The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-05-18
RELATING TO THE RAIL.
A Budget of Local Information
Picked Up by "Baz0O'
Missionaries.
The Shops, Offices, Track, Etc
Each Come tO the Front
With Their Quota.

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dined al the Paxton house in Omahs
yesterday.
Bob Listers engine, the 81, wa.
turned out of the shops yesterday
and went west on train No. 1.
j. B. Van Dyne, ex-surerintend
ent of the NJ, X. IL T., arrived from
St. Louis yesterday afternoon.
"A. Cameron, 'ostler at the Pa
cifc shops, is the father of charming
little daughter, who arrived Thursday
night.
doc" Morrow, the Missouri Pa
cific fireman, who has been an inmate
of the hospital for several weeks past,
has resumed his duties.
Engine No pa, which was
placed in the shops prior to the strike
for a thorough overhauling, will be
turned out Tuesday next.
The question now is. will the EN-.
gineers of Sedslia tender Martin Irons
banquet on his return, or welcome
him with shower of ancient eggs?
The work of repairing the wash
outs on the narrow gauge road was
completed yesterday, and commence
ing to morrow trains will arrive and
depart regularly.
"A telegraph instrument was
placed in the office of Master Me-
chanic Weller yesterday, and from
this time forward the telephone will
take hack seat, so to speak.
Fred Swartzigure, striker who
recently left for New York, writes
back to a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that he
has not vet secured employment and
wishes he was again in Sedalia.
Engine No. 237, Jno. Haley,
engineer, belonging on the Kansas Il
Arizona division of the Pacific, is in
the shops here for the purpose of be-
ing repaired with a new front end.
"A well-known Knight of Labor
stated last night that Martin Irons
would be compelled to resign the
craftsmanship of district assembly No.
101 before another month has rolled
around.
"A. r. Burnett, employed in the
NJ, X. d. I. car shops, had his left
foot mashed early yesterday morning
by heavy timber falling upon it.
He was taken to the hospital, where
the injured member was dressed.
The strikers have been asserting
that Master Mechanic Weller would
be fired" by the 18th and then they
would all return to work. Yesterday
was the 10th and Mr.. Weller was
still on deck, but where. oh where,
were the strikers?
An attempt was made to ditch q
freight train in the yards east of the
Missouri Pacific office at an early hour
Yesterday morning, but it proved
futile. A chain was laid across the
rail, and had it not been discovered,
one or more cars would undoubtedly
have been derailed.
R w. Drew, late high muck-a-
muck in the Railway Employees Be
nevolent society, but more recently a
dynamite striker, has gone hence. 1t
is presumed that he has secured en-
pioyment in Wyandotte, as he has had
his tool chest forwarded to him there.
Sedalia mOurns.
Martin Irons, in his testimony
before the Curtin committee, Friday,
stated that the engineers promised to
assist the knights in the strike, but
went back on their word. A we'll
known Sedalia runner, who is pre-
pared to back what he says, last night
denounced Irons as liar and scoun-
drel.
Jack Ryan was discharged from
the hospital yesterday, while the fol-
lowing persons were received as in
mat >: Henry Dupont, section fore
man. Reams station, /. t., intermit-
tent fever; w. f. Simmons, brake
man, Pleasant Hill, yellow jaundice;
Stephen Stone, section laborer, Atoka,
|. t., acute bronchitis.
An employee of the Missouri Pa
ci6c shops stated yesterday that a
clothing merchant had
offered to bet suit of clothes that in
side of three months every striker
would again be at work in the shops
and the new men would all be dis
charged. "Show me the merchant,
said a gentleman standing near 81
dent know of any easier way of Sc
curing a suit of clothes"
A new time card went into effect
on the Pacific at midnight last night.