The Trades-Union from Atchison, Kansas • 1

TRAD it is ti: advertising TO REACH THE WCT.X;"3 AN INJURY TO ONE IS THE CONCERN OF ALL." J1 VOL. I. ATCHISON, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 9. 1886. THI3 PAPFR ENDORSED BY THE.

KNIGHTS OF LABOR OF NORTHERN KANSA8. THE UNION. KNIGHTS OF LABOR. IOWA STATE AQC2rZLY. JOHN A.

ANDERSON arations to give a banquet to the Prince of Wales. She is taking the earnings of the movement in Kansas. The Hawkeye idea of locating one member of the executive board in each congressional district, with the view of eventually forming LABOR SOCIETIES. The Atchison Typographical Union, No. 113.

me-ts the first Sunday in every month, at 2 p. in Pierce's justice court room. John H. Pendleton. President H.

C. Patchen, Vice President JohnT. Keilly, Recording Secretary; J.M.Arthur, Financial Secretary, office) John C. Root. Treasurer.

Trustees J. F. Klunk, D. W. Rhodes, W.

P. Johnson. Hope Assembly, No. 3830. meetH every Friday evening at 8 o'clock, in A.

F. A. M. hall, corner Sixth and Commercial streets. A.

R. Shepaiid, M. W. W. 8.

Anderson, R.8. Phoenix Assembly. No. 43S5, meets every Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock, in Apollo hall, corner Third and Commercial streets. Frank Hall, M.

W. C. Salisbury, S. Liberty Assembly, No. 29.i2, meets every Saturday evening, at 8 o'clock, in A.

F. A. hail, coaner and Commercial streets. 4 1 Knights of Labor. Preamble and Declaration oi the Principles of the Order.

To thk Public: The alarming development and aggrca.slve-new of great capitalists and corporations, unletta checked, will Inevitably lead to the riauperlzation and hopeless degradation or be tolling masses. It Is imperative, if we desire to enjoy the fall blessings of llle, that a check be placed upon unjust accumulation and the power of aggregated wealth. This much desired object can be accomplished only by the united efforts of thote who obey the Divine injunction, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Therefore we have formed the Order of Knights of Labor, for the purpose of organizing and directing tbe power of the industrial masses, not as a political party, for It is more. In it are crystalized sentiments and measures for the benefit of the whole people, but it should be borne in mind, when exercising the right of suffrage, that most of the obJectH herein set forth can only be obtained through legislation, and that it lathe duty of all to assist In nominating and supporting with their votes only such candidates as will pledge their support to those measures, regardless of parly. But no one shall, however, be compelled to vote with the majority, and calling upon all who believe in securing "the greatest good to tbe greatest number," to Join and assist us, we declare to the world that our alms are: 1.

To make industrial and moral worth, not wealth, the true standard of individual and national greatness. 2. To secure to the workers the full enjoyment of tbe wealth they create, sufficient leisure In which to develop their intellectual, aoral and social faculties; all of the benefits, recreation and pleasures of association; in tm word, to enable them to share In the gain and honors of advancing civilization. In order to secure these results, wo demand at the hand of the State: 3. The establishment of Bureaus of Labor Statistics, that we may arrive at a correct knowledge of the educational, moral, and financial condition of the laboring masses.

4. That the public lands, the heritage of the people, be reserved for actual settlers; not another acre for railroads or speculators, and that all lands now held for speculative purposes be taxed to their full value. 5. Tbe abrogation of all laws that do not bear equally upon capital and labor, and the removal of unjust techicalitles, delays and discriminations in the administration of Justice. 6.

The adoption of measures providing for the health and safety of those engaged in mining, manufacturing, and building industries, and for indemnification to those en- therein for injuries received through ack of necessary safeguards. 7. The recognition, by incorporation, of trades unions, orders and such other associations as may be organized by the working masses to improve their condition aud protect their rights. tt. The enactment of laws to compel corporations to pay their employs weekly, in lawful money, for the labor of the preceding week, and giving mechanics and laborers a first lien upon the product of their labor to the extent of their full wages.

