Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-02

irons, =. Z. Coughian and other members
OF the Executive. Committee. when asked
for further information regarding the effect
OF the appeal upon the situation, refused
positively 10 discuss the subject One of
the committeeman said: We have large
army at our command, and a desperate
fight ahead OF rs {; therefore we do not pro-
pose to expose our plans until they have
been perfected"
THE GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS CALLED UPON
FOR AID.
ST. LOUIS, April Ist-About noon to-day
several representative members of the Mer-
chants Exchange headed by D. r. Francis.
Mayor OF the city, called upon Governor
Oglesby. of Illinois, in East St. Louis.
Speeches were made setting forth the situa-
ton, and urging upon him the necessity of
calling out the militia al once, to restore
order and effect resumption of freight
traffic. The Governor replied that while
be knew the authorities were unable
TO cope with the situation, the county
OF 81. CLAIR was large and populous
and the powers of the Sheriff yerv great
These had not been exhausted, and until
they were he could not call on the military
Tor aid. II, however, he should be actually
obliged to bring soldiers here they would
come for active service and resolute work.
There would be no nonsense nor child's-
play about it.
AN AMICABLE AGREEMENT
PHILADELPHIA, April 1st.-TLe Presi-
dents OF all the city railways and the Arbi-
tration Board of the knights of Labor had
an amIcable conference to-day, and signed
an agreement providing for 81 per day and
twelve hours TO be days work.
TROOPS ORDERED OUT IN KANSAS.
:
Topeka special says: Governor Martin re-
ceived a dispatch tonight from State Ad-
Jutant-General Campbell, at Parsons, Kan,
saving the mob was in the ascendancy
there, and he could not start trains with
out aid. The Governor thereupon author
lzed the calling out of the First Regiment,
State Militia, tomorrow morning and tel
egraphed General Carroll, at Paola, to 20 10
Parsons and take command.
LAST ATTEMPT TO START TRAINS.
PARSONS (Kans.), April lst.-One thou
sand five hundred people gathered this
morning to witness what was expected to
be the last attempt to start trains before
resorting to military assistance. wreck
ing train was made up to clear the track of
the wreck caused by the strikers, and it
was allowed 10 start. When freight train
had been made up, however, the strikers
promptly killed the engine. No further
movement was made.
FORT WORTH IN THE HANDS OF A MOB.
FoRT WORTH (Tex), April 1st.-Fort
Worth is in the hands of a mob. A citi-
zens posse, summoned by the Sheriff to
assemble this morning at the Missouri Pa
chic yards, met, some 800 strong, according
TO orders. About 400 strikers, armed, des-
perate and ready for bloodshed, were on
the scene. Fifty well-armed officers
were also on hand. A freight train
was made up, and Missouri
Pacific engine came along to pull out the
train, with grand rush by the strikers for
the engine. Arms were presented on both
sides. The engine was not molested, but
all the cars were uncoupled, and even the
nuts were taken out of the drawheads.
Some of the Knights were arrested, and
the engine sent back to the round
house. All attempts to move trains
was then abandoned The citizens
lacked organization. They had no
leader while every man in the ranks
OF the strikers was a leader. Mayor Smith
ordered the mob to desist, but the strikers
cried Rats ~ No more Peter Smith for
Mayor again ~ The Sheriff is summoning
citizens to go armed tomorrow to the
Missouri Pacific yards. The strikers places
are all filled here, and they are hungry and
bloodthirsty. The most conservative citi-
zens are anticipating grave trouble in the
restoration OF law and order.