Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-27
No Trains Run Out Except ln En-
gine With the Mail and Ex-
press Cars.
The City Yards are Filled With
Cars and Other Roads Will
be BlOckaded.
Senator Pierce Working for an Ap.
preparation for an Indian
School at Bismarck.
The Illinois Central Tied Up.

CHICAGO, June 24.-The Illinois Gen.
tral strike at Chicago threatens to be-
come serious, 1900 men are idle and
business is blocked. The strikers did
not wish to be held responsible for inter-
fering with the United States mails, ex-
press companies and bonded matter.
They therefore attached the mail ana ex-
press cars to the engine of the New Or
leans mail train, but left the coaches
with their exaspesA*ed passengers un-
connected. It was2 ltsntion to send
the dismembered train down at schedule
time, but General Superintendent Sulli-
van explained that the railroad company
has no contract with the United States
government to carry mails, except on
regular passenger trains, and the train
dispatchers were not authorized to give
orders for train to start until it could
start with all its usual passenger coaches.
The strikers refused to allow the whole
train to move, and warned Sullivan that
they had not prevented the Transport
tation of the mail and express matter,
and that the railroad detained it at the
company's own risk. General Manager
Beck, General Superintendent Sullivan
and heads. of the traffic department had a
conference to-day with representatives of
the strikers in General Manager Beck's
Office. The men demanded that Super
intendent Russells name be stricken
from the card, and stated their determi-
nation not to return to work until this
was done. A tie-up will cause serious
trouble not only locally but throughout
large section of country, both west and
south. The suburban traffic of the road
is enormous. Trains run in and out of
the city every few minutes from o'clock
in the morning until midnight and are
usually crowded. All these people
are now thrown upon their
own resources of transportation. But it
is not this that will trouble the COM
mercial world. To stop the freight traf-
fic on the Illinois Central means to pre-
vent thousands of people in northern
Iowa and southern Illinois, in Kentucky,
Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana
from getting their products to market.
The yards in this city are already filled
with freight cars, and the STALL
ing Of trains now in transit will jam
every transfer track touched by the road.
The Michigan Central, Baltimore & Ohio
and Big Four roads which enter the city
over the Illinois Central tracks were seri-
ously interfered with, owing to the
blockade created by motionless trains of
the Illinois Central.
For the Industrial School at Bismarck.
WASHINGTON, June Ex-senator Pierce
to-day introduced an amendment to the
general Indian appropriation bill, which
provides $4,000 for an Indian industrial
school to be located in or near Bismarck,
N. d. He also presented an amendment
asking for an appropriation Of $4,000 to
provide for the continuance Of the In
dian school at Devils Lake by the Cath
olic sisters of charity.
Senator Pettigrew to-day reported IA
vorably from the senate Indian commit
tee the bill appropriating $4,000 for
maintaining the Indian industrial school
at Flandreau, s.. D. He also reported
favorably the Fort Ellis reservation bill
from the committee on public lands.
The COMMITTEES authorized him to report
as an amendment to his bill the senate
bill which donates the Sisseton military
reservation building and a section Of
land to the South Dakota militia, the re-
manning $4,000 acres to go to the state
for public institutions. ~.
THE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS. VI -
The senate to-day passed two appro-
priation bills as reported from the COM
mittee-on appropriations and agreed to
the conference report upon third bill,
the appropriations carried in the three
being nearly $l00,OO0,OO0. They were
as follows: Postof6ce bill, $73,46l, ,699;
diplomatic and consular bills, 81 100, 1876;
naval bill, $23, ,126 OS5.
The house committee on invalid pen