COKEY'S ARMY.
TRAINS SEIZED AND RE
CAPTURED.
THE MOVEMENT COLLAPSING.
Washington, April 30. Owing to the distress which ia making itraelf felt* among them, the strikers are forming a huge camp in a park in the capital, and roe trying to raise money by charging eight-seers for admission.
The Coaceyifcoa eeized a train in Oregon, bub the cavalry patrol re-captured it. A band, of 70 have been arrested in Rhode Island aa vagrants.
Anobhor mob seized a train in Ohio, but tho trooj^ brought tho Gatling guns to bear upon thcun, and cho captain, with hia watch in hand, gave them three mHßufces to retire. This proved efl'octual, and the train was give* up.
There are signs that the movement is collapsing.
Four hundred Coxoyiteß have arrived and encamped in a private park.
Tho police are increasing their supply oi fire hosft, and other material, in anticipa tion of incendiary (ires.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 103, 1 May 1894, Page 5
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151COXEY'S ARMY. Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 103, 1 May 1894, Page 5
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