Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — POWDERLY'S NEW TOWN. [ARTICLE]

POWDERLY'S NEW TOWN.

Grand Master Powderly, of tho Knights of Labor, has bought a farm of seventyone acres on tho edgo of Hyattsvillo, Md., for himself and a syndicate of workingmen, with a view of establishing a group of factories and a co-operative working* men’s town. The si to chosen* is convenient to both tho Pennsylvania and B. & O. railroads, and If the capital for thosehemo can bo had, quito a smart little colony is expected. Ira Martin, thirteen years old, of Knighlstown, while fooling with.a lovelod the weapon at Joseph Hinshaw ami pulled the trigger. Tho bullet struck Hinshaw in the right choek und ranged downward Into the neck, whero It remains. At thc town of Mullhnll, O. T., Christmas eve, twenty country people, representing two factious in a school district quurrol, met aud fought on tho streets. A pitched batllo raged for some lime, stones clubs,' knives and pistols bolng freely used. At least ten of tho participants wore seriously injured and a late report, como; that four or five ot them may d'o. Mrs. Samuol McCoskey, of Staunton. wife of a Clay county minor, formerly Miss Minnie Cooper, boliovos that she Is the In ir to the Cooper o-ta to at Albany, N. Y., valued at $75,000, for whom the lawyori have bocn seeking.