Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-26
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
THE STRIKERS.
Less Trouble in the Old Places bat
More in the New.
ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO IN
ARMS.
NEW YORK, July %.

The Eighth Regiment of this city has
been ordered to Buffalo, and will start
at once.
BALTIMORE, July %.
Supplies of bituminous coal are be
ing exhausted. 1t is believed that if
the railroad transportation trouble is
continued ten days longer, steamers
trading with Baltimore will not be able
to get coal and Will have to stop. Qui-
etness reigns in the localities hereto
fore busy with the hum of industry.
There is n growing fear of the distress
which seems to be inevitable among
the laboring classes that are not strik-
ers and are willing to work.
CUMBERLAND, Md, July %.
Advices have reached here that food
is getting scarce at Frostburg. Md, a
mining Town of 1000 inhabitants, 10
miles from here. 1t is said that there
are not ten barrels of flour in the town
and that the miners have threatened a
raid on Cumberland.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July %.
There is great excitement here this
morning. Business seems suspended
and citizens are organizing. Laborers
are gathering. They number several
thousand. An attempt was made to
burn the Louisville, Nashville and
Great Southern railroad Office last
night, but it failed.
NEW YORK, July %.
The Pacific Express, on the Erie
Railway, which left here last night,
was thrown from the track west of
Owen, the mob having removed a rail
from the track. No passengers are
seriously injured.
BRIDGEPoRT, Conn, July 25.
Molders, some 40 in number in the
Howe sewing machine factory, struck
work yesterday. They say they will
rot resume work until they receive
the back pay due them.
SCRANTON, Pa, July %.
The excitement here is intense. All
trains ON the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western road have been stopped.
When the mail train for Birniing-
hampton for New York arrived here
this morning wo passenger ears were
detached by the strikers who said
nothing, but that the mail only should
be allowed to run. superintendent
Halsted said the mail car would not
run unless the passenger cars were
also permitted and this made the
strikers very indignant. The Superin-
tendent vas firm, however, and the
mails were taken from the car, which
was promptly switched off on siding.
The strikers telegrsphed at nee 10 the
State authorities hat the com any re-
fused to run the mail and that they
would run it il necessary and furnish
firemen and engineer. a dispatch to
the same effect was sent to the Post
office authorities at Washington. The
streets are thronged with men from
the mines, railroads and iron mills.
ALBANY, n. Y, July %.
Everything is quiet this morning.
Soldiers have been sent to West AL
bany where freight trains will be
made up and sent out.
OMAHA, July 25.
Six companies Of the Ninth Infantry
leave here to day for Rock Island.
HoRNELLsvILLE, July %.
A train left for the East this norm
ing well guarded.
BUFFALO, July 25.
The police this morning made a
descent upon The strikers at East b If
falo who fled. Everything quiet.
Passenger rains over the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Northern Central, and Baltimore and
Potomac are moving with regularity.
On the Baltimore and Ohio, passenger
trains are running to Washington and
the West.
PHILADELPHIA, July 25.
All quiet at the West Philadelphia
depot. Passenger trains are moving
promptly, and some freight is being
Sent to New York, but more West. AT
the Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road the same uietness prevails. The
rails which were torn up in the vicinity
of Reading have been relaid, and trains
are moving on schedule time.
ALBANY, July %.
Everything quiet and no further dis
order is apprehended. The Governor
expresses the opinion that the strike is
entirely under control.
PHILADELPHIA, July %.
Business is almost entirely suspend
ed, and prices of all kinds are almost
nominal.
WATERFORD, n. j., July %.
The first section of the excursion
train of the Philadelphia and Atlantic
City Narrow Gauge Railroad ran off
the track this morning, four miles west
of Winslow. One brakeman was
killed, and ten passengers were
! wounded.
HoRNELLsvILLE, July %.
A private conference was held this
morning between Superintendent
Bronson and Assistant Receiver Sher-
mai on the part of the Erie and Hon.
Horace Bemis and Miles w. Hawley,
counsel for the disaffected men. No
definite result was reached, though
counsel claim to have hopes of an hon
orabie settlement.
ERIE, Pa, July %.
Passengers blockaded here have is
sued the following card:
To the public: We, the under.
signed passengers, who have been de-
tanned in the trains in this place the
past "a houas. wish to express the in
dignation we feel toward the railroad
company for what WI have every rea-
son to believe has been an uncalled-
| for abandonment of their trains II this
point. The strikers here have been
remarkably peaceable and orderly
and have shown every mark of kind
ness to the passengers, and have used
every exertion in their power to for
ward all mail and passenger trains
from this point, and have been pre-
vented from doing so only by the
imperative orders of the railroad
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