The Portland daily press., 1877-07-28
GENERAL NOTES.

The strike on the Michigan Central road is
over.
Stock trains left Buffalo for Albany and
New York on the New York Central branches
in beef. The Erie road is not yet open,
News from st. Adams says there is no
trouble on the Central Vermont and all trains
are running regularly,
and Nashville railroad have signed card COM
mending landlord the President and pledging
themselves to protect the company's property.
Vice President King of the Baltimore and
Ohio road, gives table of wages showing that
the prices now paid workmen is more than in
1861 and says the tariff on freight has been re-
duced lately by the competition of other roads
down to one-half that received in 1861.
While number of hands were building a
cnlvert at Mount Airy Summit on the Balti-
party lying in the bush and three were wound
ed, one fatally.
Governor Hartranft has 10000 troops be-
tween Philadelphia aid Harrisburg, and will
run trains shortly on schedule time. Rioters
and strikers will be shot on the least interfer-
ence. Trains were running regularly at Read
ing yesterday, and the men on the Lehigh and
Susquehanna branch were expected to return
to duty.
The strikers on the American roads are caus-
ing diversion of mails to Canadian routes.
Considerable alarm is felt in Montreal lest
strike NAV break out there
Chief Engineer Arthur of the Locomotive
Brotherhood, thinks the great trouble with
some of the railway officials is love of having
their own way regardless of the of the discom-
fort and inconvenience it causes others. In
stead of endeavoring to cultivate friendly feel
| ing between themselves and their employees
they repel them by naughty, overbsarng and
arbitrary conduct, and arouse feeling of hos
tility, of which the recent outbreaks are the
fruits. There ought to be law that would
| compel the submission of all disputes between
| employees and employers to board of arbitra-
| ton. whose decision should be binding and
| final. This is the only true and proper method
of settling differences and avoiding strikes.
The strike on the Northern Central is over.
Orders have been issued to close the Lehigh
road for thirty days. and no mail can be car
| ried.
Trains on all the roads in Michigan except
the Michigan Southern are running on sched-
| ule time.
Gov. Robinson has ordered the dismissal of
all the troops called out on the 23i inst. 1t is
thought the strike is over
No trains were run yesterday on any road
passing through Wilkesbarre All is quiet at
| Newark.
| All was quiet at Rock Island yesterday and
| freight trains run freely on the Chicago Rock
Island and Pacific and Western Union roads.
The Peoria and st. Louis ran only passenger
trains At Malone there is a strike among the
Employees of Deer's Plow Works, against re-
ductiOn of ten per cent.
All was quiet at Pittsburg yesterday. The
| general impression is that the military will
take possession of the Pennsylvania road be-
fore the strikers have time to gather sufficient
force to offer resistance, and will then proceed
| to send out freight trains east ank west.
Manager Caldwell of the Pittsburg, Cincin.
natl & ST. Louis railroad has promised en-
poyes full pay for time lost if they will 90 to
work and many are accepting, Manager Cald.
well says freight traffic will not be resumed till
citizens manifest disposition to take hold of
| the matter in their own interest.
Manufacturing establishments at Toledo
| closed up by the mob are all resuming.
| Strikers attempted to stop train at Bethle-
hem, Pa, yesterday, but citizens interfered
| and the train moved on.
Men resumed work in the Pennsylvania
shops at Harrisburg yesterday. Freight trains
commencing running.
Fears of an outbreak at Springfield, Ill, are
| all dissipated.
The Governor of Illinois has ordered the sher.
| ifs along the Illinois Central to protect it in
| running trains.
Meeker & Co. of Chicago have failed on &C.
count of the strike and their steel mills at 10.
| liet are closed.
The leaders of the mob at Peoria have been
arrested: The trouble there is over.
A Buffalo dispatch says all the freight trains
on the New York Central, Erie, Buffalo &
jamestown, Buffalo, New York & Philadel-
phia, Grand Trunk and Great Western are
running regularly, and passenger trains on the
Lake Shore are running on time.
There are no passenger or freight trains rum
ming on the Canada Southern except on the
Niagara Branch.
An attempt was made at Toledo YESTERDAY to
move freight train on the Lake Shore rail-
road, but the strkerc watched the engine and
| returned 1t to the house. A man named Lee OF
Pittsburg, one of the principal leaders among
the rioters, was arrested yesterday.