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YOLUME L
; THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
Mayor Francis of St. Louis Examined
as to the Strike.
St. Louis dispatch: The congressional
investigating committee heard business men
of this city to-day as to the effect of the
strike upon business of the city and the
country to it. The most important testi
mony of the day was by Mayor Francis,
who, alter agreeing with the half dozen gen
tlemen who preceded him, that the business
of this city had suffered losses, both direct
“and consequential, which would amountto
millions of dollars, went on to state that
the strike occurred on the 6th of March
without a word of warning, and to the sur
prise of himself with many others. Pras
pects for an increased spring trade were ex
cellent prior to the strike, but an almost
complete paralyzation of the commerce of
this city resulted from theé strike. This
state of affairs existed for about twenty
days subsequent to the date of the strike.
The railway people were afforded ample
Bolice protection when they asked for it.
pon the 23d day of March the railway peo
ple informed him that they would resume
business and asked for a guard of police,
iwhich was furnished. However, after con
kiderable trouble, the attempt to get out a
train was abandoned. The next day, how
sver, 100 policemen were sent to the yards
nd a freight train was run out. No great
fimount of disturbance had occurred, and
at no time was there any demonstration of
lawlessness which the police force were un
able to control. The peace of the city had
never been endangerea. After the breaking
of the blockade the railroad people had
gradually resumed business. When asked
if the railway people were protected in their
property and rights between the Gth and
24th of March he replied that he was not
asked for police protection until the 23d,
and when asked if he furnished it promptly
replied that he had, and that the company
could have had the same protection any
day aiter the strike had they seen fit to
ask it. Mayor Francis took occasion to
wigorously denounce the publication to the
effect that he had furnished Winchesters to
deputy marshals of the Louisville & Nash
ville road in East Louis, with which they
had done the fatal shooting of April 9, as
unqualifiedly false. When asked why it
was that for eighteen days no trains were
run, he again answered that all protection
asked for was furnished, and that no
reason existed why that same protection
could not have been furnished at any time.
J. M. McMillan of the Missouri Car and
Foundry company was the next witness.
He stated that for eighteen days after the
strike he was oblized to close his works,
throwing 1,000 men out of employment.
{ His testimony mainly related to the strike
afterward, which his own men entered upon
because of his refusal to break his contract
with the Missouri Pacific and cease supply
ing them with small repairs. He com
plained bitterly of the interferences in his
Business by an outside committee, who
had made these demands upon him, and
upon his refusal to treat with them
ordered his men out. He declared he
would not now take his men back in a
body, but would receive individual ap
plications only. He would not discriminate
against the Knights of Labor, but would
not hire any agitator or any leaders of the
present strike, all of whom are unlawfully
engaged in persuading and intimicdating his
present employes, and who make incen
diary speeches to the men. He stated that
one Mr. Barry of the Knights of Labor had
addressed the men in a very incendiary
manner.
FOREIGNERS OF PROMINENCE.
" The prince of Wales, among other official
positions, holds that of president of the
Amateur Phetographic association.
A Paris paper reports that the prince of
Wales' late visit to that city was for the
purpose of borrowing the sum of $250,000.
The empress of Russia likes Bret Harte's
books as an occasional rib-tickler, but for
a steady chuckle give her dear old Josh Bil
iings.
The prince of Wales hasnow reached that
period of life whén he expects to be accom
'})anied to entertainments by his daughter
n-law-elect. 3
- Ex-Queen Isabella still cherishes hopes
that she will sit upon the throne of Spain,
but a gdod deal will happen belore that
wvent takes place.
Victoria’s birthday will be saluted this
year on May 22. The good old lady de
serves to have a half holiday at least, and
a pudding dinner. -
'/ The European royalties are more inter
ested in Miss Folsom's trousseau than they
are willing to admit, but the president is a
bigger man than any emperor.
" The Princess Metternich is devoted to
private theatricals. She is indefatigable in
her efforts to make actors and actresses
~out of the Austrian nobility.
. This time it is the crown prince of Prus
sia who has published a book. He is more
fortunately situated than most literary
fellows, inasmuch as whether the work sells
or not he will get hisroyalty just the same.
Princess Drlgorouky, widow of the late
Czar Alexander 11., gives grand weekly re
ceptions at her splendid mansion in the
Rue de las Cases. Her two children are de
scribed as living images of their father.
The boy is now 14 years of age and con
verses fluently in seven or eight languages.
