Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-07-12
| SOVEREIGN'S ORDER
HAS NO EFFECT
The Expected Great Strike of
the Knights Of Labor Fails
to Materlallze.
ANOTHER ORDER ISSUED
COuntermanding the Order for a Gen.
eral Strike.
Vt IS SAID TO Be A FORGERY
But at No Place Did X. of L.
Men Go Out.
COuntermandins the Order for a Gen.
eral Strike.
Vt IS SAID TO BE A FORGERY
But at No Place Did X. of l..
Men Go Out.
THE STOCKYARDS' BLOCKADE RAISED

Any Uprising of tho Knights of Labor
In support of the American Railway
Union strike--At Chicago and Elso-
where Men Go TO Work a. Usuai-- A tiairs
mt Chicago--A Militiaman Killed by the
Cnrs--1roOps at Saorainento--Go yernor
Waite Disgusted.
Associated Pross Dispatch by Special Wires.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 1.-THE general
strike which was to have been inaugu-
rated last night TO force arbitration OF
the Pullman strike failed to materialize
to-day.
! Throughoutthec city this morning there
was little evidence of tae business pa
ralysis which has been so confidently
predicted by labor leaders. Every street
car line in the city was running, the
/ elevated roads carried the usual num-
Der of trains and the early morning
crowds of workingmen on tbs way to
their shops and benches seemed I'M
diminished.
OF all the trades which had threatened
q strike, the seamen, the cigarmakers
and the carpenters were the only unions
which signiiied their intention of stop
ping work to-day. Reports from these
trades were anxiously awaited, but their
action one way or another was regarded
as only drop in the bucket.
STOCK YARD BLOCKADE RAISED.
The blockade that had existed for
almost week at the stock yards was
fully raised last night. Nelson Morris g.
Co. sent train of cattle East, and
Swift and Armour each sent out train
Of dressed meat. Fully 800 carloads of
meat have been taken out of the pack
ing district in wagons heavily guarded
/ 1Nu 1,n1i0o aud nf 10 t, alnfp III
has been shipped from the city by boat.
Late last evening the stock yards off
cials again notified the several railroad
companies that their tracks were clear
and that they would receive and ship
stock out to-day. The railroad com
panies sent word that they would deliver
stock at the yards as usual to-day, and
for the first time since the strike.
BREWERS TAKE TIMELY ACTION.
The Brewers Association held an i'm
portant meeting last night. Their en-
ployes, with whom they are on particu-
larly friendly terms, told them the con-
dtion of affairs as they existed Their
men frankly declared that they did not
want to strike, but that if others went
out they would be compelled to. AS
result, II was decided to close up the
pAb"SiiSS1 bht W hSCP INC hlCb Ol Ihp
pay-rolls. Then each brewery stored in
its vaults about the city enough beer to
keep its saloons going for some weeks.
A MIIITIAMAN KILLED.
]. A. Postlegate of Company L, First
Regiment, l. N. G., was instantly killed
last night on the Illinois Central tracks
at Nintieth street, while doing guard
duty for an Illinois Central special train.
he was struck by an engine aud his
body terribly mangled.
AN ANARCHIST MEETING BROKEN UP.
The stock yards police last night, as
sisted by company of militia, de-
scended upon meeting of Poles and
Bohemians in hall at Forty eighth
street and Centre avenue and the audi
ence of 500 was dispersed without
trouble. The utterances Of the speakers
were of decidedly incendiary nature,
and when the audience was forced to
leave the hall there were many half
suppressed expressions of hatred for
the police. No arrests were made.
The first proceeding for contempt
against the strikers in the United States
circuit court and the injunctions issued
by Judges Grosscup and Woods has
been begun by Aistrict Attorney Mil
Cullbl. lu0 QblGuudlt Is OllG DGlOSlcll
who is charged with interfering with
trains ON the Santa Fe road in violation
of the injunction. Affidavits were filed
alleging that Delosier has boarded sew
sral trains and endeavored to prevent
Che employees from performing their
duties.
The stock yards officials report quiet
forenoon at the yards. Shipments were
made last nipht nf Ira cattle and 15g
hogs without trouble. A large number
of cars were expected in to-day.
MAY CLOSE THE SALOONS.
There was rumor about this morn
ing that Mayor Hopkins would issue a
proclamation closing all the saloons of
the city. Asked as to the truth of the
rumor the mayor said'- that the matter
has been under consideration and such
proclamation may be issued, but do
not think It will be to-day"
Advices TO the Associated Press from
the great centres of population of the
United States and from many less i'm
portant cities, fail to show that the order
or request of General Master Workman
Sovereign of the knights of Labor for
q general cessation of work has met
with the slightest recognition by the
members Of that order or by those who
sympathized with them.
In general, the situation at noon
seems to be that the last move of the
labor leaders was taken without ade-
quate knowledge of the temper of theii
followers, and that unless something
Unforeseen shall intervene to radically
change the aspect of affairs and the
attitude of organized labor toward the