The American Labor War.
THE RIOTERS DYNAMITED A RAILWAY STATION. (PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION I Washington, April 25 The Coxeyitea have seized the trains at Butte, in California, and the Fed eral Government has ordered their re capture At Bismarck, in Missouri, two regiments are in readiness to oppose the gang. The strikers in Pennsylvania dynamited the railway station at Watts. April 26. The Coxeyites at Bute ran a train into Dacota, and defeated and disarmed a body of eighty five men sent by the Marshal in pursuit. The President has ordered troops to stop the train. Coxey will be the candidate of the party known as " Populists " for the Presidency. The present movement is regarded as political. Several towns in Colorado are planning to pay the fare of five hundred men to the capital. The Knights of Labor -also threaten to j march an army on Ottawa.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 299, 27 April 1894, Page 2
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147The American Labor War. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 299, 27 April 1894, Page 2
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