People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — IN GREAT NEED [ARTICLE]

IN GREAT NEED

Portions of Kansas Overrun by Pernlless Workmen from Colorado. Topeka. Kan., July 25. Western Kansas is overrun with men who are making theii way east from Colorado, where they nave been thrown out of employment by closing of the mines and smelters. ■A. Gluck, mayor of Dodge City has issued a proclamation calling upon citizens to make provisions for the army of idle men that is passing through that town. He asserts that the majority of them are deserving of assistance and willing to work. He appeals to charitable persons to raise a fund to provide for their immediate wants to prevent them from breaking into houses to obtain the necessaries of life.

National Union Day at the Fair. Detkoit, Mich., July 20.—At the second session of the National Union senate held Wednesday a resolution was passed appropriating $2,000 to defray the expenses of < a proper celebration of National Union day at the Columbian exposition, which was fixed at August 2. The headquarters of the union in Chicago will be decorated and in one of the choral h&Us in Jackson park the exercises of the day wiH be held. It was decided to appoint a solicitor to attend to the legal business of the order. A resolution was passed making glass-blowers and millers ineligible to membership.