Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-27

| vicinity OF HornellSville. RumOrs are rife
OF similar trouble on the Lake Shore road
at Cleveland.
THE STRIKERS sUBDUED AT MAkTINsBURC.
NEw YORK. July 20.-A special from
Baltimore says all Is quiet at Martinsburg.
| The strikers there are suhducd Six freight
trains have left there for the east and
three for the west. Regular troop. leave
on each train.
THE OHIO MILITARY CALLED OUT
CoLuNBus. Ohio, July 20 The Governor
has called out four military companies 10
| suppress the strikers on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad-Central Ohio division. at
Newark. The Governor has issued a proc
lamation commanding the strikers to desist
from personal intimidation and interfering
with property.
SERIOUS WORK ArPREHE>DED.
PIrTsBuRG, July 20 About a hpnJrcd
AMI forty members of the eighteenth regi-
men., under Colonel Guthrie, are MT tho
East Liberty stock yards. At 2.3O n m
large numbers of strikers had gathered
there. The men were loud in denuneiat;on,
OF General Parsons and the military. Tbcv
say II Parsons attempts to bring the frst
train through himself he will he shot Tho
men at the stock yards seem determined N
maintain the strike and keen the road
bOckaded and will resist the military if ne
cessary. Up to three clock there has been
no effort on the part of the companv or
military to move cars, and very seriouS rc-
suits will likely follow the attempt when
made.
ST. JOINS. July 20.-Two COMPANIES of
troops have arrived. Tho canal boatmen
put out the fires of the west bound train.
and would not allow it II proceed As the
troops appeared the offenders went to the
Mary land side of the river Ortpok to boats
The orders are to arrest all connected with
the obstruction OF trains and if resistance
is offered there will be serious work. The
strikers held the train for an hour but per
mitted 1t to go on alter they heard the
troops were coming. A detachment of
troops LETT here to prevent further inter
ruptl0n, and other troops are going fur
ther up the road.
CUMBERLAND. Md. July 70 The train
for keyser with troops arrived here and W as
met ny several hundred people. Along the
route all was quiet. 1t is likely there will
be trouble at keyser. which will be reached
after an hour or two. Trims are running
east and west on the first and second divis-
ions without molestation except here. Only
one train has been permitted to pass here.
Eight or ten arrests have been made on the
track. The strikers say they will not resist
the United States troops.
BALTIMORE. July 20.-The governor has
ordered the fifth militia regiment to Cum
berland to suppress lawleSSGe-S there. The
governor has also issued proclamation
calling on all citizens to MAINTAIN the peace.
TtrA ba., Io-
land, and engineers and fremen taken from
them.
ktYsER. W. Va, July 2O.-The second
troop tram has arrived here. Thtre are
few men around the station, but all Is quitt.
The men are firm in their determination not
to run out any trains, but they will hardly
attempt TO stop others, as there is AN abun-
dant military force here.
EIMIRA, July 2O-All is quiet here The
strike is still confined to the Western divi-
sion of the Erie. with it' headquarters at
llOrnellsville. No through ircightS are al
lowed to pass that point. All passenger
trains are laid up there. The opinion of
railroad men here is that the strike will be
general. Ii is rumOred that the Northern
Central men contemplate strike.
THE MILITARY FIRE INTO THE MOE.
BALTIMORE, July 20-As the sixth regi
ment. Colonel Charles Peters. wa. march
ing from its armory along Baltimore street
to Camden station, to proceed to Cumber-
land, the regiment was stoned and fired into
by the crowd on the streets. The regiment
fired into the crowd and nnmber were
killed and wounded. The confusion and
excitement is so great at present that 1t Is
impossible to get at the facts. Four dead
bodies have been taken to the middle dis
trict station, and a number OF wounded 20
the various drug stores.
LATER-l0 p. mat this hour the C1-
citcment attending the shooting by the
Sixth Regiment still is fierce and the crowd
on Baltimore street for several squares from
southeast way IL very large, rendering the
sidewalks almCst impossible. In the front
of the middle police station, nearly oppo-
site the City Hall, where the most OF the
dead and wounded have been taken, the
street is blocked with an excited mass. lr
this station there are now lying eight dead
bodies and two wounded. The widest !
rumOrs are anOat in regard to the number
killed. One Is that several women wore KILL
Cd and borne off.
The depot at Camden station is On fire and
it is said the railroad 1 thces have been
cleaned out. The telegraph office in the
depot building has been destroyed, the |
wires cut and the instruments removed.
STILL LATER.
The fire at the depot at Camden station
has been extinguished with but little dam
age. The telegraph Office cleaned out was
the deSpatcher's uihre on the station plat
form and not the office in the main build |
ing All the Baltimore and Ohio wires J
have been cut.
DEMANDS or THE sTRIEERS.
NKw YORK, July 2O-The Erie Railroad |
strikers at llornelsylle at four to-day, |
handed Superinten dent Wright document |
containing the following demands from the |
brakemen switchmen and trackmen: That |
all men discharged for taking part IN any |
meeting OF gong ss committee t0 New \ Ork |
be relnstated brakemen to receive 81 !
switchmen s.: head switchmen S2.25; /
trackmen in yard 81 so; trackmen on see |
tiOns 81 10; and pay no rental on compa- |
nys grounds except As per agreement |
iiremen 10 have the same pay as received /
prior to July first. and monthly passes to be |
continued same as before and passes to be |
issued to brakemen and swItchmcn. These |
demands the men Mt once communicated to |
receiver Jcwett.
ERIE, July 20.-No strike IL organized |
vet among the railroad men here. but Il
meeting OF train hands Is called for Sunday |
evening. The Seventeenth Regiment Is
ready to march at II moments notice.
ST. IouIs, July 2O.-A movement on foot |
here IL likely to lead to u strike on the lines |
running east from here. Meetings were held |
Yesterday at East St Louis and Ninccnnes |
by frcmcn and hrakemen of freight trains |
on tho Ohio and Mississippi roads, and !
1t Is understood II was agreed by |
them that unless the wages previous
to the late reduction OF ten per cent |
arc reported by Monday all the iircmen |
and hrakcmen will strike. At noon Monday |
IL the time fixed io- the strike unless the |
demands are compied with. Ii Is under |
stood tho receiver of the road l. notified to
that effect.
PIrrsUuRG, July 2D.-rho strike Gn the |
Pitt,burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road is |
serious, embracing all the freight crews oi |
the eastern division from Pittsburg to |
Alliance 1t IL reported that the |
freight crews ot the filtShnrP'
CINCINNATI and st. Loui1 road and Pan
Handle route struck this evening. The en-
einecrs' brotherhood held secret meeting |
to-day, and 1t is understood they resolved |
tl stand hy the strikers and will refuse to |
haul freight trains manned by green hands.
C,IrMms. q, July 2O.-At Newark |
large crowds are awaiting the arrival OF
troops, but no ylolcncc appears, Several |
attempts were made to get trains out with
out surress Two companies Ot militia |
will proceed to night to Newark. from
here.