9. The abolition of tbe contract system on national, state and municipal works. 10. The enactment of laws providing fof arbitration between employers and employed, and to enforce the decision of the arbitrators. 11.

The prohibition by law of the employment of children under 15 years of age In workshops, mines and factories. 12. To prohibit the hiring out of convict labor. 13. That a graduated Income tax be levied.

And we demand at the hand of Congress: 14. The establishment of a national monetary system. In which a circulating medium In necessary quantity shall issue direct to the people, without the intervention oi banks; that all the national issue shall be full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private; and that the governmen shall not guarantee or recognize any prlvat banks, or create any banking corporations. 15. That Interest-bearing bills of creditor notes shall never be issued by the Government, but that, when need arises, the emergency shall be met by the Issue of legal-tender, non-interest-bearing money.

16. That the importation of foreign labor under contract be prohibited. 17. That, in connection wilh the postofHce, the government shall organize financial exchanges, safe deposits, and facilities for deposit of the savings of the people in small sums. 18.

That the government shall obtain possession, by purchase, under the right of eminent domain, of all telegraphs, telephones and railroads, and that hereafter no charter or license be Issued to any corporat ion for the constructlonor operation ot any means of transporting intelligence, passengers, or freight. And while making the foregoing demand upon the state and national governments we will endeavor to associate our own labors 19. To establish co-operative Institution; ruch as will supercede the wase system, by Introduction of a co-operative industrial system. iJO. To secure for both sexes equal pay for equal work.

21. To shorten the hours of labor by a general refusal to work more than eight hours. 22. To persuade employers to agree to arbitrate all differences which may arise between them and their employes, In order that the bonds of sympathy between them may be strengthened, and that strikes may be ren dered unnecessary. A Powerful Organization of the Knights of Labor.

The Iowa State Assembly, recently cr-ganized at Cedar Rapids, elected ta following office ra: State M. W. M. L. Wheat, of CbTs.

State W. F. Mrs. D. H.

DrumtacJ, of Dubuque. 1 State Recordinir and Financial Secre tary Edwin Perry, of Oskaloosa. State Treasurer Thomas O'lleara, Davenport. State Statistician H. M.

Benson, cl Grand Junction. xxECtmvK oomrrrTtt, An Executive Committee, of woietbe Master Workman and Secretary, are members ex officio, was formed by selecting a member from each Congressional district. T-' 1. J. H.

Forgraves, Mt. Pleasant 2. Gustav Donnell, Davenport. a J. B.

Malley, Dubuque. 4. J. E. Peck, Cresco.

5. H. B. Martin, Cedar Rapids. 6.

W. T. Wright, Oskaloosa. 7. 1L J.

Childers, Des -Moines. 8. J. Horrell, Creston. 9.

J. R. Soverign, Atlantic." 10. George Wilmot Boone. The eleventh to be filled by the execu tive board.

THS OFFICBBS. Burlington Jastioe says the Sixia As sembly at Cedar Rapids was eepecixlly happy in its selection of officers. Tbe choice of M. Ij. Wheat for State TIt'' Workman places Iowa ra the front rtr.a of State organizations.

One will go to good many States before finding anolLrr Master Workman with Brother WlasVs happy faculties as a presiding oCssr. Not only does he completely "fill" tbe chair, but ably fills it. Ife is a good psr-liamentarian, quick in decision, sad hta a good natured joking way of it which makes the person against whocT tbe decision is rendered feel it right. His dry jokes and humorous, re marks mixes hearty laughs along with routine business in a manner which ttaca to make monotonous work pleasant. lie is thoroughly master of the situation sad brings order out of chaos that is simply, surprising- Mr.

