Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-02
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CLOCK. IL WAS Calleu IOT Guc purpose VI
keeping the Administration officially advised
of the strikers operations in the different
parts of the country so that the President
could take some immediate action if deemed
necessary. A number Of dispatches were read
and thoroughly discussed by the Cabinet
One from Gen. Hancock reporting everything
in Philadelphia quiet and under control. He
said, in his opinion, it was not the lull before
the storm, but the breaking up. The dis
patches generally report affairs more quiet
and peaceable, and it was decided that no
further action should be taken by the gov
ernment for the present 1t is noticed, how.
ever, that emanations from the Cabinet give
the situation an over cheerful look.
FROM OTHER POINTS.
ALBANY, July 25.-General Carr tele-
graphs that all is quiet at West Albany. The
troops are in possession Of the round and
freight houses, and freight can be sent with
out any trouble. Everything in the city is
quiet, and no further disorder is apprehended
here. The Governor says that his dispatches
from all parts of the State are satisfactory,
and he expresses the opinion that the strike
ir now entirely under control. Governor Rob
inson has issued proclamation reciting the
law, which Furnishes with ten years imprison-
ment and 81 900 fine any kind of tampering
with railroad trains or tracks. He offers
reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction
of every such offender.
READING, Pa, July 25-The United States
troops, with four pieces Of artillery, are guard
ing the depot and other railroad property.
The road has been repaired here. ..
ANDENRE1D, Pa, July 25.-The Beaver
Brook Mines have conformed to the demands
of the miners, who struck yesterday, and the
men have resumed work. It is believed that
their success will encourage other, miners in
the vicinity to follow their example.
SCRANTON, Pa, July 25.-The excitement
here is intense. All trains on the Delaware,
Lackawana and Western Road have been
stopped. When the mail train from Bing-
hampton for New York arrived at $50 this
morning, two passenger cars were detached by
the strikers, who said that nothing but mail
cars should run. Superintendent Halstead said
that the mail car would not run unless the
passenger cars were permitted to 60. This
made the strikers indignant. The superinten-
dent was firm, however, and the mails were
taken from the car, which was promptly
switched of. The strikers telegraphed, at
once, to the State authorities that the compa-
ny refused to run the mail car, and that they
would run it, if necessary, and furnish fire.
man and engineer. A dispatch, to the same
effect, was sent to the postofice at Washing.
ton. The streets are thronged with men from
tho noinae railroad and iron mills
SYRACUSE, July 25.-At East Syracuse
this forenoon the passenger trains We're stop.
ped by strikers, but afterwards we're allowed
to start. The mail cars had been placed at
the rear of the trains, and as the other cars
could not be detained without interfering with
the mails, the trains were allowed to pass on.
The efforts to cause general strike at Syra.
cuse this morning were not successful. The
local authorities have perfected a strong or
ganization to repress any outbreak.
ST. THOMAS, ONT, July 25.-A Great
Western Railroad train, ordered to Canada
for Southern passengers, was taken possession
of by the strikers at o'clock this morning,
and had to 90 back to the Airline depot.
The strikers positively refused to let the ex-
press train, which had many passengers, move
East.
PATTERSON, N. j., July 25.-The striking
silk weavers here are becoming demonstratiye.
A nonstriker was badly hurt this morning by
one man and two women. Warrants have
been issused for their arrest. The strikers are
mostly French and Germans pervaded BY
Communism. An uneasy feeling prevails
here, but the authorities are firm and deter
mined. ea..
GALVESTON, July 25.-Special dispatches
to the Ne,us from Marshal and Dallas report
a strike on the Texas Pacific.
ELIZABETH, N. j., July 25.-No through
trains have passed here from Easton, and the
mails have been delayed for the first time
since the trouble began. aa
HoRNELLsv1LLE, N. Y, July 25-At 8
o'clock this morning, train No was started
east with guard on board, an engine ahead
and behind. No full trains have moved west
since the strike commenced. At 11.30 a. m.
private conference was held between Super
intendent Bowen and Assistant Receiver Sher-
man, on the part of the Erie Road, and Hon.
Horace Dennis and Niles W.Hawley, counsel
for the disafected men. No definite result
was reached, though the counsel claim to have
hopes of peaceful and honorable settlement.
A meeting of the strikers is to be held this
evening, to take some action in the matter.
Otherwise nothing has been done and every
thing is quiet. ii.
New YORK, July 25.-After the Tompkins
Square meeting was over, the crowd gathered
on the streets. The police ordered them to
disperse and were greeted with a shower of
brickbats and stones. The police charged,
and after sharp and decisive struggle the
crowd were routed. All is quiet now. The
post commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic has rendered to Governor Robinson
two thousand men. ,Fs a54AnaL ta
BALTIMORE, July 25.-The board of direc-
tors of the Corn and Flour Exchange to-day
passed resolutions that whereas state of
rioting and anarchy, interfering with every
form Of honest labor, exists in many of the
chief cities Of the Union, and along their
principal lines of railroads, and is rapidly
spreading to the imminent danger Of peacea-
Bile citizens, and the complete disorganization
of all business; and, whereas, the militia,
State and municipal forces are unquestiona-
bly, inadequate to cope with this emergency
to afford protection to the willing workers,
be it resolved that urgent appeal be made to
the President Of the United States for the ut
most military protection authorized by the
constitution, even to an increase of the mill
tary forces.
CHICAGO, July 25.-11 P. M.-The mob
was making, at last reports, for McCormick's
Great Reaper Works, and will there meet
opposition. A gang Of rioters is engaged in
running street cars into stables on the south
side as fast as they come in. The railroads
are in statu quo, with passenger trains and