Queen Victoria has -placed in John
Brown's bedroom at Windsor castle a large
brass tablet inscribed with the legend of his
death in that room, his many virtues and
the queen’s grief at his loss. But Wales is
80 oblivious of that good man’s memory
that h(}fi said to have dropped his old for
mula of praying for the queen, John Brown
and the rest of the royal family.
THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Mr. ,Boye-r. director of the Panama Canal
company, is dead. =
‘Dutch I'len.ry ,”’ the king of the newsboys
at St. Louis, is dead. e
Panama canal affairs are approaching a
fearful financial crisis.
Fred Douglass has written a letter highly
complimentary of Cleveland.
The reports from the cattle interests in
the Pecas (Tex.) valley are bad.
The Union Pacific proposes to buy Den
ver, South Park & Pacific railway coupons.
T%“* newsboys of San Antonio, Tex., or
ganized and called themselves the “Kids of
Labor,”” £
The soap factory of J. D. Kirk & Co., of
Ch.lca-go, closed on account of inability to
ship goods.
Johann Most and two of his associates
have been arrested for revolutionary talk
and threats.
John A. Lyon, a prominent stove dealer
of Indianapolis, was instantly killed by
Samuel Marley.
The doctors at Philadelphia hafl a split,
and two sets of delegates will go to the na
tional convention.
Ch.ief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, refuses to attend the
Trades unions convention.
John Gibbons, the striker who was killed
at St. Louis, was buried by the Knights of
Labor. They had a large procession.
The stonemasons and bricklayers of
Akron, Ohio, threatened to strike, but the
contractors granted their demands for
shorter hours.
The president approved the bill extend
ing the time of completing the records of
the court of commissioners of the Alabama
claims for a period of two months.
Chinch bugs have appeared in the wheat
fields near Centralia, 111., in enormous num
bers, and growers are fearful that the
promising crops of this year will be entire
ly destroyed.
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PERSONAL AND OTHER NOTES.
Rev. James M. Taylor has finally decided
to accept the presidency of Vassar college.
Timothy Sexton, of Dublin, has left $40,-
000 for the benefit of the aged and infirm
clergymen.
Henry George, the political economist, is
forty-seven years old and about five feet
two inchesin height.
Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, an
swers the question, *“ls whist signaling
honest?”” in the negative.
Chang Yen Woon, the Chinese minister, is
a short, thick-set man, about fifty yvears
old, with a thin, red moustache.
The widow of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, of the
Virginia cavalry, is now keeping a prosper-.
ous girls’ school at Staunton, Va.
Gen. Schenck, who wrote the only work
on poker which the British aristocracy
conld comprehend, is practicing law in
Washington.
Prince Bismarck was left $l,BOO lately
by the will of a Warsaw merchant, who
wished the chancellor to buy a keepsake
with the money.
Enoch Pratt, who gave Baltimore itsfree
library, is thought to be worth six orseven
million dollars. He is pastseventy, though
still hale and active.
Ex-Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is put
ting his correspondence and other mem
oranda in shape for a volume of history re
lating to the civil war.
Miss Folsom is described as tall and
Juno-like in outline with a complexion of
ivory whiteness, all the rad in her face
glowing in her full and beautiful lips.
Mrs. Gladstone is losing her memory,
and frequently comes down to dinner with
a grotesque combination of shawls and
other irippery for the body of her dress,
which she could not find.
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Ben Butler on the Labor Troubles.
When asked by a New York Tribune re
porter what he thought of the strike, Gen.
B. F. Butler said: *“I do not see cven the
beginning of the end. The revolt of the
masses, of course, is always a dangerous
thing. The courts are being dragged into
the present controversy, but actions of
courts must be temporary, because if the
organization of labor extends much fur
ther, the organization will take possession
of the jury-box. That is to say, their
members would get to be jurors, and con
victions would be impossible. A large por
tion of the judiciary of the country 1s
alective and subject to the same control.
It was a mistake for Judge Pardee to
attempt to deal with the Texas Pacific
strike as contempt of court, because the
railroad happened to be in the hands of a
receiver, and to punish men as il for con
tempt. In the first place, the strikers
never had an idea in their minds of inter
fering in any way with the court or its offi
cials. Boycotting is utterly unjustifiable
and should not be adopted by the laboring
men especially because it is the weapon of
capital used by capital from time beyond
memory. Thatis to say, whoeverin the
world's history has stood forth as an
advocate of the right of labor, whether in
the forum of a politician, in legislative
halls as a statesman, in court as a lawyer
or in the press as a journalist, has always
been boycotted by capitalists. Boycotting
is a coniession of weakness, not an exhi
pition of strength and it can’t be dropped
too soon. It is a two edged sword more
dangerous in the hands of unskilled wield
ers to themselves than to others.
