cream; but the cream
will not rise. Besides, there are no con-
veniences for refrigeration, such as cool
spring houses, etc. Washington Star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-27
MIX Turns Blood-Red.

There was prodigious scare among
patrons of dairyman few days ago
upon discovering that his milk was blood
red. Samples were Analysed by a chem
ist, who pronounced the strange coloring
due to "micrococous prodigousis." This,
he said, was the name Of comparatively
harmless vc,y ,yetable microbe which caused
the trouble.
Nevertheless, tho Board of Health
seized the dairyman's whole supply
New York Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-27
Foreign.

DANIEL MCLEAN, wholesale leather mer-
chant Of Toronto. Canada. has made an
assignment. His liabilities amount to about
100000.
Hon. W. E.GLADsToNE made two speeches
at Hastings. England, declaring that the
Liberal party would never support ParneIl.
TIE Queen Of Hawaii, being upheld by the
Supreme Court, has announced Cabinet,
with Samuel Parker as Minister Of State.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-27

The people of the United States con-
sumo twenty eight out of every 100
pounds of sugar made in the world, and
thirty pounds Of coffee in every 100.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-27
The Papar In the World.

According to the Paper World, the
total number Of existing paper mills is
put at 1885, with an annual production
of I, ,O55, 900 tons of paper, made from
all kinds of material. No less than 9O,-
900 men, and twice that number of
women and children, are employed in
tins industry, while the capital invested
is over $500, 900, 900. The annual con-
SUMPTION of the paper made is thus
divided:
Pou IDS.
Newspapers, daily............ 40SOOo,oOO
Newspapers, weekly and
monthly. .......... $50 900, 900
Books ..... $4,000, ,O0O
Total, printed matter..... 1,C'SOOo,OOo
For schools ools., 10000, 600
For public offices. ............, l0oVoOOoO
For correspondence. ....... 22OOOoVoO
For mercantile records........ 12OOOO,OOo
For wrapping paper r.....,.... 4oo'OOo'OVO
For papier-mache, etc. ........ 2OOOOo,OV
Total 9,s5s, 1000 900
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-27

During the past six years Minnesota
has paid s7s, ,s34 for wolf bounties.
The advocate., 1891-11-11
NATIONAL FARMERS ALLIANCE AND
INDUSTRIAL. UNION.
KANSAS FARMERg ALLIANCE AND
INDUSTRIAL UNION.
OFFICIAL.

The executive committee Of the Con-
federation Of Industrial organizations Is
hereby called to meet in the city Of In
dlanapolis, Ind. on the 10th day of No
VembeE, 1891, for the purpose Of ofdeciding
upon the basis Of representation TO the
great labor conference to be held on the
92d day Of February, 1892, and also to
cOnSlder requests for change of the
place Of said meeting to some other city
chan Washington, D. G.
BY the terms Of the law Of the organi-
zatlon the chairman Of the executive
committee Of every organization Of pro-
duceEs willing to CO operate in securing
the Ocala demands Is . member Of this
executive committee, and Is entitled to
not ~ such at this meeting.
Each member of this committee is re-
QueSted to report to the Alliance COM
mittee Of arrangements by 10 O'Clock
q. m, on November 16.
BEN TERRILL
President G. Of l. 0.
The advocate., 1891-11-11

by announce the following as our official
notice:
The next annual session Of the Su-
preme Council Of the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union win con-
vene in the city Of indianapolis, Ind, at
10 o'clock q. m, on the third Tuesday In
November next, the same being the 18th
day Of said month.
Hall and committee rooms have been
rendered free. A very low hotel rate has
been contracted for, and special railway
mates will be announced by the national
secretary at az early date as possible.
The hospltalities Of Indianapolis were
generously rendered by the honorable
mayor Of that city, who has carefully
demonstrated it's great advantages as q
central and accessible point, with every
accommodation, such that we feel as
sured our action will meet the unquali-
fed approval Of our great organization.
G. w. MAcUNE, Chairman.
J.F. TILLMAN, Secretary.
ALONzo WARDALL.
Washington, d. c., August 8, 1891.
The advocate., 1891-11-11
NOTICE

