St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-25
THE ST. JOE CONVENTION.
Meeting OF Engineers and Fire
men - Strict secrecy Main.
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Meeting OF Engineers and Fire
men - Strict secrecy Main.
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July 24.-The joint
meeting of the locomotive engineers,
firemen, switchmen and brakemen to
consider the Burlingtons strike convened
at TOotle's opera house this morning at
$3.50 o'clock. About 700 delegates are
present, representing lodges of the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
Great care has been taken, of course, to
keep proceedings as quiet as possible.
Frank =. Mcdonald chairman of the
grievance committee of the local brother
hood of engineers, called the meeting to
order. All the morning committee was
at work searching the opera house, look
ing for spies with lantern. Finally
pair of shoes were found on the stair
way leading up into the attic above the
ceiling of the gallery. This excited
suspicion, and the stage carpenter,
1.-The shoes. He said that they belonged
to him, and when asked to describe
them made a mistake. A search was
made for the owner of the shoes, who
was found secreted in the chandelier
supports
WITH NO CLOTHES ON.
excepting hOneycomb under shirt
and PAIR of Overalls. His name is
David f. Reprogle, shorthand writer
in the employ of Lancaster, Thomas u
Dawes, attorneys, at SIS Francis street.
Replogle was found by member of the
local brakeman's brotherhood named
Pat McNulty. He was escorted down
the ladder amid the yells of the brother
hood members who hnliaUa6 that Ron
rOgle was PinkertOn employe. Rep
rOgle stated that he had been hired by
Jake W. Spencer, formerly publisher of
the Evening News, but now proprietor
of the journal of Commerce, to take the
proceedings of the convention in short
hand for his paper. He said that he
was to be paid $25 for the work and adj
mitted that the stage carpenter had
shown him the hiding place. A large
crowd gathered around him when he
was brought down on the stage, and but
for the interference of cooler heads
ReprOgle would have been roughly
handled. He had taken lunch and
bottle of water up to his hiding place
and was prepared to remain there all
day. 1t was suggested 10y one of the
brotherhood members that he be photo
graphed and his likeness be published
in the Police Gazette and the ''Burling-
ton scab circular" but the opera house
was too dark to have the photograph
taken. He was marched to police head
quarters through the streets in his bare
feet, where he is still confined. Charges
WILL BE PREFERRED
against him. Great excitement pre-
vailed while Replogle was being taken
from the opera house, and cries of
''PinkertOn spy" and ''scab" were made
by the delegates. Chairman Mcdonald
asked the men to behave like gentle
men and not offer any violence to the
man, saying that if there was any legal
method for punishment, the man would
be dealt with accordingly.
The impression of the legal profess
sion here is that Replogle cannot be
punished. as there is no statute in Mis-
souri, concerning the methods of secur-
ing news for theIpublic prints.
After the excitement subsidized the
convention proceeded - BUSINESS nd
elected Frank P. MeDos aid permaL Mt
chairman. The forenoon was spent in
speech making by Frank P. Sargent, of
Terre Haute, ind, grand master of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen;
Il. Powers, master of the local brakes
! men brotherhood, and MIR. Hitchins,
general chairman of the grievance COM
mittee of the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Gulf road. W. M. Sullivan, Charles
Porter and R. Mooreys, all of st. Joseph,
were elected secretaries. The delega-
ton of twenty-five, appointed at the
Chicago convention last week, arrived
at o'clock this morning over the Rock
Island road in special sleeper rendered
them by Mr.. Pullman. At 1918 the
convention adjourned until p. m. 1t
is expected that the session will con-
tinue for four days.
The afternoon session of the brother
hoods failed to develop anything of in
tereSt. Most of the time was spent by
the leaders in expressing their views
concerning the situation and in sug-
costing plans of procedure. A com
mittee of nine was appointed to draw
up resolutions and map out a line
of action for the future. This
committee will report at the OPEN
ing of the session in the morn
ing. Everything is conducted with the
utmost secrecy, and they look upon all
reporters and press agents with almost
as much suspicion as they do Pinkerton
| detectives. The meeting is well organ
| lied and the men show no disposition to
| talk. A report is current that one of
the main objects of this meeting is to
| form an opposition against Chief
Arthur, of the Brotherhood of LocomO-
tive Engineers, but the members here
deny that there is any lack of harmony
in the ranks. They say that they are
willing to make a fair settlement with
the ''Q' folks, but thatal OvertureS will
have to be made by the railroad COM
pany.