Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-30
FEBRUARY

FEBRUARY
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
% Work generally resumed in TIE Readin, col
lieries
IS Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood OF Locomc
4 tive Engineers, ordered the engineers and fire.
men of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
railroad 70 strike.
MARCH
s O., B. and Q striking engineer fatally shot at
Springfield No. by deputy marshal
T. The c., and Q engineer strike extended to
the Burlington and Northern railroad
&c Engineers and firemen on the Santa Fs sys-
tenn struck in a body Result of the c. b and
O. strike: Broken next day.
o. Riots among C., b and .. switchmen at Chi
caso.
30 Strike on the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST Paul
railroad
81. Strike the Pitlsburg Fort Wayne and Chi
cago railroad in progress.
81. Traffic stopped on the st. Paul railroad near
Chicago.
s. Strike on the Michigan Central at Chicago.
O. Strike of Boston paper hangers succeeded
10 Brewers men struck IN Chicago.
"a Strike Of bakers at Chicago
Ii Brewers lockout began In New York Brook
lyn, Newar1. Jersey City. Paterson and Staten
Island Five Thousand men out Of employ
ment
% Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel works
at Pittsburg with non union men
90 More shooting reported at Gaesburg. Ills on
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy railroad
MAY.
8 Strike at the Edgar Thompson steel works do
clared of by the Knights OF Labor.
JUNE
Is One thousand five hundred cotton operatives
on strike at Hartz, Austria
IS AL window glass factories in Pittsburg and the
west shut down
IS Miners in the Connellsville, Pa. coke region
out on a strike
60 Conference between the iron manufacturers
and the Amaigamated association resulted in
the closing OF the mills 1900 men being
thrown out Of employment
JULY
G. Division Chief Bauereisen Of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and three others ar
rested, charged with being implicated In q
plot 70 wreck property Of the C.. b. and Q.
10 Chairman Hoge and Murphy OF Tho %" engi-
neer's and firemeu's grievance committee and
Secretary Kelley and McGilvery arrested in
connection with the alleged dynamite con-
spiracy.
IL. George Clark, brotherhood engineer, arrested
at Galesburg. LIS, in connection with alleged
dynamite conspiracy on 20 road
Is Unconditional surrender Of the iron manufact-
urers to the Amalganated association
AUGUST
s. Street cor strike In Brooklyn Ended next
day.
16. Large rolling mills ct Chicago shut down
Fifteen hundred men thrown out OF employ
ment
% Fifteen hundred hands thrown out OF work by
shutting down OF mills Ia Delaware county Pa
Railroad employees four Indiana lines went
out on strike
OCTOBER
Strike Of ship riggcrs In Philadelphia.
Twenty nine window glass factories In the
Western association resume work
z. Street car strike op In Chicago
Q. Rioting between the Chicago street chs strik.
and the police
IL. Thomas wariell, wealthy coal operator at
Bevier. No. killed by striking miners.
IL Strike among the stree. car men In Chicago
practically ended
q. Street car rlots In Chicago
SovEEsEa
g. Strike Of switchmen On the New Yrx Central