Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-04-06
EASTERN NEWS.
The Labor Situation at st. Louis
Continues Unchanged.
SEVERAL COMPANIES OF TROOPS AT
FORT WORTH.
Strikers Also Gathering There from
Outside Points.
A SENSATIONAL REPORT CUR
RENT IN ST. LOUIS.
Another Mysterious Case Of
Murder and Suicide.
THENHREE ILL CABINET Off
GERS RECOVERING.
ESPECIAL TO THE sENTINEt.l

ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
The Labor Situation at st. Louis,
ST. LOUIS, April 5.-Mr. Hayes. the
third member of the Executive Committee
of the knights of Labor, arrived last
night, giving the committee a quorum.
Shortly after his arrival the General Com
mittee went into secret session. The meet
ing lasted until after midnight, when the
following was given out in the form Of a
statement to the public: cat the confer
ence held in New York with Gould and his
| associates and the General Executive
Board the following was mutually agreed
upon: That the ficials were willing to
meet a committee of our employees with.
out discrimination as to who are actually
in the employ Of the road at the time.
Such committee is appointed to adjust
with them any grievance they may have.
The Executive Board, upon arriving In
St. Louis, have been informed that Mr..
Hoxie had refused to comply with the
agreement, as all the parties in the con-
ference understood it. We waited upon
him to ascertain his intentions of carrying
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reply: That only 80 per cent of the for
mer force would be re-employed; that he
would consider personal applications only,
and use his own pleasure in acting upon
them without the dlctation OF any society.
This being in direct violation Of the
agreement, the General Board believe that
the refusal was for the purpose of stock
iobbing, using the organization as a veil to
further their ends. We therefore recall
the order given to the men to return to
work, the road having made it impossible
to fulfill the same. The matter now
stands as it did before the order to resume
work was issued in the hands Of those dis
tricts interested, and the General Board
will render all assistance to carry out the
demands OF the men for Justice"
Frank M~cKeighan, a telegraph operator,
was arrested to-day, and has made q con-
fession, which will create a sensation here.
He says that recently he entered into an
arrangement with Thomas Furlong. Chief
of the Gould system secret service. where
by Martin Irons, A. @. Coughlan and
other prominent leaders Of the Knights of
Labor were to be arrested. A room was
engaged in the third story of q building at
No. % Market street, past the window OF
which ran a private telegraph wire. on
which II. M. Hoxie was in almost constant
communication with Gould. McKeighan
engaged another operator named Nichols
to assist him, and the two men soon tapped
the wire and had an instrument at work.
The arrangement was to have Irons,
Coughlan and others in the room inter-
cepting messages between Hoxie and
Gould, when the police would make a de-
scent on the place and capture the whole
outfit. The signal for descent was to be a
lamp placed in one of the windows. On
Friday night a detective and a squad of
!, police were ready. and the lamp appeared
in one Of the windows Of the second floor.
A rush was made for the room, but the
poor woman engaged in running a sewing
|, machine was the only person found. The
raiders then learned that they had got into
the wrong room, and at once assembled to
} the third floor, where McKeighan was
/ found alone. Chief Harrigsn heard of the
matter, and McKeighan's arrest followed.
Large crowds assembled this morning
around the Relay depot, East st. Louis, but
were undemonsvative and offered no OPP
position to the making up and starting out
OF freight trains. The Ohio and Missis-
' sippi, Indianapolis snd st. Louis sent out
large trains loaded with freight, and the
yandalia a train OF 80 empties. There was
no interference by the strikers attempted
> in either case. New switchmen and yard
!. men engaged since the strike are
actively engaged in making up trains,
and they will be sent out later in the day.
= Thirty OF the strikers (Poles) on the Van.
dalia road applied to the foreman of the
|, yards for work. While they were discuss.
ing the situation with the foreman they
were approached by q delegation of
Knights, who persuaded them to withdraw
their applications. A number Of the for
mer employees Of other roads also made ap.
: plication for places vacated by them, bnt
upon being informed by the committee Of
the action taken by the General Executive
7 Board they declined to 60 back. The
: bridge and tunnel men who returned to
work on Saturday failed to report for duty
in obedience to the order OF the Board. A
majority of the st. Louis Transfer Com
: pany's employees returned TO work this
] morning, and are actively engaged 10 NOV
ing the accumulated freight in East St.
Q Louis. A new Developments of the strike
Q on the east side Of the river, and one
which occasioned considerable surprise
and uneasiness among railway officials,
: occurred this morning when the Obi
cage aud Alton switch engineers struck.
They say they will not go back TO work IN
til the trouble between the railroads and
their employees 10 settled, and felt conf
n dent their brotherhood will support them.
!; A special from Fort Worth to the Post-
]. Dispatch saws: Governor Ireland has or.
+ rived here this morning from the capital
OF the State. and has been In consultation
all morning with railway officials and mill
tary commanders. When the Governors
9 train stopped at Waco on its way here last
T. night, several strikers mounted the engine
and killed it. Another engine was pro-
. cured, and the train arrived this morning
] without further hindrance. Governor Ire.
Q land said he was determined that the rail-
road officials must be permitted to run
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