Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — COMMONWEAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COMMONWEAL NOTES.

The 1,100 members of the Commonweal army at Denver who have been constructing flat-boats with which to float down the Platte river to Plattsmouth, and from there down the Missouri to St. Louis have completed 110 boats. They are well supplied with provisions. At Parkersburg. W. Va., Monday, Fry’s Commonweal army was refused aid by the citizens. The men slept in the open air. during a drenching rain. Tuesday morning the army split into three sections. Part under Col. Bloundeil started over the pike for Washington; another division marched in the same direction over the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks, while the third division, fifty-two in number, remained in Parkersburg. Tuesday afternoon the fifty-two who remained behind wont to the Baltimore & Ohio yards and took possession of a freight train that was being made up there. They defied the sheriff. The sheriff telegraphed for troops, and with an increased force of deputies succeeded in arresting all of the army. It Is reported that the party which started up the railway tracks attempted to board a passenger train, but that the trainmen and passengers fought them off successfully. Two of the Commonwealers are said to have been hurt, one of them fatally. - A co-opcrative coal company has been organized at Princeton, capital stock 825,000. and It is proposed to sink a mine within the limits of that city.