Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-31
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JANUARY. & Forty collieries on the Reading Railroad sys tenn are idle
 FEBRUARY. 8. Riot among miners at Shenandoah, Pa A. Eviction of twenty two families of striking cigar makers in New York. 9. Riot at Billings, Montana Territory %. Work generally resumed in the Reading col lieries 5 Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of LocomcA tive Engineers, ordered the engineers and fire men of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad to strike. g. C., B, and Q. striking engineer fatally shot at | Springfield Mo-, by a deputy marshal z, The C., R. and O. engineer strike extended to | the Burlington and Northern railroad 16. Engineers and fremen the Santa Fe sys- | tenn struck in a body. Result of the C., B. and | Q. strike Broken next day. %, Riots among O., B, and Q. switchmen at C9d l cago 30 Strike the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad 31. Strike on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chi cago railroad in progress 31 Traffic stopped on the St. Paul railroad near Chicago,
 APRIL. 8 Strike on the Michigan Central at Chicago 9 Strike of Boston paper hangers succeeded. l. Brewers men struck in Chicago. Ii Strike of bakers at Chicago 16 Brewers lockout began in New York, Brook yp Island Five thousand men out of employ ment.
 20. Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel works at PittSburg with non-union men. 29. More shooting reported at Galesburg, Ills, on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad.
 MAY. 8. Strike at the Edgar Thompson steel works de- clared off by the Knights of Labor.
 JUNE B. One thousand five hundred cotton operatives on strike at Haritz, Austria 15 All window glass factories ir Pittsburg and the west shut down. IS Miners in the Connellsville Pa coke region
 out a strike.
 and the Amalgamated association resulted in
 the closing of the mills, 26,OO0 men being
 thrown out of employment.
 JULY 6. Division Chief Bauereisen of the Brotherhood
 of Locomotive Engineers and three others ar
 rested, charged with being implicated in c
 plot to wreck property of the C., B. and Q. 10. Chairman Hoge and Murphy of the %" engi-
 neer's and firenen's grievance committee and
 Secretary Kelley and MCGilvery arrested in
 connection with the alleged dynamite con
 spiracy.
 17. George Clark, brotherhood engineer, arrested at Galesburg, His, in connection with alleged dynamite conspiracy on %" road 1S Unconditional surrender of the iron manufact- urers to the Amalgamated association. AUGUST. 5. Street car strike in Brooklyn. Ended next day. 16 Large rolling mills at Chicago shut down Fifteen hundred men thrown out of employ ment. | 26. Fifteen hundred hands thrown out of work by shutting down of mills in Delaware county. Pa 1 Railroad employees on four Indiana lines went out on strike. OCTOBER | Strike of ship triggers in Philadelphia. Twenty nine window glass factories in the | Western association resume work. | :? Street car strike on in Chicago. l 9. Rioting between the Chicago street car strlk CTS and the police | 12 Thomas Warlell, wealthy coal operator al | Bevier. Mo, killed by striking miners. | 14. Strike among the street car men in Chicago | practically ended l 21 Street car riots in Chicago. 1 NOVEMBER l g. Strike of svitchmen on the New York Centra and Boston and Albany railroads at Albany % General strike of switchmen at Indianapolis. DECEMBER | D. T. B. Barry organized labor organization, In dependent of the Knights of Labor | G The trial of the alleged 70" dynamiters begul ct Geneva, III
 10. Fresh trouble at Bevier, Mo. necessitated tn calling out of the troops | THE YEARS POLITICAL MILESTONES | APRIL
 4 Rhode Island election Carried by the Reput licanS
 r. Louisiana election Carried by the Democrats l MAY.
 16 Union Labor convention at Cincinnati nom
 mated Allison J. Streator, of Illinois for pres dent and Charles F. Cunningham of Arkansa:
 for vice president. IT, United Labor convention at Cincinnati nom , mated Robert H. Cowdrey, of Illinois, fc l president, and w. H. L Wakefield, of kansa ? for vice president
 aa Equal Rights National convention in De ? Moines, Ia, nominated Belva Lockwood fo president.
 31. Prohibition national convention nominate l Clinton B. Fisk for president and John
 Brooks for vice president. ] James G. Blane's famous Paris letter receive
 in New York.
 JUNE. l. 5. Oregon election. Carried by the Republican 1 G. Democratic national convention nominate l. Grover Cleveland for president of the Unite
 States and Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio. f' ? vice president. s5 Republican national convention nominate
 Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, for presider : and Levi P. Morton, of New York, for vi
 president. "a AUGusT.
 15 National convention of American party d Washington nominated James L. Curtis f
 president l, 10. Maine election. Carried by the Republicans
 
 6. Presidential and congressional electio D. throughout the United States; Benjamin As " rison and Levi P. Morton elected respective
 president and vice president. W THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS. 6. April s-Body of Emma Elizabeth Smith four -. Aug. 7-Body of Martha Turner found.
 Aug 31-Body of Mary Ann Nichols found. te Sept. 7-Body of Anna Sievey found
 Sept. 21-Body of unknown woman found of Gateshead, in north England; had been dead so1 1e days; mutilated like those in Whitechapei and of same class
 Sept. 29-Just before midnight body of Elizabe a. Stride found, still warm and bleeding. ' Sept. So.--Just after midnight, and but f' e- minutes after preceding find, the body Of Ca erine Eddowes was found, evidently oeao so' h. hours Both killed on the 29th. 8
 Oct 2-Corpse of unknown woman, mutlla' and decomposed, found on Thames emoankme te Nov. 9-Body of Mary Ann Kelley found in H.,.,,& fN FOtnH