New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-23
Dcmard on the Council.

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Demand on the Council.
In accordance with the programme adopt
ed at the woIkinginen's meeting last night
q cemmittee appointed for the purpose
went tonight to the Council chamber, es.
yeorted by an irregular procession which
numbered by the time it reached Its destl
natl perhaps 5000 persons
The resolutions adopted last night were
presented asking the city to give them
work, or in the event of being unable to do
this, to furnish them and their families q
support until work could be obtained. The
chairman Of the committee, young lawyer,
made sharp speech to the effect that the
resolutions embodied all that the WOE king
men desired of the city government and
asking for their demands careful hearing.
The resolutions were read and, after sonie
discussion, referred to special committee.
consisting of the mayor, finance committee
and nine aldermen, who, tomorrow, will
have y conference with the committee OF
workingmeD. Mayor Colvin made speech
to the committee, assuring them Of hlssym-
patty with the class they represented and
of his earnest desire to aid them in any
practicable way.
Tho committee then retired, and on
reaching the crowd, outside, the chairman
reported the result Of their visit to the
Council, and advised them to return to
their homes. The crowd, a large portion of
which appeared to have gathered more out
Of curiosity than anything else, then dis
persed.
strike of Longsh0renen I'm Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, December 22.-There is
considerable excitement along the wharves
owing to strike among the labOrers. All
Of the steamship lines had given notice that
on to-day they would only pay twenty cents
v,or hnr1r All the men atruck demanding
thirty cents per hour.
The American steamship line paid thirty
cents per hour il order to unload the steam
ship Pennsylvania, which arrived SAtur
day. Clyde's steamer line had obtained
men at twenty cents. The strikers claimed
that the submission Of the American line
was harbinger of success, and seem deter
mined to force the workmen at lower rate
to join the strikers.
Operations of the strikers.
The strikers marched through the
streets, visiting the different wharves, and
where persuasion failed, they compelled
men to stop their work by threats. One
man was severely beaten. Twelve Of the
strikers were arrested.
Burned to Death.
This evening Margaret Hiddemer, aged
sixty-six years, was burned to death while
sitting in chair, Der clothes taking fire
from coal oil lamp.
The Strikers Suppressed by the Police.
The striking longshoremen marched
along Delaware avenue, stopping at each
wharf where men were at work, and where
persuasion failed threats were made to
compel the men to join them. Failing at
Ciyae's wharves, the rabble continued up
to the Race street wharf. Here they found
stevedores unloading schooner from the
West Indies, laden with sugar at the new
rate.
Here they slgnally failed to induce the
men to stop work and vented their rage il
beating one of them, and cutting the rope
which held hogshead of sugar suspended
il the air. II went with terrific crash
down into the hold of the vessel. fortu-
nately without injuring any one. The
police appeared here, and the strikers
moved on above Vine street.
They found an English ship unloading,
and were successful in compelling the Ste
vedores engaged upon it to stop work. At
the Windsor ,wharves they found a number
Of men at work, and falling to intinidate
them, they commenced an assault. In the
midst Of the ensuing turmoil squad of po-
icemen appeared, dispersed the rioters, and
arrested about a dozen, who were locked
Up.
DeMOuslFHtfOH Oh AHDOTlH2 Nltus
CINCINNATI, December "a procession |
Of from 500 to 1000 laboring men, mostly |
made a demonstration by march |
ng through the streets. They assembled |
1t Fountain square, and sent for General |
samuel A. Cary, who addressed them. coun- |
esng moderation, and reminding them that |
capitalists and employers, as well as they, |
we're suffering from the times.
The procession went to the mayors office |
md were met by the chief Of police as the |
representative Of the mayer. The speeches
made were only All exchange of compH.
nents. She representatives of the process
ion thanked the mayor and denounced the
mbers of the board of improvements for
0 Tering their wages
Cincinnati Posiollice Robbed.
The money order department. of the
cincinnati p0stoflce was robbed to-day, in
road daylight, by three sneak thieves, OF
$50, which were lying on the desk in en-
elopes. The deck was surrounded by an
on lattice, which WAS covered with paper
The two thieves attracted the attention
the clerks, and the third thief extracted
ills from the package and threw them
trough the lattice work by means of an in
rument resembling pair of tweezers.
he thieves escaped arrest.
Incendiary Boys.
ALBANY, December 22.-Five or six boys
leir ages ranging from fifteen to eighteen,
ave been arrested near Schenectady, on a
large of incendiarism. Some five or six
res, which have occurred lately, are at
ibuted to them.
The Bogus Lord.
WEsTCHEsTER, Pa, December 22.-The
,gus lord Massey had a hearing this
orning On the charge of false prelenses.
mother charge against him was for obtain
a watch by false representations. The
se was adjourned to procure additional
idence.
Lord Massey had another hearing this
ening, when the charges against him
ere withdrawn and be was discharged.
The President in st. Louis.
Sr. LOUIS. December %. - President
rant met a number of old friends at an in
1 NAL dinner at the house Of General Har-
y tonight, after which, accompanied by
) son and other gentlemen who had come
th him, he lett tor Washington.
indians and Monte Men in Nebraska.
OMAHA, December 22.-General Ord,