Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-07-11
FREIGHT MOVING.
The c., r. I. & p. Gradually
Restoring Its Service.
BLOCKADE NEARLY RAISED HERE


Intelligence.
The Rock Island is gradually get
ting its freight service restored. 1t
is receiving freight for all points
west of Blue Island, and taking care
OF all it gets. Switching crews and
switch engines are at work, and in
fact, with the exception of the c..
Nj. ~ St. r.. the freight blockade in
Rock Island is raised.
Some of the Rock Island striking
switchmen. including one OF the
lenders. have already sought rein
statement, but the company has paid
them OF, and has declined so far to
consider any ovcrturcs from them
Whether it will alter its course. the
future alone will determine. The
strikers here have been orderly and
well disposed. In fact, one of them
the other night replied to a stranger
who came along and was talking
about spiking switches, ..if You at
tempt it here. I will be one of the
first to help shoot you. We are out,
and if we lose the strike and lose
our Jobs. we will abide the conse-
quence."
| Our Military Eoys.
Private Robert Bennett. Jr.. of
Company a, returned from Spring
Valley last night, having been threat
ened with typhoid fever. Mir. Ben
nett reports all water supply in camp
rs having been shut off on account
of its impurity. and also that the
rioters there have served notice on
! Spring Valley merchants not to sup
ply the troops with provisions. This
the merchants seem To have needed.
and when the stock becomes limited
provisions will have to be sent to
them from Rock Island or some
place.
committee started ont in Rock
Island this morning to raise pruvis-
ions for Company i, nj Spring Valley
and forward them.
The Davenport Democrat in an ar
ticlc on support Of measures such as
will lift Company Il of that city out
OF its financial expressions and give
it proper standing in the militia of
the state of Iowa. states: The eyes
of the people of Davenport have re-
Gently been opened to the ADVISABLE
ty OF having a military company
here, and good one. They have
seen the service of the Rock Island
road outside of Chicago interrupted
by the mob at Spring Valley, H..
and have seen one small company
from Galesburg and another from
Rock Island, our next door neigh
bors. go there and straightcn things
GU, and fight back the rabhle so that
the tracks could be laid. the wires
spliccd and the trains run. This is
rs near rs the national guard has
come to this city in its work, but il
is near enough, with the work done
by that Illinois company on Forty
seventh street in Chicago n few days
ago, to let the law loving people here
understand how handy it is. in the
best regulated communities, to have
such an instrument of peace and
safety as good strong military com
pany."
Davenport Business Mems Associations
At special meeting of the Daven.
port Business Mems association YES.
terday afternoon. a committee com
posed of Judge Nathanial French and
Messrs. b. +. Tillinghast and S. f.
Smith. presented resolutions. which
were adopted, dcploring the fright.
strike, urging the speedy resump
ton Of business by every practicable
means. holding that in the sending
of federal troops to Chicago to main.
tain order, protect the movement o
interstate commerce and the dis
patch of the mails, the president %
the United States deserves and re
ceiyes our cordial support in his
patriotic course to execute the laws
of the land.
Among Moline Factories.
The effects of the strike are begin
ming to be felt in Moline. Tn,
wagon works would have started VI
Yesterday had it not been for the
fact that the company has but it'll,
coal on hand for fuel. The Sechler Car
riage company laid off about half its
force of workmen on Saturday eve
ming. and beginning today, reduced
| iHt lilh' nun ~ W L IN
cause of this reduction is in the fac,
that no stock can be obtained mol
goods shipped on account of thu
strike. Inc Wilson Buggy company
has also laid off number of men fol
the same reason. AT the Molin,
Plow company some Inconvenience,
is being experienced by the non re
ceipt of some machinery and material:
tbat are on the road somewhere
but the trouble is not seriou:
as yet, owing to the fact that the
shops are not running. only a few
men being employed on some ode
Jobs to sort up. AT Deere d Com.
pany's it was said little trouble is ex
perienced at present as but little ma
terial is needed at this season of tn,
year. Williams, White & Company
are fairly well supplied with ma
terial and are not yet much affected
The Barnard Il Leas company il