Wheat is principal cf the Colfax schools and has secure! ft reputation as a lecturer, usually cpeslr3 on the land question on which he 13 tscfr oughly posted, being a student of Qtorx The duties of 8. 1 W. andlaeftsrfcjry require him to give up the school besd-ness. Mrs. Drummond, of Dubuque, is a lady eminently qualified for State Worthy Foreman, an earnest and an ftbla lady, and the selection was eminently tbe determination of the assembly to recognize the equal rights of women, it being declared from the first that that was oce body in which woman suffrage prevailed.

The financial and recording secretary, Edwin Perry, of Oskaloosa, has filled the position D. A. 28, with such faithful and capable work that the assembly bad one white ball cast for him. His booSa speak louder than words his faithfulness and efficiency. Treasurer O'Meara, of Davenport, is an.

honest and most fitting person to handle the finances. H. M. Benson has served as statistician of D. A.

28 for two terms and his re-election is but a just compliment to thor ough and efficient work. Endorsed by the Anti-Monopolists. The Anti-Monopoly Congressional Convention for the Fifth district, at Clay Centre, Wednesday, sixty -two delegates being present, adopted resolutions endorsing Hon. John A. Anderson for Congress, and pledging him a hearty support for the reason that he is "a patriot and a friend of the people." A Republican Convention will be held at Clay Centre to-day (Thursday), and an Independent Mass Convention at Abilene August 7th, the first of which will nominate Anderson, and the latter ratify his nomination.

A RAT TRAMP. Cutting, who is in a Mexican jail for slander and wants the American government to get him out, is a notorious and infamous professional "rat" printer. A dozen years ago he sought jobs of "ratting" newspapers on contract. He was more or less successful at Terre Haute, St. Louis, Sedalia, Kansas City, Leavenworth, St.

Joseph and other places in the west. He tried it in Atchison, but his services were declined. At St. oseph he took a contract to reduce the price of composition on the Gazette, but fleeced the proprietors so outrageously they soon after sold out and forever quit the newspaper buriness. Cutting finally deserted his wife and children and went to Denver, where he was struck by a striker (not a printer) and nearly killed.

He did his dirty work under police protection details and reliefs being made, especially at St. Joseph, to guard him. From a foreign land, whose laws he has violated, he cries aloud for protection as an "American citizen." He is not a citizen; he has the form of man; but the nature and hiss of a snake, cursed and shuued. TURNER. Hard things are being said of Turner in the Sixth district.

He is called a carpet-bagger; ostensibly a citizen of Sheridan county, but reality of Topeka. Some say that the commission, of which he is secretary, is nothing but a stearing committee for the railroads. That he travels on free passes. That "as the struggle waxed warm at Stockton the Mo.P. pay car was sent to the front and stood by their allies till Turner was That some people are kicking about Superintendent Fagan's presence there at that time.

That one delegate, when it was apparent -Turner would be nominated, voted for W. W. Fagan. That the vote should have been cast for Jay Gould instead of Fagan. And that "the hand shown by the M.

O. P. Ry, in the struggle was so apparent that no man with a desire to see government stronger than railway power can vote for the candidate, as he must necessarily be the exponent of the power that nominated him." THE CARPENTERS. The official journal of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners reports the state of trade as follows: KANSAS. Parsons Flat; $1.25 to 2.25.

Leavenworth Yery dull; $1.75 to 2.25. Topeka Dull: many idle; $1.75 to 2.75. Garden City Dull; $1.25 to 2.75. Stay away. Chanute Quiet; $1.50 to 2.50.

Armourdale Good $2 to 2.50. Wichita Overcrowded; $2 to 2.50. MI3SOUKI. St. Louis Middling; 30 cts.

per hour; eight hours. Stay away from St. Louis as the bosses are trying to overstock the town with men. St. Josep Very dull; $1.75 to 2.50.

Sedaha Very dull; $1.25 to 2.50. Springfield Fair; $1.50 to 2.50. Kansas City Busy; $1.75 to 2.75, IOWA. Des Moines Tolerably fair; $1.75 to 250. Creston Dull; $1.50 to 2.50.

