The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23
DIVIDEND AS USUAL.
NO CHANGE in PULLMAN'S REG
ULAR RETURNS.
Texas Bandits Loot Train-Eig Rail.
readers Indicted Because OF the Santa
Fe Shortage-Echoes OF the Brccaln-
ridge Campaign-Farmer Facts.


Told n a Few Words.
Stockholders OF the Pullman Palace Car
Company held their annual meeting at
Chicago. over S:5. 100000 OF the capital
stock being Represented. Directors George
NJ. Pullman. Marshall Field. ]. w Ioanc.
Norman Williams and q s. A. Spra-ue. OF
Chicago. and II .nry [. Hubert. OF New .
York, aud Henry L. Reed. OF Boston. were
Reelected. The usual quarterly dividend
Of 81 per share. payable Nov. 10. was de-
clared. The financial statement for the
year ending July 81 Is Us follows: .. ~.
Reyenue .so.sa',", Sll':s ~ 80
Disbursements. -.........-.. 7..'465o SSH,
surplus. Observation-Disclosures. 2.32oAlo A,Se4As
The total number o; cars owned or con-
t-oiled by the Pullman company Is 3,5ss.
being an increase OF fifteen over the pre-
vious year. The total assets of the Conn
pany are S6a, 042.oo6 In 5 lite OF Wo-ld's
Fair travel. the total number Of passengers
Carried for t..e year was but 5.:>a, 323
against 5.613, 21o the previous year The
total manufactured product OF the COM
pany amounted to 81. 925. 33l. against Sla-
Ala. EOS the previous year. Total employees
number 10, SIS. against H. 635 the previous
year Total wages paid we're S+.9o>.5 4s
and =. 751. GA respectively. The Pullman
Savings Bank showed deposits July 81 OF
S356.361, u decrease of So56..l0 as com.
pared with the previous year.
No west-bound passenger train on
the Texas and Pacific was robbed by four
men Friday. few minutes before noon,
three miles west OF Gordon, Texas. The
safe in the Pacific Express car contained
$4,000, with transit for Thurber. with
which the Texas and Pacific Coal Conc
pany were Ia pay their employees S:.tur-
day. The robbers having captured
the section gang. tagged the train.
and forced X l. Locksby. section foreman.
to enter the express car and knock Off the
combination of the safe. but even then
failed to open it, and succeeded in making
but a slight haul No one WAS hurt. 1t is
believed the robbery could have been pre-
vented il one or two of the messengers had
been armed with shOtguns and had resist
1 ed The messengers way safe was battered
! open and what money there was in 1t was
taken by the robbers. The amount secured.
! 1t is estimated. runs any where bet ween
$500 and $1,000. The Texas and Pacific
| Coal Company has offered $500 reward for
the capture of the robbers. 1t is thought
the robbers were from Indian Territory.
and are now on their way back.
Under the penal provisions OF the in
terstate commerce law the Fedora! Grand
Jury at Chicago Friday. returned indict-
nents against the following: Joseph w
Reinhart. x-president OF the Santa Fe:
Nelson Morris. cattle shipper, packer. and
provision dealer. one OF the "Big Four:"
Isaac Thompson, cattle shipper. Kansas
City; John A. Hanley .ex- ira ffic manager Of
! the Santa Fe: General Manager jenkins, OF
the Hammond Beef Company. these in
dtctments were more or loss directly the
result of the discovery made several weeks
ago by Accountant Little, employed by
the receivers OF the Santa Fe system. that
several million dollars Of the company IS
income had been paid out in rebates
Prof j. b. Jones' Of Hamilton Female
College. and pastor Of the Providence
Christian Church. at Lexington. KY. has
been deposed from his pastorate by the
irate members. who object to his mixing
up politics with religion Prof Jones took
a prominent part In the Breckinr;dge-
Owens campaign against Colonel Breckfn-
ridge A majority of the officers in the
church were sympathizers with the Colo
mel. and as soon as they were given the
power they took revenge upon DR. Jones.
Charles Morgan field. the suspected
Quantico train robber. now under arrest
at Cincinnati, was notified at the hos pital
that it was not necessary to amput ate his
broken leg This gave him the creates,
satisfact and he consen ted t. talk. He
said he was gambler and spent his sum-
mers In the North and his winters in the
South. Being asked how he came to break
his leg boardin. a freight train he said he
, had come from Pittsburg. on freight and
2 had got of 1T Winton Place. He ther
S tried TO board another and was hurt He
denied having recently been in Cumber.
land. Nd. but On being asked how he 60
piilbox with the name OF Cum herlant
. druggist on it he said he might hHv,
passed through Cumberland He lie still
. under charge OF the police.
Z William W. Erwin. Debs' lawyer. de-
X MES that he symrathizes with the Popu
] list movement
The Missouri Presbyterian synod has
adopted Il resolution declaring that "n,
political party has the right to expect tn,
support OF the Christian man SO long a
that party stands ornmitted to the licens
policy or refuses to put Itself on recort
against the saloon,
The Michigan Grand Lodge of Cd
Fellows has elected the folio wing officers
GRIND master. NJ r Saiter, Ithaca; depu
:, ty. IL NJ Wilder. Grand Rapids: secretary
f Fl. Whitney. Lansing; treasurer. B. L
Prftchard. Allegan: representative Gsorg
| D. Davis. Lansing.
The International Association OF Rail
< way Superintendent OF Bridges and Build
: inys In session at St Louis, selected AT
lanta. Ga as the next place Of the con
vention. IN October. 1895. and elected G
". Andrews. Of Philadelphia. President
Articles OF association OF the Wabas
Fuel Company. with a capital OF S.5,00G
have been drawn up At Wabash. Ind, an
subscriptions to the stock are being re
ceived sixty thousand dollars will be en-
pended in laying an eight inch main to La
fon,atne. whence six-tnch lines will pene
trate the Grant County gas fields
Perry BeaL placer miner. was shs
BY kighwsyman a few miles from Butt,
Mont. and will probably die
!. Walter Crabtree. who fatally shot Will
= Iaech n harkeener in saloon 61t