The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1886-03-25
HISTORY THE WEEK.

The drivers and conductors Of the Dry
Dock surface railroad in New York city
have struck for reduction of hours in
their work. An attempt was made by the
police to run car about noon on the 4th, but
the strikers 50 blockaded the track with wag.
ons, coal carts, other cars, etc. that though
there were 600 policemen the attempt
failed. In the afternoon the police force was
augmented aud q desperate fight waged
with the men. At some points 5000 ren
gathered and a wild riot ensued, the police
having to use their clubs freely. All kinds
of barricades were built on the tracks and
merchants closed their stores and put up
their iron shutters while the contest was
IN progress. The police finally succeeded
In running one car over the track but it
took all the afternoon and desperate
fighting to do it.
A general strike has been ordered on the
Gould system of railroads in the southwest.
The trouble grows out of the discharge of
q. A. Hall, foreman of the woodwOrkers of
the Texas Pacific car shops at Marshall.
He attended an assembly of the Knights of
Labor in Feb. and was absent four days.
On his return he was discharged and now
5000 men are on strike demanding his re-
installment and if the demand is not grant
ed 10000 men are likely to join the strikers.
Gen. A. H. Terry has been appointed
Major General by the President to fill the
place made vacant by the death of Gen.
Hancock. Gen. Terry has, for over thir-
partment of Dakota with headquarters
most of the time at st. Paul, but the last
few years at Fort Smelling. His promo
ton does not, necessarily give him the COM
mand held by the late Gen. Hancock, and
it is thought he may be sent to the Pacific
coast.
The president on the 4th, nominated
James G. Mathews of New York, recorder
Of deeds in the District of Columbia, vice
Fred Douglass, resigned by request.
Douglass wrote to The president thanking
him for allowing him to choose tho time
and manner Of retirement from Office.
An elaborate bill has been prepared for
presentation in congress by the California
state viticultural commissioner and the
National Vine Growers association, which
imposes severe penalties for wrongfully
marking packages of wines exempt from
taxation.
The extensive oat meal mills of Ferd-
inand Schumacher of Akron, Ohio were
burned on the 9th involving loss of nearly
million dollars. They were the largest
oat meal mills in the country. In view of
labor troubles he says he will not rebuild.
VIM. Heath. the prominent Wall St.
broker in New York who failed last Octo-
5Ould's partner, is dead. He was released
after short imprisonment but he never re-
covered the shock.
New York city was the scene of another
riot on the 9th inst. This time 1t was the
Twenty third Street line Of street cars. It
took between seven and eight hundred DO
l1cemen to run one car over the track.
Mrs. Hancock has been confined to her
bed with nervous prostration since the
funeral Of her husband, and it will be
some weeks before she will thoroughly
gain her strength.
On the 1st inst, the Senate rejected the
nominations of Chase, collector of inter-
nal revenue at Portland, and Pillsbury,
collector OF internal revenue at Boston.
The majority of the Senate committee
will report back the house Fitz John
Porter bill without amendment. Senator
Logan will make minority report.
The new recorder of deeds in the district
Of Columbia, who succeeds Fred Douglass
is colored man from Albany N. Y. The
place is worth $1,000 per year.
The house committee on commerce by a
vote of to has agreed to report the
Reagan Interstate commerce bill favor
ably.
The wife of Senator Joseph R. Hawley of
Connecticut, died of pneumonia in Wash
ington on the Sd, after weeks illness
A strike for higher wages is in progress
at the Studebaker wagon works at South
Bend, Ind.