The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-01-04

TO- Riot at Billings, Montana Territory.
90 Work generally resumed In the Reading col
lerics
25 Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomc
tive Engineers ordered the engineers and fire.
men Of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
railroad to strike.
g. O., B. and O. striking engineer fatally shot at
Springfield, Mo-, by deputy marshal.
q The c., b. and Q. engineer strike extended to
the Burlington and Northern railroad.
TO- Engineers and firemen on the Santa Fe sys-
TEN struck In a body. Result of the O., B. and
Q. strike: Broken next day.
90 Riots among c., B. and @. switchmen at Chi
cago.
80 Strike on the Chicago Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad
81. Strike on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chi.
cago railroad In progress.
81. Traffic stopped on the st. Paul railroad near
Chicago.
8 Strike on the Michigan Central at Chicago
Strike OF Boston paper hangers succeeded
H. Brewers men struck in Chicago.
H. Strike of bakers at Chicago.
10 Brewers lockout began In New York. Brook
lyn, Neware, Jersey City, Paterson and Staten
Island Five thousand men out Of employ
ment
90 Andrew Carnegie opened his great steel works
90 More shooting reported at Galesburg, Ills, on
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy raiho
MAY.
g. Strike ut the Edgar Thompson steel works de-
clared of by the Knights Of Labor.
JUNE
Ia One thousand five hundred cotton operatives
on strike at Haritz, Austria.
lb All window glass factories I'm Pittsburg and the
west shut down
Is Miners In tho Connellsville, Pa, coke region
out on a strike
30 Conference between the iron manufacturers
and the Amalgamated association resulted In
the closing of the mills, $1,000 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 a
plot To wreck property Of the O., b. and O.
10 Chairman Hoge and Murphy OF the 20" engi-
neer's and flremen's grievance committee and
Secretary Kelley and McGilvery arrested In
connection with the alleged dynamite con-
spiracy.
H. George Clark, brotherhood engineer, arrested
at Galesburg, Ills, In connection with alleged
dynamite conspiracy on 20" road.
10 Unconditional surrender of the iron manufact
urers to the AmaIgamated association.
AUGUST.
g. Street car strike in Brooklyn. Ended next
day.
16 Large rolling mills at Chicago shut down
Fifteen hundred men thrown out Of employ
ment
28 Fifteen hundred hands thrown out Of work by,
shutting down of mills in Delaware county, Pa.
Railroad employees on four Indiana lines went
out on strike.
OCTOBER
Strike of ship riggers in Philadelphia.
Twenty nine window glass factories In the
Western association resume work.
z Street car strike on in Chicago
o. Rioting between the Chicago street car strik.
ers and the police.
Il. Thomas Wardell, wealthy coal operator at
Bevier. Mo-, killed by striking miners.
ii. Strike among tho street car men In Chicago
practically ended
q. Street car riots in Chicago
NOVEMBER.
8. Strike of switchmen on the New York Central
and Boston and Albany railroads at Albany
NY.
p. General strike OF switchmen at Indianapolis
DECEMBER
8. T. d. Barry organized labor organization, In
dependent Of the Knights OF Labor.
G. The trial Of the alleged 20" dynamiters begun
at Geneva, Ill
TO- Fresh trouble at Bevier, No., necessitated the
calling out of the troops.