Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-13
HoMB AND ABROAD.
CHARLES CROCKER's OPIzI0y OF
THE BOY GIT
Fire at nncapolis-Arthur Ina.
proVing-Crawlord' Funeral
Foreign Affairs.

oftisH Affairs.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO rBR REaokD-uscosl
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Labor Troubles
EAST ST. LOUIS, April fah.-The nres-
ence OF the militia in this CITY continues to
have the desired effect and no disturbance
mas Deen reported since the ircendiary fires
oil Frioay night, and it is noK believed no
encounter between the military and strik-
ers will occur. ''''' '''-A
CoAL MINERS THREATEN TO STRIKE.
The miners of st. Louis district who
struck last week held meeting Yesterday
and resolved to remain firm together and
not resume work until after the strike bv
the hnlghts IS ended. Very little coal is
on hand in this district, and it is exnected
the total cutting off OF the sunulv viii of.
feet seriously the manufacturing interests
OF the city and vicinity Four hundred
ana nifty coal miners on the Illinois and st.
Louis Railroad have struck, and Il is ex.
pected more will strike about BellevilIe to.
day TO assist the Knights of Labor in their
strus s2le.
INQUEST ON THE DEAD.
ST. Louis, April 12th-An inquest on tba
East st Louis shooting affair was concluded
to-day, and u To noon more than one dozen
witnesses have been examined. No new
lacts were developed. All the testimony
was OF the same tenor as that of Saturday
The witnesses were chiefly railroad men
ana spectators OF the scene and all agreed
that the Deputy ShcriiIs fred the first shot
that no stones were thrown ut them. and
that the crowd gave the deputies no other
provocation for firing than hootiny and
jeering at them and making irritating re-
marks.
+. p. Sargent Chief Secretary of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
issued call this morning for meetings of
the Grievance Committees Of all the local
lodges on the Gould system to investigate
the discharge of firemen and all other
grievances which may be presented to
them, and to report at a meeting of the
General Grievance Committees which will
meet at Parsons, Kansas, on the Goth inst.
DEPUTY MARsHALs RELEASED AND REAR
RESTED.
ST. LOUIS, April 12th.-In the Criminal
Court to-day the writ of habeas corpus
which was applied for Saturday by Judge
Laughlln IN behalf of the Deputy Sheriifs
who did the shooting in the Louisville and
Nashville yards Friday was granted and
the men released. They were immediately
rearrested at the instance of the East ST
LOUIS authorities as fugitives from Justice,
and placed in Jail.
A BOYCOTT ON GOULD.
NEW YORK, April 12th.-The Post saws
editorially; Plans for boycotting jay
Gould are on foot in the councils of the
local organizations of the Knights of Labor.
| We advise the local Knights not to make
themselves ridiculous by dividing their
forces between the Missouri Boycott aud
the New York Boycott. Lei them rather
/ concentrate their efforts in sustaining Mar
TN Irons and his followers in their heroic
abstenIion from labor in the Southwest
Every dollar contributed TO the support of
| Idle men ON the line of the Missouri Pacific
Railway will ill Gould with dismav, while
he will laugh in his sleeve at all attempts
to cut oil his private bread and butter in
New York.
YARD AND swITCHMEN RESUME WORK.
ST. LOUIS, April 12th.-Word has lust
been received from East St. Louis that the
yard and switchmen of the Ohio and Mis-
sisslppl Railroad have resumed work in q
body. Another message received from East
ST. Louis says: The Burlington yardmen
| and switchmen have returned 10 work.
This is supposed to end the strike here"
REPORT DENIED.
WASHINGTON, April 12th.-It has been
| reported that the President has been SO
much exercised over the labor troubles in
the West that frequent conferences with
General Sheridan regarding the advisable
ltv OF using troops resulted in the recent
tril of General Sheridan to Chicago. in or
der that he tight be at the center of opera
lions, and personally see 10 the disposition
of trOOpS This sfbrv * r,oSi
lively denied at the War Department,
where it is stated that no; only has there
been no suggestion made regarding the use
OF troops, but that General Sheridan's visit
to Chicago was OF an entirely personal ma
ture. He goes from Chicago To Atlanta,
Ga, and is expected to return to Washing
ton by Thursday or Friday Of this week.
FALSE IN EVERY PARTICULAR
ST Louis, April l2ih.-ln conversation
with reporter ihS afternoon General
Committeeman Hayes said the statements
attributed tn jay Gould in an interview
telegraphed from New York last night. in
which MIR. Gould says Mr.. Powderly, at
one of the New York conferences. referred
to members of District 100 as outlaws"
and said they lad disobeyed the laws Of
the Order, was false in every particular
He characterized il as one of Jay Gould's
lies, for the purpose Of misrepresenting the
Knights of Labor and destroying public
faith in the Order.
MORE WAGES AND LEss HOURS DEMANDED.
GALVESTON, April 12th.-The Necs' San
Antonio special says: Twelve hundred and
thirty-two lajorers in the employ of Jacob
Marshall, contractor for street improve
ments, struck this forenoon for 81 % per
day of eight hours The men had been re-
ceiving 81 Tor "a days labor of ten hours
The contractor informed the men that it
was impossible to comply with their de-
mand, as be had taken the contract es,imat.
ing labor at 81 per day of ten hours The
strikers proceeded to Powder Hill and COM
PEELED the laborers there to throw down
their picks Later in the day about forty
laborers informed the contractor that they
desired 10 return to work, but that
they were threatened with being stoned if
they did so. The contractor promised that
they should be protected, and they went
to work. Those woo still held out were
persuaded TO retire without offering any
violence. The strikers are of different ma
tionaities.
STRIKE OF TAILoRs.
MILWAUKEE, April 12th.-The journey
men tailors III this city, to the number of
over 5000, will strike tomorrow, their de-
mand for an increase of nearly fifty per
- "eSSS ie'A34S pCCu ISAuoti lntil
employers.
The Latest Thing in "Strikes."
GREEN POINT II. /. April 12th-About
100 public school boys of all ages made
demand upon the principal that the re-
cesses be extended from fifteen to thirty
minutes. Their demands not being ac-
ceded to, the boys refused to return to
school after the morning recess, and
picketed the entrance to prevent others
from entering. The trouble assumed such
threatening proportions that the principal
sent for the police, and q sergeant and sew
eral officers were on the spot. Finally the
mother of the ringleader arrived and forced
her son into school, after which the rest
OF the boys quietly marched in.
A Woman Boycotted, and the Result.
New YORK, April 12th.-Mrs Esther
Gray keeps small bakery in Hudson
street, " here she employs FIVE bakers. Last
week committee of the German Bakers
Union waited on her, and ordered her to
make her men join the Union. She called
up her five bakers, and asked if they
wanted to join the Union, and they replied
that they were perfectly satisfied as they
were. The German bakers told her they
would boycott her, and charge her S25
day Tor the expenses of the boycott At
this she took n broom and drnva tba how