Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

In answer to Mr.. Hoxie's refusal to
arbitrate the Southwestern railway troubles
with the strikers the Knights met at Fort
Worth, Texas, and passed resolutions declar-
ing that they would never go to work for the
Gould system until they were recognized as an
organization. On the other hand, the business
men along the lines held large meetings in
which the strikers were denounced and Mr.
Hoxie's course approved
Knights of Labor at Omaha seized a
Union Pacific engine with which to follow and
side-track a Missouri Pacific freight train at
PapiIion.
Cooperative farming, under the aus
pices of the Knights of Labor, is to be tried in
Crow Wing County, Minnesota
A dispatch from Marshfeld, Oregon,
says the steamer Beda, loaded with railroad
iron, sprung a leak and foundered forty
miles off Cape Perpetua. She carried crew
Of thirteen men, including Captain Healey.
Only two we're saved-Lewis lancet and John
Throwl--who were picked up by the tug Felr-
less.
The Emperor of Japan has forward
| ed to New York $500 in American coin as a
/
An investigation of the operations OF
the absconding accountant of the Bank
| Rationale of Montreal shows that the names
Of two depositors were forged to checks for
$4,000
The Missouri Pacific officials at st.
Louis, with the aid of one hundred and twenty
1een Cars on ue S 4Vr ou' Tie 1pefpUfRhc3 Ms
| witnessed by at least five thousand persons,
some of whom killed pony engine following
| the train. The departure of the train led TO
| conflict between the police and the mob,
during which several persons were wounded
Attempts to move trains at Atchison and
Omaha proved futile, alleged strikers captur-
ing the locomotives and putting out the fires.
The Governor of Missouri called out the mill
tia to protect railroad property. The strike of
the swtchmen at Kansas City has been settled.
| Mr. Jay Gould says it is his intention to sue
the Knights for damages, and may also apply
for an injunction restraining the Knights
| of Labor from contributing to the
support of those on the strike.
At Washington Congress proposes TO take up
the strike question Besides the bill introduced
by Mr.. Anderson, of Kansas, providing for
Government arbitration, three or four other
members have put in similar measures, all of
which have gone to the House Labor Commit
tee The furniture manufacturing firm Of
Brnschke A. Ricke, of Chicago, having suffered
from picket maintained by strikers, proposes
to ask the Circuit Court for an injunction re-
straining its former employees from keeping
up the nuisance
Pittsburgh parties have purchased
fifty acres of land at Germantown on which to
erect steel-works employing $50 men.
The Sandwich Islands have recently
been the scene of terrific volcanic and earth
quake commissions
In the State Of Santander, United
States Of Colombia, family of eight persons
were slain by six men, one Of the victims be-
ing babe which the mother had brought forth
during the excitement The murderers have
been arrested, and will be tried by court
martial
All the switchmen in East ST. Louis
quit work March 25, not man remaining. The
Quartermaster at St Louis asked the Federal
court to give him an escort of deputy Mar
shals for some supplies for Fort Sill The la
Dor situation at other points is thus sum-
married. The district assembly at Fort Worth
was said to be considering plans for a settle
ment Of the strike on the Missouri Pacific.
train was sent out from St Louis under
, police protection; and number of men re-
sumed work at St Joseph, but the trouble
at the latter place is not fully adjusted Re-
ports from Milwaukee, Wis, and Galesburg
ILL.,, are to the effect that the men are organic
ing. Proclamations have been issued by tho
Governors Of Missouri Arkansas, and Texas,
ordering mobs TO desist from interfering Will
the movement Of trains, and stating that tho
power Of the law will be invoked to aid il
the resumption of business The directory
) Of the Missouri Pacific has resolved (:
do its utmost to move trains on it's road
and il ia stated that immediate pro
ceedings will be begun against individual
strikers. An unchanged condition of affairs II
0 reported from Atchison, Omaha, and othei
!, points. In many Kansas towns there is {
! serious lack of -four, coal, oil, and groceries
q and prices Of goods have doubled. Tho switch
: men OF the st Paul Road at Milwaukee ar
organizing, preparatory to their enrolment a
, Knights of Labor II is stated that the Yard
master offered them an advance in wages con
ditoned upon their not forming a union
} The Knights of Labor at Toledo, Ohio, VIII
o had planned to place special ticket for cit
: officers in the field, received letter iron
= Grand Master Workman Powderly, warning
them TO drop politics at once, or they would b.
: expelled from the order. The army Of Bel
n GUM is busily engaged in restraining rioter
r in the chief cities, who daily provoke conflicts
d Citizens Of Liege are repeatedly waylaid b
= anarchists, and postmen are accompanied b.
: military guards. The troops stationed at Ant