Men leaving. Davenport Fair; $2 to 2.50. Cedar Rapids Quiet; $2 to 2.50, Sioux City Overstocked; $2 to 2 75. OTHER STATES. Chicago Quiet; 30 cente per hour; 8 hours.

Qumcy Strike. Stay away. $1.25 to 2.50. Newark, N. J.

Brisk; $2 to 9 hours a day. Denver Midling good; $2 to 2.75. Omaha Fir; $2 to 3. Lincoln Improving; $2 to 3. Stay away from the Pacific Coast The cheap railroad fares has flooded every town with hordes of idle labor willing to work for even a dollar a day.

flat and work scarce. K. of L. S. O.

M. A. I Organizers, secretaries and members of the order gpnerally are earnestly solicited to con tribute items or interest ror true aepaixment. Flease be brief and to the point. Dowxs, July 24.

Your good pa per comes to me regularly every "week as full of wholesome food for the working people as a nut is of meat. Long may it live and prosper. The solid shots given Jay Gould and his henchmen sound throughout the nation, and have the de sired effect In this part of the State we are plodding along, striving to make our influence felt, and we are gaining ground slowly. District Assembly No. 117 held its second session in Downs last Tuesday, and at night the delegates of the convention and visiting Knights were invited to Gnnell's hall where the wives, daughters and sweethearts of L.

A. 4287 had prepared an excellent supper, which, with ice cream and lemonade, all were invited to partake of. After supper speeches by visiting Knights whiled away a happy hour or two, and everybody went home feeling that the Knights of Labor were not such a "wild and wooly" set after all. Oh, we are booming. We will show old Gould some day that "There is a God in Israel," and that his cruel oppression will some day.

wane and that Labor will raise its head and demand justice. I do not wish to give you the strength of District 117, but I do want to say that we are united as one man and that we are marching on to victory. We believe in education we are op posed to strikes and boycotts, except in the direst emergency but when we do strike we propose that we shall hit something, and when we do boycott it shall fall as silently as the snow and that it will annihilate as completely as the ava lanche. More anon, Sihopa. Concordia.

On Monday last between twenty and thirty members of Assembly 2675, K. of Scandia, brought down the remains of Wm. Price. They were met at the depot by the members of the Order at this place and conducted the remains to their last resting place in our cemetery. M.

V. B. Price, father of the deceased, speaks very highly of the kindness and sympathy he has received from the Scandia people. He has lost a wife and several children in the last two or three years, and William was the last to be carried off by consumption Critic, July 21. Downs.

The Knights of Labor ban quet at Downs last Tuesday night, given by the Downs Assembly to the District Assembly in session in that city, was a thoroughly enjoyable affair. The Assem bly rooms, 90x25 feet in size, were filled with the Knights, their guests and fami lies, and the tables groaned with their loads of delicacies. Downs is whole- souled and never does things by halves. Short speeches by visitors and home peo ple, and pleasant conversation assisted to make the event a complete success, and the delegates, representing a thousand Knights, went away knowing that the Downs Assembly is not behind the town. Kirwin Independent.

The Big 30. The quarterly convention of District Assembly No. 30 assembled in Worcester, last week. About one thousand delegates represented the three hundred and odd Locals attached to this District, with a membership of over one hundred thousand, seventy-five thousand of whom are in good standing. They will be entitled to seventy-five delegates to the Richmond convention.

The convention elected Senator Robert Howard, of Fall River, the well known Secretary of the Spinners' Union in that city, to the office of Worthy Foreman of the District. The vacancy in this office is caused by promotion of Charles H. Litchman to be Akister in place of John Howes, resigned. he present Executive Board, including Messrs Howes, McNeill, Litchman and Carleton, were elected delegates at large to the National convention. '1 he remaining delegates, sixty-eight in number, were selected by ballot from among two hundred candidates.

