Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-18
The Chicago Strike.

The Chicago Strike.
CHICAGO. October 17th.-One hundred
additional Pinkerton police arrived at the
improvised barracks in the stock yards
this evening. The force now numbers 45C
men. The strike came before the Trades
Assembly to-day and raised quite CON-
motion. 7. J. Lyons introduced resolu,
ton holding P. d. Armour responsible for
the strike and as being at the bottom OF
the trouble. The resolution also called on
the Assembly to use its influence to induce
all persons not to trade at any shop where
Armour's meats are sold. The introduc.
ton of the resolution brought number oi
delegates to their feet instantly. a. c.
Armour vehemently asserted that there was
| not scintilla of proof to show that Armour
was more or less culpable than the Other
packers, and he was opposed to singing
out one man and destroying his business
when Others were as deep in the mud as
he in the mire. Another delegate said the
stock-yards employees had neither asked
nor taken such action yet, and when they
did it would be time enough for the AS
sembly to act. At this point Chairman
Crawford ruled that as the resolution virtu.
ally contemplated boycott, the Assembly
could take no action on it, hut to refer il
to the Boycott Board, which was done
Acting under instructions from General
Master Workman POwderly, 7. T. Barry
will, contrary to announcement, not go to
Richmond, but will remain here and con
tinue his efforts to bring about an amica.
BILE settlement. Tonight Barry said he
hoped for speedy adjustment of the
trouble. On what basis he could not say
but he was of the opinion that compro
mise of some sort would be effected. He
said be had been authorized by Powderly
to settle the difficulty, and was invested
with full power to act. Fully thousand
Knights of Labor met this afternoon in Ger
mania Turner Hall in secret session. Barry
made report, giving an outline OF the
negotiations which have been conducted by
the committee, of which he Is Chairman
The meeting passed a vote of confidence In
the committee. and pledged itself to obey
all orders which might be issued. The
present status of the strike is given, by
Barry as follows; Il have explained to
the packers, especially Mr. Kent, that q
mere technicality is all that prevents set.
tlement. The men want simply formal
recognition of eight hours per day, and dc
not object to work overtime, the wages ol
which shall be at the same rate as regular
time. The packers refuse TO concede this
one point. As Armour says, they have
counted the cost, and the shedding of q
little blood will not stop or influence them
in the least have all confidence in the
strikers. If they remain quiet and peace
able and stick together victory is sure"
The Sparrow Must Go.
WASHINGTON, October 17th.-The mate.
rial is largely in hand in the newly-organ.
ized Division of Economical Ornithology Of
the Department of Agriculture, for series
of bulletins upon the relations of the sew
eral common species of birds in this coun.
try to agriculture The evidence collected
will have strong tendency in some cases
to upset widely prevalent notions respecting
the habits and values of certain birds, and
in others to lead to an organized effort foI
the mitigation or extinction of pests which
bring destruction to valuable branches o.
agriculture In the latter category. DR.. C.
H. Merriam, the head of the Division
places English sparrows as chief. This bird
was imported with a flourish Of praise some
years ago, as an agent for the protection o.
shade trees from the ravages of caterpillars,
inch h-worms and other creeping things, and
has so multiplied and developed among its
new surroundings as to become vastly
greater scourge than the oneit was expected
to counteract. Its present rate of increase
is enormous, and the new territory which
it invades is estimated at more than 100. .00C
square miles annually. 1t is essentially q
town bird, nesting almost exclusively
about and upon projections of buildings,
but it takes long vacations during the
fruit-growing seasons ana wreaks its
ferocious appetite upon the largest and
iuiciest of grapes and daintiest of tree
fruits, in which work of destruction its
aggregate of damage is almost incomput-
able How best to prevent the further in
crease and curtaii its rowing propensities, is
an unsolyed problem. 1t may he shot or
poisoned. or it may be despoiled OF its nest,
but neither plan promises permanent
relief. 1t is estimated that the annual loss
to rice planters from the depredations OF
this bird is between $3,000,000 and 81, ,000,-
coo. Dr. Merriam recently spent some
time i'll the rice fields of South Carolina for
the purpose of studying the habits of this
bird and of experimenting with view to its
depredations. He found the planters max
ing their usual heroic efforts, and with par
tial success, to save their crops. For illus
tration, field of 300 acres required the
employment of more than fifty men and
boys, their duty morning and evening
being to create such hubub with guns
and other noise producing implements as
would prevent the birds from settling upon
this particular field, and scare them over
10 those of their neighborS, where similar
din was in process for a like purpose. DR.
Merriam thinks that single hawk trained
as were the falcons with which sportsmen
of the middle ages amused themselves
would be an effective protection to a rice
field of 900 acres. 1t is probable that an
experiment in this direction will be tried
if person of sufficient experience in the
training of hawks can be found to under
take it.
A Yellow Fever Scare.
New ORLEANS, October 17th.-The State
Board of Health having received informa-
ton of the prevalence of fever at Biloxi,
Miss. So miles distant, and the death there
of a number of persons from this cause,
held u special meeting to-day to consider
the matter. Statements made before the
Board showed that a mechanic named
Sumpter, who came from Biloxi, died yes
terday at Mississippi City. Physicians
pronounced Sumpter's disease bilious fe-
yer, but one nurse said he vomited
''black stuff" DR.. Walker made the
alarming statement, as coming from people
from Biloxi, that nearly every family there
had cases of fever. He was told that in
all there existed up to last night
30 cases; that for the past two weeks
people were being buried quietly at night,
and that in day time bodies were laid away
surreptitiously. Charles Marshall, Super
intendent of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, stated that he was told that Dr.
Lemon had pronounced the cause of his
wife's death at Biloxi as yellow fever.
Marshall had received telegram from the
station agent which bore the information
that there were thirty or forty cases at
Biloxi, az d that Drs. Lemon and Mayhine
had advised about the nature of the fever,
Dr. Lemon adhering TO the belief that it
was unquestionably yellow fever. The
Beard thereupon issued notice to the Off
cials of Biloxi, declaring a strict quaran-
tine against it.
Rose Elizabeth Has an Eye to the
Shekels.
CHICAGO, October 17Ih.-Miss Rose Eliza
beth Cleveland, the Presidents sister, has
left the editorial chair of Literary Life, and
lawsuits for damages for violation of
contract are to follow. Elder, the pub
Usher, is reported to have threatened. in
4ba avent of Miss Clavalapd hriDoiD1 crit