10 National Board OF Organization, tho
National Oficers and National and State
Organizers Of the National Citizens In
dustri@I League.
BROTHERS.: The coming meeting Of the
National Council Of the Farmers ALI
0ncs and Industrial union at Indianapo-
liS, Ind, on the 18th Of November, 1891,
promises to be the most important meet
Ing Of our industrial classes that has
ever been held In this country within
the past century, and as the executive
committee Of the Peoples party has also
been called to meet there on November
10, and as our organization by It's nation
al officers and organizers, has been In
Vited to be present and take part In
those meetings, we, therefore, call our
national board Of organization to meet
there on November 10Th, and we urge
every person holding commission rs
state or national organizer to meet with
the national board Of organization, as
advisory members, and We ask all Of the
members Of the National Reform Press
association to'give this call q prominent
place In the columns Of your papers.
Respectfully submitted,
Thomas w. Gllruth, president; Noah
Allen, vice president; w. F. Right
mire, secretary; W. s. Morgan, o. H.
DElnkwater, G.. H. FlinthAm, John II.
Rice, Trustees.
The advocate., 1891-11-11

Union Iron Works, Kansas City,
Mo-, manufacture a full line of machinery
for grain elevators, and furnish plans and
specifications for building and machinery.
Also manufacture portable shelter for
stesm power, and guarantee large cspac-
ity, no waste and clean corn. For par
ticularS address, Union Iron Works, 1921
West Eleventh street, Kansas City, Mo.
The advocate., 1891-11-11
OFFICIAL.

To the officers and members Of all
state, county, district or primary orgsni-
nations under the jurisdiction Of the Ma
tlonal Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, greeting:
In pursuance Of the authority In uS
vested by the proceedingsof the Supreme
Council at Its last annual session at
OcAla, Fla, TO designate the place for
holding the next annual Supreme COun-
eli, we, your National Executive Board,
being limited by thetermS Of said author
lty TO the states of Indiana and Illinois,
do hereby make the following announce
ment:
Whereas, WehAye carefully considered
sAo facilities and hospisslitiss offered by
she officials and citizens Of many cities in
those s,Ates, now, therefore, we do here
The advocate., 1891-11-11
Peoples Party Lecture Bureau.


The Peoples Party Lecture Bureau has
contracted with the following speakers
to address the people on the vital politi-
cal questions Of the day from now until
the date OF election. Most Of them are
well known as speakers of extraordinary
ability, a few Of whom have q national
reputation.
The bureau is now prepared for bust
ness and ready to arrange for any Of the
following speakers to address the people
during the campaign. Terms Of speak
ers viii be given upon application to this
bureau. Now let US all get down to
business.
Hon. j. G. Otis, Topeka.
B. j. Dresser (German(, Lawrence.
Prof j. g. Cline, Minneapolis.
DR.. j. q. Oyster, PaOla.
Rev. b. +. Foster, Topeka.
w. L. Brown, Kingman.
Nels Anderson (SWede), Topeka.
Rev James De BuchaDnane, Delph0ss
d r. Klnsey. Klngman.
Noah Allen, Wichita.
John Clark, Kansas City, Ks.
w. j. Nicholson, Paola.
Judge II. Stevens, PaOla.
w. II. Bennington, Topeka.
A. B. Montgomery GOOdland.
Rev. DR.. James Lathrop, Topeka.
L j. Tibbits, C0urtland.
DR.. j. /. Arnold, Erie.
DR.. j. ID. Cole, Hutchinson.
"Greenback" Williams, COncOrdia..
Mrs. 4. r. Vlckery, EmpOFla.
Hon. w. II. Utley, Parsons
Mrs Fannie Met 'Ormick, Great Bend.
r. M. Chenault, Ft Scott
H. N. Gains, Salina.
V. II. BiddiSon, MarysVil1e.
O. H. Whittier, Cherryvale.
Mrs. O. I. Tucker, Minneapolis.
jas. w. Steen, KlngmAn.
s +. @. Garrison, ri Dorado.
Others win be added TO this list from time TO
time. j. B. FRENCH,
Manager, Topeka, Kan.
The advocate., 1891-11-11
ADVOCATE.

