Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-12-29
LABOR DISTURBANCES,

TEN are idle.
FEBRuARv.
8. Riot among miners at Shenandoah, Pa.
IL Eviction Of twenty-five families OF striking
cigar makers in New York.
10. Riot at Billings, Montana Territory.
90. Work generally resumed In the Reading COZ
heries.
Is. Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomc-
tive Engineers, ordered the engineers and fire.
men OF the Chicago Burlington and Quincy
railroad to strike.
MARCH.
c. B. and @. striking engineer fatally shot at
Springfield Mo-, by deputy marshal
z. The c., b. and @. engineer strike extended to
the Burlington and Northern railroad
10. Engineers and firemen on the Santa Fe sys-
ten struck In a body. Result Of the G., b. and
@. strike: Broken next day
%. Riots among c., b. and O. switchmen at CHI
cago.
90. Strike on the Chicago Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad.
81. Strike ON the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chi
cago railroad in progress.
81. Traffic stopped on the ST. Paul railroad near
Chicago.
8. Strike on the Michigan Central at Chicago.
0. Strike of Boston paper hangers succeeded.
12. Brewers men struck in Chicago
II. Strike of bakers at Chicago.
l6 Brewers lockout began in New York, Brook
Island Five thousand men out of employ
ment
20. Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel works
at Pittsburg with non union men.
90 More shooting reported at Galesburg, Ills, on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad
MAY.
g. Strike at the Edgar Thompson steel works do
clared off by the Knights of Labor.
JUNE.
13 One thousand five hundred cotton operatives
on strike at Haritz, Austria
Is All window glass factories in Pittsb,irs and the
49, Miners In the Connellsve, Pa, coke region
out on a strike.
30 Conference between the iron manufacturers
and the Amalgamated association resulted in
the closing Of the mills 5000 men being
thrown out of employment
g. Division Chief Bauereisen of the brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and three others or
rested charged with being implicated In
plot TO wreck property of the c., b. and Q.
10. Chairman Hoge and Murphy of tho 20" engi
neer's and nremen's grievance committee and
Secretary Kelley and McGivery arrested in
connection with the alleged dynamite con
spracy.
IL George Clark, brotherhood engineer arrested
at Gaiesi,arg Ills, in connection with alleged
dynamite conspiracy on 20" road
1S. Unconditional surrender of the iron manufact-
urefS 10 the Ainalgan1ated association
AUGUST
8. Street strike In Brooklyn. Ended next
day
90. Large rolling mills at Chicago shut down.
Fifteen hundred men thrown out of employ.
ment.
% Fifteen hundred hands thrown out OF work by
shutting down of mills In Delaware county. Pa.
Railroad employees on four Indiana lines went
out on strike.
OCTOBER
1 Strike of ship riggers in Philadelphia
Twenty-Five window glass factories in the
Western association resume work
Z. Street strike on in Chicago
0. Rioting between the Chicago street. car strik-
ers and the police.
IL. Thomas Wardell wealthy coal operator at
Bevier, Mo-, killed by striking miners.
II. Strike among the street car men ia Chicago
practically ended.
81. Street car riots In Chicago
NOVEMBER
8. Strike of switchmen on the New York Central
and Boston and Albany railroads ut Albany.
NY.
-. General strike of switchmen at Indianapolis
DECEMBER
8. T. b. Barry organized labor organization, in.
dependent Of the Knights of Labor.
6. The trial Of the alleged 20" dynamiters begun
at Geneva, Ill
10. Fresh trouble at Bevier, Mo-, necesstated the
calling out of the troops.
THE YEARS POLITICAL MlLESTONES.
APRIL.
d. Rhode Island election Carried by tho Repnb
leans
IL Louisiana election Carried by the Democrats
16 Union Labor convention at Cincinnati nomi
mated Allison j. Streator, OF Illinois, for presi
dent and Charles L. Cunningham. VI Arkansas
for vice president
IL United Labor convention at Cincinnati nomi
mated Robert II. Cowdrey, OF Illinois, for
president, and w. H. l. Wakefield OF Kansas
for vice president
% Equal Rights National convention In Des
Moines, Ia. nominated Belva Lockwood for
president
81. Prohibition national convention nominated
Clinton B. Fisk for president and John A.
Brooks for vice president
James q. Baine's famous Paris letter received
in New York.
8. Oregon election Carried by the Republicans
Q. Democratic national convention nominated
Grover Cleveland for president of the United
States and Allen q. Thurman. of Ohio. for
vice president
Is. Republican national convention nominated
Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana for president
and Levi p. Morton, of New York. for vice
president.
AUGUST.
Is. National convention OF American party at
Washington nominated James l. Curtis for
president
SEPTEMBER
10. Maine election. Carried by the Republicans
NOVEMBER
G Presidential and congressional elections
throughout the United States; Benjamin Har
rison and Levi Morton elected respectively
president and vice president.
THE WHlTECHAPEL MURDERS.
April 3-Body of Emma Elizabeth Smith found
Aug BODY of Martha Turner found
Aug Body of Mary Ann Nichols found.
Sept. Body OF Anna Sievey found.
Sept. 21-Body of unknown woman found ct
Gateshead, in north England; had been dead soma
days. mutilated like those in Whitechapel and ons
of same class.