The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-03-27
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Approaching Strike-Want Of
Unanimity Among the
Working Class.
FOrcible Possession Of the Road
by 800 Armed Hen.

FOrcible Possession Of the Roa
by 800 Armed Men.
THE APPROACHING STRIKE.
NEW YoRK, March 96.-The rumors
approaching strikes are causing great unceI
tainty in many branches Of trade and indu'
Try. Nothing is known Of . positive naiur
except that the Master Carpenten' Associ.
ton have decided that they will Nd long,
b governed BY the eight hour rule. Man
Of the employers have % arranged thei
business rs to guard against risks fro,
strikes. Representatives Of the vorkinsme
on the other hand, disclaim that any strik
is intended. 1t il evident, however, tn,
there is . want Of unanimity among tn
vorkinemen on the subject. Nothing relia
bic will probably be known until thair o&csz
take some action.
RAILROAD War.
CLEvELAND, O., March IA r.ilroa'
var Of some magnitude b nov progresin,
At youngstown, Ohio. About . year sg
the stockholders Of the Liberty 4 Vison
Railroad Company sold that road to the Ash
tabula, youngstown & Pitisburg Railroa.
Company, receiving payment part in casl
and part in the bonds Of the latter company
Owing to some subsequent Misunderstanding
the matter was brought before the courts
and for the past four Or FIVE months the A.,
Y. & P. r. Z. have held control of tn.
former road by virtue Of an Injunction which
expired at two o'clock yesterday afternoon,
at which time there appeared upon the
premises two of the principal stockholders Of
the L. 4 V. r. R with . large force Of
men, who tore up the track, cut the wire,
stopped all the trains, took Possession of the
rolling stock and are nov in forcible posses
sion of the road Wit force of two or three
hundred armed men. Wm. McCreery,
President, and other officers Of the Y. 4 r.
Z T., are at Youngstown, and it il reported
that 4 special train has Lett Piit.bury with
reinsorcements for McCreery, sho il backed
by Tom Scott and the Pennsylvania Central.
Great excitement prevails, and there Il i'm.
minent danger Ofx riot.
Everything is quiet at Youngstown this
evening. There was much excitement
there to-day. but no riot. McCreery. presi-
dent of the Ashtabuls, YoungstOn Il Pitts
burg Railroad, filed an affidavit this morn
ing before Justice OF the Peace, Who had
John Plombough, Hugh Hollister, and eev.
eral other directors and partisans of the
Liberty & Vienna Railroad Company, n.
rested and brought before him on q charge
of villiul!y destroying property belonging to
the A., Y. Il T. 3. r. A hearing vas
postponed till Saturday. The defendants
claim they acted for the owners of the prop
erty, and had right to do as they did. 1t
appeared that only part Of the l.. & V.
4. X. was aold to the A., Y. & p. K. X
and = part payment in cash and balance
in bonds of the latter company Uas rendered,
but the latter refused to accept them, and
claim they still own the road, never having
decided it away.
ROsroN, March 25,-The horse railroad
companies manifest determination to pro-
tect the horse-shOers Who have taken the
place of the strikers in their shops, and
have called on the State police for that pur.
pose. One of the strikers vas arrested and
committed for trial on default of 81 500
bail for assaulting one Of the new men.
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-Tbe Senate to-
day confirmed the following nominations:
Register of Public Lands, w. w. Martin,
Independence, Kansas; Receiver of Public
Moneys, f. 8. Nichols, Independence, Kan
sas, and E. W. Little, Santa Fe.
The outstanding legal tenders to-diy are
1888, 669. 997.
The Civil Service Board of the Treasury
Department had to-day the second of series
Of nine examinations, for the purpose of FILL
ing forty vacancies in the ! 800 vacant clerk
ships.
Independent applications continue 10 be
forwarded to the President, and to the De-
partments Of State for appointments to the
Vienna Exposition. The statement il made
BY request, that oil the appointments author
lied by law have been made.
HAMMOND IN DENVER.
DLNvER, March 25.-E. Hammond, the
revivalist, has been lsboring here in Denver
about ten days. The hall, holding about
l, 500 people, is filled every morning and
evening, and at come of the evening ser
vices many persons we're unable to enter.
The Presbytery of Colorado was in session
here on Saturday and Monday. which added
from fifteen to twenty ministers to Ham.
moud's working force, and the daily ne~s-
papers admit that much good is being
accomplished.
APPOINTED.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The Secretary
Of War has appointed Maj. g. H. Warner,
T. d. COmstock, Godfrey Weitzel and w.
f. Merrill TO inquire into and report on the
practicsbility OF bridging, consistently with
the interests Of navigation, the channel be.
tween lakes Huron and Erie At such points
as may be need for the passage of railroad
trains aero said channel.
The President sent the following
NOMINATIONS
to the Senate E. s. Hammond, OF New
jersey, Agent for the Indians of Colorado
River Agency, Arizona; ]. A. Turner, Of
Arizona, Superintendent Of Indian Affairs,
Arizona Territory; George Ingalls,, Of H.
linoi-; Agent for the Piute Indians in south
eastern Nevada.
MASS MEETING OF CATHOLICS.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.-An extra
ordinary large mas meeting Of German
Catholics, was held tonight, At the Academy
Of Music; the vast auditrum was crowded.
The object Of the meeting vas for the purpo.e
Of extending their sympathy to the Ca,ho-
lies Of Germany.
CHICAGO, March 25.-The snow storm