The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-03-26
MILITIA UNDER ORDERS.
ST. LOUIS SOLDIERS READY FOR THE
GOVERNORS CALL.

Another Freight Train Succeeds in Get
Marmaduke st. Louis Nardmen Go
Oat-Jay Gould Says mo Compromise
ST. LOUIS, No, March 26-The Rainwater
rifles and Company G., Branch guards, are
under arms at the armory, ready to assist
the police at moments notice. All the
militia forces of the city are under order
to be ready for duty at the call of the ssof
ernor.
A Missouri Pacific freight tram under
guard of large force of police succeeded in
making its way from the Union depot,
Thursday morning, to the city limits with
out encountering any interference from the
strikers.
Ii Is not yet known how far beyond this
city it has proceeded.
Governor Marmaduke, Of Missouri, issued
at a late hour Wedn SHAY night, a proclaim
alton relative to the railroad strike as far as
it affects the commerce of the state After
.eining the respective duties of the railroad
company and their employees, the proclama
tion continues:
Wherefore. |, John S Marmaduke, gov
ernor of the state of Missouri, ly virtue OF
the authority within me vested, do hereby
call upon the Missouri Pacific hallway COM
pany and upon it, officers and agents and its
employees of every grade, each in their
several capacities, to assist in resum-
ing traffic of all kinds in. the usual
way on all the railroad lines oper
ated by said company in Missouri,
and warn all persons whether they be EN-
pioyes or not, against interposing any
obstacle whatever in the way of said reSunp
ton; and with firm reliance upon the
courage, good sense and law abiding spirit
of the public | hereby call upon all good
citizens to assist in carrying out the purpose
of this proclamation And ] also hereby
extend the whole power OF the state so far as
it may he lawfully welded by its chief
executive officer to sustain said company
and its servants in said resumption AMI to
restrain and punish all that may oppose it. y
A member OF the executive committee of
District Assembly No i0l of the Knights of
Labor was seen by a reporter early Thursday
morning, and in reply to the quest ~
whether or not the men employed in -
railroad yards in East 1T Louis
| will be order, d to strike result oi The
| later changes in the situation said; The
| East St Louis yardmen viii 20 out this
day afternoon at ) O'Clock You know they
have been anxious to go out for some time,
| but We have been holding them back
| Welne day they sent committee To the
| executive committee of ass 'mhly $3.50 and
they sent them to us They said they
wanted to go out Immediately, and we de-
cided to fix the time at 8 O'Clock this
| off frbau will aapor,fip rlyva aI n,1
work at that time, unless the Missouri
| Pacific officials show a disposition to treat
| with us
Gen. Swayne, one of the council for Jay
| Gould, in an inter iiew with United Press
reporter Thursday, stated that he had been
| consulted regarding the action of the
| knights of Labor on the strike now pending
on the southwestern railroads and actions
| will be at once commenced against the or
der as well as against the individual mem
ters of the order by the Missouri Pacific
| Railroad company to recover all damages
the company may have sustained by the
strike
When asked how the members of Il secret
organization like the Knights of Labor could
| lie discovered so as to enable his company to
begin actions against individuals, Gen.
| Swayn said: We will have no trouble in
| beginning actions against the several organi
zations, and when that is done we can bring
any of the oiicers into court and comEe
| them to disclose the names of the members.
| Their oaths of secrecy will not shield them
from answering questions in a court OF
justice, and if they refuse to answer on that
| ground they will certainly lie committed foI
| contempt
The Texas strikers have issued a circular
controverting the assertion of Hoxie and
| Cows. Marmaduke and Martin that the rail-
way company had not violated the agree
ment of 1888, and giving numerous instan e:
where the company has violated the agree
ment
At > p m. Thursday as predicted, every
| switchman in the yards of the various rail
roads running in East st Louis struck. A
number of whistles from evesy engine il
the city was the signal The bridge
switches are deserted and the automatic
switch stand, which requires an expert, can
| not he han He'd easily.
LATER Private information received
here is to the effect that the freight train
which was dispatched this morning upon the
Missouri Pacific railway was stopped anG
side-tracked at Pacific, Mo- thirty sever
miles west of this city. The strikers at tina
point capturing and killing the engine
Some shots ware exchanged between TRAN
guards and the strikers, whereupon tn
guards with the city marshal were run Oh
Of town by the strike, S.