Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1889-01-02
LABOR DISTURBANCES.

United States
LABOR DISTURBANCES.
a Forty collieries on the Reading Railroad sys
tenn are idle
FEBRUARY
Riot among miners at Shenandoah, Pa
H. Eviction OF twenty two families of striking
cigar makers in New York
H. Riot ct Billings Montana Territory
90 Work generally resumed In the heading col
lefieS
g. Chief Arthur, of tho brotherhood Of Iocomrs
tive Engineers, ordered the engineers AMI frs
men Of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
railroad to strike
MARCH
Z c., B. and @ striking engineer fatally shot al
Springfield. No., by deputy marshal
z. The c., Il and q engineer strike extended to
the Burlington and Northern railroad
10. Engineers and fiiemen the Santa Fs sys
ten struck In body Result Of the G., Il and
@, strike: Broken next day
80. Riots among c., B and Q swiechmen at Cal
CagO
80 Strike on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul
railroad 60
81. Strike on the Pittsourg For. Wayne and chi
cago railroad in progress
81. Traffic stopped on the St Paul railroad near
Chicago. t
8. Strike on the Michigan Central at Chicago
9. Strike OF Boston paper hangers succeeded
IL. Brewers men struck in Chicago
~ Strike of bakers ct Chicago
IL Brewers lockout began in New York, Erook.
lyt,, n. wars. Jersey City. Paterson and staten
Island Five Thousand men out Of employ
nient .sSzx.
70 Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel woflkA
at Fttsburg with non union men
90 More shooting reported at Galesburg, Ills on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad
| g. Strike at the Edgar Thompson steel works de-
clured or by tho Knights Of Labor
| JUNE
| IS One thousand five hundred cotton operatives
| strike at iIaritz, Austria
! Is AL window glass factories in Ptssburg and the
west shut down
! 1a Miners in the Connel,ve, Pa. coke region
out on a strike
| 80 Conference between tho iron manufacturers
end the AinalganlatsI association resulted in
the closing OF the mills 26,O00 men being
| thrown out of employment
|
| G Division Chief Baucreisen of the brotherhood
| OF ioctmotve Engineers and three others ar.
| rested, charged with being implicated in q
! plot to wreck property of the G.. b and @
| 10. Chairman !in,a uni Hu;phy OF the %" engi-
! r.st,r's and ireinan's grievance COMMITTEES and
| Secretary Kelley and ElcGvery arrested in
connection with the alleged dynamite con
! spiracy.
II. George Clark brotherhood engineer, arrested
| at Galesburg. lis, in connection with alleged
| dynamite conspiracy ON %" road.
1 ID Unconditional surrender Of the iroH manufact-
| urers to the Aniai,amated association
I AUGUST
8. Street car strike in Brooklyn. Ended next
| day
&c. Large rolling mills at Chicago shut down.
| Fifteen hundred men thrown out OF employ
| ment. q. -...
| % Fifteen hundred hands thrown out Of work BY
| shutting down of mills in Delaware co unity ia.
Railroad employees on four Indiana lines weot
| ont on strike
OCTOBER
Strike of ship riggers in Philadelphia.
! Twenty niue window glass factories In tho
1 / Western association resume work.
| 2 Street car strike on Ia Chicago
Riotin3 b tween the Chicago street car stril;-
| era and t',e police
! IL Thomas WarIcll, wealthy coal operator at
i, Bevier, NJ, killed by striking miners
ID Strike ai.ocy the street car men In Chicago
| practically erded
| 81 Street car r.ots in Chicago
| g. Strike OF switclnen on the New York Central
! and Boston aid ,lbeny railroads at Albany,
&C. General strike Of sw.tchn,en a, INDIANAPOLIS
DE1E2BER
| g. T. B. Barry organized a labor organization, in
| dependent Of the knights of Labor
C. Tho trial Of the alleged g" dynaniters begun
at Geneva, Ill
TO- Fresh trouble at Beviar, No. neccssitatcd the
calling out OF the troops.
THE YEARS POLITICAL MlLESTONES.
April.
T. Rhode Island election Carried by the Repub-
lcans
H. Louisiana election Carried by the Democrats.
16 Union Labor convention at Cincinnati nomi.
mated Allison Streator, of Illinois. for presi-
dent end Charles t.. Cunningham, of Arkansas,
for vice president
H. United l.aiDr convention at Cincinnati nomi.
of Foe
president and W. II / Wakefield. OF Kansas.
for vice president
"a Equal Rights National convention In Des
MONIES, ia nominated Belva Lockwood tor
president
81 Prohibition national convention nominated
Clinton q Fisk for president and john A.
Brooks for vicc president
James e. Biaiue's famous Paris letter received
/ in New YORK.
g. Oregon election Carried hy the Republicans
j & Democratic national conveHtiaa nominated
Grover Cleveland for rresi,lcai OF the tinted
States and Allen u. Thurman, Of Ohio for
vice president
4S Republican national convention nominated
Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, for president,
and Levi Morton, Of New York, for yics
president
AUGUST.
IS National convention Of American party at
Washington nominated James l. Curtis for
president
GEpTEMBER
10. Maine election Carried by the Republicans
NOVEMBER.
Presidential and congressional elections
throughout the United States: Brujatnn Har-
rison and levi p Morton elected respectively
prs,sIde,t and vice president
THE WHiTECHAPEL MURDERS.
April Body Of Emma Elizabeth Smith found.
Aug, 7-Body Of Martha Turner found
Aug. si-Eoiy OF Mary Ann Nichols found.
Sept Body Of Anna Sievey found
Sept 2i-liody OF unknown woman found as
Gateshead, in north England: had been dead sou.e
days; mutila!ed like those In Whitechapcl and one
of same class
Sept apJust before midnight body of Elizabeth
Stride found. still warm ami bleeding
Sept. 3o.J,lt after midnight ani out q tex
minutes after preceding iud. the tstg Of Ca
crime Eddowes WIS found evide.l, d.adS
hours Both killed on the 29ti.
Oct. 2-CorInse Of up.,pe Nss.f
and decomposed s~
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