Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-01
LATEST NEWS.
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The switchmens' strike in the Buffalo rail-
road yards was declared of at II O'Clock
midnight, August "a, by official terms OF the
order OF the Switehmens' union.
Switchmen in Louisville, in the Louisville
q Nashville railroad yards, are on the point
of striking. 1t is said that general railroad
strike in Kentucky is likely to follow.
locomotive on the track of the Iron
Mountain railroad, IN Memphis, exploded
killing both enginemen. Windows were
broken for some distance along the streets.
coach on passenger train on the Balti-
more % Annapolis short line was deralled,
four miles from Baltimore, and colored
woman killed and fifteen persons injured
three fatally.
Twenty-Five miners have been smoked out
or Tennessee mines End arrested.
Colonel E. c. Smeed, of Omaha, Neb.,
chief engineer of the Union Pacific, is dead.
Genial R. J. McCahon, who attended Eli
otis Business college, Burlington, Ia.s Is
now cashier of the State Bank at Lockport,
Illinois.
St. Paul and Sioux City labor unions have
raised SIS, 600 TO pay two lawyers from those
cities to go to Pittsburg, Pa, and defend the
members of the Homestead riot who are ac-
cused of murder.
w: 7. Baker has resigned the presidency of
the Worlds Columbian exposition and ii.
w. Higinbotham has been chosen to succeed
Baker; Fred w. Peck being chosen to ell
the vice presidency.
The Kansas City Times has been sold. It
will remain in democratic hands, and 1t is
understood that Witten Mcdonald, the we'll
known hnancier of Kansas City, will have
full control of the paper.
The leader of the Coal Creek, Tenn, mob
was the notorious Bud Lindsay, a brother OF
the United States district attorney of that
district. Lindsay is a murderer who has
killed eight or ten men.
At Coal Creek, August 20, as company p
was coming down the mountain side they
were attacked by 1000 miners. A battle en-
sued in which fifteen miners were killed.
The soldiers were not injured.
Attempts to scare the workmen IN the Car
negie mills continue daily. Notices have
been thrown over the enclosing fences telling
the men that unless they quit work at once
they must take the consequences.
Fifty-four of the leading miners who took
part in releasing the Tennessee convicts en-
be tried and most of them will serve one to
! seven years as state convicts themselves. q
Amalgamated association strikers at
| West Superior. WIS.,, fifteen of them, caught
two men who had left the association and
gone to work in the mills, killed one of
them and the other is thought to be fatally
hurt.
In the railroad districts of Buffalo and its
suburbs, stores, saloons, eating houses, etc,
are refusing to sell any thing to eat to either
| militlamen or non-unlon railroad men.
| They are acting upon orders of union boy
cotters.
hunting party of four young men have
been found murdered on the banks of Caney
| creek, Indian territory. There Is nothing to
| tell who did the deed, but the purpose evil
IDENTIFY was robbery, as all their valuables
were missing.
The. battle of Coal Creek, Tenn, is at an
/ end, the miners having surrendered to Gem
eral Carnes at 4:30 p. M, August 1S, and
| General Anderson returned to his command.
1t Is not known how many miners were killed
| and wounded.
Miss Gertie Carmo, the balloonist, who
| was making ascents at the exposition grounds
at Detroit. Mich, was killed by falling to the
| ground from her balloon, distance OF 3Ou
feet. There was a large crowd present to
| witness the ascension.
Bud Lindsay. the ruffan leader of the
| Tennessee miners, turns out to be contemp-
| tible character. Citizens got hold of him
and prepared to lynch him, but let him on
because of his abject begging, and upon his
promise to point out all the leaders In the
| late miners mob.
tram Of burros from the Nedras mines,
state of Sinaloa, Mexico loaded with $50, 0OQ
worth of silver sulphides and guarded by
| twenty men, was attacked by fifteen bandits.
Three of the guards were killed and the rest
| left bound, while the robbers drove off the
burros with the loads of treasure.
A number of Usage Indians captured a
man named Oliver White, who was travelling
overland with horse and wagon, cut off his
hair. stripped him of his clothes, bound him
hand and foot, tied him to on upright post,
and committed other Indlgnities. Omcers
have left Guthrie, o. T., to arrest the Indians
for mistreating white man.
About lao more switchmen at Buffalo quit
| because they were asked to handle freight
| from yards now worked by Eon-union men.
Grand Master Sweeny said about this: Il
did not order them out, they went out of
| their own free will. I do not want them
blaming me if the strike should not prove a
success This is significant.
Ten thousand eight hundred knights par
| ticipated in the grand parade at Kansas City
Tuesday, which was one hour and forty min
utes passing given point. The weather was
| delightful during tho parade, and bright uni
| forms, cleaning helmets, flashing swords
and battle axes, dancing plumes and feathers
| aud flying flags presented an imposing and
| at the same time brilliant spectacle. The
parade was witnessed by quarter of a mil