Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-06-09
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The Missouri Pacific shops 1T Sedalia
were shut down only few days. Arrange
ments are proposed to use petroleum fuel
there if coal gives out.
| Calling gun has been ordered to be
sent from Chicago to Cripple Creek, COL, as
! quickly as possible, to be used by the depu-
! ties against the miners.
Strikers prevent the movement of coal cars
! In Ohio by all sorts of methods. They COM
| pei trainmen to obey them; pull coupling
! pins, ETC.. and in ali their acts boldly defy
| sheriffs.
The railroad and TOWNSHIP fight in Okla
homa is now hung up in conference COM
mittee; both houses passed bills concerning
| it, but as they differed there is room for al
| most any sort of finale.
The Presbyterian church at Mulhall. o. T.,
was dedicated last Sunday, making church
dedicated every Sunday in the territory for
the past three months.
Representative Jerry Simpson, who has
been critically i'll, has been steadily improv-
ing since he passed the crisis of his attack,
and will go to Berkely Springs.
West Virginia negroes are being taken to
pennsylvania coal mines by train loads.
The operators are giving more evidence
every day of determination to mine coal.
The indictment against J. E. Malone. ex-
register of the Perry, o. T., land Office, for
allowing fraudulent entries, was set aside in
the district court on the ground of irregu-
larity in selecting the grand jury.
Ottumwa, Ia. lost five blocks by fire Sum-
day, June 3. Fifteen business buildings and
twenty dwellings were consumed; others
damaged. Two lives were lost and several
persons were injured.
Four pounds of dynamite was placed on
the track of the Evansville and Terre Haute
railroad in front of the train bearing the
several companies of the Indiana militia. 1t
failed to explode.
DR.. Porter, who is attending Mrs. Lease,
says she will soon be able to leave the deaf
and ,dumb institute at Olathe, and that he
advises her to go to the mountains as soon
as she is able to travel.
The New York HeraId's Washington cor
respondent says that Mr.. Cleveland is angry
and makes no effort to hide it. 1t is said an
interview will appear soon which will scold
congress for non-action on tariff reform.
The 81. 300 900 in currency, gold and silver
sent to Tah.equah, l. T., to pay the Chero-
KEGS for the Strip, arrived safely. 1t took
two wagons to convey the money from the
railroad twenty miles to the Cherokee cap
ital.
Companies and G of the West Virginia
state militia, of Huntington, were ordered
out by Governor McCork lie to go to the Cam
den mines to protect working miners. The
soldiers were ready and on a train in forty
minutes.
Three companies of infantry left Fort
Leavenworth for South McAlester, /. T., to
eject striking miners from the territory.
They will be expelled under the law which
authorizes the removal of white persons who
are IN the territory without leave.
Notwithstanding the fact that two inches
of rain fell all over central Kansas the night
before, more than 10000 people visited Fort
Riley on Memorial day. Excursions came
from Parsons, Salina. Beloit, Belleville, Kan
sas City and intermediate points.
Strikers posted notices at Frontenac, Kan.,
warning the miners there to come out or
they would shoot them out This caused
some uneasiness among the miners and a
few timd ones failed to go to- work, but the
majority of the men are staying in their
places.
This is the year. in which both the cicada
tredecim. (thirteen year locust) and the CT
cada septendecim, (Seventeen year locustsl
are due and they are both making their
appearance. Their simultaneous awakening
from the larvae state will not again occur
in 221 years.
From six O'Clock in the morning. and
throughout the day, the Colum bian Liberty
bell, which had been placed in position in
Madison square, New York, was continually
tolled in recognition of Memorial day. The
tolling was done in details of veterans of the
wars of 1872, 1S48 and 1861.
Governor Waite was twice called upon by
Sheriff Bowers for aid by state troops in Sc
h. If ty md
times refused. President Calderhea' of the
miners; union, was hidden by the governor
and his private secretary when the sheriff
was searching for HIM &c arrest him:
The Grand Army posts of Fort Wayne,
Ind, have caused a sensation by passing the
resolutions condemning all kinds of picnics
and sports on decoration day. Bicycle. road
races. base ball games and excursions are
denounced as unpatriotic and disrespectfud
to the memory of the nations sleeping he
roes.
Attorney General Olney holds that all
Cinnamon who have failed to comply with
the requirements of the Geary law, which
required them to register before May A.. must
suffer the penalty of deportation to China.
Meantime. as there is no appropriation for
fees and expenses, the law is not being exc
cuted.
A meeting to celebrate the fiftieth year of
the Y. NJ G. was held in Chicago in the lee
ture room of the association building. Rev.
David Beaten delivered an address on the
origin and growth of the association. At
noon of June jubilee thanksgiving ser
vice was being held at the association head
quarters.
-Four thousand tons, of coal from Cardiff,
Wales, was brought into New York by the
steamer Cynthiana, consigned to the Ber-
wind White Co Il company. The coal is for
ocean steamers, and is furnished
at a loss to the contractors of about $3.50 a
ton. This is in consequence of the strike in
the bituminous coal fields.
United States Attorney W. c. Perry said
in Topeka that it is the intention of the fed |
eral authorities to try the Sanders train steal
ers at the June term in Leaven worth He |
says the United States officials have made |
no attempt to compromise the cases against |
the Sanders crowd, and believes the prose |
cutiou will continue the same as against any |
other class of offenders
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