San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-11

Yesterday train of freight went
to Kerrville.
The railway will receive all freight
coming it's way hereafter. This
means that freight trains will be run
this week.
Conductor Tuttle fell In to the hands
of union labor organization men yes
day, almost everywhere he went.
At Scholz's and on the street the
men guyed and hooted him unmerci-
fully.
The order OF railway conductors
held q meeting yesterday.
The day was cold and rainy q good
many trades unions and other bodies
held meetings and discussed the
strike.
The roads receivers also were busy
with other railroad men, In their
offices or at hotels.
The general impression seems to he
that this Is the last week of the
strike.
THE strikers and all sympathizers
have boycotted the Express.
The employees of the Ferro Carril
International Mexicana railway have
expressed sympathy with the striker
and condemned Mr.. Sands and Gov.
Hogg's conduct
A lot of machinery for the San An.
tonic Street railway il tied up in the
| strike.
A good deal of freight is being
H., IaI af h< nj hxy
John E Edwards, colored was ar.
rested at Yoskum for abusing colored
non.union switcbmen. He was
brought to San Antonio for trial for
contempt before Judge King.
The non union machinists along the
roai are busy at repairs.
The strikers held q meeting yester
day afternoon.
The outside railway committees
met in the morning.
The train crews and the guards, as
| we'll as the special officers at Yoskum,
| have to do their own cooking of pro
visions sen I from San Antonio, nor can
they get bite to eat along the road /,
| except at very nigh prices. The peO-
pie are in sympathy with the strikers
| The supply OF coal is falling short.
The Mexican National employees at
Laredo have met and sympathized
with the strikers.
James and E. J. O'Connor, D. A
BueI, 8 f. Dare and Albert Forsyth,
/ strikers, who took Sam White, the
negro porter's pistol away from him
when he drew 10 on them, are now
charged with contempt of Judge
Kings court.
Fred. j. Spencer, the San Antonio
Street railway power house engineer,
has been mistaken for the Electric
Light and Power eompany's Engineer
Fuller, who went to work for he 3.
A. and A. P. railway. Spencer de-
sires to say that far from being a
"Scab," he Is q mem her of the Broth
erhood of Marine Engineers of the
Lakes
The contempt cases will be tried be-
fore Judge King this afternoon at A
o'clock.
This morning q train of four cars of
freight left for Corpus Christi.
The freight train for Kerrville, Of
four or five cars, which left here at 2
o'clock yesterday, arrived at Kerr
Vile at this morning.
The strikers say they have plenty
of money, the relief committee re-
ceiving contributions daily from all
over the country. In this city alone.
the fund has been decidedly increased
by contributions from private citizens,
who have no interest with the strike
excepting sympathy.
A great many of the strikers have
nearly months pay due them by
the s. A. & A. p. road management.
ANOTHER STRIKE.
The telegrsphic news of Saturday
contained the first news OF the strike
Of the messengers OF the Southern
Express company, which has been
going on for some eight or ten days,
on the Illinois Central from Chicago
to New Orleans, and also on the Louis
Vile and Nashville railway. The
strike was brought about by differ
ences In salaries of messengers on the
Illinois division OF the l. e., who are
paid $50 per month. and the Southern
division, who are paid SIS per month.
The men on the /. G. division north
work 1858 miles. the same as the South
ern division. The Northern division
have men on the run, and do not
work Sunday. The Southern division
has men and work Sunday. When |
this difference of $50 Per month was
brought before Supt. II. G. Fischer,
he made q contract of SS7 so per |
month, but after the heavy holiday |
work was over, he reduced the men |
to their old pay and discharged |
Messenger CordilI, the chief of the
committee who had called ON him |
Hence the strike. Nearly every ex-
press messenger in the country is a |
member of the Brotherhood of Elk. |
press Messengers, and the order has |
been working in secret for the past few |