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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1888
Page
1
Attorney notices and office location details list OHN Q A NORTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, situated above the National Bank. The fragment indicates a professional listing emphasizing a legal practice and address placement.
An Associated Press reporter traveled the Burlington system from Aurora to Kansas City with a Brotherhood engineer guide. The trip aimed to gauge real conditions amid a strike and show widespread delays, reduced freight, and shifts in management stance. Public and private sessions revealed stubborn positions in a volatile labor dispute.
Alexander Sullivan, legal adviser to Chief Arthur of the locomotive engineers, tells the Chicago Times there will be no conspiracy to protect Burlington property and criticizes incompetent engineers. He says the dispute centers on wages, not management, detailing pay disparities between mile and trip rates and urging equality with other roads.
Omana March 14. At 2 am every Union Pacific switch engine drew fires and stood in the roundhouse. Eighteen engineers were sick and only four of seventeen yard engineers at work. A westbound freight waited for a crew, but crews fell ill. Some crews quit entirely. The grievance committee met General Superintendent Dickinson. outcome not disclosed. The union denies traffic denial and cites wages and road tyranny as motives. Judge Dundy postponed hearing until Friday.
About a hundred delegates from Brotherhood of Engineers and Firemen representing railroads into Chicago met for eight hours in Carcaco. They voted to refuse handling any Burlington car, a move aimed at ending the dispute quickly without a full railroad tie up. Eastern roads planned a separate session to decide, with results to be reported tomorrow morning.
A Reading passenger train left the embankment killing one and wounding many as a colossal storm system caused 22 drownings or freezing deaths along the coast. Reports from Lewes and Delaware Breakwater confirm the catastrophe amid four foot snows and blizzard conditions. A Reading railway wreck near New Kirk killed brakeman George Humes and injured sixteen passengers, nine fatally, with further internal injuries reported for two others.
Report from Deckertown says a Catholic church was blown down by a terrific gale on Monday. The structure is described as a complete loss with no further details available.
The State Republican Central committee met in Torixa Kas with large attendance. P I Bone brake of Topeka presided and decisions set the state convention for July 25 in Topeka to nominate state officers, and a Wichita meeting on May 9 to choose delegates and electors.
Dispatch from Topeka to Kansas City Times faults Rush County officials for contempt claim as false in every part. It asserts Lacrosse remains the duly elected county seat by over 400 votes and will uphold its rights despite the court’s election date dispute.
Curcaco March 14 report says south western railway lines join western and north western roads to restore freight rates on March 26, excluding the Burlington and its controlled lines which refuse. Outside roads St Louis and San Francisco and Kansas City Fort Scott Gulf join. Burlington ignored.
The New York board of trade and transportation passed resolutions denouncing the proposed fisheries treaty with Canada as a surrender of most American fishing rights. It charged that those rights were fully recognized by the state department before negotiations with British commissioners.
In Schnectady area snowbound lawmakers passed thirty six hours playing poker with no sleep. Food prices were high with pies four dollars sandwiches fifty cents eggs twenty five cents and liquor auctioned on a train fetching eight dollars fifty cents. Western Union earnings for the quarter ending March 31 show a surplus of about seven million dollars after payments and funds. A revival meeting is being led by Rev Keller in Albuquerque.
Wichtta Kansas March 14 A mass meeting adopted resolutions praising the Springer bill opening a portion of the Indian Territory for settlement. The committee urged southwestern Kansas citizens to press Congress for its speedy passage, arguing opening will aid civilization and curb outlawry. Signed by L L Repprxge J W Faixx R T Simone and E C Core.
In Washington on March 14 the Senate debated repeal of internal revenue laws and considered the undervaluation bill, with plans to adjourn until tomorrow. After executive session it adjourned. A Fort Riley right of way bill passed, and bids to recognize Tanegashima survivors were approved. A contested Illinois election was affirmed, ports fees set, and a cotton loss claim discussed amid mixed rhetoric. In Missouri, delegates gathered for a southwestern convention with officials en route.
In Springfield Missouri a physician Dr Geo W Cox allegedly attacked Effie Ellis burning her with vitriol and destroying her sight after luring her with telegrams. The assault followed a dispute over a relationship with Fenton Cox son of the pension examiner. Effie Ellis, formerly with a variety troupe, was severely burned and disfigured though not fatally. The doctor surrendered and bonds were posted as crowds debated lynching. Effie’s life is not in immediate danger and she is expected to recover. In Kentucky a mob hanged John Henry Skinner alias Cox alias Reynolds near Hopkinsville for a fatal shooting in 1887.
The secretary of the treasury transmitted to the house estimates totaling 6 890 203 for collecting customs revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30 1883. A sub committee of the house public funds committee began drafting a general bill to declare forfeiture of all unearned railroad land grants. Also reports on Moorish prisoners under American protection and a treaty with China signed and to be sent to Congress. For sale 6 room house monthly payments or land trade in Lawrence, Kansas.
Brief news items report imminent execution of Mexican invaders Capt Muncse and Lt Obves, a Kansas volunteer firemen tourney abandoned, T J Potter funeral in Burlington, Elder Bennet robbed near Moundville, Judge Krekel denial of habeas corpus, Kane and Smith arrested in a Bohemian oat swindle, Dalles street railway tax issues, Mrs James array exposing Emmett gang of thieves with arrests and recovered plunder.
Padvapetraia March 14 delegates representing Reading employees declare the long strike off and grant workers the right to apply for their old jobs as individuals.
Frank Kennedy, cook at a Walnut street restaurant, shot and mortally wounded Herman Dorkewitz, a Russian baker, in a quarrel over a hatchet this afternoon. Kennedy escaped. Weather maps show light to fresh south easterly winds, warmer conditions, followed by colder northerly winds.
Market notes show Moxgr-On csil at 223 percent with last loan at lige and closed at 243 percent. Mascantit Parsu Prime Mercantile Paper quoted at ag5h percent. Excianos Sterling Exchange dull but steady at 35 percent for 60 days bill and 4.8755 for demand. No total stock sales recorded. totals show 106,107 shores with 1.25 percent coupon. Prominent stocks listed include Missouri 6s and Lake Shore, North West ... Union Pacific, Wabash, Western Union among others.
Kansas City grain and provisions listed with bid and ask data on corn meal, bran, and steerage.05 prices include corn weak 43, mixed items like yellow corn 95c sacked. butter and cheese prices adjust for creamery, Young America 13 1 3c. live poultry and turkeys priced. bacon, salt and lard figures cited. overall a snapshot of current railcar and commodity rates and offerings.
A dense, data heavy livestock market summary from Chicago and St Louis dated March 14 shows cattle hogs and sheep receipts and prices. Pricing ranges include good to choice and common to medium with varying weights and cuts. Market tone described as active and strong with mixed reports on several classes.
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