Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-16
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE WAR ON JAY GOULD. Another Blast From Chief
 PoWderIy. SHOOTING AT EAST ST. LOUIS. Boycotters Fined In New
 York. AN OCEAN STEAMER IN PERIL, Death In The Cyclones
 Track.
AN OCEAN STEAMER IN PERIL.

Trouble in the SouthSvest-An n Exeft.
 ing Incident at East St. LouIs-PIen.
 ty of Men at Work and Business
 Running On Without Interruption ] SCRANTON, Pa, April 15.-A representa-
 tive of the United Press called on Genera
 Master Workman Powderly this afternoon
 and asked him what he thought of MT
 Gould's reply to his manifesto. t1 have not
 had much time to think of it, said the labor
 chief. flor the reason that this has been al
 unusually busy day with me. I do no
 think, however, that MT. Gould has answer
 ed my letter. His reply is quibble and ar
 evasion and he fairly slops over on some
 points. All there is in his communication
 hAs been said before. He evidently wants tc
 pose before the country in the light of g
 martyr, but the Knights of Labor do not
 propose to honor him with nartyrdom. We
 have invited him to carry his threats ot l prosecution into the courts and we are ready | to meet him there. He announced some | time ago his intention to commence series
 of prosecutions against the Knights and we
 want him to proceed at once. We will l by anything he may say or dc We shall appoint n committee of the order to l investigate the southwestern trouble from
 root to branch all along the line. The result | of the investigation will be published to the
 world and if the Knights of Labor who struck are at fault they will not be screened We are anxious, however, to have a congress sional committee investigate the strike first, ascertain the causes leading to it and make
 them public. MT. Gould acts, or rather l talks, like man who fears that he will be
 injured. If he should be punished legally | for unlawful acts of his that would not be unjustly njuring him. It would merely be | upholding the law. If any of our men are
 amenable let them suffer the punishment | due their acts and let the law be upheld" MT. Powderly was called to Chicago late tonight on important business connected l with the Knights of Labor.
 NEW YORK, April 15.-The stenographic | report of the last conference in New York i between the representatives of the Knights | of Labor and of the Missouri Pacific railroad held on Tuesday, March 30, in Mr. Gould's office for the purpose of correcting misunder- l standings which were claimed to have exist ! ed after the conference of the previous Sun | day night when Mr. Powderly ordered the | men to return to work, was given out by MT. Gould for publication this afternoon There were present at this last conference
 Messrs. Gould, Hopkins and Sommerville | and Messrs. Powderly, Hayes, Mcdowell, | Bailey and Turner. The meeting was opened | by MT. Gould representing MT. PowderIy for
 having given to the newspapers the proceed | ings of Sundays conference. MT. Powderly denied this. Then followed discussion of ! the messages which had passed between MT. Hoxie and MT. Gould on the proposal to ar H xie had flatly refused to arbitrate and MT. Gould produced Mir. Hoxie's telegram agreeing to follow instructions
 MT. Gould said this thing had been arbi- | trated once, year ago, by the Governors against the company. He said: 'It was arbitrated here since this strike and the Gov ernors found for us. This ques- ton has been arbitrated-the question of the strike" Then MT. Gould had the report of the Governors read After argu- ing at cross purposes for some time, MT. Powderly asked if committee of the board went to St. Louis if Mr. Hoxie would grant arbitration. MT. Gould could not say, but he had no objection to ask Mr. Hoxie. He had full control-the question of arbitration and everything. Then Mir. Powderly asserted that MT. Hoxie had re- fused to meet him or a committee of the men and dispatch was sent by Mir Hop- kins asking Mir. Hoxie if he would agree to proposition to arbitrate differences past and
 present. To this MT. Hoxie replied
 "My view is that the company should at all
 times promptly and fairly hear all com
 plaints of it's employees X If the
 matter of differences between the company
 and it's employees or any portion of them are
 of such a character as to be susceptible to
 an arbitration which can be made legally
 binding upon both parties I see no
 objection to arbitration in such case"
 MT. Hayes considered this reply evasive
 and he prepared this dispatch, which was
 sent:
 NJ Hoyia.
 MT Powderly wishes to know if you will meet
 the general executive board of the Knights of La
 bor, or a comInittee of your employees from the
 Knights of Labor, for the purpose of hearing what
 of present deueP uh ae bon ol
 orabe to both sides either the basis of arbitra-
 ton or by mutual agreement, the same to be bind
 ing on all sides.
 EsThs brought out Mr. Hoxie's offer to ar-
 bitrate with "employes of the company"
 and MT. Turner's despatch to Martin Irons
 ordering the men to return to work. During
 the conference MT. Gould expressed a desire
 to have MT. Powderly confer with General Swayne and prepare an arbitration bill which
 could hereafter be the means of settling these difficulties as soon as they arise.
 ST. LOUIS, April 15.-There is very little change in the strike situation here or at East St. Louis as far as the resumption of traffic is concerned. The chief difficulty is best expressed in the following remark by an Ohio & Mississippi employe: "We have plenty of men to do our work and there would be altogether too many if they under stood their business They are inexperi- enced and have to be continually watched for fear of making bad blunders. Of course
 this is drawback, but we have to put up with it good experienced men are not to
 be had" The Indianapolis & St. Louis peo-
 pie say they have full force of platform men. One of the clerks, when asked where they got most of them, said he supposed most of them came from St. Louis as they
 hurried across the bridge as
 soon as work was over When asked whether he thought
 they would remain if the militia were with
 drawn he said he hardly thought they would. Most of them are men who have gone to work just for the time being to earn few
 dollars and last evening eight of them who had been at work only two days drew their pay and failed WEput in an appearance this
 morning
 An exciting incident occurred at East St. Louis this morning. James Walter of Go. F., of Greenville, H., doing sentinel
 duty in the Vandalia yards, v, A About out bullet went whizzing by the militiaman's head. He brought his gun to his shoulder in quick time aid fired in the direction from which the report seemed to have come. Just as he fired he perceived man spring up from behind one of the wagons in the transfer yards and start to run. Walters nred aSalH dt Ine udn, WHO returned the fire At the second report of Walters gun another man, also concealed, sprang from behind wagon and ran as fast as he could. The shots were fired in quick l succession and the reports aroused and alarmed all the sleeping residents of that portion of the island, who imagined that a | conflict between the military and the strik- CTS had surely occurred. The troops in the | freight house took ho d of their guns in a hurry and thorough search of the island
 made for the two men, but without success. | General Reece, when informed of the at tempt on Walters life, thought it very cowardly piece of business He said the l militia bore no i'll will toward the strikers and were only doing their duty.
 The road master of the Pittsburg road 1 made discovery this morning which no | doubt prevented the ditching of the Belle | vile accommodation and the probable loss of | 8 number of lives. At place about quar- ! Ter of a mile out of West Belleville they found that the spikes which held down two rails had been drawn and the connecting bolt | unfastened during the night Had the dis