7:30 p. m.-Music. Addresses by T.
V. Powderly and Ben Terrell.
Sunday, November 90
Invitations will be extended to eminent
reform preachers to be present on this
day.
Monday, November 23-
1Oa. m.-Music. Speakers to be an
nounced later.
2p. m.-Executive session.
7:30p. m.-Muslc. Address by Hon.
Ignatius Donnelly.
Tuesday, November "a
10& m.-Music. Address by William
Erwin and Mrs. Lease.
Up. m.-ExecutiVe session.
7:3O p. m.-Music. Addresses by RIM.
Humphrey and j. B. Weaver.
G. W. MAoUNE, Chairman.
j. F. TILLMAN, Secretary.
ALoNzo WARDALL.
The advocate., 1891-11-11
Notice to Peoples Party.

By request Of all the members of the
national executive committee of Peoples
party, l call meeting of said committee
at the Bates House, indianapolis, Ind,
November 16, 1891, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Ihave also been requested to invite the
three members from each state constitut-
ing the national central committee Of
the Peoples party, and all other friends
Of our cause to meet with us on above
date. Let everyone be present.
Reform Press Association please pub
liSh this notice. II. E. TAUBENEcK,
Chairman.
Marshall, Ill, Septemer %, 1891.
The advocate., 1891-11-11

National Farmers Alliance and InduStri-
nj Union.
The executive board, having conferred
with the local committee of arrange
ments at indianapolis on behalf Of the
Alliance, have agreed upon the following
programme for conducting the public
proceedings Of the coming session Of the
supreme council, with due courtesy to
the general assembly Of the F. M. B. A.,
which meets In the same city at the same
time, and also for the purpose OF making
the best presentation Of the doctrines Of
the order TO the world at large. This pro-
gramme will tend TO offer some enter
tainment and instruction to the many
thousands who will take advantage of
the reduced rates Of fare TO be present
on that occasion.
After this programme had been agreed
upon by the national executive board
and the local committee of arrange
ments, It was submitted to the state ALI
SnCe Of Indiana, and by that body was
unanimously ratified. It is, therefore,
respectfully submitted to the supreme
council.
PROGRAMME.
Tuesday, November IT.
10 q. m.-Music. Addresses Of well
come by Governor A. P. Hovey, Hon.
Thomas L. Sullivan, mayor Of Indianap-
oils, and Thomas w. Force, president Of
Farmers State Alliance Of Indiana.
Up. m.--MuslC. Response to address
es Of welcome by J. F. Tillman, score
tary Of the national executive board,
and J. F. Willis, lecturer N. F. A. and /.
U.
3p. m.-Executlve session.
7:80p. m.--Music. Annual address by
the president, L. L. Polk.
Wednesday, November 1S-
10 q. m.-Music. Addresses by the
president Of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit
association and by ]. F. Willis, national
lecturer.
2p. m.-Executive session.
7:30 p. m.-MuSic. Addresses by G..
w. Macune and others.
Thursday, November 19-
10 a. a.m.-Music. Addresses by Hon.
Jerry Simpson and Alonzo Wardall.
Up. m.-Exscutlve session.
7:30 p. m.-Music. Addresses by John
P. Steele and Mrs. Annie L. Diggs.
Friday, November 20
10S. m.-Music. Addresses by j..
Turner and Hon. B. II. Glover.
Up. m.--Executive session.
7:S0 p. m.-Music. Addresses by Hon.
L. F. Livingston and H. L. Loucks.
Saturday, November 81
1O& m.-Music. Addresses by J. Fl.
Mcdowell and Senator PETER.
ap. ms-Exscutive session.
The advocate., 1891-11-11
To County Committeeman.

Peoples party committeeman, In coun-
ties having Swedish settlements, who
may desire Swedish lecturer to work in
such settlements, are requested to cor
respond with Nels Anderson, box 26O,
Topeka, Kan.
The advocate., 1891-11-11

Persons against whom mortgage fore
closure has been instituted should write
to w. r. Rightmire, Topeka, Kan, il
they wiSh 10 save their homeS.
The advocate., 1891-11-11

Our friends visiting Topeka will here
after find THE ADVOCATE Office in the
Knox building, on Sixth street between
Kansas avenue and Jackson.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-17
liz rnrHar.

