Daily globe., 1883-08-19

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CATION of striking linemen visited the
Office, but were told that their places had
been filled by competent men. Later they
held a meeting and resolved to apply for
work individually and go back just as
soon as the company would take them.
The operators who were unsuccessful in
their applications for reinstatement also
held a meeting and passed resolutions
of thanks to the press. The women ope-
rators who did not succeed in being rein
stated, are to have the proceeds of picnic
to o-morrow devoted to their benefit. A SUBJ
scr1ption for them will also be started. It
is the intention of the Brotherhood to pay
the ladies regular salaries while they are
out of employment.
Mr.. Somerville said this afternoon that
during the first week of the strike, the
business of the company fell off about 80
per cent, but after that it was but Is per
cent, and during the last week only 10 per
cent. lower than the usual amount
A BETTER FORCE THAN BEFORE THE STRIKE.
ST. LOUIS. Aug .1S.-A large number of
striking telegraphers applied at the Wes-
tern Union Office to-day for restoration to
duty Superintendent Baker considered
about forty individual applications during
the day, and selected twenty-five, rejecting
the remainder for cause. Of the number
re-employed, two go to Little Rock, two to
Galveston, two to Houston, two to Sedalia,
and one to st. Paul, The rest will resume
their keys in this Office. Only two ladies
were restored. there being no other vacan-
cies in the female department in this
Office. 1t is now fully manned,
and Supt. Baker regards the force supe-
rior to that on duty here prior to
the strike. Of upwards of seventy
operators who went out of the st. Louis
Office on the day of the strike, thirty-fve
have been re-engaged any the remainder
will have to seek places at the Baltimore g.
Ohio offices. All the vacancies excepting
two are filled and full force will be on
duty on Monday or Tuesday. The strikers
here are very bitter in their denunciation
of the knights of labor, charging that
order with the ponfulflment of their
promises and general bad faith. A num-
ber of them also accuse John Campbell
with selling out the brotherhood, and max
ing bunch of money by the operation.
They assert that he ordered the abandon
ment of the strike without proper author
ity, and that it has been impossible to
ascertain his whereabouts since yesterday.
THE CHICAGO OFFICES FULLY MANNED.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1S.-The striking tele-
graph operators kept applying for work
at the office of the Western Union in small
squads up to one o'clock, when stampede
occurred aud from that on till late hour
in the afternoon the hallway leading to the
Office of Superintendent Tubbs was crowd
ed. A number of those apply
ing were refused places for
reasons best known to the officials. Prac-
tically the entire force of the Baltimore &
Ohio company were taken back intact.
About 100 operators met at Uhlrich hall at
2 o'clock in the afternoon when the leaders
acknowledged the case was lost and ad-
vised the men to seek work. The Chicago
offices are now fully manned.
BAD FOR THE LADY OPERATORS.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 1S.-The striking
operators held a meeting to-day and
agreed to send in written application for
This was done and then
the operators made personal application
afterwards. Nearly all the lady operators
who struck will lose their situations as
the places have been filled.
NINETEEN TAKEN BACK.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 18.-Nineteen
strikers were engaged this afternoon, and
will be placed on duty to morrow. Five or
six others will leave for Chicago tomorrow
and the remainder of those who made ap-
plication for reinstatement were notified
to call on Manager Jones tomorrow.
Officer Do,clam Vindicatcs Himself.
To the Editor of the Globe:
Allow me to occupy a small place in
your valuable paper to contradict an arti-
Gle published in the st. Paul Pioneer
Press yesterday, entitled Nobody Wanted
the Baby To say that was surprised
when I read said article, such bare-faced
lies, would be putting it mild. Ihave
been over five years attached to the mu-
nicipal court, and it is almost ten years
since I was appointed on the police
force, and it is the first time my
name has been put in the newspapers in
that way. Mrs. DR.. Wood said that I
came to her house last Friday and put her
things out of the house, and a sick woman
and her child, while she was away, and
when she returned she could not
find the child's mother. She supposed
the woman had killed herself. She
thought as / had put her things out
and the baby, that ought to take care of
the latter, but refused and laid it on
the doorstep, so she took it to st. Luke's
hospital. Now, the facts of the case are
these: This DR.. E. Wood, as she calls her
self, has been on Mr.. y. L. Lamprey's
property for seven years without paying
any rent, damaging him great deal, and
putting him off from one time to another.
At last he brought suit to eject
her. On the 18th day of July last,
he got judgment against her, and still he
gave her until the 18th of August to move.
On the 18th day of August, last Friday, the
clerk of the municipal court delivered a
writ of restitution to me. Said
writ commanded me to immedi-
ately remove from the premises described
therein, that being the lot this doctor was
then living on. had strict orders from
lawyer Lamprey to put her out forthwith,
and if any one was sick there to take them
to the hospital, and he would pay all
bills. went to her house and served the
writ on her. 1 found a young woman
there with child two months old. The
child looked badly. I told
the mother to get ready
and would take her and the child to the