Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-11
ing them off the company's premises, is as

follows:
You are hereby notified that your &C.
ton in Withdrawing from the employment
Of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company
was q voluntary abandonment of
the service of the company
and that you are no longer in its
employment, and that your names have
4 been stricken from its rclls. All such who
are now about the companys premises are
hereby notified that they must immediate
| ly leave the same to the end that this COM
psuy may resume the traffic Of the coun-
try.
Signed WM. KERRIGAE."
Although the officials will make no state
ment concerning the affair, it is generally
believed that they are now employing new
men to take the places aud that the
movement of freight trains will be attempt
ed tonight. Should this prove true. the
Knights OF Labor will undoubtedly offer
resistance.
A FALSE ALARM AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, March lO.--A dispatch from
st. Louis announced that the employees OF
the Chicago and Northwestern and other
Chicago railroads would strike at FIVE
O'Clock this afternoon. Mr.. c c. Wheel
or, the General Superintendent OF the Chi
feago and Northwestern road, said that as
far as he knew there was no trouble be-
tween the company and the employees, and
that he was as sure that there would be no
strike at FIVE o'clock as he was that the sun
would not set at that hour.
A swi,chman said that the employees had
some little grievances against the COM
psny, but that they bad all been satisfac-
;orily settled, and as far as be knew there
would be no strike. One OF the engineers
said he was sure that the engineers and
fremen would not leave their work before
the usual hour today, and he did not
think that there was any strike imminent.
THE SITUATION AT MARSHALL.
MARSHALL, Ten March l0-Qaiet pre-
walls among the strikers here. Extra polio Q
are detailed about the yards. A report is
current here that al! trains, freight and
passenger, are TO be stopped after to-day,
The Knights of Labor declare that if the
passenger trains are stopped it is no fault
of theirs. The Knights Of Labor
have sent out circulars asking Ia
boring men not to 60 to any point on
The Texas Pacific Railway in search OF
employment until thu strike shall have
been ended. They have also issued cir
cular to the lsboIing men Of all classes
asking them to fall iDto line, stating that
the Missouri Pacific lie ssed and operated
lines and the Texas Pacific are now EN-
blowing convict and Caine.e labor to the
detriment OF honorable labor, asserting that
the said railways ore constantly violating
their contract Of March 10, 1885, and de-
claring tQat they have resolved to come to
the rescue of their doWn-trodden brethren.
The Knights call upon all employees con-
uected with the railroads mentioned telend
their aid in driving convict and Chinese
labor frC n the roads.
CHICAGO MERCHANTS NOT AFFECTED.
CHICAGO, March l0.-The wholesale
merchants here state that the southwestern
railway strike has not had, as yet, any per
ceptibie effect upon the shipment of goods
from this city. The Wholesale grocery
houses STATE lUHt lLS lGllllOly ahOS'Su ~
almost entirely included IN that covered
by Ct. Louis firms, but the Chicago dry
goods and boot and shoe houses have
large trade in the affected district. AS the
latters shipments are not what are termed
as "perishsole property, all orders have
been filled and forwarded by the Chicago
roads thus far to st. Louis and Kansas
City, and no refussls to accept freight
;SaVe yet been made by the Chicago roads.
THE FIRST TROUBLE.
Fort WORTH TEX, March lO.-The
6rst trouble b tween the Knights and non
Knights Of Labor occurred this morning
when the new men employed BY the rail
road TO run its engines were attacked while
performing their duty and forced to vacste
their cabs. The strikers then killed the
engines. Quiet now prevails, but it is
thought there that this is the ceginning OF
serious trouble.