Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-08-31
EREyTTIEs.


At Martinsburg, w. Va, Representa-
tive Wilson, chairman of the ways and
means committee. was renominated for
congress. Mr.. Wilson made notable
address to the convention, denouncing
the senate and the trusts.
Parsons, Kan, dispatch: purse
of $25, 900 is offered by Kansas, Indian
Territory and Texas citizens, for the
Jackson orbett fight to take place at
Wagner, Indian Territory, where there
are no laws to prevent such contest.
Richard X. Fox has telegraphed
Jackson and Corbett's acceptance OF
the offer, provided the money is de
posted in New York.
Congressman Amos J. Cummings,
of the house committee on naval affairs,
presented to the house preliminary
report of the investigation of the armo1
plates and bullets furnished the gov
eminent by the Carnegie Steel Com
pany.; The committee finds that the
charges of fraud have been sustained,
scores the company severely and re-
commends that fifty of the suspected
plates in use be tested. 1t also finds
that the government inspection was
neglected, but no charge of dishonesty
rests upon the inspectors.
1t is announced that an import
ant movement is on foot among the
labor organizations, which may have
an effect on politics, to arrange coali-
ton and establish permanent head
quarters in Washington for the pur-
pose of influencing legislation. The
Knights of Labor are at the head of
of the movement, and it is reported
the visit of Hayes and Martin, of the
executive board, in Washington last
week was largely to look over the field
and pave the way for the establish
ment of qr@rters Several populist
members of congress We're consulted
and offered their assistance IN further
ing the plan.
At the session at Topeka the cleo
ton of officers of the grand chapter of
Royal Arch Masons to serve for the
next three years resulted as follows:
Geo. T.. McGahan, of Baltimore, was
elected general grand high priest;
general grand treasurer, Christopher
q. Fox, of Buffalo; general grand sec
rotary, Albert G. Pollard, of Lowell,
Mass; general grand captain of the
host, g. E. Dyes, of Paris, Ills; general
grand principal sojourner, William G.
Swaine, of Milwaukee, Wis The list
of officers was completed by the cleo
ton of Frederick V. Craig, of Des
Moines, Iowa, as general grand master
of the first vail. After stubborn
fight between Baltimore and Boston
for the next convention the former
was successful. Then, after the usual
speeches, the convention adjourned
sine die
Desperadoes Will Lake and H. r.
German, who shot and killed Detective
Owens, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul road at Deersield, near Chicago,
recently, and few hours later shot and
probably mortally wounded Officer
McGrath, at Mayfair, We're surrounded
and captured by the police in Elk
Grove, near the Desplaines river. The
capture was only effected after six
hours chase and the exchange of fully
a hundred shots. The desperadoes
fought off the blue coats and excited
civilian participants in the man-hunt
until their ammunition was exhausted,
and then sought safety in fight.
Bullets from officers revolvers brought
both men to earth, and when the
police reached them they We're weak
from loss of blood. They shot Detect
i've Owens because he would not allow
them to steal asride.
Washington dispatch: The state
department has initiated the next
phase of the sealing question by adj
dressing an identical note to all mari
time powers, inviting them to adhere
to the agreement reached by the Unit
ed States and Great Britain relative to
the protection of the seal fisheries.
This was made necessary by the award
of the Paris arbitration, which found
the United States had no exclusive
jurisdiction over the seal waters, and
these could be protected only by mu-
tual agreement. To meet this the tri-
bunal recommended that an effort be
made to secure the adhesion of other
maritime powers to the same arrange
ment that bound Great Britain and the
United States. 1t is true the seal
herds have not suffered much as yet,
but there are indications that certain
enterprising merchants are making
ready to conduct a raid on the seals
under other flags than our own and
Great Britain's, notably the Hawaiian
and German flags, and it was felt the
prudent course would be to avoid any
disagreeable incidents in the future by
ing maritime nations to the agreement.
No difficulty is anticipated in the pro-
ject, SO the probabilities are the close
season. now bounded on the west by
the 1soth degree, viii be extended so
as to include the entire North Pacific
ocean as well as the Boring sea.
The British parliament was pro-
rogued by the usual formal speech by
the queen on the 18th.
A terrible gas explosion occurred in
breast CO on the sixth level of Frank
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