Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-19
GOULD'SN MEN COMPROMISE
HALLS CAsR TO BEDECIDED By
A LEGAL REFEREE

Both sides Agree to stand by the Find
inE OF the Court-Trame Already Re
sumed-Bridges Burned Near Marshall
Before Approaching Passenger
Train-LabOr ore AnizatiOns at War
NEW ORLEANS, March Is.-Tne strike
o. this end Of the Texas Pacific Railr cad
virtually ended this evening and trains are
now running out as usual. A committee
Of the Knights OF Labor waited upon re-
ceiver Sheldon to-day and had = confer
ence 10 which both sides agreed that the
strike viii end.
GIN. 5HELDoS's VIEWS.
Gen. Sheldon said at 30 O'Clock this
afternoon that ne considered the strike on
fair way % It's end. The receivers, he
said, will not arbitrate. but II Hall sub
mits his case % the United states Court,
and the Judge should decide that Hall
was discharged without sufficient cause,
tasn the RECEIVERS will reinstate him. II
after this the strikers viii not return TO
work, then the company Will proceed with
the protection Of the court u carry on its
business. II the strikers will submit 70
the Judges decision, il il should
De adverse to them, then, OF course.
the case Of Hal, the company's employe
atAarsnall, Tex, whose discharge caused
the strike, should be submitted 10 the
United States Court Tor arbitration. Gov.
sheldon furnished two Of the committee
with passes % Marshall that they might
see Hall and ind out ii he was willing 70
agree 70 this ARRANGEMENT. Meantime the
strikers resumed work. 1t is believed
Han will submit % the decision Of the
court and that the trouble is 10 be thus
ended finally.
POWDERLY AT KANSAS CITY.
4
Master Workman POwderlY. OF the
Knights Of Labor. arrived in tbs city TO-
day from the East. Delegates from I'VE
district assemblies, including No. 1Ol,
are also here, and the conference between
them, held to-day, was expected 10 result
IN some decisive action, either towards a
settlement Of the strike or ordering out
the Knights on other roads.
BRIDGES BURNED NEAR MARSHALL.
MARSHALL, TEX, March 1s.-A passen-
ger train from st. Louis and on from the
west were 70 meet here at O'Clock this
afternoon. The st. Louis train arrived
and the one from the west was momen-
tarily expected, it having lett Hallyille,
- miles out, on time. Ten minutes after
4 O'Clock a telegram was received
stating that bridge No. III, seven miles
west Of this place, was burned down, and
thaC another one was burning. A wreck
ing train loaded with bridge tmbers,
bridgemen, blood hounds, and United
States Narshals left Immediately for the
scene of the co1lagratiOn. One notice
able feature Of the affair is that the same
engineer, Hank Wilder. was pulling
this train as the one on Wednesday morn
ing before which a rail was misplaced
two miles west of here. Marshal Reagan
offers $1,000 reward tor the arrest and
conviction Of the parties implicated in the
burning Of the bridges. He says he will
have sixty more deputies here tomorrow,
and will run the road il be has to place
one at every bridge.
BOYCoTTIEG DEPRECATED.
FORT WORTH, March l8.--The citizens
OF Fort Worth this evening protested
against the substitution OF license Of boy.
colt for license and protection Of law, and
resolved that any unwarTanted interior
ence with the railroads Of the State should
meet with the condemnation Of ever yone.