Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-07-28
LATEST NEWS.
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Hurried Readers.

The Pullman Palace Car company has de
clRred the regular quarterly dividend of
per cent, payable August 10.
Ex-Chief Bushyhead. of the Cherokees,
was overcome with the heat at Kildare, o.
T., and it is not thought he will recover.
Anti-Sovereigh delegates were elected by
the district assembly. knights of Labor, at
Plttsburg. Pa. The delegates are favorable
to Powderlv.
district of Kansas nominated Hon. Thomas
j. O'Neal, of Usage City, as their candidate
for congress.
The Coxeyites confined at Fort Sidney,
Neb. are said to be in a terrible condition,
and an epidemic Of typhoid fever among
them is feared
New men employed Fort Wayne rail
roads in the yards and trainmen are
hourly subjected to the most brutal assaults
from discharged men.
The senate bill providing another Judge
for the Eighth circuit has passed the house.
Senator Martin rather expects to be appoint
ed to the new position.
The Southern Pacific railroad shops at
Oakland are at work, but it is not safe for
the men to go to and from their work. They
are guarded by soldiers.
The Kansas City. St. Joseph & Council
Bluffs railroad has just completed cutoff
in the bottoms opposite Atchison, which
shortens its line three miles.
A dispatch to the London Times FROM
Shanghai says war between China and Japan
is considered certain.
The Lincoln Monument association ten
ders the monument to the state of Illinois,
provided the state take care of it.
Buffalo. n Y. has 10000 Poles who live
in a section of the city by themselves and do
not conform to American ways. 1t is the
largest Polish colony in this country.
A convention of ffty-five accredited dele
gates, representing 1920 lease holders in the
Choctaw country, met at Ardmore, l. T., to
formulate plans to protect their interests.
c. H. J. Taylor. the Kansas black man
who is the recorder of deeds for the District
of Columbia, gives it out that no white man
will be given place under him.
The East ST. Louis strikers executive board
declared the American Railway union strike
off. A ballot was taken and the proposition
was carried by a two-thirds vote.
The recent strike has caused scarcity of
lime in St. Joseph and work upon school
and other buildings now in course of con-
struction has been abandoned for the time
being.
Governor Tilman, of South Carolina, has
issued a proclamation that the dispensary
law is in full force and will be enforced, not
withstanding decisions of the courts to the
contrary.
In the Wisconsin and Minnesota forest
fires, farmers, many of whom are in their
first year, having taken to the farm because
of the hard times, are losing their all, and
will have no provisions for winter
Editor J. B. Chapman. of the Topeka Daily
Press, has hoisted the populist state ticket
and says his paper will advoc tie populist
principles as opposed to straight democracy.
He has been favoring fusion in the past.
The federal grand jury in Chicago returned
twenty three more indictments against Debs
and other officers and members of tho A. R.
o.; Debs' name appearing in all of them,
and they take in seventy-dve individuals.
Acting Governor Lowe, of Oklahoma, has
offered reward of $500 for the arrest of any
of the bridge burners. who have been de-
stroying so many bridges of the Rock Island
railway, in connection with the townsite
fight.
Delegate Flynn 5 amendment is now about
certain to pass the senate. The same thing,
in the form of a bill. has already passed the
house. 1t allows settlers in the Strip to
commute entries after fourteen months res
idence.
In the United States district court at st.
Paul, the grand jury reported between fifty
and Others for interference with the mails
during the recent strike on the various north
western roads.
The Sacramento strikers could return to
work without prejudice, with the exception
of those arrested for crime. The strikers
have not the power to declare the strike off,
and the dispatch said that the situation had
been wired to Debs.
Manager Milburn, of the Pullman works,
is receiving applications from the old me-
chanics to 60 to work. He says that as soon
as $50 are ready to work the doors will be
open to them, whether the military forces
are still on duty or not.
Debs and the other A. r. q. officers have
addressed an appeal to the people of this
country to, in the name of fairness and JUS
tice. refuse to ride in Pullman palace
car until such time as the Pullman COM
pany deals justly with its employees.
Debs and the other officers are already I'M
der $4,000 bail each, under the original in
dictment returned against them. Their bail
under the five new indictments has been fixed
at 5000 upon each charge, in all $4,000 bail,
which each will be required to give.
1t is reported on authority believed to be
reliable that the popuists of the Second dis
trict who nominated +. A. Willard for con-
gresham are seriously considering propO-
sition to withdraw him in the interest of the
democratic candidate, Colonel L. H. Moore.
Applications for admission to the regl-
ments of the national guard in New York
have recently been more numerous than
ever, and among them are many members
of labor organizations. Some of the applI-
cants are mem bers of the Knights of La Dor;
evidently new policy for that secret society.
At Chicago crowd of strikers overturned
two loaded stock cars in the stock yards July
20, and a striker threw a switch in front of
Northwestern freight train, derailing the
engine. The strikers continued their threats
against workmen and several small out
breaks occurred. but all were quickly sup
pressed by the police