Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-05

suffer most.
Il MIDDLE Of H FORENOON.
l0:45 a. MP to this hour no distar-
Dances have been reported at police head
quarters. Not q street Car is running
and as yet no attempts have been made
to send out cars. The city appears as if
dead. Nothing like tho present trouble
has been witnessed since the worst days
OF The great epizootio epidemic, q dozen
years age. The police force are thor
organized and were confident OF
their ability to repress promptly any
disposition to riot or disorder. Every
able to put on q uniform and carry
a club was ordered on duty last night
and this morning fifteen hundred men
are held in reserve. Police headquar-
ters looks like an immense bivouac of
uniformed men, held in readiness to
anawer calls from any quarter.
Squads of fifteen or twenty policemen
were despatched early to guard all rail-
road depots and stables, Mounted men
patrol Grand street and the route of the
Dry Dock line from end to end, to keep
the route clear in case any attempts
are made to run o car over
the road. az yesterday, in order to save
the company its charter. Police Super
intendent Murray Is determined to sup
press o repetition OF yesterdays scenes.
No trouble, however, is apprehended.
The strikers present an attitude of
QUIET DETERMINATION,
awaiting the results of the conference
now going on between the executive
committee of the Empire protective as
ISOLATION and the railroad commissioner.
O'Donnell arrived from Albany this
morning, in answer to a despatch de-
handing his presence. It will be fol
lowed by q meeting between the com.
missioner and the representatives of the
railroads that will decide the line of &C.
lion.
BROOKLYN AGAIN.
1t is reported that every car in Brook
lyn will be stopped at 2 o'clock to-day.
Employees of roads IN that city that are
now running state TINT they have been
ordered to go on o strike OF that hour
and to remain out until the demands of
the mon on the Dry Rock and Atlantic
avenue lines are granted. A m that
the employees of the elevated roads
would strike at noon has proved to be
without foundation as at 1890 all trains
are running as usual.
superintendent Haynes says he does
not believe the elevated railroad men
will strike, as their doing SO could be of
no possible use to the surface railroad
strikers.
PEACEABIE INTENTIONS.
One of the leading spirits among the
strikers said that the men who commit
ted acts of violence yesterday were not
connected with the strikers in any way.
He said that it was the intention of the
to defend the property of railroads
that had granted the demands of tho
and that committees have been
appointed by various lines to feed and
water the horses in the different stables,
That the strikers would run q car over
roads of either or all lines which had
to terms with the men, SO that the
charter of the roads would not be ieopar-
died. One popularity about the com
mittee appointed to feed and water
horses in the stables wal that the men
appointed to care for the horses OF
Broadway lines were not employed by
the Broadway company, but were from
another line. This plan was
followed IN all the stables.
THE STRIKE ENDS.
1:30 p. m.-Police Superintendent
hurry has received intelligence that the
which met to consider strike
troubles has adjourned and the mat.
ter has been adjusted The men will
work of two o'clock this after
noon on the lines in this city and
--a
PARTICULARS OF THE AGREEMENT,
Commissioner O'Donnell, after HIS
consultation with the executive commit
tee, took q cab and and went over to
Brooklyn, where he met President Rich
ardssn at the Office of the Atlantic ave-
nue line, together with the directors. A
proposition was submitted to the COM
mission, contained in the following reso.
-ution and directed to "Joaeph O'Don-|
lell, chairman of the executive commit
ofthe Empire protective association.
Resoiced, That the Atlantic avenue
company, of Brooklyn. will
to pay the men at the rate of two
per day of twelve hours for day
york MS conductors and drivers, includ. |
ng the half hour allowed for dinner. and
liter our CARS are running to submit all
questions of differences between their
employees to Commissioners O'Donnell.
1t is agreed that the Dry Dock, East
Broadway and Battery lines be included
the same agreement ms the Atlantic
IN Brooklyn.
Signed. w. ]. RICHARDSON, Pres't.
On receiving this document O'Donnell
t once returned to New York and went
. tho Central Union labor hail on East
treet, where the executive csmmittee
as ih session, and submitted the prop
sition to them aud it wa accepted
romptiy. Delegates from ths different
Dads were started at once to potiix tba