The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-13
OUT, And IN AGAIN.
Operators on the Pan Handle Rail-
way Walk Out, and Then
Walk Back Again,
And kenOunce the BrOtkerhOO ODD.
RumOrs of Negotiations with
the II. & O.--Stril8ers Re
turning to Work.

the II. & O.--Strikers Re-
turning to Work.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 1.-THE strike Of
the Pan Handle railroad telegraphers, in |
augmated, twelve hours ago, is |
over, all the operators having re-
turned to work, the company reinstating |
them with the understanding that they leave |
the brotherhood Officials OF the brother |
hood pronounce the telegram ordering the |
Pan Handle operators out bogus !
The Fort Wayne photographers are still |
working, and those i'll a position To know say |
a strike will not be ordered.
Fifteen eastern wires of the Western Union |
were cut and several moro rendered useless |
by connecting with fine wire. Tue cutting |
was the work Of an expert
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 1.-THE following
telegram was sent by o. H Booth, Superin
tendent of the Pennsylvania railroad tele
graph system west of Pittsburgh:
COLUMBUS o., Aug n.-Eoloncl X. c.
Clowry, General Superintendent Nearly
every man in our employ has given US notice
that they will withdraw from the brother
hood We consider the railroad strike
practically ended
o. h. BooTH.
AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Aug IL-It being reported that
a conference had been held between the
brotherhood committee at BALTIMORE and the
B. &. O. officials, Manager MeCulloch said:
Il have heard of no consultation having
taken place between the Baltimore 4 Ohio
officials and Il committee of the brotherhood
at Baltimore
Would yon have been likely to have heard
of such a consultation If it had taken placer
Yes, sir, should. At all events you may
depend that | shall be one of tue first to
know it ii ever settlement of this difficulty
is likely to be brought about"
"Then you think that matters lar
from being aInicabiy settled as everi'
Il do not know.
That is your opinion, is it not9'
81 will express no opinion"
The rumorS of concessions about to be
made BY. the Baltimore & Ohio said
Western Union official, lis third edition of
the Gen. Eckert resignation canard. But the
action Of the Baltimore & Ohio, whatever it
is VIII have no effect whatever on the West
ern Union. The brotherhood ae claiming
that they are all ignorant of the parties who
erty and express the opinion that it is done
by their outside synlpathizers. Now, if it is
outsiders who do this mischief, how is it that
it is all of similar characters If it were
done by different purties poles would be
pulled up, wires pulled down, and there would
be a multitude of ways of doing US mischief
regard the fact that all our trouble has
been caused by the scientific stringing of
slender copper wires over the regular wires
so as to tumble them all up together, as proof
positive that the order to do the work enan-
ated from the headquarters of the strikers
THE STRIKERS.
The strikers continue to express their usual
views with regard to the ultimate end Of The
telegraph troubles ''Should the Baltimore
& Ohio people compromise first, said an
operator Mt headquarters, they will be able
to find work for large number of ex-West-
ern Union employees in addition to the men
of their own that they will take back 1t is a
| great mistake for anybody to suppose that
| this strike must come to an end in a few days
because the strikers have no more money
When we went out we were prepared for o
| long siege. OF course the sooner the end
| comes the better it will be for us. We can
afford TO wait a long while for it, though
| till Christmas; if need be
Is THE WESTERN UNION LOSING BUSINESS?
| Board of trade men expressed the opinion
| that the Western Union would never again
handle the business it had in the past, as the
smaller merchants had lost confidence in the
| company. A member said that he thought
one result of the strike would be that an I'M
mense amount of business heretofore carried
on by telegraph would now be transacted by
mail. a result which, he said, would cause II
great many merchants to feel thankful
| @ ELSEWHERE.
NEW YORK, Aug ll.-There is no apparent
change in the situation. The strikers seem
still firm in their position and so do the com
panieS A great many wires have been tam
| pered with in this neighbOrhood but business
wa> hot seriously delayed. Ten strikers have
| returned To work In the past twenty four
hours.
At Macon, Ga, all the strikers have gone
back to work except five or six who were
not wanted.
At Buffalo, N. Y, nine strikers wore takeu
back aud nine rejected
BALTIMORE, Md. Aug. lL-Officials Of the
Baltimore Il Ohio Telegraph company re
port the situation unchanged, as well as their
first determination not to treat with the
brotherhood They disclaiu positively any
know ledge of any committee of Uelegrapher.
having been TO them, MS reported.
CONTRADICTORY REPORTS.
ST LOUIS Mo, Aug 1l-Dispatches from
Texas variously say, ON the authority of the
brotherhood Of Photographers, that from sew
enty to two hundred operators have quiz
work on the Gould railroads III the state dur
, ing the past two days. but the railroads and
Western Union officials deny il
most emphatically, and assert a.
haa been previously reported thai
2 only ten men in seven offices have
E abandoned their keys, and that there Ia,
: been no interruption to trains or business
t anywhere in the state and that the strike 81
! far, has been utterly insignificant. Some 0
I the Western Union wires leading eastward
and northward from this city were tied witt
very fine copper wire Thursday night, t,tl
!, business was not stopped, and the lines wer
soon restored to good order again
Death of the Mayer of Davenport.
D DAVENPORT, Iowa, Aug. ll-Hon. JOIN
!, W Thompson, mayor of Davenport, died
after an illness of nearly three months age
90 years He was well known in state poll