The Portland daily press., 1885-03-11
THE STRIKES.
The Misseuri MiIitia Called Out in ANTI
patton Of Trouble WiIh abe sIrikers.

The Misseuri MiIitia Called Out in ANTI
patton of Trouble With the strikers.
SEDALI4, Mo-, March 10.-The situation here
is but little changed. The strikers refused to
allow any freight trains to leave yesterday.
They have adopted resolutions recommending
that Manager Hoxie be superseded in the man
agement of the Missouri Pacific The City
Council yesterday appropriated $1 600 to pay
special police to protect the property of the
company and assist in the movement of trains,
and Division Superintendent Hagar has re-
quested the sheriff of this county to give men
willing to work protection. The strikers were
out last night doing double duty, guarding
property and seeing that no freight was moved ;
they are very well behaved.
ST. LOUIS, NO., March 1O-Goy. Marina
duke has called the militia here to go to Sc
dalia, Mo-, to aid in suppressing the trouble
likely to arise there today out of the railroad
strike. About $50 officers and men left here
on a special train this morning and will arrive
at Sedalia at o'clock this afternoon.
No Change in the Situa ton in PennsyI-
vania.
PITTsBURG, Pa March 10.-The condition
Of the coal miners strike is generally unchang-
ed About 900 men are out on the strike and
1900 are at work. The river and railroad
mines are nearly all idle.
MoBERLY, Mo-, March 10.-Notwithstand-
ing the Missouri Car and Foundry Company
who have leased the Wabash Railroad shops
here and will hereafter conduct them, have
announced that they are ready to receive an
plications for labor irrespective Of past or ex-
lsting trouble, not one of the strikers have APP
Piled for work although there is no doubt they
could obtain from the Car company as much or
even better wages than they demanded from
the railroad company
LATER.
KANSAS CITY, March 10-The strikers here
have decided to discon tinue interference with
Wabash trains fearing conflict with Federal
authorities. A force of deputy marshals is
now guarding the property. No freights are
moved on the Missouri Pacific
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, March 10.-The strikers
having decided to offer no interference with
the movement of trains on the Wabash road,
that road is now running freight as well as
passenger trains. The Missouri Pacific passen-
ger trains are not interfered with, but no
freights are permitted to leave.
FORT WAYNE, March 10-The strike of
Wabash sbopmen at this point still continues.
No attempt has been made to interfere with
trains or the few men at work.
sEDALIA, Mo-, March 10.-All is still quiet
hare among the strikers, bat affairs are critical.
The strikers are embittered because 80 Pinker-
ton detectives have arrived who are hired by
the railroad company. The pay car arrived
this morning but the strikers refused to receive
their wages. A rumor that the militia are
coming aggravates the situation. There are
now over seventy engines in the round house
and the yards here which have been killed by
strikers, and over 10 miles of loaded freight
cars are on side tracks. No passenger trains
have yet been stopped.
TOPEKA, Kan, March 10.-Gov. Martin has
no intention of calling out the militia on &C.
count Of the Missouri Pacific strike at Atchi-
son. he has, however, telegraphed the rail-
road commissioners to meet him at Atchison
tomorrow to endeayor to effect an arbitration
Of the strike.
DALLAS, Tex, March 10.-Section hands
here employed on the Texas Pacific Railroad
strack this morning. The company will at
tempt to recover their engines tomorrow, and
bloodshed is apprehended If the company at
tempts to move the trains with a small force
NEW ORLEANS, March 10.-In consequence
of the strike of the employees of the New Or
leans & Texas Pacific road, no freight trains
were moving to-day, and all employees in the
freight department have been discharged.