The New York herald., 1877-07-27
MISSOURI.
Mayor OF Toledo, ohio.

ING-THE STRIKERS COERClNG WoEhMEN-
FIRING A BUILpING-ABREsr OF DIsoRDERLY
CHARACTERS AND WEAK ATTEMPT AT RES
cUE--FAILURE TO CoERcE THE PRINTERS
IpY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.
ST. LOUIS, July 26, 1877
Up to nine O'Clock tonight the situation remains
ged from evening. In obedience 10 the re-
quest OF the Mayor nearly all the saloons and other
places OF business remained closed Trade is
completely paralyzed. and leading merchants
state that the injury business will
be incalculabie and that number OF commercial
failures Will inevitably result The streets have been
throngcd with people all day ieverish state Of
element there being constant expectation Of bloody
collisions between the various mobs parading the
streets and the police and the military companies OF
citizens organized yesterday.
FORCING wonKNEN TO sTRiKE
AT ten O'Clock this morning procession OF 2, 900
men, consisting partly Of workingmon who have
oined the strikers but mostly of oalers and iders
marched from Lucas Market to the manufacturing dis
!rict north OF Washington avenue They first visited
Belcher's sugar refinery, whore 400 employees were
rorccd quit work yesterday, and finding
tho doors closed broke them open, rushed in, extin-
guished the fires in the furnaces ana displaced the
machinery so the employees couo not return TO work,
as they had announced their intention Of doing Many
OF the workingmen protested against injuring de-
stroyng property and abandoned the procession but
the mob continued IT'S march. visiting about forty
different factories and -four and planning mills, compel
ling the employees, aggreeatng nearly thousand to
qrit their work and close DOORS although the
plCyes many earnestly protested against being
interiered with
A
On Biddc street they visited vacant building that
had formerly been used a chair factory. The
moi KIM xinpt th. huil din0 br0k
open the doors and rushed in. squad Of police ap
peared the and commanded the mob 10 leave,
which they did, and in few minutes after they left
the building was discovered TO be Oh dre. An alarm
was sounded and the fire engines came OUT but the
fire had progressed far TO be checked,
and the building, together with large quantity OF
lumber in an adjoining yard. was destroyed The
mob who had undoubtedly applied tho TORCH at
dispersed when the alarm given.
EXCITEMENT COURTS.
Atthe four courts building, where the enrolment OF
sitizens has been progressing from early hour
the ing, there been The greatest excitement,
the international and other turbulent classes beng
gathered there The number OF several thousands,
watching Tho progress Of organization among the
and indulgng boisterous and rioous demon
strations.
pIsoRDERLY CHARACTERS ARRESTED
ono hundred policemen were on duty there and
during the day about sixty cisorderIy characters
arrested and confined in the County jail In
weak efforts at made, and tho
pol GO used clubs effectively. local company,
known as the National Guard, while going through
The drill, crooked" by the rabble, whereupon
the Guards proceeded to load their guns. and the
rabble retired respectful distance Inside the
building General A. J. Smith directed affairs with
The assists OF the Mayor aud Governor Phelps who
arrived from the State capital Ten thousand citizens
are now enrolled, but only l,5J0 are armed The
works closely guarded by a con apa>y Of vol
untecrs.
coERcE PRINTgRs
About two hundred OF the internationalists visited
tho offices OF the German daily papers during The
afternoon and demanded the printers quit work
but informed that tho printers were
satisfied and refused leave their cases
shereupon the internatonalists quietly ret,red
At the Office OF the Westliche Post tho
editor, DR.. Pretorious, made speech the mob.
nounoing them villains and towards. Police were
each Of the Offices and offered the leaders
Of the mob If the proprietors Of the papers desired 1T
but this was not requested in any case The English
dailies expecting visits tonight or Tomorrow
Bitter threats have been made against ali OF them
especially the Republican
UNITED STATES COLLECTOR
United States Collector sturgeon has his office in tho
Davis ordered company OF United States infantry
IRON the Arsenal TO guard the building Governor
Phelps will ISSUE proclamation tonight command
ing rioters to disperse Mayor Oversolz is severely
criticised Tor his leniency toward tho rioters
and the police allege that If they wore
gwen PERMISSION TO disperse disorderly assem-
blages and PROFESSIONS comparative quiet would be
restored In twenty -ioqr hours The nternaonalists
and working people are holding meetings tonight but
far everything is quiet. The Union depot was
very dull to-day, only sufficient number OF strikers
being present MAINTAIN possession and prevent pas
Senger and freight traffic.
TRAINS WHICH LEPT ST. LOUIS.
Tho following trains Departed
Indianapolis and ST. Louis, No 1, mail car, no pas
sengers; Wabash, No. 4, with mail and passenger;
Cairo short inc No 6, mail and passenger; vandala
No 2 mail car; Wabash, No. ~, mail and passenger
No trains, either mail passenger, went out tho
Southeastern, Chicago and Alton. and Chicago Bur-
lington and Quincy. All Western passengers got out
on tmc No freight was sent out In any direction.
Al East st. Louis everything remained quiet, the
strikers being full control of the depots railway
property and refusing allow any freight traffic what
STRIKE AT
Al st. Joseph the railroad men held a mass meeting
IL was resolved TO stop the freight trains all the
roads until the increased wages are allowed A CON-
mitteo was appointed to wait on the Mayor and ask
him to close all saloons until the strke over IL
also resolved Dy the strikers 20 acts OF vio-
lence to blockade the freight trans The roads
thus bockaded arc the Hannibal and ST. Joseph, The
ST. LOUIS, Kansas CITY and Northern, the Kansas
City. 81 Joseph and Council Bluffs and the ST. joseph
and Denver The ctrzcns held meeting to-day,
and enacted precautionary measures. Everything
quiet, and there Is no anticipation Of mob violence.
In street encounter todsy railroad superintendent
was Knocked down by county Judge.
PROCLAMATION by THE GovxsoR
The following proclamation written late tonight,
will be published In the morning.
ST. Louis, July 2G 1877.
Whereas large number OF men have for several
lays been unlawfully and rotousiy assembled In the
.ttv Louis and whereas II has been resenl