Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-03-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


BILE settlement growing less every day. The
trouble is extending westward. new devel-
opment is the strike of the switchmen at
Kansas City, which effectually blocks all traf-
tic at that important point, aud causes de-
rangemont of important business interests.
There are growing indications of a resort to
violence on the Missouri Pacific line. Forty
masked men overpowered the guard at the
Missouri Pacific round house in Atchison,
Kan, early Tuesday morning, and disabled
~ locomotives. At noon large number of
strikers and others seized a freight train be-
low town, bound for Kansas City, uncouplod
the cars, and threw the links and pins into
the river and 'klled" the engine.
On the same day the Missouri Pacific Off
cials tried to start out q freight train from the
yard at st. Louis. private detective acted |
as fireman. A start was made, but the coup. |
ling pin had been drawn by strikers, and the |
train was cut in two. A second start was
made, and this time the switch was found to
be turned the wrong way. A third start prov
ed equally unsuccessful, for the strikers had
again uncoupled the cars, and the engine
started of alone. After several more unsuc-
cessful attempts the engine was backed to the
round-house. A large force Of regular police
and private detectives looked on
member of the executive committee OF
the Knights Of Labor is represented as talk
ing in this threatening fashion "The worst
help for it. II we were to submit now, and
return to work without having been recog-
nized as Knights of Labor, it would be de-
feat not only for us, but also for the labor
unions, trades assemblies, and for every labor
organization in the whole country. We feel
that the issue must be met, and now. The
present conflict Is between us and the rail.
roads only. We will wait three or four days
in the hope that some way toward settle
a,Nv In ,aA aud harn tla afNt
ton remains unchanged for the better, every
freight train on every road running out of 81.
Louis, and every freight train on every road
running out of Chicago, will be stopped We
will leave q sufficient force Of men upon the
roads to run the mail trains and few accom-
mediation trains, but not wheel Of single
| freight car shall be turned until the Knights
Of Labor are recognized. If this shall fail to
! force the companies to recognize, the strike
| will then be extended to all eastern and south
ern roads, embracing the entire country and
| IL it comes to the worst, the strike will be
made to embrace every large mandatory and
every extensive business industry in the coun-
try"
Wednesday afternoon compromise was
effected with the Kansas City switehmen, I'M
der which the men returned to work. The
| Missouri Pacific road moved a freight train
/ out of St. Louis under the guard of 100 po-
lice, who first had a stout fight with the mob.
An attempt to move freight train out Of
Omaha on the same day, over the same road,
WAS unsuccessful.
THE LdteSt-tAe Collapse IF Tie Strike Pr0b.
| db6.-According to this mornings news the
strike is about to collapse. Jay Gould has
| instructed President Hoxie to begin at
once suits against such of the leaders in the
strike as could be held responsible for block
aiding his road and interfering with public
| 10 I,lra haa kat a "A
cded stand lie has issued proclamation
calling upon the company to resume work
aud its employees of every grade to take their
places and assist. He pledges the power OF
the state to sustain the railway company in
its lawful course, and to punish all who seek
to oppose it. Similar action has also been
taken by the governors Of Texas, Kansas
and Arkansas. The militia are all ready to
protect the armory and the property of the
railway companies at st. Louis in anticipa-
tion of any assistance being needed in the at
tempt to resume traffic on the road.
SERIOUS Illness OF Secretary Manning.
Secretary Manning was seized with sud
den illness Tuesday afternoon on returning to
his office from cabinet meeting. lie had
been working all day without taking any
nourishment and was feeling very weak. He
walked up the two flights of stairs, and on
reaching the top was attacked with vertigo,
and partly fell and partly sat down. His sud
den illness alarmed his friends very much.
He was taken home, but had to be carried to
and from his carriage. One OF the Washing
ton correspondents says: The secretary has not
been a well man for long time. Since be
came to Washington he has worked 10 hours
a day, never been free from worry, taken nc
exercise to speak of and for three months
been up half the night attending to social
matters. He has overworked, his system is
out of order and all his friends have been
afraid that he would break down. His illness
to-day is the natural result. II is a symptom
Of spoplexy, and unless l am mistaken he
will act on that idea.
Later intelligence says the Secretary is
very sick man, and his attack was unquestion
ably Of an apoplectic nature. It was given
out at first that he was only suffering from
sprained ankle, but the fact was that his leg
gave way when the stroke came. The doc
tors were requested not to make any public
statement, but they have been compelled to
inform high officials Of the situation, and the
, latter admit that Mr. Manning is in a critica
condition. With the best that can be hoped
for, one of the physicians has said that Sec
rotary Manning cannot safely return TO hi
desk this summer. The medical men are nov
endeavoring to prevent another attack.
,. H. c. Steadman, prominent farmer il
Burt county, Neb., discharged Edward John
son, alias John Anderson, last Saturday. An
D derson at once picked quarrel with Stead
man and shot him dead. He then secured
e Winchester rifle and large quantity Of am
l munition, mounted a horse and made of
Constable Parker organized posse and gave
a pursuit and soon had him in sight. The mur
dertr then opened fire on the party, who wer,
armed only with revolyers, and shot Pete
. johnson dead his brother Charles fatally ant
with several other shots killed and manned q
q large number of horses. He finally tool
refuge in a barn and defended himself agains
his pursuers, numbering about a hundred
y until Sunday evening, when the barn was Sc
on fire. Fire was opened on johnson and HI
was killed, falling in the flames. When tn
fire had subsidized the body was found in
large body of oats, riddled with bullets. Al
attempt to storm the barn before it was Sc
on fire resulted in the death Of Edgar Ever
EFT, making four victims of Johnson's rifle
), A skeleton recently found in a brusl
II heap in the town of Wrentham, Mass, ha
= been identified as the remains of Agnes A
, Long, who worked in jewery shop in Eas
; Attleboro, and who has been missing two
: years or more. A bullet-hoe in the skull de
u noted murder, and young married maj
= who has disappeared since the skeleton wa
= found, is suspected of the crime.
n A thunder storm, especially severe in tn
;, southern part, burst upon the state of Con
b necticut last Friday evening Houses wer
n shaken and the earth was rocked by tremen
?. dous thunderbolts. The house of William
/. McGatfe at Watertown, a manufacturing vii
}. lsge six miles from Waterbury, was almof
Q torn to pieces. His two daughters aged /
d and 20, were killed, the latter instantly. Tn
II side of the room where they slept was tor
y out and hurled 10 feet. The father, mother
il sister and a baggage-master with his wifi
r. and child who occupied the upper part @
# the house escaped, all more or less shocked
I. Two railway stations were struck by lightnin
ID and burned, that at Bristol and that at Farm
fs ington. The station at Cheshire was badl
ID damaged.
70 One of the wolf-bitten Russians who n
III Gently came to Paris and were treated by n
n Pasteur to prevent rabies, died Monday nigt
in great agony, with all the symptoms of b!
of drophobia. The 10 Russians were place
~ under Pasteur's care March 10. The ma
or who died had been regularly inoculated wit
y, virus twice in every "a hours like the other
he His terrible death with all the symptoms {
a hydrophobia in its worst form has operate
a. as a serious check to the public confidence
at the effectiveness of Pasteur's discovery.
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