The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-07-19
HE'S AFTER BIG GAME
GROVER CLEVELAND WANTS TO
KILL A BEAR
Miners Wreck . Train -COllapse OF the
strike. -T~s- Year Old Eor=ia Sentenced
-I'renGergast IL Hanged HanEman
busy Ia North Carolina.


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-Geueral A l. New. Collector OF Infer
ma, revenue at Denver. Colo. is arrany-
Ing for hunting trip IN Colorado FOR
Cleveland. Attorney General
Olney. Secretary OF War LAnont. Senator
German. Collector OF Internal Revenue
Miller Chairman Harrtty. and other DIS
tin yuished men. General New says that
the President is ANXIOUS 10 xii. Dear
The locality that VII be selected for tie
hunt will probably be Che m"uniains
around Glen wood Sprin-s Gen. New VIII
70 to Washington soon. and hopes 10 com
piete all arrangements for the hunting
trip at that time.
The miners OF Fontanct. Il station on
the Big Four a Jew mile, west OF 'crre
liautc, on Friday morning added murder
10 the crime OF stopping trains ana az
tempted lynchinc>. An engineer ana hre-
man. who had nothing t. do with the
strike. were manyled to death under 'he
wrecked engine Of a dcraiied train. Inc
victims we're Engineer Charles Xohr-
man. aged forty-two. lselefOn,aine; Fire
man Charles Fieick. Indianapolis, The
train was running at the rate OF forty
five m lies an hour when It struck an open
switch aud went down an cinbankment
eight feet high. The engineer ana fireman
were ground to pieces The engine. bag
gage car. express car and the day coach
are piled in the ditch. hro'.cn mass.
-"The great railroad strike is on"
There was Il mournful intonatiOn TO his
voice as Eugene V. Debs. President OF the
American Railway Union. uttered these
words Friday forenoon. sixty seconds
later the Associated Press was flashing the
nows to every city and town in the United
States and to the capitals Of Europe. A
hundred thousand miles Of telegraph wires
carried the refrain to the uttermost parts
Of the earth. Tho great strike is on"
echoed through the length and breadth OF
the land.
Without a word OF protest or an act OF
resistance Patrick Eugene Jose,h Prem
der:ast suffered the extreme penalty OF
the law Friday for the murder OF Carter
II. Harrison. He was hanged at CHICAGO
in the County Jail. His last words we're:
~ bear malice toward nOne.'
The month OF July. 1898. viii go down
into history as the banner month for legal
executions in North Carolina The list num-
bors eight In August there will be sew
eral other executioss Montgomery County
osta blishcs IL hitherto unbeateu record by
the hanging OF eight men within the period
murderer escapes the law IN North CIR
Olina
Judge Rector. OF the Federal District
Court at Dallas. Texas. has refused to in
terfere In the case OF +. =. Miller. scu-
fenced to be hanged Aug. for the murder
Of Police Officer Riddle.
-General W. Ferguson, secretary and
treasurer OF the Mississippi Icvee board.
with headquarters at Greenvilie. Mass i.
has left that place Discrepancies aggre-
eating S25. 900 or more had been discovered
in his accounts
The construction force on the Mexico.
Cuernavaca and Pacific Railroad has been
Increased to 1000 men. and the line is te-
ing pushed forward toward the port OF
Acapulco. on the Pacific coast. as rapidly
AS possible IT. Is expected that the road
will 10 com pleted to Cuernavaca. Me xico. hy
Feb l. The state Of More! Ia and the Fed
oral government have given the road liber-
al Subsidies. The contractor and president
Of the company is J. IL llnmpson. OF Kan
sas City.
"A sensational scene occurred on the
most prominent business street OF Wichita,
when J. +. H. Casey. n well-known lawyer
and u member OF the city Board OF Educa-
ton. was horsewhipped by Sloan Stanley.
Of Houston. Texas. Young Stanley came
from Houston on purpose to punish Casey.
who Is accused OF too great intimacy with
his " pc writer. Stanlcy's sister Mrs. Ca
sey. It IS understood. has made a move in
the direction OF securing "A divorce Casey
II II prominent church elder aud Sunday.
school teacher.
1T Is estimated that the combined los.
OF the various roads centcrins in IhicaS.
caused by the strike will amount to owe,
$4,000 900. This loss. IL Is claimed
- caused Ivy decrease in earning.
from traffic alone and does not inclu,!,
tho loss caused by destruction OF prop
crty, which will foot up about 81, 900 90,
more. s me Of the loss. however is otrsr
by large saving in expenses. yet the los
{" the roads. both on account OF loss q
traffic and destruction of prep 'rty by til,
Chicago roads alone. IT is believed. vii! no
bc less than S4.ojooJa.
Hishwaymen ~ Wicke-. Mont. Er,la,
morning made a raid that Melted then
s1l.6oo The money stolen belongs to I'll,
United Smelling Company. ami was for us
IL payin: of employees OF the Alta mine
near WitkcS. 1t was sent through Bach
Cory 4 Co. because their store at Wici,,
furnishes miners w.!h supplies and buy
their time checks Robbers in,srcep,e
the cypress wagon. held up the driver
trok cut the safe containing the money
PUT II into their wagon. aud made OF T.
the h lis
-Gae ~ the re .uits o. the late stris,
Is that thc building ~ The bridge which
wuS proposed should span the M.sSi>>ipr
at New Orleans and the survey FOR Will,
Was heSLu and plau> repaired has bee
indctnuely postponed THIS is the >ecou
tine active opcrati ms have been rc,,
poG.& Tae preliminary work has bee
Completed a! the plans have tceu ,na.,
for the other worS. aud a great lea. Of til
material for the rough work ard surer
structure. etc. = either the -roun,. ,
on the way.
Nellie Weaver. the l0-year-o.a cis
who Was arrested At IoGtpe.ier Ind On
cha--c o. putting poison Ia the food ~: /
A W.si.,sr aud family. whom she serve
Us Il domestic. pleaded guilty to III
charge and was sentenced to the fema
reforma,ory uu.u she becomes IL az,
Waluler ard his wife were Ill .o- sever.
days. tut have recovered
The Evansville Ind ro.,ers area-