The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11
THE STRIKE
Still the Leading Topic of the Hour
Everywhere.
Ex-senator Chaffse, Father-in-law
of U. S. Grant, Dead.
The Liquor License in Boston RAISED
to Two Hundred Dollars.
Good and Bad Stories as Whispered
by the Wires From all Parts
of the World.
LABOR rROUBLEs.
AT KANSAS CITY.

i
ers are not interrupted. RumoTs of i'm.
pending strikes on other lines have not
been substantiated. About seventy-fiVe
Missouri Pacific freight handlers EN-.
ploYed here have been laid of on &C.
count OF suspension OF business.
sTIKE AT eRDAILA.
SEDALIA, Mo-, March 8-There is alb
solutely no change IN the strike situa-
ton, and no excitement. Everything Is
remarkably quiet. The strikers have
side tracked all freight locomotives and
let the water out of them. There seems
TO De no disposition on the part of the
company to resist any movement made
by the strikers. The accommodation
due here from Pleasant Hill at 40 this
morning did not arrive on account of
having no engine to pull the train.
AT ct. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS. March S-The situation on
the Gould south west system this morn
ing is not materially changed from that
reported last night. No freight Is being
handled by any OF the roads. No great
difficulty Is found in moving passenger
trains in this city, as passenger trains
left on time this morning. Not q
freight car, however, has been
moved Wild rumoFs are afl0at
about the certainly of a strike by the
bridge and ferry employees, thus cutting
off all communication win the east. It
is stated that all these men will go out
at noon and they will be followed out
by all The Knights of Labor in st. Louis
to the number of 10000.
AT GALvEsToN.
GALVESTON, Tex, March 8.-Up to
noon no general str Ike OF the Knigh Is
OF Labor had taken place here, but there
Ia no knowing what an hour may bring
forth. The KnIghts admit that gener-
al strike has been ordered by the execu-
tive comuittee. Work on the Mallory
wharf and about the railroads is pro-
crossing as usual.
THE CUMBERLAND STRIKE.
CUMBERLAND, Md, March S-In CON-
pliance with the order of the executive
committee of the federeration OF miners
and mine labOrers which organization
includes all the employees In sey-
eral bituminous coal regions, 5000
miners and laborers in the Cumberland
regions struck today for an advance
from 40 to so cents per ton.
STILL ANOTHER.
NEW YORK, March S.-FCur thousand
members of the United Order American
Joiners and Amalgamaie Carpenters s.
Jolners, stopped work here
to-day .Journeymen complain OF low
wages paid at the rate 81 per day of 10
hours. The strikers now demand that
the average wages paid TO journeymen
shall be 50 so per day of 8 hours each
tor five days and hours Saturday.
ST. LogIs, March 8.-Ths report that
the men of the Bridge and Tunael COM
pany would quit work at noon proved to
be false. No action has been taken by
them and traffic proceeds as usual.
AT TROY.
Troy, N. Y, March 9.-On the street
car lines between Troy Lansingsburg,
Cohoes and Waterford TO cars were start
ed this morning. Conductors and driv-
ers TO the number of 800 were ordered
on the strike by the Knights Of Labor
because the company refuse to make
new schedule of wages for extra men or
"tripSers."
AT PITTsBURG
PITrsBURG. Pa, March $50 far as
reported only one mine in the Clearfield
district has been forced to suspend oper-
Atlons on account of the great strike
inaUgerated IN the soft coal district yes
terday. This afternoon however, q con.
ventIon will be held at Wash Plain for
general action to be decided upon. The
miners are quiet and there is no fear OF
disturbance.
AT LITTLE ROCK.
LITTLE Rock, March 9.-This morn
ing the Iron Mountain railroad manag-
ers discharged twenty hve truckers, and
notified the transfer companies to clear
the depot of all freight.
LITTLE Rock, March Passenger
trains on the Iron Mountain railroad are
running regularly, but no freight trains
are moving. No new developments
this afternoon.
AT CAIRO.
CAIRO, Ill, March 9.-On the Iron
Mountain railroad no freight is being
handled here or at Birds Point. Only
one switchman remained at work at the
yards there. A passenger train carrying
mail will be run from here as usual.
About eighty men, including bridge car.
penters, struck last nj ght.
THE ENGINEERS WILL NOT STRIKE
| ST. LOUIS, No, March 9-COnsider-
able speculation having been indulged
In and good deal of apprehension felt IS
to what the locomotive engineers would
do, or what relations they were likely to
hold to the strike. Mr.. P. NJ. Arthur.
chief engineer of the Brotherhood Of
Engineers, was interviewed on the sub
ject at Cleveland last night. He said
| briefly that the Brotherhood of Engi-
neers had nothing whatever to do with
the Knights of Labor; that no action
had been taken by them in relation tn
the strike, and that so far as he knows
uone will be.
ST.. LOUIS, March 9.-The most serious
move as yet made by the Knights OF La
Dor here IN attempting to gain the object
of their demands is q strike of the bridge
and tunnel companY's employees. As a
result, no freight from either side
OF the river can be transferred. PasseD-
J ger trains, however, are allowed 70
| hFaR hn nAHaSaEa IF he
road and yard masters are oblig
ed to do all of the switching
and make up all trains. No vIolt nee OF
any kind has been attempted and none
is expected. The managers OF the Mis-
souri, Pacific have discharged all clerks
, and telegraph operators, as a practical
suspension OF business by that road
renders their services unnecessary.
THE BOYS FORCED THEM OUT.
Il CHICAGO, March "a strike of abou
400 men and boys out of 800 employees
Is in progress at the Chicago Malleabl'
Iron Works It has been the custom o
, the company every spring to voluntarily
advance the wages of Its laborers. TheI
, proposed to advance the boys 10 The
shipping room from is to 81 25 pc
. day. The boys objected and struck 70
81 so, which was refused. The boys IN
timIdated the men and made them qui
work with them.
THE CARPENTERS AND JoINERs.
|, NV YORK, March 9.-The strike O
the carpenters aud joiners has been YER
2 successful. Nearly all employers hav
granted the demands Of the men snd th
0 latter began work again under the aver
!; age wages of $3.50 for q day of MN
hours and eight hours on Saturday
G Only about one hundred men are mo-
out.
A Confession