Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-07-21
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General Superintendent A. J Hit, of the
Rock Island, school teacher at Omaha
twenty-three years ago. and quit teaching to
accept a position as brakeman.
Judge Grosscup has charged the federal
grand jury to inquire into the charges made
| that the railroad managers conspired to-
gether to stop running trains.
Senator Allen. of Nebraska, got fighting
Chandler and Hawley. He was forcibly re-
strained in his apartments until he ''got
better
The coal strike is off at Rich Hill, Mo-,
the miners going back on the terms in force
when the strike was called. The leaders
and fomenters are barred from further en-
pioyment.
The cost of the eleventrcens up to June
! 30, 1894, amounted to $10,365. 667. There
are still 672 people at work upon it.
An effort is making to have the govern
| ment take hold of the Peabody, Kan. silk
station-the only one in the United States.
Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor Harri-
son, was hung on the morning of July ID.
In almost any other country in the world a
like crime would have been punished by exc
cution within month after its committal.
The Christian Endeavor convention at
Cleveland, o., is said to have opened with
1900 already arrived. There was full rep;
resentation, except that some were influenced
not to make the journey from the west by
the strikes.
Judge Phillips allows q. s. Marshal 10.
Shelbys many deputies 81 for each eight
hours of service.
The anti-options bill, which has been on
the vice president's table since it came from
the house, several weeks ago, has at last been
referred to the committee on agriculture and
forestry.
Sixty men were sent out on the Burlington
& Missouri railroad from Kansas City to do
railroad work in Montana that the Montana
brigade of Coxeyites seems to have marched
away from.
Striking miners at and about Spring Val
ley, ILL.,, looted stores belonging to the mine
operators. Stolen goods have been found in
many places and fifty men are in Jail charged
with the deed.
The interior department admits that the
Kickapoo reservation could be opened as
early as August 1, but Secretary Hoke Smith
wants to let the cattle now pastured there
be made ready for market before they are
forced off.
The Cleveland, Ohio, Knights of Labor
adopted resolutions demanding the impeach-
ment of President Cleveland. The grand
officers of the z of L. are at Washington
making a move to have Attorney General
Olney i'm peached.
Acting Governor Lowe, of Oklahoma, has
called upon the secretary of war to send reg
ular troops to Enid and Round Pond. United
States Marshal Nix is appealed to for more
deputies, but has referred the matter to At
torney General Olney.
The general grievance committee of the
Order of Railway Conductors of the Santa
Fe system has been in session in Topeka.
The meeting is one which is held the second
week in July every two years, for the pur
pose of electing officers, etc.
There was no official meeting of the con-
ference committee of the senate and house
for ten days or more after the tariff bill was
sent to conference. The democratic mem
bers got together frequently and discussed
proposed changes in the bill.
Numerous telegrams are received at the
White house commencing the course of the
president in his endeavor5 to put down the
strikers instruction. They come from
prominent men of all parties and indicate
cordial support from every quarter.
The democratic members of the confer
ence committee on the tariff bill have not
reached an agreement, and it is possible that
they will agree to report disagreement to
the senate and house before calling in the
republican members of the committee.
The Pullman shops are under purely local
authority and no law. it IS stated al Wash
inoton. could empower the United States to
the purpose merely of examining INTO the
relations between Pullman and his employees.
The Bailey bankruptcy bill, which passed
the house July IL, Is purely voluntary
bankruptcy measure. 1t Is limited IN
in its operation to two years. Under 1t prop
erty is administered according to state laws,
thus creating no officers or new machinery
for its execution.
Postmaster General Bissell tells railroad
managers everywhere that the fact that the
managers may anticipate that their trains
will be DISTRACTED and property destroyed
cannot be regarded as sufficient justification
for them to withdraw trains from service
and make no effort to transport the mails.
Judge Taft. of the United States circuit
court at Cincinnati, found f. w. Phelan to
be the active agent in an unlawful conspir-
acy with Debs and others to paralyze the
business of the United States, or in other
words to starve the nation IN order to force
an employer into terms, and sent him to jail
for six months.
Argentine strikers boycotted merchants
who sold to nOn-unlOn men and threatened
to boycott the working engineers and every
body who sold them goods. hint that the
Santa Fe would retallate brought mass
meeting of business men and citizens, when
resolutions were adopted intended to smooth
matters over.
Strikers at Sacramento are we'll armed and
the state and local authorities have not been
able to resist them. United States forces
were sent there July 10 on two steamers,
with cavalry advance guards on both sides
of the river. When it was thought that these
troops would come by rail all engines were
killed and tracks blockaded.
General James B. Weaver wired from
Des Moines to Sovereign: The railroad
kings, conscious of their impending defeat,
have uuloaded their controversy upon the
government. They seek to place laboring
men in Instruction while they hide their
disreputable carcasses be hind the flag. While
standing firm, again warn all you n.on to
vigorously avoid riotlng.
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