The Bessemer indicator., 1894-08-04


Finland has been invaded by bears,
who are ravaging the farm stocks.
Troops have been sent to kill them.
A chinaman has just been discov-
cred in San Francisco who has lived
in the same room thirteen years and
had leprosy all the time.
The Pullman company has been un-
able to get enough men to reopen its
shops. There is some talk of evicting
the strikers from the companys
houses.
The japanese troops in Corea have
commenced forward movement
against the positions occupied by the
Chinese troops IN the same country.
\ battle is daily expected
A dispatch from lquique, Chill,
says. Advices from Peru are that the
insurgents in the north have gained a
number Of small skirmishes, but the
revolution is not regarded seriously.
MIR. Debs and his associates have
formed a new organization known as
the American Labor Union. 1t is in
tended to include all classes of work
iDgmen and women not employed in
railway service,
The directors of the American Rail
way Union have issued a call for
convention Of the Union to be held in
Chicago, Thursday, August . 1t will
then be decided whether the strike
shall be continued.
The troubles at Enid and Pond
Creek, Oklahoma, are now probably
over, as the Rock l-land road has at
last consented to build depots there
and give train service which for so
long they have denied the people,
The New York police board has
found Police Captain Doherty and ex
Wardens Mahan and Hook guilty of
having received money for police pro-
lection, and they were dismissed from
the force This is the first tangible
result of the Parkhurst crusade.
The first suit of the many that are
to be brought against the city of
Chicago BY the railroads for the dam
age incurred during the strike has
been filed by the Louisville, New Al
bany 6, c hicago road The suit will
serve as a test case and is for s. dam
ages to a freight car.
Gozio Tateno, japanese minister to
Washington, has been recalled to
Japan, and Minister kueno, an e1per-
fenced diplomat has been appointed to
succeed him. This change is said to
be made in pursuance of settled sys-
tenn Of the japanese government to
change its representatives at short in
tervals.
\ dispatch from St Louis, Senegal,
says force of natives, led by Ali
Kari, Marabout, who recently
preached at Jehad, made an attack on
the French. The latter repulsed the
natives and captured their stronghold.
Ali Kari and 500 of his supporters
were killed. \ European and eight
natives on the French side were killed.
Six officers, fifteen Europeans and l29
pafiras ,vara wounded
The claims of property owners on
Grand Boulevard, Chicago, have been
sent to Washington by General Miles.
Fifty thousand dollars is the aggre-
gate amount asked by the owners Of
the properties damaged by the explo-
sion of the artillery caisson July l6.
The board of officers appointed by
General Miles, it is said, has recon-
mended the payment Of nearly all the
claims in full.
1t is generally admitted that China
and Japan are now at war, though
their epresentatives have not received
notice of an official declaration Of war
Reports are being received of fights
between war vessels. A japanese
cruiser is reported to have sunk Chi
nese transport bearing troops. It is
diff Gu 1t to obtain reliable news 1t is
stated on reliable authority that the
king of Corea is a prisoner in his pal
ace under guard Of Japanese soldiers
| The Gulf & Interstate railroad pro-
| jected by leading Populists is pro-
crossing. Fifty miles of grading have
been completed. The officers of the
road claim that contract has been let
for putting down 300 miles of track,
not less than fifteen miles month
and that satisfactory financial arrange
mcnts have been made for the pay
ment of the contractors. Whether
this statement is true or not, it is a
fact that tons of steel rails, which it
is said arc the first shipment for
eighteen miles of the road, have ar
| rived at Port Bolivar and the actual
work of laying the track has com
menced. Numerous Texas towns
along the route Of the proposed rail
road have made offers OF assistance
that have been accepted, and the work
of getting right of way through that
state seems to be progressing satisfac-
torily.
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