The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

The Baltimore and Ohio railroad has beer
having serious trouble with it's striking en-
ployes. At Martinsburg, ". Va, the militia
was called out to break the blockade caused by
the strikers. The rioters fired on the soldiers
wounding one man. The fire was returned
with better effect, one rioter being killed and
several injured.
Dispatches of the 18th from Martinsburg,
Grafton, and other points along the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad in West Virginia, announce
the striking fremen and brakemen in quiet
but determined possession of the company
property. At Martinsburg the strikers num-
bered over 500. At the Sand House sta
ton, little further west, $50 or 500
strikers had fortified themselves. At
Keyser the strikers, several hundred
in number, received information that a COM
! pany of militia would probably reach that place
on the train east for Martinsburg, and resolved
that if this company attempted to board any
train they would be torn to pieces. At Grafton
there was q mob of several hundred, who
threatened death to any one that attempted to
run train out of the place. This was the
alarming aspect of affairs when Gov. Matthews,
Of West Virginia, telegraphed to President
Hayes that he was unable to quell the dis
turbance with the forces at his command, and
requesting that United States troops be placed
at his disposal to put down the mob. The
President thereupon issued formidable pro-
clamation, in the usual form, commanding the
rioters to g disperse and retire peaceably to
their respective abodes," etc. An order was
also issued from the War Department direct
| ing two companies of infantry and one Of ar
tillery, under command of Gen. French, to
proceed Immediately to Gov. Matthews as
sistance. ri2
| A Pittsburgh dispatch of the 10Th says :
"All brakemen and conductors on outgoing
freight trains east on the Pennsylvania railroad
| struck here this morning, and prevented others
from taking their places. A new order of tne
company doubling up trains and dispensing
with one-half of the employees was the occasion
of the strike. Congregating to the number of
several hundred at the outer depot, the strikers
stopped all freight trains, and compelled en-
gineers and fremen to abandon their posts. All
the freight employees Of the Panhandle, Pitts
burgh and Connellsville branch of the Balti-
more and Ohio and Allegheny Valley branch of
the Pennsylvania railroad struck at p. N. No
-freights are leaving the city except on the
Fort Wayne and Chicago. The engineers Of
the Pennsylvania railroad and branches held q
meeting and unanimously resolved to strike. !"
| A telegram of the 18th from Martinsburg
states that the arrival Of the military and the
arrest of the ringleaders of the strikers had
produced favorable effect, most of the strik-
ers having retired to their homes. At Grafton
and other points along the Baltimore and Ohio
road the strikers were still holding out.
Burned: Almost the en- ire business portion
of Greensboro, Ky, loss $4,000; the shoe
mandatory of T. A. Coolidge, at West MARI
boro, Mass, loss $10o.OOO match factory and
shoe backing factory on Fourth street, Phila-
delphia, loss $4,000.
Robberies; The house of David Garyes. at