23 Apr 1886
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1886
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR summary noting railroad references and names, with unclear dates or actions. Reads like a brief item mentioning Talley, Farle, and Avramants alongside an Atlantic Express context. Details are garbled but suggest a public notice or transportation snippet from an old issue.
Jay Gould testifies before a House elections committee about the Missouri Pacific strike. He details employee counts, the April disruption across Missouri Kansas Arkansas and Texas, and disputes with Knights of Labor. The hearing covers arbitration views, dispatches, and the impact on rail service as Lake Shore lines face depot blockades in Chicago and related unrest.
In Missouri, 500 workers at Missouri Car & Foundry left their jobs at 10 am under Knights of Labor District Assembly No 17. The strike targets repair material for Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain shops, with the company’s vice president stating continued supply to the two major customers. A Knights committee urged cessation of material supplies and offered workers the option to quit.
In St Louis on April 22 union members numbering about 3,500 pressed employers for a 15 percent wage increase. Two foundries granted the raise while others avoided a strike. A meeting resolved to renew the demand by May 1 or workers would strike. Knights of Labor funds grow with $3,000 in drafts and $20,000 from sympathizers. Also, Missouri Pacific freight depot workers in Kansas City struck for higher pay, threatening business until replacements are found. Nobby saltings and pant foods advertised at McConnety’s.
News items report the capture of Neary Warren John Coggins and William Boyd by Atlantic & Pacific detectives near Needles Cal for train robberies across Arizona and California. A Missouri Pacific freight train plunged off a embankment at Fox Worry, fatally injuring a fireman and injuring others. Also noted is a fatal fire at A H Andrews & Co furniture factory in Carcavo with $100000 loss and ongoing river and harbor appropriation debates in the Fifty- Ninth Congress with amendments affecting Monongahela river navigation and federal condemnation.
Brief items note Tuesday dam break victims laid to rest and a brewer found dead, plus a Salem West Virginia murder stir. A Lamieux saloon lynching attempt reported in Roscoe Dakota. Also advertisements and medical cure pitches clutter the column, with contact line for US vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer and ice delivery service.
Lawrence market crews list 3.5 for wheat and 2.65 for second heat. Corn white and rye quoted with small color notes. Butter, eggs, and poultry prices noted with cents per unit and per pound details.
Fragmented OCR notes show produce market items for Kansas City on April 22 including wheat No 2 bids and cash prices, corn meal and bran with small quotes, hay and creamery line items. Names and dates are partially garbled but indicate bids, prices, and shipping terms for multiple commodities.
Kansas City dispatch notes cattle receipts 15600? shipments 15000? market slow and weak with lower bids. Hogs receipts 7045 shipments 3499 opened steady with late decline. Packers offered 3.05 to 3.85. Sheep receipts 1357 shipments 3288 market quiet with good to choice weight 270 to 250.
The notes list prices and bids for flour wheat corn eggs and provisions as of April 29 with entries for No 1 red wheat cash bids and futures closing tones. Prices show flour and grain bids around 4.50 to 4.90 per unit and pork and lard provisions at 9.60 and 0.20 respectively with various letters indicating bids and months to close.
St Louis live stock markets report cattle receipts for the day with prices for various classes. Commercial to good cattle run 4.25 to 4.90 per hundredweight, feeder cattle and stockers around 3.70, heavy butchers 4.15 to 4.16, mixed packing 3.55 to 4.10, receipts near 2,000 with market fairly active earlier and then dull and lower as shipments continue.
Fragmented OCR shows April sales data for Southern winter wheat and oats with lot numbers, prices per barrel and sacks, cash quotes, and several unreadable tokens. Names of buyers and locations are obscured, leaving jagged figures and uncertain consignments.
The Drovers Journal notes cattle trade activity in Omtenno on April 22 with prices from 960 to 1,500 pounds and mixed cattle types. Hog shipments total 3,500, with rough price indications around 3.76 to 5.65 per hundredweight and packing-house weights cited. further lines reference Texas cattle and several ship shipments detailed in short form.
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