EMPEROR WILLIAM left Scotland on
the I4th for Norway.
DUNCAN, the American, who at
| tempted the murder of his wife in
Wales some time ago, has been acquit-
ted on the ground OF insanity and or
dered TO be further held to await her
majes tvs pleasure.
THERE was a report that the abscond-
ing banker Marsh was hiding near
Jackson, Tenn.
THE house of lords has passed the
Irish land bill.
WILLIAM HOFFMAN, a participant in
the councils of the congressional party,
declares that Minister ERan is playing
into the hands of BaImaceda to antag-
Onize the English, who are sympathiz-
ing with the revOiutiOnistS-
The fall of the BastiIe was cello brated
in Paris on the 14th by immense de-
EnOnstrations.
CAPT. HALL reports that all cattle
are out Of the strip east of the Rock
Island railway. There are still many
| thousands west Of there The boomers
are organizing and will destroy grass
and cattle with fire If they are not gone
in ten days
The Chicago Daily News says: Back
OF the negotiations now going on to
unite the local democracy of Chicago is
a well formulated plan to present the
name OF Chief Justice Melville w
Fuller for the presidency when the
OPPOrtune time arrives" Tho News
article argues that Hill and GRAY NAV
destroy Cleveland
PRESIDENT HARRISON recently met
/ Cardinal Gibbons aud told him that
while church matters were not Usually
public concern, he resented the inter
terences in American Affairs as pro
posed by the Cahensiy petition and
thought the Cardinal took the correct
ground
Z C STARK & Co. bankers at Oneida.
n Y, have failed for $40, COO
ALEXANDER NIMICR. chief partner in
the firm OF Nimicls & Co, metal deal
ers, Pittsburgh, Pa, has resolved to re-
tire from business and the company
will be wound up. The firm has lately
been carrying a great deal Of unprOft-
able mill property.
AK explosion of dynamite on the
tramp steamship Gerbooth AZ Brooklyn,
n Y, caused the death of two men and
injury OF three others
THERE WAS an alarming Ere at Mont
real on the 18th. breaking out at BrOu-
iette's lumber yards Energetic work
saved adjoining expensive buildings
IaE graszhOPPers reported IN eastern
Colorado are said TO be harmless va
riety.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-17

COEsTAETIEOFLE advices state that
the latest news from Yemen is very dis
cOuraging. The insurgents have proved
successful at all points and control all
intercourse between the coast and the
interior.
MONEY was reported abundant in
London during the week ended July IL
The stock exchange was dull, generally
the case in midsummer. The Paris
bourse was steady at enhanced prices.
German bOurses were firm and quiet
NEWS has been received at Nansiuo,
3. C, OF a terribly fatal landslide at
the North Pacific cGnnery works On the
Skeena river by which forty Indians
and a white woman lost their lives
CLEARINa house returns for the week
ended July IL showed an average in
crease OF 20 com pared with the cor
responding week OF last year. In New
York the increase was O.3.
THE crop prospects in the provinces
Of Bengal. Assam and Burmah are
good Else where the rain has been de-
hcient and the distress is increasing
Prices are rising in the Madras districts
and in many districts of North India
ENGLISH NOnconformists are extend
ing sympathy for Parneu on the ground
OF what is termed the undue interior
ence of Catholic clergymen in Irish
elections
for export On the contrary imports
will be necessary.
DURING the last fifteen days five
opium smugglers have been captured
by the United States revenue cutter
WOlcOtt The men were all caught in
the vicinity Of Roche harbor, San
Juan island.
THE international convention of Con-
gregatiOnalists met in convent ton at
London on the 18th
The Russian church proposes to take
measures to rePrsss the Stundists, who
are growing strong in Russia.
IN order to meet the demands of
France until the harvest is gathered in
1892 it is estimated that 1913, 600, 600 hec-
tOliters of wheat Will be needed The
estimated yield of wheat for 1891 will
be 50, 7T9, 600 hectOliters- This is the
maximum estimate and is 81 per cent
less than the harvest of 1890.
CHOLERA is raging in Mecca and Mo
hammedan pilgrims are strictly quar-
antiued-
COUNT WILLIAM BISMARCK. second
son of Prince Bismarck, has resigned
the presidency of the regency Of Han
over and will retire to Varsein.
The municipal elections at Metz re-
suited in the choice OF a council COM
posed of nine Germans and twenty
three prOtestants against German dom
nation of Alsace-LOrraine The result
created a sensation il Berlin.
IT is reported that Emperor vii
liam has invited the prince and princess
of Wales to visit Germany in full state
during the coming autumn and that the
prince aud princess have, with the con-
sent of Queen Victoria, accepted the iu-
vitatiOn.
The physicians in attendance upon
Rev. Charles H Sturgeon announce
that he has chance of recovery.