Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-06-12
A LABOR RIOT.
Collision Between Strikers and Mine
Officials at Minonk, Ill.
THREATENED STRIKE OF pLASTERERS
Lieut.. Peary Talks About His Polar Expedi-
tion-A Big Mortgage the Lake
Shore s Michigan Southern Rail-
way-Only One Pupil.

PONTIAC, ILL.,, June "a serious
labor riot occurred at Minonk yester-
day. 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 ma jority.
Yesterday while Superintendent A. w.
Morgan and one of the bosses, Joseph
Erbeland, We're escorting one of the
men to work, a crowd of miners inter
fered. A fight ensued and Morgan and
Erbeland commenced to shoot. killing
instantly young married miner
named John Wetoski 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 PLASTERERs.
NEW YORK, June "a general strike
OF plasterers, it was announced last
night, will be ordered by the board of
walking delegates to-day in all shops
where the employers refuse to allow
the union to elect foreman. There
are about $4,000 plasterers in the city.
general election of foremen was held
last night at a 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 a year at
the minimum scale of $3.50 per eight
hours work.
PEARY'S POLAR EXPEDITION.
WATERvILLE, Me-, June 9.-Lieut-
Peary, the arctic explorer, was inter-
viewed here in regard to the plans for
his next trip to the arctic regions Il
foo
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. 1 shall take
along with me Il sufficient number of
Eskimos to drive the sledge teams as
rapidly as possible. 1 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 L expect to get over
the ice very rapidly"
BIG RAILROAD MORTGAGE.
CHICAGO, June "A mortgage for
$50, 600, 600, the largest ever placed on
record in Cook county, was filed 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 L. 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 $43, 1872, 900, bearing
seven per cent. interest, and to raise
money for present needs. The new
bonds are to bear 80 per cent. interest
and mature in 100 years from June 1,
1897
ONLY ONE PUPIL IN A 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.