Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-05-10
The Handling of Freight in Chicago Re.
sumed at lost OF the ards.
Fischer, the Anarchist, Arfaisned and
Remanded to Jail.
Prominent Paper of the Knights of Ia,
Dor Bitterly Denounces the
Anarchists.
Anarchist and Socialist Leaders Airaign.
ed at Milwaukee.
Sunday Passes Away Unusually Quie, at
Chicago.
GARDINER. Me. NAV S

GARDINER, Me-, May s.
The employees in the paper mill of Rich.
ards Co., of Gardiner, struck Saturday, the
firm having refused a request for an increase
of wages.
The steam saw mill of Putnam & Closson
has shut down. owing to the refusal of the
employees. all of whom are members of the
knights OF Labor. to work more than ten
hours day. Two attempts made this week
to resume operations proved unsuccessful,
the firm being unable to secure men.
CHICAGO, May s.
visit to the various freight yards today
found most of them receiving all freight
offered, though at some of them not much is
offered. Everything was quiet this morning
at the Forty-first street crossing of the West
ern Indiana tracks and though the striking
switch tenders gathered there in numbers,
they did not attempt to interfere with new
hands, and the business of the road proceeded
without delay.
The Northwest is handling all freight Of
fered. All their striking employees, except
the freight handlers, returned to work this
morning The Baltimore & Ohio is handling
freight slowly. A few of the striking freight
ers of the Michigan Central returned to work
this morning.
No change has been noticeable at the
freight houses Of the Chicago & Atlantic road
today. A few loads of freight were offered
and delivered. but the force of men employed
was very small and did not appear to have
increased any since yesterday. The force of
man inc fl,r.A All $40, IL. 1
Trunk was not any stronger today than yes
terday, and teams were considerably delayed
in being unloaded.
McCormick's reaper factory started up this
morning with full force and the Hinman
street police claim to have identified many
of Mondays rioters among those who have
retwrned to work.
Twenty-Five l6-shot Winchesters. .25 double
barrelled shotguns and 5000 rounds of am
muniton have been placed in store, and can
quickly be put in the hands of policemen and
private watchmen in case of an outbreak of
violence.
Armour's glue factory was running with a
small force under police protection this morn
ing. A movement is on foot to start up all
the factories in the lumber district on Mon
day on the lO-hour basis.
Two hundred employees of the Pittsburg,
Fort WAYNE & Chicago roundhouse were
granted an advance of 25 cents a day and re-
turned to work this morning.
The manufacturers of metal goods, today
posted up notices to resume operations as
soon as sufficient numb er of men reported
for duty to work ten hours at the old rate of
pay.
Two thousand workingmen participated in
a street parade and labor demonstration at
Pullman this afternoon
Business in all branches is moving along
as usual at the stock yards. The Lake po-
lice are patroling the tracks from Thirty
ninth to Forty-ninth streets on Steward ave-
nue..
The petition in the cases of Mrs L. NJ
Holmes, Adolph Fischer, and man named
Ligier, empioye of the Arbeiter Zeitung, for
release on habeas corpus, was called before
Judge Rogers this morning. The States at
torney stated that he could not divulge the
character of the evidence he held against
these people. He was willing that Ligier
should be released and that Mrs Holmes
should be admitted to $500 or $1,000 bail. As
for Fischer he had evidence that he had per-
sonally thrown the dreaded bomb, or was a
party to it. This produced sensation in
court. The judge accordingly admitted Mrs.
Holmes to bail, ordered Ligier released,
and ordered Fischer to be returned to jail for
one week
James Dejenk, Bohemian Anarchist and
carrier for the Arbiter Zeitung, the incen-
diary sheet of Editor Spies, was arrested this
morning. Two dangerous looking pistols
were found on him, and his house was sup
piled with Anarchist literature. Henry De-
jenk, brother of James, and +. Novaks, a
locksmith, were also arrested.
The Arbiter Zeitung did not appear today,
because no firm about town would do the
press work.
The following bitter editorial attack upon
the Anarchists is printed in today's issue of
the Knights OF Labo-, q weekly paper, pub
lished by George N Sceets, and commended
10 all Knights of Labor by the executive Off
GERS and leading members of district assem-
bly No. "a:
"Let it be understood by all the world that
the knights of Labor have no affiiliatlon, as
sociation, sympathy or respect for the band of
cowardly murderers, cut ihroats and robbers
known as Anarchists, who sneak through the