Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-08-03
TILE BIC lSTRIkE.
The Troubles Nearly Ended---Trains
Again Running.

ABaHh
Last week closed with general restora-
ton OF order, and Il manifest collapsing OF
the strikes. Matters eliminated at Chicago
Thursday. The police had fight with a
mob on Newbury avenue. A squad OF
mounted veterans with drawn sabers
charged on mob on Sixteenth street, and
10 rioters were killed aud large number
wounded. Eight or ten policemen were
wounded. Two boys were killed at the
Halstead street viaduct. The second regi-
ment was called out TO assist the police
and at noon the artillery left their quaretrs
for the scene of conflict, at the corner of
Halstead and Sixteenth streets, and opened
on the mob with grape and canister. This
mob is said TO have numbered 10000 men.
The prompt measures used had the effect
of restoring ORDER Gen. Sheridan arrived
at Chicago Saturday and took command of
the troops. The Chicago papers say that
at least one nh part of the mobs Of that
city was composed of women. They were
In the thickest of the scrimmages and more
abusive to the troops aud police Than were
the strikers themselves. The police often
had to scramble over half dozen of these
females TO ge, at the male rioters. In the
Pittsburg mob women were plenty and
took an active part In plundering the freight
cars.
In Philadelphia, on Thursday, the police
broke up strikers meeting, and were
stoned by crowd Of about two thousand
men. A desperate fight ensued in which
boy about seventeen years old was shot
through the head and killed. Several of
the police were injured by flying missiles.
AT Keyser, w. Va, on Sunday, seven
westward bound freight trains were stop
ped by about 800 men, in the face of two
companies of regulars. The troops came
out butthe riorers disappeared.
Gov. Robinson of New York has ordered
tue dismissal of all the troops called out on
the 22d, and cummeuds the promptitude
and alacrity with which they responded To
his call and their excellent behavior while
on duty. The assistant adiuiant general of
New York places the expense of moving
and maintaining the troops in New York
State last week at S2j0,000
The gravest aspect presented al present
by The strike movements is found in the
condition of the coal mines regions, where
the workmen have generally stopped labor,
and are very resolute and determined in
their demands for increase of wages, aud
in their threats of consequences growing
out of a refusal to acceGe TO their PROPOSE
lions.
At Scranton, Wednesday, the miners
made a good deal Of trouble. They forced
l. a
the pumps in the mines from working,
broke Mayor McKuue's Jaw, and would
have killed him but for the interference Of
a Catholic priest, and had their own way
until the arrival of the Vigilance Commit
tee, which fired on the loalers, killing four
of them. This appears TO have had salu-
tary effect. Some trouble was also eXpe-
rienced in Wilkesbarre and other places
| by the conduct of the miners.
The San Francisco hoodlums have been
| quoted and no further trouble is anlicipat-
ed there.
Business at the war department has re-
sumed its usual course. The troops now
stationed in the various cities aud along the
railr DAD lines where the disturbance took
place last week, will be kept in those places
| until perfect order is II .toTed and business
| is con Quoted as usual.
Arrestsare constantly being made. TWEEN
| ty-six strikers on the indianapolis, Bloom
ington and Western railroad, were quietly
arrested at Urhana, ILL.,, Monday, as ring
lea ders and taken 10 Springfield. Al St
Louis, Saturday, the strikers interfering
with departing train, the soldiers envel
oped them and arrested sixty-five. A
Pittsb urg, Saturday morning, Gen. Hamil
ton with about $50 regulars arrived, caus
ing sensation as he brought in so strik er,
prisoners.