Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — WOEFUL WEALERS. [ARTICLE]

WOEFUL WEALERS.

“Jordan Am a Hard Road tc Trabbel.” Trials and T ibul ;tlons of the Various Disrislons of the Commonweal Army. .. V' An enterprising real estate man al Washington has offered to set the Coxeyites at work. He has a tract of land aboul three and a half'miles distant from the city, which ho desires to have cleared ol underbrush and made ready for subdivision. It is a pretty spot, and much healthier than the place now occupied by the Coxeyites. The owner. Dr. G. P, Gehering. offered to let the army camp on the tract and'to pay them $303 if they would clear the ground. The proposition struck Coxey favorably, but Browno was unwillling to move the camp so far from the city, and the offer was rejected. The eighth day of Kelley's stay at De i Moines.saw Ills array hard at work building boats. All day Sunday the detail of 300 mechanics worked faithfully, and by night nearly fifty- boats were far advanced toward completion, and at 5 o’clock the first boat was launched. It is expected that all will be ready for debarkation by Wednesday. Galvin's army left Homestead, Sunday, and marched to McKeesport. A dispatch from Valparaiso, May 0, says; Randall is already having trouble with his army. A number of the dissatisfied Held a meeting to-day. It was charged that the quartermaster was not dealing fairly; that sardine sandwiches had reached the officers and favors in abundance, while the rank and file had to subsist on bread and water. The mutinous ones also complained of the advance work of the missionaries and fail to see any result from the amount of money put up to keep them in the field. If the present indications may be depended on there will be a large number of desertions very soon. The trial of Coxey, Browne and Jones wot? continued in the Washington police) court, Saturday. Representative Pence created something of a sensation by de. -during that it was evident that the Court was endeavoring to help the, prosecuting officers out of a hole, from which they, ha J shown absolute incapacity to lift themselves. "Canyon show any impropriety in the questions'.’'' asked the Judge, “J can object that the questions aye absolutely improper and misleading,” respond* cd Mr. Pence.