The state capital., 1892-08-20


equipped similar to the Sixty-fifth
and Seventy-second. The battery.
however, will leave its guns behind,
and the men will be armed with
sabers and pistols. Some of these
companies have already arrived at Buff
falo The First and Eighth companies
| Of Rochester arrived over the Central
about d. M: They alighted at the Ex-
change Street station, and under charge
of a pilot started to walk on the tracks
to East Buffalo.
William Purcell, of Rochester, chair
man of the state board of mediation
and arbitration with Messrs. Robert.
son, of Troy, and Donovan, Of Brooks
ly1l, arrived here Tuesday to inyesti=
gate the situation. Commissioners Pur-
cell and Robertson drove out to the
Erie 81 Lehigh yards now under
guard of the militia. They had
an interview with Gen. DOYLE
and afterward called on Grand
Master Sweeny. Another conference
was held at night between the members
of the state board and a score of the
switchmcn, together with the grand
officers. 1t lasted till nearly midnight.
The members of the state board will
confer with the railroad representa-
tives. Commissioner Donovan at the
close of the meeting was asked if they
had formed any impression regarding
the situation. He said they could not
do 80 until they had heard both
sides. The railroaders, when seen,
were full of glee over the
tidings which came from outside points
where the strikes have been declared
or men are reported on the eve of
striking. The strikers are withdrawing
from the Erie and Lehigh yards where
the military are in control to outside
territory, where they can have things
more their own way and where they
cum make much trouble. An instance
of this was given when d
large body of strikers interA
cepted an Erie freight train at Taylor
park, near Alden, and stalled it, pull
ing all the coupling pins and setting
the air brakes. The train was backed
to Alden and lay there all night.
Troops will be sent out to that vicinity. |
But one act of violence occurred DUR
ing the night, which brought out the
first shot of the campaign At mid
night Capt Wood, Co H, Seventy-fourth |
regiment, who, with his company,
was guarding the Lackawanna bridge. |
hred on a man on a moving freight |
train who threw stone at him. The
stone hit HIM on the leg and he prompt
y sent a bullet from his pistol into the
darkness, but did not hit his man, so
ar as is known. The early hours of
5he morning passed without incident
Ind at 10 a. m. all was reported quiet
1T the scene of trouble
A general order has been issued from
brigade headquarters assigning the
roops to positions. The Sixty-fifth
egiment will cover the territory be-
ween Tiff Farm and Babcock street
unction on the Lehigh. The Seventy
ourth will have charge of the
Aehigh from there into the
lty. The Thirteenth, of James
own; Forty-second, of Niagara
falls; Forty-third, of Olean, and Twen-
y-fifth, of Tonawanda, are to be ioined
0 the Sixty fifth Companies A, b,
nd ID, have gone to the Lehigh trestle
o relieve Capt. Babcock
There were two fatal ade deidents in the
ailroad VI ards Tuesday Hght.. An ulesan
Town man was struck by 4 ork :,
.ntral engine at CheekaNg /and in !,
antly killed. Us :,
Michael Mccarthy, a young scooper, -
as run over by a Lehigh Valley engine :
ld died soon afterward.