The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-26
Al At. Louis.


the situation Is not lesseuei here to-day.
At O'Clock TINS morning 1900 men g.
sembied 81 Lucss market p ace. around n
stand erected by the workingmen, while
1000 or 5000 spectators gathered IN the
vicinity. The crowd was mostly wire
workers who nave struck. Al lOo.clock
they formed in column and marched
past the Cily hall to Turner hall, where
the executive committee OF the working
mems party Is II session. The strikers
say they expect to stop all the manuiac-
turing establishments. A crowd OF $500
people gathered At the Union depot st
P, NJ, but nothing was doing there
The only passenger train which passed
east over the bridge this morning WAS the
Toledo, Wabash and Western train.
The strikers are making M exception
III favor of that road because OF
it, position toward Its employees
IN the past. On other roads only postsI
cars was allowed to leave The Chicago
aad Alton people refused TO be dictated
70 and II. the regular hour sent cut 4 pos
tai car and one passenger car. The train
WAS stopped Al Eat st. Louis, WAS stop
ped and run back to the Union depot
The Missouri aud Pacific machine shops
aud freight depots snd yards are closed
The Street railway men have notified
the officers il they did not restore the
ten per cent reduction they would strike
TO day at noon, and tear for the safety OF
their property wss entertained Gen.
smith states that about |, 800 have been
enrolled TO: service IN the citizens organ
lzst,on. The first conf ct occurred last
evening at CarOndale., six miles below
the centre OF the city. \ crowd OF iron
workers formed and marched TO the
Ma-tindale IlLc work., Aud ordered
uu. the men. Ta,r' 4t' acaarge ready
~ draw, which the strikers refused TO
permit 10 be drawn. Parker, the lore
mar, started - draw 1t himself and the
strikers stopped him and he struck one OF
them with crow bar. \ fight cnsued
alI the police were called IN. Sergeant
R1ahow responded and attempted to de-
.nad the foreman, but WAS driven oti
with stones and tho crowd was lett in
possession of the works The Union
sock rolling mills and malIesbe
iron works, N the South Side, have
been closed and their five hundred hands
ARE idle. The mob WAS making, NJ last
reports, for MCCormlck's great reaper
works. aud will there meet with oppo,l-
ton. a gang are running the street
.srs into the stables on the South Side
u, fast ~ they come in. The North SIDE
mon is the most dIsorderly, and is busy
breaking windows wherever resisted.
Tnc PHeuix distiIlory mas been seized b.
Them, and the proprIetors have called f'r
United States troops The United States
troops will arrive this afternoon from the
Indian country.
ST LOUIS, July 25.-The working
mems party and some three hundred ne.
sro laborers on the levee visited large
number of manufacturing establishments
m the southern part OF the city, com
polling all tho employees to stop work,
outing out all the tires In engine rooms,
and closing the buildings. Several large
houring mills were among those closed.
The coored part Of this crowd marched
up the levee and forced all steamboat
companies and officers of the lndepend
slt steamers to sign pledges TO increase
ne wages OF all classes of STEAMBOATS, and
livee laborers.
The situation at Pittsburgh.
PITTSBURGH, July 25.-The city re-
mains quiet, and the precautionary ef-
forts OF the Citizens committee against
any further outbreak, have had an excel.
lant effect. William Phillips, who Is
charged with having followed the Phil
snelphis troops on their retreat out Penn
svenue, Sunday morning, and shooting
p. them has been arrested and jailed.
lie Is a resident OF Pitt. burgh.
\ large number OF rioters and iRcen-
diaries nave been arrested and will be
brought to speedy trial. Among them
are those charged with firing the Union
depot.
The coal miners of the Monongahcls
Valley are all out and they, together
with the iron workers and mill hands
oc McKeesport, neld meeting
to-day. ut which over 1000 were
present. The proceedings were very
orderly. There is fear Of famine IN
this city unless the freight embargo is
removed n. 4 close estimate OF pro-
visions 10 this city shows but
ten day ratior- The river is low and
no transportation by water Is pos s-lble.
Some Of the stree. car lines are reduced
TO "a hours teed for their animals and
will stop running tomorrow. Percy +.
smith, late master of transportation at
Altoona Is here supervising the recon-
struction OF the rosd west of Thirty-third
street