On the question of trades-unionism they are said to be pretty evenly divided. Education. It is the intention to inaugurate a series of Sunday afternoon meetings in Kansas City for the purpose of creating a permanent school of education in political economy as laid down in the platform of the K. of Ltand of developing a lively interest among the working men electors in the legislation of the future, which must conform to the principles expressed by the K. of if ever the workingmen of this country are to obtain the just reward for their labor, or, as tbe platform has it, be enabled to share in the gains and honors of advancing civilization.

Boycotter. KofL. Pickic The Knights of Labor of Helena, and vicinity will nave a grand picnic and celebration at that place on' Saturday. Pryor's full military band will famish the music. A large number of prominent speakers will be present to assist.

Statu Assxmblt. The circulars recently sent out by Secretary St. Clair, for the organization of a State Assembly in KanmK, ooom to be received witn general approval at least, as tar aa heard from, tbe rtrc3 axe favorsila. TLa hr congressional district assemblies, is a good one, as is also the selection of an efficient and competent man for principal organizer. Atchison.

The ladies of Phoenix As sembly, No. 4386, Knights of Labor, gave an entertainment at Apollo hall Tuesday evening. The exercises began with an address of welcome by Frank Hall. W. S.

Anderson and R. J. St. Clair also de livered addresses dsring the evening, The music was furnished by Messrs Bos-well, Green and Venuta, and Miss Trues- delL Refreshments were served, and a ball closed a pleasant evening's entertainment. The 'ladies in' immediate charge were Mrs.

F. W. Truesdell, Mrs. M. F.

Benjamin and Mrs. Sophia Hassett. The committee on reception was S. C. Lamb, F.

W. Truesdell and Louis J. Beck. The floor committee consisted of Fred Young, W. S.

Anderson and M. C. Crahen. Rural Assemblies. Advices received at this office from a number of Local Assemblies, where the agricultural element largely predominate, are of the most flattering character.

One Assembly espe cially, which we feared had lapsed, has trebled its membership since the strike and is in a highly prosperous condition. We have received several inquiries in re gard to organizers, which are necessarily laid over until the old officers are re-appointed or new appointments made, which we hope will be soon. Omaha. Eos. Tbades-Union: You will find enclosed $1, for which send your paper to the address given.

I will get more names soon, as all who read it are well pleased with it. J. B. P. D.

A. 101. District Assembly 101 is still in the ring. Its regular meeting last week is reported to have been very harmonious and satisfactory, tbe returns showing a vigorous growth. A Farmers' and Laborers' Union has been formed in Cherokee county, Kansas.

Its objects, economical and social, are similar to those of the K. of L. The New York Associated Jewelers have voted not to join the Knights of Labor. The Association has about 1,000 members. The Glass Workers League has to a man joined the K.

of L. A street in Sacramento, is named tbe K. of L. street. A CALL.

To tbe Independent Voters of Kanaaa. Whereas, The long continued system of legislation in the interest of corporations and capital has begun to bear its fruit of law-made millionaires, paupers, tramps, strikes, lockouts, mobs, dynamite explosions, with the use of hireling thugs and soldiery against the people, attempts to suppress Hberty of speech and press, rendering life and property insecure and threatening civil war and general anarchy. And Whereas, Neither Republican or Democratic parties (practically one in policy) can be relied upon to secure the peace of the country, they having only the bludgeon and bayonet to give Labor when it asks for justice, and past experi ence having proved the folly of expecting either of the old parties to reverse their long continued policy of legislation in the interest Capital and holding dollars more sacred than Manhood. And Whereas, It requires the union of intelligent and conscientious voters of all parties to establish Justice, promote tranquility and prevent revolution by removing just cause of complaint. Therefore, We call upon all patriotic citizens of Kansas, without regard to previous political affiliations, who believe in equal rights for all and speciL privileges for none; who oppose Vnopoly of money, land and transportation and believe that "industrial, moral worth, not wealth, be made the stan'lard of individual and national greatness," to send delegates to a State convention to be held at Topeka, on the 25th day of August, 1886, at four o'clock, p.

m. to further perfect a State organization and to nominate a State ticket to be supported at the November election. The basis of representation will be one delegate for each county and one additional for each one thousand votes or majority fraction thereof cast in county Nov. 4th, 1886. A.

