Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-07-25
The str;te of the teIeoranb oneariors of

The strike of the telegraph operators O.
the country did not take place until Thursday
noon of last week, when some 5000 operator,
| left their instruments. At twenty minutes t(
noon, by local time, or noon of Washington
time of that day the operator here quit work
and the members of the Oil Exchange left
their room, as no further market quotations
were to be had The managers of the different
companies at the principal business centers are
making every effort to secure operators to take
the places of the strikers, and whether or nc
the strike will be a success, and the compa
nies accede to the demands of the strikers OF
compromise with them remains to be seen.
Esq. John Smith, of Cherry township,
was discharged from Jail last Saturday as per
order of Supreme Court, upon giving bail in
s., 900. Messrs. VIM. G. Smith, Charles Stew
art, George Book, Matthew McGregor and
Silas Christy went his surety. On Monday OF
last week, Messrs. Reed and Sullivan, two OF
Mr. Smiths attorneys, presented his aPplica-
ton for special allocator to Judge Turnkey,
at Franklin, who took their papers and pre-
sented them to the members of the Supreme
SOuTL dI UutlT mcctluS ~ DCulOto oii =,
when the writ was allowed to issue and the
bail fixed at 5000. No time has been fixed
for the hearing of the case, but it will proba-
bly be heard at the next term for this county
They had a new kind of strike in New
York last Monday. The proprietors of several
of the largest cigar factories in the city locked
their doors and over ten thousand persons,
more than all the telegraph strikers in the
country, are out of employment. In the city
there are two cigarmakers' unions-the Inter
national Union and the Progressive Union.
The leaders of these two bodies had long besn
at war, and few days ago, on account of
trif1ng dispute in one factory, the Progressive
Union men had arbitrarily demanded that the
International Union men should be discharged.
This the firm refused. The Progressive Union
men would not return to work until the Inter-
national Union men were discharged. The
Union Cigar Manufacturers Association then
declared that unless the Progressive Union men
returned by Wednesday they would begin a
lockout, which they did.
Last Thursday morning son of Geo. Boil
man, farmer living between the Butler plank
road and Pine creek, in Shaler township, Allie
gheny county, noticed a man sitting with his
back against rye stack in one of his fathers
fields. Thinking it was drunken man Sleep
ing off his intoxication Bollman paid no fur
ther attention to the matter. At noon the
man had not changed his position, and Mr..
Ballman went out to investigate. He found
the man dead, with bullet hole in his right
temple. In his right hand he clutched re.
volver with one chamber discharged. Coroner
Dressler was notified and held an investiga-
ton. The body was identified as that of B..
Kline. The position of the deceased and the
character of the wound pointed to deliberate
suicide, and there being no testimony to con-
tradict this theory, verdict of death by sui
eide was brought in by the jury. Kline was
formerly liquor dealer in the Pittsburgh
through the country buying hides and tallow.
The Grand Recorder of the A. o. U. W.,
for this State has favored us with copy of his
report for the year ending May 31st last, from
which we take the following notes. The Gen.
eral Fund receipts for the year amounted to
81 ,O3523; and the Beneficiary Collections to
$14O,675. The Beneficiary disbursements
amounted to $132, ,O26, of which sum the heirs
of Samuel r. Diefenbacher of the Butler
Lodge, received 1000, heirs Of John C.. Wig.
ton, of Slipperyrock Lodge $1,000, and heirs
of Geo. A. Mcbride of Butler Lodge, $4,000
heirs off. j. Krouse, Clipper Lodge, Petrolia,
$4,000. The beneficiary to the heirs of John
Mcclure, of the Resolute Lodge, of Prospect,
has not yet been paid. The order has lodges
in this county at Petrolia, Prospect, Butler,
Karns City, Baldwin, or Fairview, Slippery
rock or Centreville, Bruin or Martinsburg,
Byron Centre or Sandy Point, and Evans
City.