Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
CONCERNS A MILLION.
THE GREAT LONDON DOCK STRIKE
Is STILL INCREASING.


| 1t Now Involves the Living OF a Million
People-The Prospect of Settlement Affair."
| On-In Pennsylvania the story is Re
yersed-Important Mills Resume Opera
tions-Othcr News from All Parts.
No Settlement of the. London Strike Yet in
Sight.
The great strike on London docks,
which now involves nearly 900 men, IS
still in force and the situation of affairs
| NAV be said to be unchanged. Neither
side has made material move and it can
not be said what the day will bring forth.
Three thousand tailors who have joined
the strike paraded the streets. Inform
ton has been rece ived by the police and
Home Secretary Matthews to the etfect'
that Burns urged the strikers 10 proceed
to the uocks and expel the men working
there.
The dock companies express themselves
as better satisfied with the aspect of affairs.
They have increased the number of men
at work, composed of strikers who have
| given up the fight and new men. The
| officials of the companies state that plenty
of labor would be obtained if the strikers
picks were abolished. 1t is asserted that
there is split among the strikers, and
that a committee has been appointed look
ing TO the abandonment of the strike.
The Rochester coal whippers and barge
men visited large number of vessels in
river midway and folcibly compelled the
men at work thereon to cease. a mob of
about 500 strikers invaded the Albertdockss
and compelled the workmen there to cease
their labors.
Three thousand looms Lave been
stopped in Blackburn, owing to the de-
preston in trade. The trades union con-
gress in session in Dundee has adopted
resolutions to the effect that the London
strikers are justified in their demands and
that the employers are arbitrary in their
action. The congress also called upon
the various ira les of the united kingdom
to render the strikers all possible financial
support.
Revival of Business in Pennsylvania.
The section of the Schuylkill valley in
the neighborhood of Reading has exper7,
fenced big industrial boom. The rolling
mill, pipe and tube mills and foundry Of
the Reading Iron Company, aft an dleness
of six months, resumed partial operations
I'd fo1 70 n
full-handed, when 1000 men will again be
steadily employed. About thousand
| men of other mills will also resume work.
The American Convict in England.
Mrs. Maybrick has been removed to the
convict prison at Woking, Surrey. She
wore the regulation prison GARD and ap-
peared very weak physically. Her friends
can visit her at the prison every two
months. Upon reaching the priion Mrs.
Maybrick was examined by the prf son ply
sician, and upon his orders she whs placed
in the infirmary.
The Black Diamond Will Try u Again.
A late Victoria dispatch SAYS: The
Black Diamond has left here ostehsibly on
a trip up the coast to refit, but i is Sal
that she is really Off on sealing cruise in
to Eehring sea, where the owners believe
they have legal right to hunt seal. This
action shows what the popular feeling is
here in regard to the United States jurs-
diction in Behring sea and her power or
her policy to enforce it. All the sealing
schooners which have cleared at the Gus
tom house for Behring sea this year are
registered by British subjects An asscci-
alton has been formed by the sealing
| schooners.
| Radical Projection in Mexico.
The Mexican government has revised the
customs tariff wherein living animals are
made free of duty and has imposed a
heavy duty on imported cattle, swine,
mules and goats. It is measure that
cannot fail to have most disastrous ef-
feet on the business of supplying the City
of Mexico with meat from the United
States. The duty of 10 cents Ter kilogram
is placed on fresh meat, So on each beef
animal, 1925 on pigs, So on mules and
30 cents on sheep. The decree goes into
effect November l.
| Accessible War of Races in Alabama.
dispatch from Birmingham, Ala, says
a saloon row between white men and ne
groes, at Howerton's store, III Bibb coun-
ty, the killing of John Lawrence by two
negro burglars and the lynchlng OF the
latter have caused much bad feeling be-
tween the two factions and a murderous
conflict may be expected at any moment.
The negroes have massed in and about
Centervale and are we'll armed. A Bib
county man said that SO gre It was the
alarm felt that the other night two trusty
citizens were sent to Nashville, Tenn. for
100 Winchester rifles. He said no work
had been done there for several DAVIS. and
if conflict came every negro in the coun-
ty would be exterminated.
| A southern Cattle Man Buncocs
The chief of police wants Bud Guion. of
Chicago MIR. Guion is gambler. He