J. TJtley, Osage county. J.N Liimbocker, Riley county. H. D.

Underwood, Dayia county. W. Hreidenthal. J. M.

Bonnan, Labette county. T.J. Miller. J. T.

Stewart. Cherokee county. Geo. E. Bloat, Montgomery county.

Alfred Taylor, Douglas county. W. H. W.Ofht, Cloud county. C.

f. Lamb and WO others. The Knights of Labor make a great mistake in remaining members of the two great political parties. Capitalists have both of these political parties completely under their control, and chuckle with delight when they see workingmen fighting with each other, some aa Democrats and some as Republicans. The true policy of wage-workers and poor men is to form a party of our own.

The contest between the poor and the rich is inevitable let us make it a political contest and fisht it out peaceably, as the citmens pit aCegcS. Be rhorVl Go, wiioer Ttatc those toiling miners to show her shoddy ostentations to a royal prince. And yet even with her assistance John W. Mackay cannot spend one-tenth of his enormous income. The men do not get a cent more wages the richer ne gets.

Is there nothing wrong about this, Mr. Capitalist? Can you not see that profit-sharing is in this case not only just but right? What more right has the millionaire to claim exclusively the wealth of nature than the poor man? Will your eyes never open? will you never recognize truth? The People. THE WYANDOTTE CAPTIVES. Kansas City Organizer. The arrests were brought about by a noted character named Tutt, and two St.

Louis detectives named Alfred and Furlong, who claimed to have worked a confession out of O. J. Lloyd, confined Wyandotte county jail, charged with throwing a switch at Ramapo, in which he implicated the parties. So far as we have been able to learn there is no evidence against the men arrested, who it is claimed are Knights of Labor, except the confession of Lloyd and a statement said to have been made by Vassen to Detective Furlong. Both of the men deny making any statements whatever, and claim that it is a put up job to secure the reward of $3,500 offered for the arrest and conviction of the guilty parties.

The prisoners will have their prliminary examination (to-day) Thursday. George Hamilton is a well built, fine looking man, 30 years of age, and has always borne a good reputation. His arrest on a charge of train wrecking was a great surprise to his many warm personal friends, and they refuse to believe that he was in any way connected with the cowardly deed. Hamilton states that he has no fear of conviction and all he asks is a fair trial. He is a married man.

Mr. James Greer is the last man one would take for a train wrecker," He too is a married man, and has always borne the reputation of being an honest, sober, industrious, hard working man. Fred Newport is in his 40th year, has a wife and six children, and lives on Ewing street, Kansas City, Kan. Michael Leary, the only single man the party, is 30 years of age and well known in railroad circles. Prior to the strike he was a switchman on the Missouri Pacific railroad, but since that time has followed other pursuits.

At the time of his he was in the employ of the Hall Wills hardwarebmpany. William Vassen is a German, 27 years of age. He is married and has two children. Is a boiler maker by trade and worked at the Missouri Pacific shops when the strike was inaugurated, since then he could not find employment at his trade and had been compelled to labor at anything he could find to do. The prisoners deny the newspaper reports in to-to, and seem to take the situation in a philosophical manner, feeling confident that they cannot be convicted on the charges "preferred against them.

All they ask is a suspension of judgment until the evidence has been heard before a court of justice, as newspaper decisions are frequently reversed where conviction is secured on the testimony of two or three unscrupulous detectives. HIS REASON. A jury composed of eleven business men and an old fellow from across the creek retired to the jury room. The foreman, when selected, remarked that he thought the prisoner ought to be sent to the penitentiary for five years. "That ain't long enoug," said the old fellow.

