Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-21

Refuse.
Sis p. m The mob at South Omaha
have captured the electric cars, and is
coming to Omaha. Ten thousand men
are at Jefferson Square ready to march
10 Council Bluffs.
$50 p. m.-A telegram from Weston
says Harris Fox, Superintendent Of the
Rock Island, while sitting q the depot
was shot at. 4hs bullet missed his
head by few inches. No clue to the
man who did the shooting.
OMAHA, NEB., April 20 Three thou
ssud laboring men marched out Of
Omaha to-day with banners flying,
bound for the camp Of Gen. KeIly's
Commonwealers at Weston, Iowa, IA
miles east Of Council Bluffs. 1t was
done upon the signal agreed upon az
last nights meeting Of the Central
Labor Uniou-ths ringing Of church
bells and the blowing Of whistles-an-
nouncing that Kelly's army was still
A. Weston, unable to secure a train for
the east
Inside OF Eve minutes 5000 men had
gathered at jefferson Square and were
quickly organized into companies with
captain for every ten men.
The march was tnen taken up through
Sixteenth street TO FarDim. where the
column proceeded to the City Hall and
eountermarched. AT every street re-
eruits were received and when the col
umn reached the Paxton Hotel there
we're 2,57O men 10 line.
Each r9py was provided With an
Amertcaa dag anu as fast as recruits
jolned they we're forced into companies
J aud provided with banners. There were
number Of Union Pacific men in the
line OF marchers, however, but they
we're men who had not gon9 10 work
this morning.
All the meR seemed TO be in excellent
SDirits and demanded that the march
sbould moan business. The column had
beep preceded 20 Council Bluffs oy
committee Of prominent citizens ap-
pointed
ArLAsr NIGHTS MEETING
NJ the Central Labor Uuion including
Rev. DR. Joseph II. Duryea, Of the First
CONGREGATIONAL church, Rev Or. Ham
ersoD. OF the First Presbyterian church
and Rev. Frank Crane, Of the First
Methodist church.
The committee was 20 cau on Gov.
jackson and the managers or the rail-
road and urge that the cOmmonwealers
be al once started on their way East
While the column was marching TO-
vvard tbe Missouri, Gen. Kelly was In
, Omaha seated in the private car OF
President ST. John, OF the Rock Island
road. holding an animated conteren nee.
Mr. 81. John said, 10 response 90 q re-
ouest for a train, that he was not 10
position TO grant it, even should be de-
ire N do so, as the matter was now
wholly in the hands of the presidents OF
a Iowa trunk lines, and 20 one road
mid grant a request for train unless
presidents of all the other lines
reed.
Sen. Kelly then left the car and
lied ON other friends for advice. One
eminent man suggested that the
nv levy on the farmers FOR horses and
tgons: that the army be split up into
ousds Of 100 men each, and that they
spread ont over stretch OF 90 or 25
miles wide and march on foot across the
State, It was suggested that sucn
,lan would soon bring the people OF the
State to time, for the army would prac-
tically
DEvAsTATE THE COUNTRY
through which it passed, and the rail
roads would then be forced TO take the
Commopwealers up and carry them out
Of the country. Gen. Kelly said the
plan seemed to him a good one and he
thought il might be tried lie agreed
10 call z council OF his officers and
Mace the plan before them. After de-
liberation, II they agreed 70 II, the plan
would be adopted. The General later
left for Council Bluffs.
Itis said that some Of the Anarchists
who were IN the column marching out
OF Omaha had some dynamite with
them. but how much is not known.
Chief Scanlan, wFO met the army st
/, the bridge had all the saloons closed
and the company officers suppressed
the numerous vocal demonstrations
which we're made.
AT this jUncture General Kelly
arrived in Couocll Bluffs aud was at
once sent FOR By Gov. Jackson and the
attorney general. The interview was
q prolonged Que, mostly a mOnologue,
for Gov. jackson took occasion to re-
view in detail all the actions he had
taken, the purport being that be had
taken every means possible 10
help the ar, iy 9A its way and that State
authorities had not laid a straw in its
way. He notified Kelly that she ctti-
zens Of Council Bluffs had arranged to
furnish boats 20 take the army 20 Kan
sas City and to provide them with shell
ter here and ample provisions while the
preparations for this trip are being
made. Kelly replied that be wanted
to st and would answer later.
Ine yessed himself TO the Governor
Theling him for the detention
estinE ne railways but said he aud
CouncP here as citizens Of the