Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-12
THE TIED UP COULD SYSTEM.

An Unsuccessful Effort To Run out Trafn-No Trains Running And The Tie Up Complete.
 ST. LOUIS, March 1.-The officials of the Gould system late this afternoon made an attempt to start freight train out. The train was gotten together by foremen, yard men and superintendents. When the engine came from the shops the engineer and fire
 man were politely requested by the strikers not to go out and engineer returned to the round house. The only men now on duty are yardmastf IS, foremen and force of about ninety-fve detectives. A dozen men who had been secured through labor agency en- tered the yards this morning. When they learned there was strike they turned about and marched away cheered by the bystand- CTS.
 HOUSTON, Tex, March 11-At Palestine, Marshall and Big Springs, the strongholds of the strikers, the local officers have taken i'm portant steps this morning in notifying all employees now on strike that they could con- sider themselves discharged and to call at the agents office and receive the wages due. It is presumed that his order is general. An attempt was made this morning at Palss- tine to move a freight train bound for Gal weston, but without success. All the links and pins had been removed by the strikers and the few green men who were employed to equip p the train were incompetent to couple the cars. The strikers gathered around and booted at their efforts, but offered no vio- fence. The situation as far as the freight is concerned remains unchanged.
 GALVESTON, March 11.-A dispatch from Sherman, Texas, says the first indication that the railroad strike had affected the Houston and Texas Central was seen to day when three regular freight trains were pulled off on account of lack of business. The of1 1o1 ;,, 41oa freight depots were laid off. No violence has occurred. The Missouri Pacific compa- ny is supplying it's switches with new locks. The strikers say that To property of the company will be motested.
 A Ten Per Cent. Advance Refused.
 SARATOGA, March 1.-The cotton mills at Victory Mills were shut down this after noon owing to a strike of the operatives. The mills employ five hundred hands and they all went out. The employers refused an advance of ten per cent. in their present wages The officials of the mill will say nothing about the trouble.
 Cotton Workers Get More Wages.
 NEwBURYPoRr, Mass, March 1.-The Peabody cotton mills announce an advance of wages from March 18th equal to the cut down of December, 1884.
 An Obnoxious Foreman Discharged.
 BosToN, March 11.-One hundred and fifty employees of William Tidd & Co.,, leath- CT manufacturers, struck at 10:20 a. m. for the discharge of an obnoxious foreman. At 12 m. a conference committee met and at D. m the foreman was discharged and the men returned to work.
 Jake Sharpe in a Tewerin. Passion.
 NEW YORK, March 11.-After telling the executive committee of the Empire Protect i've association, who called on him to-day, that he would run his street car lines to suit himself, and after he and all the parties to the conference had left his office in bad humor, Mr. Sharpe got into 8 rage with some reporters who asked him as he was entering his carriage what had taken place. 'I have nothing to say," he snarled. "We represent the press," suggested one of the report CTS. ''I don't care what you represent" {" At the same time he uttered an objurgation against the press. ''Ths public be damned" :" said one of the reporters to another, recalling the famous phrase of another big railway man. Mir. Sharpe, who had closed his car riage door, opened it again and jumped out. onAklDS uIS cauo III Iuo OAouOIuS IOpOIGS face he said: ''You are damned liar. didn't say 'the public be damned.'" "But you said the press be damned" replied the reporter 'I did not" rejoined Sharpe, ''but I say you be damned" and entering his carriage the angry railway king was driven away. Mir. O'Donnell and the other members of the workingmen's committee were reticent, but seemed consid- erably excited. They started off at once to consult with the representative of the Knights of Labor. It is thought a strike on all the Sharpe roads will be ordered.