Evening star., 1877-07-27
kilograms to The Star.
DOWN BRAKES!
THE RIOTS SUBSIDING.
THE NEW JERSEY STRIKERS.
Blockade at Phillipsburg.
BALTIMORE AND Ohio STRIKERS.
Negotiations in Progress.
SAN FRANCISCO INCENDlARlES
CHIEF JOSEPH'S REBELLION
He Makes 1t Warm for Howard.
BALTIMORE AND Ohio STRIKERS
Negotiations in Progress.
SAN FRANCISCOINCENDlARlES
CHIEF JOSEPH'S REBELLION
He Makes 1t Warm for Howard,
THE COAL MINERS STRIKE.
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HAzLETuN, PA. July -f-Dhe miners en-
pIo! ed al Inc Northumberland cOllieries
nave struck. The mum Ger OF strikers Is about
two thousand. The malcontent coIIiers have
joined with the rioters from the Shamokiu
mlhes ana raided upon colliery property.
nuCh or which has been destroyed. Two
0leakers belonging to the Mineral Run Min
ing and Railroad Company were burn
!hls morning. Severai lights have occurred
between the strikers and citizens COMMITTEES
winch is pairolling the region. AccessIOns
Of desperate men are being made to the mum
Der OF strikers hourly. aud as hundreds of
Idle miners are docking in from ihe sur
rounding mining towns the army of riotOus
persons Is swelling TO immense proportions
The Golfers of The Behigh region are to hold
meeting at upper Lehign To morrow The
Ieople are apprehenslve of serious times
The miners in the Mahoning district now
WOi King have resolved TO co operate with
The men " ho are now on a strike there. The
GIardsvile Is intense.
TERRORISM NEAR sHAMOKIN.
Inc terrorism of last night at q nj near
Shamokin was greater than previously re-
port d. Three men-JOhn v eist, Peter Nc
Caffrey aud George McDOnald-were killed.
Five others were wounded. The railroad
tracks between several of the mines were
torn up. and several sections of the track Of
the Northern Central railroad We're dis
placed. The freight depot of the Northern
Central railroad a!d the depot of the Phiia-
delphla and Reading company were plum
dered. A man while trying to escape from
aled crowd.
MORE TRAINS WRECKED.
Two coal trains were wrecked near Mount
carmel this morning, and the engineers aud
iremen running Ihcm were driven from the
locomotives. The engines are now in DOS
session OF the strikers.
The Block ade OF Coal Trains.
HAZELToN, PA, July q Tine strike on
the main line OF the Lehigh Valley railroad
yesterday has resulted In stoppage of
nearly all trains on the HaZeltOn branch
An engine and mail car went out to Tom
hickey this morning and brought in the
mail and a few passengers from Sunbury.
lie local freight from the east also came In,
about hall hour late. No through trains.
eiiher freigh! or passenger, are run. a COM
mlttet % strikers came down from Wilkes
barre last Dght and induced the en-
ployes Of the HaZe'tOn division to
strike. The committee proceeded 10
Wea, herly this morning. The coal trains
on the Beaver Meadow and Mahauoy
division were running his morning, but
uV II 10 the strike on the main lines coal
Jains cannct get beyond Packerton. No
New York or Philadell hia mails were re-
ceived " sterday.
THEB so STRIKE
Answer of the Company to the Men
BALTIMORE, July fac following Is the
reply of Mr.. John King, jr-, first sice pres
the committee OF strikers appointed to isy
the grievances and claims OF the strikers be-
4Ore the company:
BALTIMORE, July 26'h, Is77.-7o Messrs J.
UOrfh, j. d. Price-Gentlemen: I am in re-
ceipt of your communication enclosing res
olut1Ons adopted at meeting OF engineers,
fremen, conductors and brakemen, propos-
Ing the following rates Of wages :-Engineers.
hrst class, So so per day; do, second class, So;
conductors, 81 80; firemen and bIakemen, g..
In declining this proposition II is but proper
and right that the reasons which have led to
this conclusion should be explained. The
great depression in business which COM
menced in the autumn OF 1873 has continued,
growing from bad 10 worse. The effect upon
the Baltimore and Ohio com pany has shown
continued large decreases OF revenue. The
other trunk lines had reduced wages 10 per
cent, one of them on first of June, and two
of them Oh first of July, and at that date a
similar reduction had been made on many
OF the leading lines in the country. II will
be observed that the Baltimore and Ohio
company was the last company which COM
petss for the great trade OF the west which
made the reduction of 10 per cent. That the
whole question may be understood, present
q table of rate of wages paid trainmen in
lotl Ia 1871, after the reduction, and the rate
you low propose: