Omaha daily bee., 1891-04-29
RUMORs OF MORE sTRikERs.
Probability of "A General WaIkout of
Employees at Pullman.

10 tne Workmen, wages have beer
cut and no reason given. Recently between
two hundred and three hundred men have
been discharged by the Pullman company
and no reason has been given
for this action by the company
Some of the leading workmen say
that the labor societies of the city and state
are dissatisfied with the treatment of the
men at Pullman, and the probabilities are
that general strike will be ordered May
The cigarmakers are preparing for their
strike May 4. Only POO of the $50 union
shops of the city have already notified them
that they would grant their demands.
MORE RATE TROUBLES.
There was a breeze among traffic men
both here and in New York over the big cut
in all rail freight rates from New York to
st. Paul which was made yesterday
by the West Shore and Canadian Pa
cific. Every traffic man outside
of the interested parties who talked
about the subject declared the new Sl.07
through tariff TO be an open violation of the
trunk line agreement-frst, because the
proper notice was not given to the Trunk
Line association, and second, because the
West Shore usurps a dfferential that 1t IS
not. not entitled to. A meeting. of all the
roads Interested in freight rates
from New York to st. Paul and Minneapolis
has been called by Commissioner Goddard
for Thursday of this week at the offices of
the Trunk Line ASSOCIATION in New York, for
the purpose of smoothing down the feathers
RULED up by the cutting of rates
by the 500 line in conjunction with
the Canadian Pacific and the West Shore
MIR. Goddard and other trunk line men pre-
tend 10 believe that this reduction of freights
to st. Paul is merely the result of a misunder-
standing and that an amicaDle settlement of
all differences will be made on Thursday
The Great Northern and the Ontario &
western are both deeply Interested in this
matter, and their representatives will have
something to say at the meeting The On
tario q Western reople complain that the
Canadian Pacific and the West Shore have
coolly appropriated the differential 8 cents,
which was allowed the Ontario & Western
last year. 1t is said that the
sslf wsst Shore hwr!a,ty will try to yadicate it.
claiming that the ditferentials awarded to
the 500 line were intended only for the Can
adian connections, not for the domestic roads
OF the freight line Neither the West Shore
nor the Canadian Pacific people had much to
say in self defense.
COSTLY TERMINAL FACILITIES.
Thomas King, second vice president of the
Baltimore Il Ohio, arrived IN Chicago yester-
day to investigate the question of terminals.
During the day he held con-
sultation with Superintendent Dickinson and
L
management looks with longing eyes on an
independent entrance to the city, but is ap-
palled at the prospective cost of such O pur-
chase. 1t is understood THAT the Atchison
terminals, as yet incomplete, have already
cost more than $4,000 900, and such an ex-
penditure is not warranted by the Chicago
business of the Baltimore & Ohio
TO TUNNEL UNDER WATER
An organization has been perfected at q
secret meeting at Detroit for the purpose of
building tunnel under the Detroit river
from Detroit to Windsor on the Canadian
shore The Michigan Central will furnish the
money to back the enterprise. The tunnel when
completed VIII he the only double track rail
road tunnel under water on the continent. 1t
will be 5000 feet in length and will have
openings at each end of 1000 feet. The con-
tract time for the completion of the work is
two and a half years. Work will be begun
next Thursday.
TRAINS TRIP AROUND TIE WORLD.
Citizen George Francis Train is expected
in Chicago today on his second record break
ing trip around the world He will dine here
with the press club. Next he will be seen
direct to Portland, Ore To Whatcom
he will be conveyed in special train, at
which place he will deliver a lecture that he
declares will astonish thenatives. Yokohama
will be his next point and he expects to reach
the land OF the rising sun by May
orient -, he will hurry on to
Brindisi and thence to Calais.
He will be back in New York on July 4.
While in Italy he will interview Premier
Rudiui..
HE OPENED COLD SORE.
At his exhibition bout at battery ID last
night with Abe Congle, local amateur
heavyweight pugilist, l'itzsimmons lost his
temper because Congle opened a cold sore
on his upper lip and knocked HIM nsenslble
In hp rom mi of nj = hn
from the 1000 people present. Congle and
his friends waited for Fitzsimmons after the
performance, but were dispersed by the
police.
GOSSIP OF THE ruGs.
Dick Roche president of the Granite club
of Hoboken, made the announcement at the
Mccarthy benefit that Jake Kllraiu had
signed articles to meet Frank Slavin on June
l6 at the Granite club for purse
of $4,000, with regulation gloves.
Madden signed the articles for
Slavin.
Tom Ryan arrived last night from Con-
nersvile, where he is training George
Siddons for his coming fight with Tommy
White. He is looking healthy, as brown
as berry, and looks fit to fight
tomorrow. In conversation with
him after the battery ID show, he
said that after the Siddons and White fight
he would go into regular course of training
and be prepared to defend the title of welter-
N'Hub Nuuhpioh hBuihob any III AllcTlCd
and Patsy Kerrigan in particular
Killian refuses tQ-divide the 81, 100 purse
gwen by the AJAX club of Boston between
Grif1in and Weir and says they must fight
to a finish before Wednesday night or
get only $3.50 apiece Griffin is willing, but
Weir says he cannot be ready to fight by
Wednesday.
FINED FOR SUNDAY PLAYING.
King Kelly and eight of his men were In
police court IN Cincinnati to answer a charge
of playing baseball on Sunday in violation OF
the law. They pleaded guilty and Judge
Gregg assessed a fine of the costs against
each Of the accused
BRUTALITY or SCHOOL TEACHER
Chillicothe, ten miles above Peoria, is ex-
cited over the action OF teacher in one of
the public schools schools, there Becoming
pupils did, she tied their hands
TO a stovepipe in the school
room and then lighted a lot OF paper in the
store. The childrens hands were severely