The Kansas blackman. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1???, 1894-04-27

1t is said that the president has dlreeted
the District commissioners to give Y. fl. \ /:
Taylor the place of superintendent Of street
cleaning in Washington.
Salt Lake City business men are raising
money to assist the 800 commonWealers en-
listed there out Of the city. Every town
wants to unload them on some other pace
All coal at stations Of the Evansville &
Terre Haute railroad has been held Tor the
use of engines. Twenty-Five cars at lerre
Haute consigned to Chicago dealers we're
held.
The Kansas State Federation Of Labor has
Issued an official circular calling upon all
union men to work for the defeat OF Coy
ernor Lewelling for either nomination or
election.
According to President McBride's figures
$4,000 miners stopped work on the 2lst
Senator Martin and Representatives Brod-
erick and Curtis were booked for speeches
at the Odd Fellows ceremonies at Washing
ton. on the seventy fifth anniversary Of the
order.
German American League club has been
organized in Atchison, which Will oppose
prohibition and woman suffrage. It Il
claimed that these clubs are being organized
all over the state.
Settlements Of Danes and Russians OF TIM
eastern border Of Colorado are sald TO have
suffered severely during the winter tor lack
of fuel. They raised nothing last year ana
are naked and hungry.
Frank Evans, Of Topeka, who has been in
Washington some months representing the
Rock Island in some matters before congress-
is very seriously ill.
The seventy fifth anniversary Of the insti-
tuition Of American Odd Fellowship Was tt
tingly celebrated in all important PLACES
throughout the country.
Messrs. Burke and Brown eaitor' Of the
Oklahoma City Times-J oRrnal were sem
fenced To each pay tine Of s22O ana YEN
days imprisonment in the county lail, for
contempt Of court.
Attorney General Little. Of Kansas. thinks
that telephone companies can be compelled
to receive and deliver written messages not
withstanding any contract between tnen
and telegraph companies.
Most Of the Great Northern shopmen at
st. Cloud, Mimi, who left their places have
agreed to return to work. and nearly all have
done SO. 1t appears that the men were I'M
duced to quit under intimidation.
Representative Boon. populist, Of Mime
sofa, offered a resolution in the house in
structing the secretary Of war to provide
camp with tents and rations to all organized
labor that may come to Washington to pre-
sent their views to congress.
The Chemung river is fifteen feet above
the low water mark and rising rapidly. Base
ments of stores along Water street at Elmira.
N. ", are flooded. All trains are delayed
by the high water at Corning, where 1t covers
the track to the depth of five feet.
The Kansas society Of the Sons of the
Revolution appointed w. 4. Scott, Of Hol-
4-~ q ~ ~ al
ton to be held at Washington, April 30. Mr..
Scott is the only member of the society who
is son Of soldier Of the revolution.
The Cherokee delegates. Duncan and
Thompson presented the vice president with
a memorial of the Cherokee nation against
the nation's being taken into a territory or
state with Oklahoma, as suggested in The
McRea bill now pending in the house.
Michael Boland, Of Kansas City, is dead |
from a wound received in the war of the re- |
bellion. He always took a prominent part |
in the Irish cause and was, at one time, one !
of the Clan-na-Gael triumyirate His assoc |
ciates were Alexander Sullivan and Patrick |
Egan.
The st. Louis Republic proposes new |
scheme for the government to collect what |
the Pacific railroads owe it. II is to com |
mence suits against the individual stock |
holders, who are by law primarily and indie |
pendently liable for the debts Of the corpo-
ration. /
Judge G.. G, Foster has returned to his |
home in Topeka. after several months spent |
in Texas for his health. His health is much |
improved and he states that if the improve
ment continues he will soon be able to re-
sume his duties on the bench, which he aban-
doned two years ago.
Attorney General Engley, of Colorado,
says: "No private detective. or member Of
the Pinkerton or other detective association
will be recognized by this Office. No private
detective has autho.ty 70 make arrests in |
this state and | will protect all persons re-
sistlng such arrests, which are violations of
the law"
Work on building the dam on the Kansas
river at Topeka is said to be delayed only by
Judge Caldwells orders that the Santa Fe
receivers shall spend no money on sidetracks
until the back wages Of the employees shall
have been fully paid. To build the dam
there must be d spur track built to deliver
materials.
Herbert Gardner president of the English
board of agriculture, says that infected ami
mails had been detected in such numbers in
cargoes landed in his country during the
past few years as to prevent him being salts
fed that reasonable precautions were taken
in the United States: to which any American
will say, Rats!
The Paris Temps compares Coxey's march
to the uprising Of the populists in the middle
ages, adding: "At the same time it would
be wrong to regard this particular demon
stration as the advent of social revolution.
Society in America lies upon such broad
foundations and is so firmly based upon the
national conscience that what would lead to
a general revolution elsewhere is only a
rapid skirmish in America
A bill has passed the senate which pro
vides for leasing the school lands in Okla
homa The matter H. taken out Of the hands
of the interior department and until the leg
islature can meet is placed at the disposal Of
the governor, secretary and superintendent
of public instruction. A similar bill passed
the house. The secretary of the interior did
not like the bill. as it was in the line of re-
taxing the departmental hold in Oklahoma.
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