Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-05-20
TAILORS' STRIKE,
The Trouble with the Garment
Workers in the East Spreading. =
A SENATOR RETURNS HIS SALARY.
Rudolph Lehfeld, Of Iowa, Says He Did
Nothing to Earn Mlllionaire's BODY
Body St0len-BOught Fortune for
08-Anti-Scalpers' Bill Signed.

New YORK, May 9.-The Progressive
Tailors, numbering 1880, have not yet
Joined the strikers. A delegation of
the strikers will go to Newark and
there urge the fraternity to quit work.
The strike committee was busy yester-
day calling at all the shops on the east
side for the purpose of urging the
operatives to quit work The con-
tractors, according to Schoenfeld,
who is leading the strikers here,
show disposition to take sides with
the strikers, with tine object Of forcing
the manufacturers to pay better prices
II was rumored yesterday that the
state board Of arbitration would use
Its offices for the purpose Of adjusting
the present difficulties. At confer
ence last night of committees repre-
senting the United Brotherhood Of
Tailors and Progressive Tailors 1t was
decided that the latter, numbering q
500, would strike in the morning.
Leader Schoenfeld, who presided at
the conference, said he anticipated
general strike to-day or Thursday, in
volving at least $1,000 garment work
ers in this city, Brooklyn and Browns
vile.
The children's coat and jacketmakers
Of Philadelphia to the number of 49,
went on strike yesterday for an in
crease of % per cent. in wages. Quite
q number employed in other branches
of garment making went on strike and
II Is said there are at least 1000 gar
ment workers now out in Philadelphia.
A SENATOR RETURNS HIS SALARY.
Dies MONIES, Ia. May l9.-State Treas
urer Herriott has received from State
Senator Rudolph Lehfeld, of Crawford
county, the warrant for S67s mailed to
the latter Us pay for his services as
senator during the special session of
the Legislature, Senator Lehfeld ex-
planned that he had not earned the
money and could not accept II. His
action breaks the Legislative record in
Iowa. Senator Lehfeld was elected to
the senate against his will. lie OPP
posed the special session and only
came to Des Moines when important
matters, such Us The liquor manufac-
ture bill, necessitatcd his vote, He is
republican elected in u democratic
district in the landslide of 1895,
A MIL1LoNAIRE's BODY STOLEN.
PORTLAND, Ore, May lo.-The body
of the late millionaire banker, W. :.
Ladd, was stolen from Riverview Gene
terry last night. The wooden casket in
which the body rested was also taken,
The discovery was nude this morning
by an employe of the cemetery. who,
in making his usual rounds, discovered
that the grave Of the deceased million
aire had been disturbed, and an exam
nation showed that the body had been
stolen. Thus far no cew has been OBJ.
tanned MS to the identity of the grave
robbers, and the only cause that can
be assigned for the deed is the hope of
obtaining reward for the return of the
corpse.
BOUGHT A FORTUNE FOR SIX DOLLARS.
BURLINGTON, H., May l9.-It is now
probable that the missing $l7O,OOO as
sets of the lately defunct Burlington
Insurance Co. is the property of
Mr.. George W, Stone, a Burlington
commission merchant. At the time of
the sale of the property and assets OF
the company Attorney Blake offered
for sale all the unknown assets In one
lump. Stone bid themin for 800, and |
they were turned over to him, They |
now prove to have the above value.
ANTI-scALpERs' BILL SIGNED,
ALBANY, N Y, May l9,-Gov, Black
yesterday signed the so.called anti.
scalpers' bill, 1t absolutely prohibits
the selling of railroad and steamboat
tickets in this state except by agents
authorized to make such sales, and
then they shall sell tickets only in the
towns where their written authority
gives them permission to make sales.