The Labor enquirer., 1886-03-20

to day while going to the shops towork.
The company Is receiving additions to
its shop force. Most of the force about
the shops remained there all night, bed
ding and meals icing provided by the
company. Over 100 meu. including po-
lice and detectives. are engaged night
and day. in guarding the company's
property. Railroad officials are much
encouraged by the firm attitude Of the
engineers, in fulfilling their agreement
with the company. The firemen have
resolved in a body 70 stand by the en-
gineers, ann not to leave their engines,
unless pulled of.
Mall trains derarted without in, erfer-
ence on time. The Krkwood morning
accommodation, after some little delay,
was run to the city limits under police
protection, and beyond the Sitylimits to
Kirkwood under charge of Sheriff Allen
of st. Louis county, the crowd at this
train alone having no desire to come
into collision with its armed guard, and
the round trip was made in safety. The
afternoon accommodation made the out
bound trip successfully, but an attempt
was made to side track the train at Bar
told's switch. The attempt was frus-
trated by the c1olness of engineer Frank
Lewis, who stepped his engine before
reaching the siding. The crowd hurled
all manner of imprecatidns and threats
at the engineer, but the sheriff played a
bold hand. The switch was turned and
the train run safely into the Union de.
pot. A third accommodation train
made the round trip in the evening.
On the East side all the agents of the
different roads met to-day to consider
the demands of the switchmen employed
in the East st. Louis yards. The gem
eral sentiment was against making any
concession at this time, but the meeting
adjourned until to morrow to formulate
a reply to the Knights who presented
the demand. ="
The Virgins Ferry company and the
Burlington had acceeded to the switch
mems demands before this meeting was
called. --.
Vice President Hoxie to-day received
a dispatch from Sedalia signed by Martin
Irons, chairman of the Knights of Labor,
asking whether the committee of the
Knights of Labor would be admitted to
a Conference with him for the purpose
of adjusting the pending trouble. To
this Hoxie replied that he could not see
how such meeting would adjust the
troubles, as the reason for the difficulties
was the discharge Of an employe of the
road under his control. Hoxie said
further that the strike had so far reduced
the traffic of the road they would not
soon again require as many men as here
tofore, but all good men desiring employ
m ent, and who were acceptable to the
superintendents, would promptly be
paid for services rendered, and should
thew have any complaints, he would
tab e pleasure in meeting them to discuss
the same,
FoRT WORTH, March I6-The Knights
of Labor have the upper hand here.
The boarding houses and hotels which
accommodate those men who take the
strikers places a-e being boycotted, even
the butchers refusing to Il them meat.
All this is true; vet the sentiment of the
De- ople is against the strikers, but the
business men are afraid of being boy
cotted. John Taggart, boarding house
ke eper, was boycotted yesterday. The
man from whom Taggart has been pur-
ch asing his water supply for drinking
purposes refused to sell any more to him,
and now he has to 60 two miles to secure
water. His landlord, one of the richest
citiz ms in Fort Worth, has ordered him
to vacate house Yesterday some poison
was thrown into Taggart's water barrel
and a woman and two little girls were
poisoned, and now lie in critical con-
dition.
PALESTINE, March 16.-In the district
court to-day the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road company filed petition in a suit
against 1O4 men, bers of the Knights Of
Labor, alleging that they, together with
about 100 more mad conspired to prevent
the running of trains over the Interna-
tional & Great Western road and the
proper running and management OF the
railroad shops that thev were not the
euployes of the company, but were tres
psssers, who had assembled on the pre- T.
ises of the company, and by dint of
persuasion and intimidation prevented
those in the employ of the COM fany
from disc arging their duties that by
their interference, ETC., the company had
been damaged 100000 The petition
closed with prayer for an injunction
against the defendants, which was
granted.
ST.. LOUIS, March 17.-All the Kirk
wood accommodation trains departed
and arrived to-day on schedule time.
The engineers responded promptly when
called and the old fremen who failed
to show up when wanted nao tneir