Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-17

used their clubs freely. Many sore heads
resulted, but no one was seriously hurt.
One car was completely wrecked.
The Missouri Pacific Road issued orders
to it's agents on the 18th to accept all
freight except perishable goods and cattle
for all points on Texas Pacific lines.
Receiver Brown, OF the Texas Pacific
Road was hanged in effigy at Alvorado,
Tex, on the night of TIE 18th.
The Birmingham, Conn.,, Corset Works
shut down on the 18th. The reason as
signed is the non-arrival OF goods. owing to
the blockade on the Gould system in tie
West.
Cincinnati street-car drivers and con-
luctors have renewed their demands for
more pay and fewer hours. Unless their
demands are acceded to they will strike.
Reports that the Kanawha Valley miners
have resumed work at the 2-cent rate are
pronounced false. The operators are being
assisted by other miners in the valley, and
say they will not yield,
| 1t is believed that the Mallory boycott in
| Galveston will soon be amicably adjusted.
| Officials of the Mallory Line and 5he
Knights OF Labor are in conference trying
to arrive at an agreement
Three mills at Cohoes, N. Y, where the
| spinners did not strike, have been shut
| down, the manufacturers saying they prefer
to fight the threatened trouble now than to
have their affairs unsettled all summer.
The 600 employees OF the Elizabeth, n J.,
| Carriage Works struck Friday, having re-
| fused to sign an agree ment to work for pres
ent wages till July /. II the strike con-
tinues, orders will have to be completed in
| Europe.
The officers of the Missouri Pacific Road
| on the 18th made several unsuccessful at.
| tempts to run freight trains out of St.
Louis, and late in the afternoon they ap
| Ed -,
tions to restrain leading strikers from en-
tering on the property of the road. An at
| torney and several deputy sheriffs under
took to run the gauntlet at Parsons, Kas
but strong engine, run by strikers, cou
pied on behind and pulled the official loco
motive back into the yards. Two thou
sand persons stood in the yards at Sedalio
for three hours to hear the mayor read the
riot act and see engineers and firemen re
fuse to take out trains. Alright ten prom
inent Knights of Labor were arrested or
state warrants for disabling an engine.
The employees OF various street railways
in Cincinnati struck on the 18th for an in
crease of wages to So for twelve hours. Al
noon cars were running on only two lines
| An hour later the Walnut Hill conductors
and drivers accepted the offer of President
Kerfer, and resumed work at $1.85 fol
| twelve hours.
Two hundred laborers at the Atlantic
Iron Works, Sharon, Pa, have been grant
ed an advance of 10 per cent in wages.
The Cabot Company q cotton nill at New
Brunswick, Me-, closed it's doors on account
of a strike, throwing 700 hands out of ein
ployment.
A large number of italian laborers on the
Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad, threw dowI
their tools on the 18th and demanded more
pay.
The miners of the Clearfeld (Pa.) regions
came out on the 18th, and all the pits have
suspended operations. The Clearfield coll
iers favored settlement of the wages dis
pute by arbitration, but they were per
suaded to come out by a committee o
strikers from the Cumberland district. The
strike in the soft coal regions Of Eastern
Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia and
West Virginia is now general and between
10000 and 1000 men are idle.
| The strike of ship carpenters at Detroit
ended on the 18th, the men accepting the
terms offered by the employers. About
| 400 men were interested.
| The Chicago Knights OF Labor, at meet
ing on the 14th, determined to sustain the
striking employees of the Mccormick Reaper
Works, and boycott has been ordered.