St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-03
Latest About the Strike.


shine and fruitful as the rain.-Spring-
field Republican.
Latest About the Strike.
The strike to all appearances is end
ed. On the Pittsburg division of the
Baltimore and Ohio roads, trains are
running regularly, and all freight off
ces are open as usual. On the Pennsyl-
vania stock trains are moving, without
military aid. All employees of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road
have resumed work On both the Penn
sylvania and Fort Wayne roads the
men they can have their old engines if
they report for duty at once. The open
ing of the blockade the Fort Wayne
road will open the Cleveland and Pitts
burg and the Pittsburg and Erie roads
to business. On the Allegheny Valley
road passenger trains are arriving and
departing on time, and it is expected
freights will he started at once. The
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis
road, Pan Handle route, are running
trains as usual. The police are con-
stantly making arrests of rioters.
A Baltimore dispatch says the inquest
on the victims of the mob on the Goth.
has commenced. Several witnesses
gave evidence of the violence of the ri
oters, and regarded the firing on the
part of the soldiers as strictly in self
defence.
A Whitehall dispatch says the canal
drivers of the Whitehall Transportation
Co., are on IA strike. Some trouble is
apprehended, and fifty special police
men have been appointed.
In New Jersey the strikers are quiet
merely from the presence of the militia
ry. At Phillipsburg, Hampton and
Washington, trains are running regu-
larly and the strikers are trying to con-
vince the military that their presence
is unnecessary and the military are try
ing to convince the government that
such is the case. The truth is. however,
that in the Lehigh valley there is no
disposition on the part of the strikers
to resume work, and no intention on
the part of the railroads to resume I'M
less there is Il general return to duty:
A Scranton dispatch says the strikers
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western roads have resolved to return
to work, and trains are now running
The strike of the miners and iron work
ers numbering several thousand still
continues, with no prospect of termina-
ton. A destruction of property is
greatly feared. Several places were
raided and robbed Sunday night, pro
vision being carried off in large quanti-
ties. There is much distress among the
poor.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
Business has been fully resumed at
Chicago and st. Louis.
Cleveland, Louisville, Toledo and all
the other recently disturbed cities are
reported quiet.
Barney DOnanhOe, chief of the HOr-
nellsville mob, was never employed by
a railroad company, but has been a sa-
loon keeper.
While the work of destruction, at
Reading, was done by strangers, it has
been ascertained that they were aided
by citizens, some of them persons of
prominence.
The Rev. DR.. Miner, of Boston,
preached upon the labor question Sun
day, taking the ground that education
and temperance were the proper rene
dies against mObs.
The killed at Pittsburg, not counting
Philadelphia soldiers, numbered about
twenty. There were neither women
nor children among them, as reported.
The soldiers killed numbered about
One-third that number.
Beecher in his sermon Sunday night
claimed that he had been misrepre-
sented by the newspapers, and that he
was now as always the friend of work
ing-men. Because of fears of his being
mobbed police force was stationed in
the church.
Along with a party of roughs who
boarded a train at Cumberland, Nd,
last week and went on to Pittsburg,
where the whole party was arrested and
given 80 days apiece in the work house,
were sons of several prominent citizens
"a law student, an ex-sheriff's son and
other well-knOwn young men.
Order has been completely restored
at San Francisco, the station houses are
crammed with hoodlums arrested on
the charge of vagrancy, and no further
trouble is feared.
ONE HUNDRED
bilt, at the time his road, the New York
Central, was threatened by the strikers,
assured his employees that he could
make no terms with strikers, but if his
men remained true to the road he in
timated his willingness to treat them
hOnOrably and literally. He has made
good that promise by giving one hun
dred thousand dollars to be distributed
pro rata among all the employees en-
gagged directly in operating the road.
While this seems large, as it is, and
will represent to each Individual but
trifie, when divided among ten or twelve
Thousand men, it demonstrates a dis
position on the part of Mr.. Vanderbilt
to recognize the faithful services of his
men in a critical situation, and will
tend to bind together in closer bonds of
sympathy servant and master, and the
we venture to predict, will
prove eventually not to have been
wasted.
All that wOrkingmen are getting from
the riot and destruction of property, is
dearer bread, dearer meat, and higher
price for coal.