"Let's put it on him fur ten." "Oh, no, that won't do." "Wall, then," stretching himself out on a bench, "I'm with yer." "What, you going to hang the jury 'That's about it." "My dear sir, we are anxious to get back to our business," "Then send him up for ten." "But that would be a great injustice." "Then squat an' make yourselves comfortable." "Have you any special reason why the prisoner should go up for ten years "I think I "Will you please name it "Yes, fur it won't take me long. He is my son-in-law, an' I have been supportin' him ever since he's been married." He went up for ten years. JAY GOULDS PRAYER. Our father, who art in England Roth-childs be thy name thy financial kingdom in America thy will be done in the United States as it is in England. Give us this day our bonds in gold, but no silver give us plenty of laboring men's votes to keep the monopolists in power and their friends in office.

We know, our father, we have done many things that were wrong we know it was wrong to refund the bonds and make them payable in coin; we know it was wrong to demonetize silver we know it was wrong to water all our railroad stocks, but thou knowest we made money by that. Now, our father, thou knowest we are above politics. It is the same to us whether the Democrats or. the Republicans role, for thou knowest we are able to sway all political jobs in our favor. Lead us not into the way of the strikers, but deliver us from the hands of the insane Knights of Labor.

Thus shall we have the kingdom, bonds, interest, power and cU t3 Republic shall end. Tbcr! .1 THE TRADES-UNION. R. TOMPKINS. JAS.

W. EETLLY, TOMPKINS RE ILLY, Proprietors. One copy, one year, in advance, 81 CO 3ne copy, six months. -r0 One copy, tbree months, 25 Remittance should be made by post office order, postal note, registered letter or draft. Entered at the postoffice at Atchison as second class matter.

62 I Commercial Street, Atchison, Kansas. THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1886. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. A Blue pencil mark as an across this paragraph is a notification that your subscription has expired, and that you are respectfully asked to renew it and get one or more persons to subscribe therefor at once. Congress will probably adjourn in a few days.

Atchison County Democratic Convention is in session as we go to press. The Democratic State Convention con- a- venes at Leavenworth August 4th. Col. James N. Burnes was renominated at St.

Joseph, Tuesday, for Congress. One of the candidates on the Republican State ticket i3 said to be a Knight of Labor. Ex-Gov. Robinson declines to become a candidate for Congress in the Second Kansas district. The delegates to the Kansas State Democratic Conventon, so far as instructed, are for Col.

Moonlight for Governor. W. S. Gile, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Sixth Kansas district, is a farmer, seventy years of age. Labor candidates men fresh from the mines, the mill, the farm appear to be springing up everywhere.

What does it mean? The Senate has amended the oleomargarine bill by reducing the tax from five to two cents per pound. The reduction was made on motion of Senator Ingalls. The delegates from Davis county to the Kansas Anti-Monopoly State Convention are instructed for John Davis for Governor. He is editor of the unction City Tribune. The western railroads are perfecting a pool to maintain high freights, which means low prices for farm products.

This is not conspiracy. "The King can do nothing wrong." It is estimated that 50,000 emigrants monthly arrive in American ports. That is 600,000 a year. Add that to the permanently unemployed million and repeat the process year after year. Where will it stop The Anti-Monopolists of the Sixth district held a convention at Downs on the 20th and organized tho district.

A convention was called at Stockton on the 3st day of August to nominate a candidate for Congress. I. O. Pickering is a Prohibition candidate in the Second Kansas district for Congress. Funston is the Republican candidate.

1 here has been some talk of combining the opposition to these two candidates upon Alfred Taylor, but no official action has been taken. President Cleveland has found time to pardon a Buffalo banker who had not 6erved half his term in the penitentiary for embezzling the funds in the bank. He has also taken time to write a memorandum of the case. He could not find time to look into the cases of the poor strikers in Texas whom Jay Gould's Judges sent to prison, though it now turns out they were falsely imprisoned. The Concordia Critic has the following in relation to one of the Republican candidates for Congress who helped "down" Anderson in the Fifth district: We learn that N.

