Daily Republican., 1882-07-19
PROGREss OF THE srRIKE.
BeginnIBE "5 the PeODIe's Suit
Against tUe RAiIrOads.Tho strike
UuehamHed.


UuchaDE ed.
NEW YORK, July l8.-The proceed
ings instituted by the Attorney Gener-
al on behalf Of the people against tn,
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad Company and the New York
Lake Erie and Western Railroad Com
pany to compel them to receive and
Ut ansmit freight promptly, were begun
to day before Judge Haigbt In the Su
preme Court Chambers. Ex-senator
COnkling Is one of the counsel for the
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad Company. Attorney General
Russell and Edward @. James ap.
peared on behalf Of the people am 81.
IL on Sterne on behalf of the merchants
The case was opened by Simon Stern,
who made statement of tho facts oil
the case. He said that the proceedings
we're for mandamuses to compel the
railroad companies to forward freight
as common carriers. He referred 70
the freight blockade caused by the
strike and the heavy losses entailed on
the merchants. The losses, he said,
we're fully 81, 0O0, 900 a day. Ex- Judge
Shipman, counsel for the Erie Railway,
In replying to Mr.. Sterne, claimed that
no sufficient facts had been stated upon
which an application for peremptory
mandamus could be granted. This, he
said was nothing but q civil wrong be-
tween the corporations and the indlvid.
ual shippers whose goods have been
delayed. When a mans freight was
detained at the railroad depot he had
che right by an action at law, for dam
ages he had sustained, but not by a
mandamus. There wac no change in
the freight handlers strike to- day.
About the same number of men was at
work. There were no disturbances.
CINCINNATI, July 18.-Further con-
ference yesterday between the boiler
makers and their employers resulted in
an agreement TO end the strike, and
work was resumed in all the yards to-
day at an advance of ten per cent. on
the former wages. The strike began
June 2 W. H. Caruthers has leased
the Klamar Mil, at Moundsville, and
signed the scale. He ia making iron
to-day. This makes two mills at work
In that vicinity.
PAXINoS, July 10 Fifty or sixty of
the men employed on the Shamokin,
Sunbury and Lewishurg new road quit
work yesterday afternoon and engaged
with the agents of Wigtcn & Co., of
Phillipsburg, who are here procuring
men for the bituminous region. They
are to be paid 81 per day. This action,
however, does not embarrass the con-
tractors of the new road, they having
four hundred men at work here. They
also have an agent in New York and
one in Baltimore. Large numbers of
Swedes and negroes are expected to ar
rive from there in few days.
PITTSBURG, Pa, July 18.-(SpeciaD
superintendent Wright, of the Ma
of Witherow 81 Gordon,
has been arrested and Held
IN $500 bail to answer the charge of lar.
ceny by bailee in refusing togiveup the
baggage of five German workmen, who
were brought from New York to take
the place of the strikers. The men are
pew immigrants and cannot speak Eu-
gliSh. They say they were engaged to go
New Castle on the representations by
an agent of the arm, at No. 100 Green
witch street, New York, who, they
claim, told them nothing about strike
Wright says he will not
give up thebaggage until the men have
the money advanced by the
firm to pay their fares from New York
10 New Castle,