The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-06-11
A LABOR RIOT.
Collision Between Strikers and Kline
Omcials at MiponE III
THREATENED STRIKE OF PLiSTERERS
Lieut.. PeaFy Talks Ab0uS HIS Polar EzPesi-
tIon-A Mig Mortgage on the Lake
shore 5 Michigan Southern Rail
Way-Only One Pupil

PONTIAC, III, June "a serious
labor riot occurred at Winonk yester-
dav. The coal miners there have been
on a strike since May l. During the
last week few men have been work
ing against the wishes Of the majority.
Yesterday while Superintendent A. w.
Morgan and one Of the bosses, Joseph
Erbeland, were escorting one of the
men TO work, a crowd OF miners inter
feFed. A fight ensued and Morgan and
Erbelapd commenced to shoot killing
instantly a young married miner
named John WetoslSi and wounding
another This so enraged the miners
that they attacked Morgan and Erbe-
land with clubs and stones and beat
them badly. Morgan may not live.
The town Is excited and there IS no
telling where the trouble may end.
| THREATENED STRIKE OF FLAsTERERS-
New York, June "a general strike
Of plssterers, il was announced last
night, will be ordered by the board OF
walking delegates to-day in all shops
where the employers refuse 20 allow
/ the union to elect a foreman. There
are about $4,000 plasterers in the city
A general election Of foremen was held
/ last night at q meeting at the head
quarters Of the union IN East Fifty
/ Fourth street. 1t was decided that no
man shall become foreman unless first
elected, but when once elected, upon
/ the nomination of an employer, the
latter must employ him for year at
the minimum scale of $3.50 per eight
| hours work.
PEABY's POLAR EXPEDITION.
VAUDEVILLE, Ne, jane 9.-Lieut
Peary, the arctic explorer was inter
viewed here in regard to the plans for
/ his next trip to the arctic regions. Il
feel confident that / shall be able to
reach the pole, but how much time will
be required to do it l cannot tell 1t
may take two years, perhaps three,
possibly four or five. / shall take
along with me 4 sufficient number of
/ Eskimos to drive the sledge teams as
rapidly as possible. / prefer the Eski-
mo to the white man, for the reason
that they are born to drive the dogs
and drive them two miles to one by the
white man. Thus I expect to get over
the ice very rapidly
A BIG RAILROAD MORTGAGE.
CHICAGO, June "a mortgage for
$50, OOO, 900, the largest ever placed On
record in Cook county. was fled with
County Recorder Simon yesterday
afternoon. 1t is given by the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railway to
the Union Trust Co., of New York, and
John T. Dye, of Indianapolis Ind,
trustee The object Of the mortgage
is to issue bonds with which TO refund
the bonded indebtedness of the com
pany, amounting to S4S, 1872 co., bearing
seven per cent. interest, and to raise
money for present needs. The new
bonds are to bear 81 per cent. interest
and mature in 100 years from June /,
1897.
ONLY ONE PUPIL IN \ SCHOOL.
GALENA, ILL.,, June 9,--Miss Maggie
Hart, teacher of the miners district
school in East Galena, presides daily
over a school consisting of one solitary
child Of six years, the only person Of
legal school age in the district. The
patrons of the school decided to pro-
vide teacher and daily sessions, as
the alternative of disintegration OF the
district, which would unite them with
contiguous and heavily taX-burdened
districts, while waiting patiently for
the newer generation to populate the
community.