Evening star., 1870-01-08
THE LIGHTNING STRIKE.
Dispatches 60 the Wsshfuxtou

Ekewhere we give Associated Press sf;s
patches in reference to the telegraphers, strite
Below we give dispatches received at the Head
quarters Telegraphers' Protective League. a
Willards', in this city, in addition 10 those W,
published yesterday:
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 4 -Midnight.-Belieyen n,
reports about going back. Locomotive engi
neers and printers Profiered assistance.
CINCINNATI, JAN '--Neyer 60 back till lower
regions freezes over.
DETRoIT, Jan. -Four new men Joined ms TO
day. Stanton, member OF the league repentad
and came back 10 strikers.
CHICAGO, Jan. -Midnight-western Union
DONG all IN their power TO deceive US. South al
out and red hot" Typographical Union and
Railroad Engineers meeting tonight.
CLEVELAND, Jan. s-Midnight.-we hav,
sunk our ships: no returning. Firm here. We
have the National Labor Union to back US.
CINCINNATI, dnight.-Printers have
been ordered TO hold themselves an readiness
not TO set up specials or press reports coming
over Western Union lines.
To-DAT's TELEGRAMs.
NEW York, Jan. S.-Company have n bait ont
IN the papers. promising amnesty. Let those
come back who will renounce the League. IL
Mon wash" No perjurers here. Believe mo
western Snloh reports until verified by mail.
CINCINNATI, Jan. s.-we stand until other
wise directed by League Circuit, No. ID We
stick to Jacobs.
PmLADELrHIA, Jan. s.-Last nights meet
lnGs OF the National Laborers' Union of Brick
layers and Plasterers offer support financially
DETROIT, Jan. s-Stanton, a member of The
League, repented and came back TO us strikers !
SHlCAGo, Jan. s.-We are good for ten years.
NEW YORK, Jan. Sup and at them again.
Western Union officials are comforting tia.n
selves with the belief that the L. F. L. WON'T
stick more than two days.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. s, II m.-Tbe ar
Del artment," - Post Office" and :. HOTEL,
telegraph Cbranch) Offices are stilI closed on ac-
count OF the strike, thereby depriving those
branches of the Government Of their former inn
fsl
unit, and will stick
BALTIMoNE, Jan. s.-we are canvassinp the
Baltimore and OHIO Railroad as far as Wheel
ing, and have assurances from those NOT I'm ,ha
League that they join us immediately
BOSTON, Jan. s.-After reading Western
Union amnesty letter, Boston men are more de-
termined. We must hight them hard.
PiTTsBURG, Jan. THE strikers are firm
and are gaining in numbers rapidly. Twenty
nine new members joined the League The
committee are omnipresent catching all who
Newspaper men and merchants ceneraIly are
c0Mplainining of the delay to their business.
The Oil trade Of Pit:sburg and the oil regions
.arG slshed cards binding themselve not TO pa
until the strikers were reinstated, and also ten
dered SUBSTANTIAL aid. Encouraging telegrams
are being received from all sections
In addition to these dispatches, a letter re-
ceiyed here to-day from the operator at New
bern, y. C., states that some months since his
salary was reduced Ss3 per month-from Sis
~ SO. "hSh euc news Cdinc from New York
that they had closed, all the offices in this dis
trict, with the exception Of Weldon, Charlotte
and Greensboro, and the managers of the Rich
inohd ana Petersburg Offices, struck, among
the crowd, although L am not member of tSe
League. Augusta and Charleston In the next
district, have worked all day, but expect them
70 go tomorrow; All the boys firm. IL is a
burning shame that men who have worked of
the business for ten or fifteen years should only
receive the small pittance Of SIS, working every
day In the year from a. m. TO II y. IN. We are
nf M WA1g
North. The operators South will sink or swim
with their brethren North.