NICODEMUS, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1886.
PARAGRAPHS THAT ARE POLITICAL.
Southern republicxls largely favor Blaine
as a presidential candidate.
The colored voters in Georgia are moving
to elect some of their own race to the next
legislature.
There is an effort to make the Blair edu
cation bill an issue in the Alabama cam
paign for state officens.
Gen. Charles Hamlin, son of Hannibal
Hamlin, evinces an”earnest intention to
become governor of Maine.
The Oregon prohibition convention was
as outspoken against Chinese immigration
as against the liquor traffic.
Wm. Walter Phelps’ helief that Blaine's
nomination is inevitable, has been con
firmed by his recent visit to Maine.
Hearst, the new California senator, is
said to be a most excellent judge of men
though he doesn’t know so very much
about books.
Republican statesmen who are making
choice of their summer tri» sre warned by
the New York Graphic tha. [amilton
is at Bar Harbor to stay.
Ex-Judge Harding, of T 4@ county,
Pa., is a prominent der ¢ candidate
for governor. He was - -ly a repub
lican, but two years ago went over to the
democracy.
Democratic candidates for the guberna
torial nomination in Texas are occupying
considerable space in the newspapers now
days, stating their positions on questions
of the day.
The New York Tribune is in favor of sub
mitting a prohibition amendment to a vote
of the people of the state. The imvression
seems to be that it would be overwhelm
ingly defeated. ~
Mr. Morrison has introduced in the
house a bill prepared at the treasury de
partment designed to give effect to the act
cutting off the commissions of internal rev
enue collectors on taxes collected on dis
tilled spirits, which act, the supreme court
recently held, did not accomplish the pur
pose intended.
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MEN AND WOMEN OF PROMINENCE.
Fudge Pavit Duvis €2 v poited to be get
ting ominously thin.
Hon. Lionel Tennyson, son of the poet
laureate, died during a& passage from Lon
don toCalcutta.
Don Carlos is willing to bet on his chances
of being king of Spain, but there seems to
be no one ready to take him up.
Woerishoffer, the great New York specu
lator, has accumulated over £6,000,000
by fortunate ventures in Wall street.
Frank Liszt is said to be wholly depend
ent upon his royalties and an annuity of
$1,500 which he gets from the duke of Ba
den.
Mme. Albani, the once famous singer, has
just celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of
her birthday. She is living in Paris in fine
style.
Gov. Long, of Massachusetts, is going to
marry a Massachusettsschool teacher. The
governor has two beautiful daughters by
his first wile.
Col. Tom Curtis, of Buffalo, who was
Cleveland’s chief of police, is said to be
likely to succeed Brooks as chief of the
secret service bureau.
Mr. George William Curtis’ whiskers have
long been the admiration of the literary
monarchs of Europe. In London Mr. Cur
tis is generally taken for the emperor him
self.
The new minister to Siam never played
but one game of draw-poker, and then he
called a 60-cent pot on four kings. Can
such a man fitly represent the American
people in a foreign court?
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A Protest Against Davis® Utterances.
In response to a call issued by General
Henry A. Barnum and others, Grand Army
men and citizens to the number of 200 met
in the assembly chamber at Albany, N. B
on the 29th to protest against the utter
ances of Jefferson Davis in his speech at
Montgomery, and, in the words of the call,
to denounce the resurrection of Davis from
the oblivion to which the loyal and pa
triotic people consigned him. Patriotic
speeches were made and the assemblage
sang “*We Will Hang Jeff Davis on a Sour
Apple Tree.”” The following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved, That treason is odious; that
the union of the United States ol America
and the liberty which American principles
of popular government illustrate is worth
the blood of all the loyal citizens of our
country.
Don't GO 10 ranama.
‘Thomas Adamson, consul general to the
United States at Panama, has written to
the labor contractor at New Orleans, re
questing him not to send any more labor
ers to work onthe Panamacanal. Hesays
very little work has been done on thecanal
for months, and that laborers have not as
good a chance for employment there as in
the United States. A number of laborers
sent from New Orleans have died there.
The hospitals are inadequate and laborers
are not admitted to themif the contractors
can prevent it. When a man is taken sick
he is at once discharged, so that he may
not demand admittance.
