St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-08
REVIEW OF The DAY.
Gen. Miles Timely Notice to
the Red Rioters.
BRAVE YOUNG MlLiTiAMEK.
Turbulent Section Embraced
Twenty-Five Miles.
GENERAL WALK-OUT PREDICTED.
Building Trades Council
Shows Its Teeth.
SENTRiES AT SUBTREASURX
Many Evidences Of the
Strikes elimination.
SENTRiES AT SUBTREASU2Y
Many Evidences Of the
Strikes elimination.
MORE MAIL TRAINS MOVING.


ordered that if any act of hostility be
committed, such as firing upon such
railroad trains or asSaulting traiumen.
marshals OF soldiers by throwing at
them stones, pieces of iron or missiles,
those assaults shall be repealed by the
use of firearms" So wrote Gen. Nelson
A. Miles in his order issued this after
noon detailing federal troops to assist
United States marshalS in preventing
obstruction to the movement of mail
and interstate commerce trains. Il was,
in short, notice to all rioters that tem-
porlZing with them had ceased. and that
thereafter the policy of the government
would be to put an end to their riotlng.
arson and pillage by shooting to kill.
whenever and wherever necessary.
As chance would have it, however, it
did not fall 10 the lot of the national
troops to be the first to carry out the
spirit of this order. Company Z, Second
regiment Illinois national guard, had
that distinction. The story of the en-
counter between the thirty-seven young
militiamen composing this company and
a vicious mob at Forty-seventh and
LOOMS streeIsis told elsewhere in these
dispatches.
Up to o'clock in the afternoon the
day had been a comparatively quiet
one. 10 be sure small mobs had been
going about all through the district west
of State and south of Thirty-ninth
street,
BURNING A FEW CARS
here and there. and making threats of
firing railroad shops and the like; but
it was more IN the nature of bushwack-
Ing than anything else, and not at all
like the massed bands of strikers who
gathered along the railroad track yes
terday and the day before, absolutely
blocking all movement by sheer force
of numbers.
This state of affairs was doubtless the
outgrowth of various conditions, such
as the presence of vastly increased
force of soldiers and the fact that yes
terday's doings in the way of wrecking
and firing cars had left large share OF
the tracks to the south impossible, so
that about all the discernible movement
was in the shape of wrecking trains,
endeaYOring to- bring order out of the
region.
The disturbed section today embraced
q sOace of about twenty-five miles
square, not to mention the sporadic bit
of incendiarism on the Burlington road
at Crawford and at Western avenue,
the latter having the distinction of be-
Ing the work of women and children. 1t
IS estimated that in the district men
toned not less than $4,000 rioters were
out at one time and another during the
dag, but the ground was so thoroughly
patrolled by the police, the marshals
and the military that they found little
opportunity for getting together in
large numbers. as they have been doing
heretofore. Still, some of them at
THE sToCKYARDs
found time for indulgIng in the grim
humor of laying out graveyard in
due order and erecting headstones at
the graves therein bearing the names of
their pet aversions, including that of
the president of the United States.
One feature of the day mas the show
ing of its teeth by the building trades
council of the city in calling out the
steamfitters in the big packing houses
at the stockyards, with the threat that
1t was merely a preliminary to calling
Quilts $4,000 members and the tying up
OF all building trades in the city.
Another feature of the day was the
patrollng of sentrleS before the federal
subtreasury, in whose vaults lie some
fifteen million dollars of Uncle Sam's
money, which Gen. Miles thought might
prove a temptation 10 some of Debs'
followers not to be resisted, especially
in view of the fact that they are not
very flush just now.
For the first time since the strike
opened there were several distinct notes
OF Improvement in the situation, and
these were not confined to Chicago.
Here the postal authorities reported a
noticeable Improvement in the move
ment of the mails. Outside of Chicago
II was TO be noted that the strike, while
1t made no progress worthy of mention
at any point, gave many evidences of
having reached its elimination ana of
FAILING INFLUENCE.
To begin with, the promise that the
seaboard trunk lines would be tied up
at Buffalo was not fulfilled; the strike
was not extended to Pittsburg, as was
predicted 1t would; at a number of
points in the tie-up territory the strain
was lightened; at one or two points men
who had agreed to 90 out failed to do
SO; but, most significant of all, perhaps,
was the refusal of the A. R. U. men at
Louisville, Colorado Springs and Den
IN RI frIly T.