Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-02-10
A CRACKER C0NDINE
Nearly All the Large Bakeries IN
der One Management.
PROBABLE SPLIT IN LABOR RANKS.
Illinois Legislators Make SHOW OF Them.
selves-Potter Palmer to Build Pala.
tial Mansion at New port -Matri-
mOnial Reform.

CHICAGO, Feb. All the biscuit and
cracker companies between Salt Lake
city, on the west, Portland, Me-, on
the east, st. Paul on the north and
New Orleans on the south, will this
morning be under one management
The name Of the new corporation,
which was incorporated yesterday In
the state Of New Jersey, with capt.
tai Of $25,OO0,OOO Of preferred and $780,
100000 Of common stock, is the Nation
al Biscuit company. The actual trans
fer Of the deeds Of the various plants
controlled by the companies merged
into the National company took place
yesterday in the office Of the Illinois
Trust and Savings bank in this city.
Benjamin Crawford, of Mansfield, O.,
was elected president The new com.
pany now has complete control Of the
cracker and biscuit trade between the
Atlantic ocean and the Sierra Nevada
mountains 1t controls 1S9 different
plants, which is about 90 per cent. Of
all the large bakeries in the country.
No change will be made in prices and
none is contemplated.
PROBABLE SPLIT IN LABOR RANKS.
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 4. -The primal
note has been sounded in warfare
between northern and southern or.
ganized labor which will undoubtedly
eliminate in the secession of the lat
ter from the national trades unions
now in existence and the establish
ment of another one distinctly south
ern. A prime factor in the movement
is the color question, Under the rules
of the national organizations negroes
are admitted on an equal footing with
the whites The recent troubles from
this source all over the south have in
tensitied the feeling against utilization
with negroes, and an association is de-
manded which is dominated by and
which dominates white men only. A
convention for the organization of the
projected association will probably be
called within the next few days. The
convention will be held in this city
and delegates from every white union
in the south will be present.
MADE A SHOW OF THEMSELVES.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb, AIN the
house yesterday Representative Ander-
son, republican, offered a resolution
favorng the annexation of Hawaii,
commencing the course of Senators
Cullom and Mason and requesting the
cooperation of the Illinois members
of the lower house to secure annexa-
ton. The resolution, after several
speeches, was adopted by viva voce
vote. During the discussion the house
was in an uproar. Paper balls were
exchanged, a huge pitcher of water
was set before one OF the speakers,
Representative Trousdale, and he
drank copiously from it. Another
orator, Representative Sharock, was
rewarded with bouquet" consisting
Of a miscellaneous assortment of paper
stuffed in a cuspidor
WILL BUILD A PALATIAL MANSION.
New YORK, Feb. 4.-Potter Palmer,
the wealthy hotel man of Chicago, is
about to build at Newport mansion
which, it is said, will be even more
paatial and luxurious than any of the
other beautiful summer homes now in
existence there. including even the
celebrated marble house, built by
William X. Vanderbilt, and now
owned by Mrs, 0. II, p. Belmont. Mr..
Palmer it is understood, expects to
spend between 81 ,OO0, 900 and 81, 600, 900
on his new home.
For MATRIMONIAL REFORM
COLUMBUS, o, Feb. 4.-Representa.
tive Charles W. Parker, OF Cayahopa
county introduced in the legislature
yesterday Il bill requiring all persons
applying for licenses to marry to pass
n medical examinations Persons hav-
ing djnsomania any form of insanity,
hereditary tuberculosis or consump-
ton or syphilis are barred from mar
ulrr by the bill. An examining board