THE LAW MAKERS.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont, is 76 years
old. He has spent thirty-two years in con
gress.
Harper’'s Weekly considers Senator
Vance's speech on administrative reform
tne funniest effort of the session.
Senator Warner Miller is working for the
support of the Uuion league, which did so
much towards electing Senator Evarts.
Senator Hoar wants to educate all In
dian children to some useful pursuit and
grant the Indians full citizenship and land
in severalty.
Gov. Alger, ol Michigan, informs a re
porter that Senator Jones’ actions in
Detroit have convinced many people that
his mind is unbalanced.
Although Senator Ingalls is charged with
scepticism in religious matters, it is ob
served that hehad all his children baptized
in the Episcopal church.
Senator Edmunds and Hoar publish a
card to the effect that they have never de
nounced the G. A. R. or objected to the
statute giving preference to soldiers.
Senator Hale has been to Maine, looking
after his fences. The Grand Army men are
opposing his candidate for governor, and
threaten to defeat Hale's re-election to the
senate.
Congressman Gibson’s greatest delight is
to saunter down Pennsylvania avenue and
gaze longingly and lovingly upon his own
photograph, which adorns the window of
an artist’s studio.
According to the Galveston News, John
H. Reagan is about the biggest man in theé
popular branch of congress at present. In
fact, Reagan wouid be a big man in the so
called upper house.
The Nashville Union says of Senator
Whitthorne that heis a democrat of the
old school, but he is a man of progressive
ideas and is well known te the people of
the state as a useful and efficient member
of the lower house of congress, where he
served for several terms.
A STRIKE ON THE UNION PACIFIC.
Cheyenne special to the Omaha Bee:
Upon the arrival of the first section of the
est bound passenger train last evening
at Laramie it was met by a delegation
of the Brotherhood of Brakemen, who
stated to the train men that upon order of
the division at that place a strike had been
inaugurated and all the brakemen were
prohibited from going out. This section of
the train was composed ol emigrant cars.
Part of them are occupied by Mormon im
migrants. Some of the passengers hold
transportation to San Francisco, and
there was a hundred who were destined for
New Zealand and desired to reach San
Francisco Wednesday, as the steamer
upon which' they were to take passage
will leave Thursday. The second section
of the train arrived two hour's late, but
was permitted to proceed without any
movement tending toward interference.
This train carried the mails, baggage, ex
press and first-class passengers. All freight
trains coming into Laramie were stopped,
but in a very quiet way, no incendiary
feeling being exhibited. DBv 9 o'clock five
freight trains and two emigrant trains
were being held in the yard. This morning,
upon the arrival of the passenger train
from the west, nothing new developed, and
the train was permitted to proceed. The
first information of the strike was con
veyed to Cheyenne by a telegram to United
States Marshal Carr last evening. He im
mediately departed for Laramie by special
train, and has sworn in ten deputies.
Freights arriving from the east are stopped
here. The passenger from the east went
through with only the conductor. Assist
ant General Dickenson is here. All freights
arriving at Rawlins are sidetracked. There
are no fears of trouble yet. There are 150
men out.
Trouble Among the Krights.
Washington special: The Knights of
Labor are losing confidence in Powderly,
their chief, and there are signs of trouble
brewing within the ranks of the order. A
knight, in conversation with a correspond
ent, expressed the opinion that there would
soon be serious divisions in assemblies.
The one theme of discussionat all meetings
at the present time is the late strike and
action of the general master workman in
connection therewith., There is much com
plaint against Powderly, and he is blamed
for the continuance of the late difficulties
and the serious turn they took. Some of
the leaders aver that if Powderly had been
a man of great firmness the trouble would
have been brought to an end at the outset.
It is claime " he does not possess the confi
dence of his subordinates in that degree
which will eriable him to bring out of the
order all the good of which it is capable. It
is true that most of this seditious talk
comes from ambitious rivals and others
who cannot do as they %leue under the
present administration. But, for all that,
they intend to give the present chiel some
annoyance and make his continuance in
office as unpleasant as possible. Among
other things charged up against him is that
he allowed Jay Gould to get the best of him
in the negotiations that passed between
them.
