Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-01
ST. LOUIS IN CoMMOTIoN.

CIs lOUlss Ouly [O.-1 uo Ouly Train
east over the bridge this q. m. was
the Toledo, Wabash & Western, the
strikers making exceptions in favor
of that because of its position to-
wards its employees in the past. On
other roads only postal cars were al
lowed to leave.
The Chicago and Alton people re-
fused to be dictated to and at the reg
ular hour sent out a postal and bag
gage car and one passenger coach,
the train reached East st. Louis, but
the strikers refused to allow any but
the engine and postal car to proceed.
This discrimination was declined and
the whole train was backed over to
the depot on this side.
The Missouri Pacific machine shops
and freight depots and yards are clos
ed by the strikers. The workmen
wanted to continue but quit for pol
icy sake. The company sent out or
4 trains between one and five o.
clock this morning, but il is unlikely
they will start any more for the pres
ent. A delegation Of the strikers Wis
tied Cheltenham, four miles west of
the city, this q. m. and ordered the
men out Of the smelling and fire-clay
works. A detail Of police was refus-
ed, to protect them and they quit.
The police force is on duty at the
station house and the city almost en-
tirely unpatrolled. The force is kept
in reserve to be used only when the
strikers resort to violence or a mob
is formed. W.
Union street railway employees
threaten to strike unless the recent
reduction of ten per cent, is restored
and will stop the cars. Its property
is In danger, and the police are in
structed to protect it. All the beef
Gamers have struck and are parading.
The citizens protective organization
is in q very good state for defending
property, 1,500 are enrolled. A coal
famine Is iminent the mills anticipate
the necessity of shutting down and
prices are rising.
ST. LOUIS, July 25.-The gravity OF
the situation 10 not lessened here to-
day. At9 o'clock this morning l,5O0
men assembled ON Lucas Market
Place around . stand erected by the
working mems party, while 2 or !
thousand spectators gathered in the
vicinity. The crowd was made up
mostly of
WIRE WORKERS,
who have struck, and the strikerl
from other manufacturing establish'
ments. At 10 O'Clock they formed in
column, marched past the City Hal
to Turner Hall where an executive
committee Of the working mens' par
| ty IL In session.
Half an hour later body of 500
made up
| CHIEFLY OF NEGROES,
was sent to the levee and marched il
entire length for the purpose of In
ducing the rOustabOuts to join them
The strikers say they are to receiv'
explicit orders from hour to hon
and expect to stop all manufacturing
establishments before night.
/ A cOmmmittee of men of Lacled
Gas Works waited ON the officers o
the Co., at 10 o'clock and asked tina
the reduction Of rs cents per day
made July lst, be restored.
The request was immediatel
granted and the men returned t
work. The Laclede supplies all th
city north CT Washington avenue.
/ The Coopers demand for the rcstc
ration or old prices was compile
with except In one particular, whic
will probably be compromised.
This afternoon a crowd of 2,5C
, people are gathered at the Union d
pot, but nothing is doing there.
II THE CANADA SOUTHERN.
u ST.. THOMAS July 25.-This morl
] ing the strikers drove the Canad
I Southern passenger train back to Il