Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-07
EASTERN NEWS.
The Strike Among New York Street
Car Employees Continues.
A MAMMOTH RAILROAD STRIKE IN
TIE SOUTH THREATENED.
Nine Thousand Knights of Labor in
the Strike.
A MIILloH.DollAR FIRE IN AKRON,
OHIO.
A Lighthouse Keeper Burned
to Ashes.
AN INDICTMENT AGAINST DEM
AN INDICTMENT AGAINST DEN
vER'S POSTMASTER.
IsPEcIAp TO H SENTINEL
Vow Yorkss street Car Strikers

NEW YORK, March 6.-The car drivers,
when the tie up /" was declared off yes
terdsy afternoon, on the Blocker
and Twenty-third street lines refused to
resume work unless the Superintendent OF
the road, Thomas McLane, was at once
discharged. The officers of the road re-
piled that they had just recently met all
the demands of the strikers for more pay
and less work. and they proposed not to
discharge faithful men without cause. The
police were informed, and Superintendent
Murray kept the Broadway squad at head
quarters in case of trouble. Knights OF
Labor delegates went into conference with
the officers of the road about $3.50, and after
midnight the committee of Knights OF
Labor came from the conference room and
said no terms of any kind had been
reached. Another conference will be held
to-day, and if the Directors do not accede
to the demands Of the men and discharge
Superintendent McLane the road will re-
main tied up. 1t is also probable, they
said, that a general strike on the roads OF
the city will again be ordered to-day, I'M
less their demands are met.
"a. Mt has just been determined by
the Blocker street and Twepty-third street
strikers to withdraw their demand for the
dismissal of superintendent McLane. but
they demand IL hours work and 81 20
therefor. The officials Of the road offered
50 for IL hours' work, which WAS the basis
OF settlement to-day by the East Side
strikers, but this was refused, and the men
say they will have 50 rs for II hours or tie
up the city again.
LATER-Knots of men stood on the
corner. of Tenth Avenue and the vicinity
of the Blocker street stables and discussed
the situation, but most OF the men d.
rectly concerned assembled in their hall
on West Thirty-fourth street. They say
that the employees of the Blocker Street
line were not able to present their claims
at the hearing before Commissions ODon-
nell Yesterday. Some of the men. it is
said, are obliged to work Is and 16 hours
a day, and others have been discharged
without any apparent cause. If a driver
wants to take a lunch, and he is one min
ute late. another man is put on the car and
the driver and conductor, who are late,
have to run as a "tripper." 1t frequently
occurs that this man does not make more
than &C cents a day. The men demand of
the company So % per day of II consecu-
tive hours and q sufficient reason for dis
charge, As minutes for dinner, and that
those who now receive 81 81 per day be
paid So per day. Another general tie
up is threatened by the Empire Associs'
ton unless the company complies with their
request before Q o'clock to-day. The strik'
ers say they have given the company the
privilege to run a car over the route in or
der to retain it's charter, but this the COM
pany denies. Ten police are stationed a,
the stable. Police Superintendent Murray
this afternoon had a conference with
number OF police inspectors and captains,
and ordered 9 detail of 500 men to be con
centrated at the Twenty-third street rail.
road depot about 2 O'Clock. The Super
~intendent with Inspector Steers aud Presi
dent French. of the Police Board, started
for the depot in a coach.
A Mammoth Railroad Strike.
GALVESTON, March 6.-The Knights Of
Labor at the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
freight depot, who refused to handle the
Mallory freight. we're displaced this morn
ing by colored laborers at the Missouri Pa
cifc yard. Very few Knights observed the
boycott, and none were discharged. Botl
companies have a number of coiored men
selected with a view OF replacing the
Knights of Labor as fast as the latter DROP
out. Such changes will be permanent
Rumors of an impending general strike OF
knights throughout Texas are current here
and elsewhere in the State. Indications
point to an understanding on the part OF
the Knights to quit work generally on Mon.
day morning on all roads carrying Mallory
freight. There is considerable dissatisfac.
ton in the ranks of local Knights.
ST. LOUIS. March Gall knights O!
Labor on the Gould system centering in
this city went out and struck this morning
at II o'clock. No particulars are known to
have been ordered by the Central Com.
mittee of the knights of Labor a. the sug.
gestion Of the Texas assembly of that or.
ganization. Information from Desoto. Mo-,
ia to the effect that the men at that point
have also gone out.
l P. M.-There are 5000 Knights Of
Labor in the strike on the Gould system.
SEpALIA. Mo-, March 6.-Employes o.
the Missouri Pacific and Missouri Kansa,
and Texas railroad struck this morning a
1880 o'clock. Everything around and ir
the shops is in a state Of chaos, and it ii
impossible to ascertain the cause or oxten'
of the strike. 1t il supposed. however
that orders came from the Texas Knights
Of Labor. 1t is also reported that every
man but one in the shops here belong &c
the Knights of Labor, but he, too, wen,
with the others.
A Terrific Fire I'm Akron, Ohio.
CLEVELAND. March 6.-At2 O'Clock this
morning a fire broke out in the extensive
oat meal mills Of Frederick Schumacher {.
Akron. These mills are the largest In the
country, and consist of several immense
buildings. The fire was discovered in q
s~even-ssory wooden structure. The flames
spread with alarming rspidity. and were
soon beyond control. The building first
attacked was soon entirely enyaloned In