* Brr, Miss Tomkms, G 0 tell meé now
how old you are.” *““Oh! but I don’t
tell my age any more, lam 'iustuold
as I look—there.” *‘lndeed, I thought
sou wuch younger,” e o s
NUMBER i
AGOOD BILL.
rbat Which Has in View the Driving:
Out of Bogus RButter. e
The house committee on agriculture re
ported an elaborate bill providing for plac
ing the manufacture and sale of oleomar
garine under the directiun of the general
revenue department. The reportsaysthat
there are 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 American
citizens engaged in the dairy business and
they must all abandon it and be driven
into some other already overworked branch
of industry unless they can be relieved from
the present ruinous competition with cheap
imitations of cheese and butter, which are
not only disastrous to the dairy interest
directly, and to all branches of agriculture
indirectly, but are detrimental to the public
health, being the fruitful cause of dyspepsia
and other diseases. From the best reliable
information obtainableabout 200,000,000
pounds of spurious and imitation com
pounds are now being manufactured an
nually, which not only takes the place of
so much butter, but’stops the consumption
of much more by the demoralization of
trade, besides beingdemoralizingin itseffect
upon the people. The existence of these
base counterfeits has already seriously im
paired our export trade, and will result
in still greater damage if not checked.
At least nine-tenths of the people of the
United States demand the legislation em
bodied in the bill. This measure has the
approval of the American Dairy associa
tion. It imposes a special tax upon all
manufacturers of oleomargarine of Ss6oo
per annum, wholesale dealers $4BO, and
retail dealers $4B. It requires that oleo
margarine shall be packed in firkins, tubs
or other wooden packages, that have not
been previously used for that purpose, of
not less than ten pounds to each package.
Every package is required to contain a
printed certificate and ecaution, similar to
that now used on packages of cigars, and
the imported article is required to be in
spected and marked ina like manner. The
tax is fixed at 10 cents per pound, which is
to be paid by means of coupon stamps sim
ilar to those now used for manufactured
tobacco. Heavy penalties are imposed for
any violation of the bill.
The bill also creates the office of analyti
cal chemist and microscopist, who is to be
attached to the staff of the commissioner
of internal revenue. The bill was reported
with the unanimous approval of the com
mittee on agriculture, and. its passage will -
be urged at an early day. : ;
AFFAIRS IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Mr. Gladstone is declared by his friends
to be iadifferent to the many criticisms
upon his Irish bills.
The strike inaugurated by the watch
makers of Grammont, in East Flanders,
is spreading and becoming serious.
The Birmingham Post says it under
stands that Chamberlain has given notice
that he will introduce in the house of com
mons an amendment in opposition to the
land bill.
Barox Vox Scurezer, Prussian repre
sentative at the vatican, has presented the
pope with an autograph letter and present
from Emperor William in recognition of the
pope’s action in the Carolinas aifair.
It is understood that France will join the
other powers in the issue of a ultimatum
insisting on Greece abandoning her warlike
preparations, but will refuse to join them
in any naval demonstrations intended to
coerce Greece.
The Journal de St. Petersburg says: The
powers have given their adherence to the
proposals of Great Britain to take strin
gent collective steps to induce Greece to
disarm. Greece, if peaceful now, will acquire
a claim on the powers herealfter.
An iron tower 984 feet high is to be
erected on the grounds of the coming Paris
international exhibition. The tower will
be supported by four pillars which will be
higher than the towers of the cathedral of
Notre Dame. The structure will cost one
million dollars and will be surmounted by
a powerful electric light, visible, it is be
lieved, as far as Dijon, 197 miles southeast
of Paris.
Tae London Standard, commenting on
strikes in the United States, says that they
will strain the resources of American states
manship, as they have only once been tried
since the war of Independence to keep the
conflict within the bounds of legality and
constitutional order. Republican institu
tions are still on their trial. It looks as if
the social difficulty would become their
severest test yet,
The Future Mrs. Cleveland.
A Greensburg (Pa.) woman, now in
Italy, writes as follows of Miss Folsom,
President Cleveland’s fiancee, with whom
she is quite intimate: “We met Miss Fol
som and her mother at Berlin and Dres
den, and more recently at Genoa, where
they now are. They sent word to us
through the consul to call on them, so we
went yesterday. After spending an hour
with them, Miss Foisom and her cousin
joined us in a walk by the sea. Miss Fol
som is very pretty and stylish, and so un
affected. She is engaged to President
Cleveland, and they are to be married in
June. They gofrom here to Paris this week,
and while there Miss Folsom will purchase
her wedding trousseau. She is having a
bust of hersell made, which she intends
presenting to Grover. She is young—only
20—arnd lovely.” g