The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-19
fHE GREAT STRIKE.

OEDALlA, Mo-, ndlCn 1t.-4uc SITUATION
has been very much as reported last At
Gibson, Armourdale, Denisou and Parsons
have sent committees to Sedalia to confer
with the Executive Committee Of strikers
and agree on terms which will be satisfsc-
tory at all the places mentioned. They
have come to remain In Sedalia until there
is settlement Of the wages question with
the company, and are to represent and act
for their respective places. The Adjutant
General has remained here all day and has
Attorney General The latter is expected
in the morning to advise the Adjutant Gen.
eral so that he may proceed legally at every
step General Jamison says he is now con-
yinced that the troops will not do
any good or aid in the settlement Super
intendent Hagsr received instructions from
Mr.. Hoxie to let everything remain in
statu quo until Sunday. in view of the con-
ference to be held in St Louis. He was
notified that he might move freights il he
thought he could, but said that he would
not attempt to do so, as he did not think 1t
would avail. A warrant was sworn out
yesterday afternoon for the arrest of Super
intendent Hager, charging him with dis
turbing the peace ''by loud and abusive
language toward one of the regular police
force. He entered into his own recogni-
zance to appear on the 25th inst
ARRESTS AT HANNIBAL
HANNIBAL, No., March 14.-There were
no new Developments to-day in the situa-
ton here in regard to the strike as far as
the Missouri Pacific is concerned. No
freight is brought in on the Wabash from
the east except for Hannibal proper, the
business for Kansas City, St Joseph and
points on the Wabash west of MOberly be-
ing diverted to pass through ST. Louis.
This afternoon when Wabash switch en-
CINE was about to 90 to East Hannibal
10 bring over a train of city freight
the strikers requested the switchmen
not to do the work. The Switchmen
hesitated a moment, but finally decided to
go. Nothing had been said by the strikers
to the engineer and fireman and they re-
manned on the engine. Agent Barnes or
dered them to go ahead and they did so.
The agent himself took charge of the en-
CINE, and going to the East Hannibal yards,
switched together twenty cars of merchan-
disc consigned to Hannibal merchants and
brought them over to be unloaded and de-
livered. United States Marshal Cousins
made the first arrest to-day, taking into
custody Fred Doolittle, a machniSt. and
John Schenback, the leaders of the strike,
on a charge of OBTAINING for three days
eighty-two car loads of transient freight.
They made no resistance and Marshal
Cousins took them in. At Kettering's Hotel
they were considerably depressed on ac-
count OF their arrest but the kind-hearted
old officers sympathies, as is well known,
are with the strikers, and he showed it by
trying to cheer them up and cause them to
forget their trouble. Doolittle is young
unmarried man. Learning that Schenback
had wife and child, Cousins ordered
carriage to convey his family to the hotel,
when they had an affecting parting before
the prisoner was taken to the train for st.
Louis. They will be brought before the
United States Commissioner for examina-
ton, and of course the result will be
anxiously awaited here.
ORDERLY AT PARSONS, KAN.
PARSONS, KAN, March 14.-At this writ
ing there is no material change in the situa-
ton here. The strikers held two meetings,
one in the forenoon and the other in the af-
ternoOn. The Executive Committee has
been in communication with all the striking
points on the Missouri Pacific system, and
the result as far as known is that all points
the men remain firm, and there is no sign
of giving in. A committee left last even
ing for SedaIia to confer with
committee from Atchison and other
points along the line, and if the
negotiations pending in which Gov
ernor Martin has taken the initiative, are
successful, said committee will go on to ST.
Louis as the representatives from Parsons
The outlook now is if the railroad officials
do not come to an understanding with the
men in very few days there will be gen.
eral going out of engineers, fremen and
brakemen all along the line. Everything
is orderly and quiet and the strikers are
close mouthed and keep their ewn council
and do not talk about their grievances on
the street Another attempt was made to
move a freight train this afternoon Blu:
failed. The engineer was invited to step
DOWN from the engine and he accepted the
invitation and the engine was run back to
The roundhouse.
A CONFERENCE TO BE HELD.
ST. LOUIS, March 14.-At private con-
ference of Presidents Hayes and
Hoxie and General Salvetor Brown of the
Gould lines, about strike matters, held here
telegram was received from
Governor Martin, of Kansas, saying he
would be here Sunday with the Railroad |
Commissioners of Kansas and discuss the |
situation. Governor Marmaduke, of Mis- |
souri, will also attend. 1t is expected the |
meeting will determine the future action of |
the two States and the railroad toward the
strikers. The statu quo will be maintained
till then by the roads.
DEMORALIZED AT KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS CITY Mo-, March 14.-Trafic Is
till in a demoralized condition and the
anita Fe after waiting in vain for term-
nation of the strike began to direct certain
kinds of freight consigned to the Missouri
Pacific over other lines. The Union Pacific
has not done this yet, but to accommodate
the merchants of Leavenworth the company
is taking freight between this city and
Leayenworth via Lawrence. The strikers
up to late hour last night had heard moth
ing definite from the committee who went
to confer with Vice-President Hayes, but
they still continued hopeful that it will re-
suit in some sort of a compromise.
WAGES RESTORED.
ST. LOUIS, March 1.-The restoration of
wages made Wednesday evening to the men
working in the Missouri Pacific shops in
this city has been extended to all men en-
ployed in the large machine and car shops
On the Iron Mountain Road at De Soto,
forty miles south of here, and the men are
highly commended for their loyalty to the
company.
THE STRIKE IN IOWA.
KEOKCK, Iowa, March 14.-F. p. Wiley,
for the Wabash, is in Keokuk to-
lay to secure an order from Judge Love to
send United States Marshal to Center
vile to protect the property of the road.
The shops there employ about forty men.
Judge Love was in Iowa City, and the
petition and order was forwarded there by
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