Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1904-06-24

over b0,0OO visitors attended the
Confederate reunion, which opened |
at Nashville on the 14th. /
A mine has been leased by the {
Western Federation of Miners in
New Mexico, which will be worked ]
by the men deported from Colorado.
Attorney General Knox, recent ]
ly appoated United States senator
from Pennsylvania, is to be sue {
ceeded by Mr.. Moody, secretary of {
the navy.
Several appeals from bodies of i
organized labor have been forward {
ed to President Roosevelt, asking
him to investigate conditions in the I
Colorado mining district.
e. j. Maupin of Nevada, Mo-,
fireman Of a Missouri Pacific
freight train, fell from his train
while passing over the tender and
was SO badly mangled that ne died. '
Fritz Zaner Of Buckholts, Tex,
had a gun set in his barn to shoot
some one who had been Stealing his
corn. The gun fatally shot his IL
year-old son while he was feeding
the stock.
The total admissions of the
worlds fair during the month of
May were 1901, 391, not including
those of opening day. The passes
recorded at the gates for May num-
bered $4,000, or an average Of ~
653 and fraction day.
On and after July /, 1904, car
riers on rural free delivery routes
will not be allowed to solicit bust
ness or receive orders of any kind
for any person, firm or corporation,
and shall not, during their hours of
employment, carry any merchan-
disc for hire, except upon the re-
quest of patrons along the route.
Eighty-seven warrants are out
for Cripple Creek miners who are
accused of completely in the explo-
sion at the Independence station
and the rioting at Victor. Among
those wanted are: Sherman Par
ker, secretary of the Altman un-
ion, who was acquitted after hav-
ing been held in the bull pen three
months on the charge of having
conspired to wreck Florence and
Cripple Creek train.
A company of militia escorted
seventy-six union miners from the
Cripple Creek district across the
state line into Kansas, where the
deported men we're compelled to
leave the train at point several
miles from a house or town. The
men were fired upon by members
of the militia as the train moved
away toward Colorado, and short
time thereafter the sheriff of the
county in which they were dumped
appeared with a number of deputies
and forced the miners to turn back
into Colorado. Gov. Peabody of
Colorado says if these men should
return to the mining district they
will be killed. AS soon as Gov.
Bailey of Kansas heard Of the ac-
ton of the sheriff toward the home
less men, he wired the official dis
approving of his act and stating |
that all men on peaceable mission
will be welcomed to Kansas.
One Of the most appalling disas-
tiers in the history of New York,
tragic in its immensely, dramatic in |
its episodes and deeply pathetic In
the tender age Of most of its vic
Tins, took place on the 18th inst.
in the East river, at the entrance to |
the Long Island Sound, within a |
short distance of the New York |
shore, and within sight of thousands |
of persons, the majority of whom
were powerless to minimize the ex-
tent of the catastrophe. BY the
burning to the waters edge of the
Gen. Slocum, a three-decked excur-
sion steamer, more than six hundred
persons, the majority of whom were
women and children, were burned to
death or drowned by jumping over
board or being thrown into the
whirlpool by the lurching of the
vessel and the frantic rush of the
panic-stricken passengers. The
fire was started by the overturning
of a lot Of grease at lunch stand
ON the forward deck.
A switch engine collided with an
excursion train bearing 700 people
at Minneapolis, MINI. Many per-
sons were killed and injured.
Gen. Bell, commander of the
state militia in the Cripple Creek
mining district, declares that he
has between thirty and forty union