Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-09

A Disappointed Audience
 En. The Senate. KNIGHTS OF LABOR MUST GO.
 A Pennsylvanla Firm Order Their 7 Employees to Leave the Order. PHILADELPHIA, March 8.-Yerkes & Plumb, manufacturers of tools at Frankford, this morning locked out all their employees as initial step in contest with the Knights of Labor. The firm posted an order
 Saturday requiring men to sign paper stat ing that they do not belong to the Knights of
 Labor and promising not to join. MT. Yerkes
 was this morning called on by delegation and
 asked to take the men back. MT. Yerkes
 said he would but after consultation with
 his partner it was decided to shut down the
 works for an indefinite period.
 The Tfe-Up On The Gould System.
 ST. LOUIS, March S.-The strike bears an
 unchanged aspect to-day. Rumors of it's
 further spreading are thick and it now looks
 as if the prediction of Saturday, that the
 whole of the Gould interests will become
 embroiled, will be verified within very
 short time. Great difficulty is. experienced
 in getting out passenger trains because of
 absolutely no men to be procured to do the
 work. Nothing but the mails trains are be- | ing run. The engineers and freunen are un- l hinching in their refusal to touch an engine
 until it has been properly prepared for the l runs. Brakemen, fremen and switchmen | are joining the Knights of Labor in hun
 dreds. The St. Louis assembly has initiated
 three hundred men since Friday.
 Every man employed by the St. Louis
 bridge and tunnel railroad ceased work at
 8 o'clock tonight. There a few men
 employed in the work of dispatehing pas | senger trains from Union depot, but not a car
 of freight is being moved. In the Union de- l pot and East St. Louis yards and employed
 in running cars over the bridge there were ! about one hundred men, and though of l small numbers they are the most important
 body of men who have yet acted, every | passenger train entering the city from the
 east comes via the bridge and all western l trains running through the complicated yards of the Union depot. Their strike also
 embargoes freight traffic across the Missis- 1 sippi river at this point.
 An unconfrmed report is circulating to- l night to the effect that Major Hoxie, Gould's
 head man here, has ordered a suspension of ! all business temporarily on the Missouri Pa l cifc road. All departments of the
 road and general offices are to | be closed and effort made to operate the road as long as the strike lasts, | the intention being to force the strikers to l terms or freeze them out entirely.
 | Later.-The report of the suspension of all
 business on the Missouri Pacific has been confirmed Don't Want To Be BuIIiea. WILMINGTON, Del, March 8.-Job H. ! Jackson of the Jackson & Sharp company on ! Saturday addressed his employees on the sub l ject of an advance in wages. He said he had shown his books to three committees of workmen already to prove that the condition of business did not warrant higher wages. He did not want to see any more committees. He did not propose to listen to dictation from any body. He worked hard to bring business to Wilmington and if the workmen wished would continue to do so, but he was tired of work without profit only to be looked upon an oppressor of labor. He was lis tened to attentively and replied to numerous questions put by the men. It is not known what the Knights will do, but in case of a shut down between three hundred and four hundred men will be thrown out of employ ment.
 The Carpenters Get Raise. NEW YORK, March 8.-The demands of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters who struck this morning were acceded to this afternoon and they all resumed work. HIS MAJESTY REX
 Arrives in State and Passes With Pomp Through the Streets of Now Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, March S.-His Majesty l Rex and his court arrived to-day on an Illl- | nois Central special train and disembarked | at St. Joseph and St. Charles streets where
 all immense throng of his subjects were 1 waiting to receive him. Minute guns were fired in every part of the city and after be- ing received by the duke of the realm Rex ! began his line of march preceded by detach- | ments of every military organization in the city. His majesty dressed as Charles V. | of Spain and was followed by all his cour- l tiers in carriages. The procession moved 1 through the principal streets of the city and
 was enthusiastically received by the popu-- | lace on route to the steamer. The King. | commanded halt in front of the City Hall | where he was met by the Mayor and dele | gation of the municipal fathers and received
 a homage. The procession besides his
 majesty's regular retinue contained the
 royal comic opera and comic court
 burlesque opera singers of the |
 na1ly the whole court embarked on the steam
 CT White and proceeded to the Exposition
 grounds accompanied by eight other steamers 1 on which were the guests and military. At l the exposition his majesty was received by | the board of management and escorted to l Music Hall where he held his court. He was l greeted by the royal host and carnival court,
 his majesty replying graciously. Afterwards l Rex gave audience to 8 large number of his l subjects and to visitors.
 | Minister Phelps Dimes Wi h Victoria. LONDON, March S.-Mr. B. J. Phelps, l United States minister to England, dined l with the Queen to-day.
 The Corpsei in Helfs Half Acre. l NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 9.-A verdict of
 murder in the first degree was to day found
 against Ben Brown (colored), who with three 1 accomplices in December last assaulted
 Frank Arnold to get possession of his proper | ty. After killing Arnold they buried the
 body, subsequently, unearthed it, cut off the