B. Brown wantj it distinctly understood that no Knight of Labor can obtain work on his building. Well, we suppose they can get along without his work. They managed to get along while he was in the "drug business" in Missouri and guess they can again. Y.

M. C. A. NOTES. The usual young men's meeting will be held in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association next Sunday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock.

Subject: "Running away from duty is running into trouble," Jonah 1: 1, 17. Ezek. 33: 8, 9. Mr. N.

G. Demorest will lead the meeting and the Male Chorus will assist in the singing. Members are requested to come and bring their friends, and prepare to take part in the services. All young men are cordially invited to attend. A special invitation is extended to.

strangers in the city to spend the tSernoon fct tbe room Opra firm 2 13 p. ra. DON'T WORK FOR AMY BODY. Singular as it seems, the above phrase may mean the same as "works for somebody." A reference to the following-. story published in the Woman's Journal, and illustrating the constant all-day cares of a mother, will explain the paradox.

A little boy; on his way to build fires cad sweep offices in Boston, while tbe ttxrs were yet in the sky, told the writer? "My mother gets me up, buflii tbe Csi and gets ray breakfast and sends cu 1, Then she gets my brother ap and his breakfast and sends him o2. TLn -she gives the other cbildrea their tr- fast and sends them to school; kzI CLn she and the baby have their trr'" How old is thebebyr Iri "Oh, she's 'most two, bet cza and walk as well as the rdcla" It" "Are you well paid?" i "I get two dollars a vrci: tz2' father gets two dcZzn i It V'l GENERAL ASSEMBLY. T. V. PowDiRtT, Grand Master Workman Scran ton.

Pa. Richard Griffiths, Grand Worthy Fore man, Chicago. Fberikicx Turnkr, Grand Secretary-Treas urer, Philadelphia. J. G.

Caville, Grand Auditor, Brooklyn N. Y. H. L. McGraw.

Secretary of Insurance, Pitts burg, Pa. n. cuikriiiisj, FRENCH Renovator and Practical Hatter. Gents clothing cleaned, pressed, new lined, bound and repaired. Fine Clothes a specialty.

tU Commercial street, up stairs. WEST END BARBER, No. 1528. West Main street, Atchison, Kansas. Prices: Shaving.

10c. Hair Cutting, 25c. Shampooing, 25c. All work neatly done. I.

C. STEWART, New and Sec jnd-lland FURNITURE BOUGHT AND SOLD I also keep a large assortment of stoves on hand. Money loaned on chattel mortga North Fifth Street, Atchison, Kansas. ATCHISON DISPENSARY. 1525 MAIN STREET.

x-. nxro. rrr, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Calls promptly attended to at all hours. JJUDSON HARKJSESS, Dealers in DRUGS MEDICINES, CHEMICALS Toiletrticlea, Boaks, Stationery, etc.

Cor. Main and Liberty Bts Atchison. Kan. JJARBY MEANT, BOOTS AND SHOES tla.de to order. Impairing neatly done.

Lot of second-hat boots and sboee for sal. Corner than an Fourth tth "How much doo jvzt zr -1 With a bewildered lLirJ er! Why, she doot wi cr. "I thought you said tb tccL: of you." i. "Oh, yes, for us cbe ain't any money in ii." This wife of a Lry large class of ktr? There is more thia cixf 1 that draws no pry ta I V- But mankind wcdl L3 race if all such liber trrr hireling's task. TLs true mother coclicrTr all her services tX ixl a price and setsl wages.

-'V-- TWO PICTURES. Two hundred feet beneath Virginia City, in the famous Mackay, Fair O'Brien gold mine, hundreds of half naked men are toiling to-day with pick-axe and shovel for wages which at the best will only support their families and give them a few of the comforts of life. These men are digging wealth out of the bosom of old mother nature for a man who arrogantly claims for himself her riches because he happened to hare "luck enough to discover the treasure first. At the same time lira. John W.

Mackay, wife of the bonanza kic is dams her beet 'to fcy. riiiuor rr; The InternsI sessions of tl listafSer-B'T-1".