Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-22

with traffic and tender support 10 the rail
roads in their determined stand against
the strikers.
A Bad Trip.
J LITTLE Rock, March l0-Ths engine
on the Iron Mountain Railroad which took
the freight train north 10 Newport yester'
day, started last night on ITS return trip
pulling two disabled engines At Jackson
vile some unknown person had broken the
switch board, and in consequence one OF
the engines and the cSboose was derailed
aud turned over. Engineer Lsngton
ankle was sprsinsd, but no one else was In
jured.
A Cooperative X. of L. Colony.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, March 20.-The
Minnesota Knights Of Labor have pur-
chased 600 acres of land in Northern
Wing county an will establish co-opera-
tive colony. Three families 60 out at
once, and others will follow rapidly. The
land is to be held in common forever, but
the products are to be divided yearly
among the workers. In this latter feature
the community will be wholly unique. The
object is to organize agriculture and fur
nish refuge where members of the order
are forced out of employment in the cities
they can be supported without expense.
Companies Likely to Agree.
PIrTsBURG, March 2O.-This morning.
at 10 o'clock, the street car employees OF
the different lines in the city formally pre-
sented their demands to the various COM
psnies. On and after Monday the 18th
inst, they ask that Twelve hours shall con-
stitute days work, exclusive of an hour
for meals. The committee stated to the
presidents of the various roads that they
would expect an answer By 10 o'clock on
Tuesday morning next. 1t is pretty certain
that the reduction in hours will be granted
By oil the companies, and strike sverted.
The Transverse and Wylie avenue lines, 1t
is understood, have both agreed to the pro-
position of the workmen.
Clifton Iron Works Strike on.
PIrrsBURG, March 2O.-The strike ofthe
400 employees at the Clinton Iron Works of
Graf, Bennett L Co, which wsS Inaugur-
sted two months sgo for ten per cent sd. !
vance in wages, has been settled by the
firm conceding The increase. The works
will resume operations on Monday.
$500 Men Idle.
MCKEEsPoRT, Pa, March 20-The
strike at the National Tube Works is now
general. The mschinists declined ten
per cent advance, and with the carpenters,
painters, boiler makers aud repairmen,
came out this afternoon. The firm has Of
tered to compromise BY concediog an in
crease of y to 10 per ceLt, but the men
refuse to accept. About $500 men are
now idle. At q meeting tonight they will
be taken into the Knights of Labor.
General Manager ]. A. Fisgler address
ed meeting of the employees this after
noon, and advised them to accept the sd-
vance offered BY the company. He said
that in It's endeavor to keep the men en-
ployed during the winter months, the com
psny had accumulated an unusually
large stock at the mills
and warehouses which compelled it 10
close in some. He said be trusted that
in their deliberations all inAsmmsble Ian
susge would be discarded, and suggested
that the men avoid all associations with
denagogues and socialists.
Tonight q mass meeting was held oy
the strikers and an assembly Of the knights
Of Labor formed
At meeting of the strikers this even
ing, addresses counselling arbitration were
made By number OF clergymen who had
been invited to be present. The strikers
received the addresses with applause, and
appointed committee Of eleven, one from
each department, to coulter With the man.
ager on Monday end endesvor to effect
settlement.
Dayton Has Car Strike.
DAYTON. O., March 20.-Drivers on the
Third street car line struck to day at noon
for 81. rs for II hours. The Knights OF
Labor propose to boycott the road in case
other men are employed in the place OF
the strikers.
Alright for Recognition,
'REYyoLDsvILLE, Pa. March 2O.-This
afternoon Bell. Lewis L Yates, OF Dubois,
and Poiners, Brown Il Co, of this place,
controlling the Rochester, Pleasant Valley,
Soldier Run and Hamilton mines, distrib-
uted circular to the miners offering an
advance Of FIVE cents per ton, with the
further proposition to give 5 more II the
ten cent advance wss granted in the Clear.
field and Cumberland region, but they de-
cline positively to deal with officers of the
Amalgamated Association, but propose to
deal directly with the men. The AsSocia'
ton are holding a secret session tonight
and Monday forenoon general
meeting will be held. There is hardly
a doubt but that they will come out, Tues
day, and if so it will be fight for recogni-
ton more than further advance OF five
cents already granted, conditionally. The
Com pany have drawn out and banked up