The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-05
ghe uai1y Eao Thursday aornime, ganuarY 1888

OCT -F1ve--alages near Kutais, IN Trans
| Caueasla. destroyed d. earthquake with much
loss of life
Oct a-Advices from Gilman Flu, in China.
report -, ODD persons drowned.
! Oct 25-F'iYe villages IN province OF hGtair,
Russia, entirely destroyed by earthquake.
Oct 31-Liberator Building association II
| London failed fer g 3i3O9
! Nov I'll J. c. Abbot. resigned premiership
| OF Canada, and Sir john Thompson succeeded
/ him.
Dec. 13-Lipnen & Co. ;u,e merchants Ct
| Dundee, Scotland, failed for sl,2oc,U0J.
INDUSTRIAL
Jan 7-Charles h MsGurren. O. Iancoln,
| Neb, broke world type writing record, e02y-
| Ing l22 words minute.
| Jan 28-Seyea flint glass factories In Pitts
| Durgh shut down rather than comply with en-
| ployes demands
| Feb. indianapolis street car men on strike
| May l6-LOckout OF granite cutters through
| out New England states declared; u coo to 3d..
| coo rer thrown out Of empo. nent
| June o0-Bay View Rolling mills in Mflwau-
kee employing about 2oQ men, shut
| down Indefinitely, aed mills at Homes tead, Pa
| closed throwing 3,G0G men out Of work Re-
| frsal Of managers 70 sign the scale the cause.
july About 25l iron ard steel mills IL the
Pittsburgh Pa disI rict shut down owing TO
difference in regard 10 wages, and nearly $780,
sos workIn IN were idle.
July S-In riots between worknen and Pinker-
ton mea At the Homestead (Pa.) mills Of CSrne-
Here killed
~ In q D4tCLcN DhItiC OCAWccH 4i!4Ou
ana non-union miners at the Gem and Frisco
mines N The Occur o Aleue region OF Idaho nine
men we're Killed ana d mil blown up
July l2-Csrregle mills at Homestead taken
possession of by Pennsylvania national guard
July l4-Employes il. upper and lower union
mills OF the Carnegie Company II Pittsburgh
quiz work
July ls-west Superior Cwis) Iron & Steel
Company closed its works and notified its en-
ployes that 10 members OF the A1nalganated
association would be recognized hereafter.
Aug iE-ttENeTg ATTACKED CG-lVlgtg' Sfo9EaC a
ct Oliver Springs Tenn, and we're repulsed by
the guards -. -Four hundred swltchmen Of the
New York Central and the Buffalo, Rocheste s.
Pittsburgh roads struck 2t Buffalo.
Aug. l7-Gov Buchanan, of Tennessee. ordered
out entire national guard OF The state, and 500
deputy Sherld5 70 Coal Creek 10 AID in res torIng
order al the mines
Aug lS-Eight thousand OF the national
guard concentrated in Buffalo, n. Y, to protect
railroad property
Aug. 19-After two hours battle at Coal
Creek, Tenn. the miners surrendered 20 Gen
Carnes. Commanding the national guard
Aug 25-Niners' strike in Upper Mouongahels
(Fa) coke region enaed diS2Strously Ter the
Miners union
Aug 2ASwitchmen's strike at Buffalo Off
cially declared OF. after an unsuccessful effort
70 involve other railroad organizations
Aug 25-Over 200 men from the Pittsburgh
mills Of the Carnegie Company quit work III
sympathy with locked out men -. Not satisfied
with stoppage OF strike by Grand Master
Sweeney, switchmen on Lackawanna and
Nickel Plate roads again quit work
aug. @f-lrOopS W3Ihdr2Wn from Buffalo, ".
Y. and railway business resumed
Aug 30-Switchmen of Ar Line road quit
work at East St Louis, because company re-
fused to add another man 70 each crew. Their
places hllcd with nOn-unionlSrS.
Sep 9-Au Marinette (Wis.) lumber mills
closed down, and 200 10 5000 men went out.
Sep l2-Eight thousand coal miners en-
ployeS of river operators in the Pittsburgh dis
triot. struck, wages having been reduced.
Sep. 2l-Telegraph operators on Burlington
Cedar Rapids Z Northern railroad struck for
higher wages.
Nov. AT New Orleans II unions OF Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor went on strike. be-
cause employers would not agree to employ
union men only.
Nov 10-AmalgaInated council surrendered
at New Orleans, having abandoned the demand
for recognition OF the union
Nov l3-SeVeral persons seriously injured at
Homes eGd, Pa, in fight between non-uniOn col
Ored TorEmeC and strikers.
Nov. lS-StrilIe AT Homestead. so far as af-
fectlng mechanical and laboriag departments,
declared off.
Nov! 2O-Great strike at Homestead, Pa, de-
clared OF.
Dec. S-Rocl Island railway telegraphers
went on strike.
Dec. 1a-All the 1000 men in Spring Hill col
heries in Nova Scotia struck because OF short
weights and docking.