Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1902 — AIM TO OUST JACKSON. [ARTICLE]

AIM TO OUST JACKSON.

Miners Want Impeachment Proceedings Against Judge. An effort will be made by the officials of the United Mine Workers to bring impeachment proceeding* against Judge John Jay Jackson of the federal court of West Virginia if. upon a final hearing, the judge refuse* to dissolve bis blanket injunction restraining the miners from agitating in favor of a strike. Secretary Wilson of the minors' union said that preparations were now being made to submit to President Roosevelt and the Senate a complete copy of the court proceedings, which terminated in the issue of the injunction by which the unions were forbidden to hold meetings for the purpose of inducing men to leave their w i ork in the mine*. The public, too, will be fully informed ag to the precise grounds upon which the West Virginia jurist issued hi* restraining order. Mr. Wilson say* that the evidence in the case will be published and the people left to judge for themselves whether or not the injunction is just. It is asserted by the officers of the union that they have excellent grounds for the impeachment of Judge Jackson. The American Shipbuilding Company has closed contracts at Chicago for the building of ten steel steamships to be used in carrying cargoes from lake point* to Quebec for transfer to Atlantic steamships. Their dimensions are to be 257 feet Jength by 43 feet beam and 40 feet depth. They are to form the nucleus of the fleet, which is expected to control all lake transportation. Texas oil is to be used by the great Minneapolis flour mills instead of coal. A street railway company of Minneapolis is conducting tests with oIL