Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-08
ILLINOIS:
RESUME OF THE DAY
IN CHICAGO, AND WHAT WAS DONE BY THE
 NOES AND MILITARY.

NOES AND MILITARY.
 CHICAGO, July 7.-"And 1t is further ordered that II an act of hostility, such as firing upon railroad trains or assaulting trainmen, marshas or soldiers by throw ing at them rocks, pieces of iron or other missiles, those assaults shall be repeIled by the use of firearms;'' so wrote Gen. Nelson A. Miles in his order issued this afternoon detailing federal troops to assist United States marshals in preventing obstruction to the movement of mail and interstate commerce trains. |; was, in short, notice to all rioters that temporizing with them had ceased, and thereafter the policy of the government would be to put an end to tteir rioting, arson and pillage by shooting to kill whenever and wherever necessary.
 As chance would have it, however, it did not fall to the lot of the national troops to be the first to carry out the spirit of this order. Company c, Second regiment, Hi nois national guard, had that distin ction. The story of the encounter between the thirty seven young militiamen of this company and vicious mob at Forty-sev- enth and Loomis streets is told elsewhere in these dispatches. Up to 4 o'clock in the quiet one.
 To be sure, small mobs had been going about all day through the district of State street and south of Thirty ninth, 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 bush whacking than anything else, and not at ali like the massed bands of strikers who gathered along the railroad tracks yester- day and the day before, absolutely block ing all movement by sheer force of num- bers.
 This state of affairs was doubtless the out growth of various conditions, such as the presence of vastly increased force of soldiers, and the fact that yesterdays wrecking and firing of cars had left a large share of the tracks to the south impas- sable, so that fabout all the dis c ,rn bIe movement was in the shape ot wrecking transs endeavoring to bring order out Of the chaos which is existing all through that region.
 The disturbed section today embraced a space of about twenty five square miles, not to mention the bit of incendiarism on the Burlington road at Charlottesville and at Western Ives, the later having the dis tinction of being the work of women and children.
 It is estimated that in this district men, toned not less than 50, 900 rioters were out at one time and another during the day, but the ground was so thoroughly patrolled by the police, the marshals and the mili- tary that they found little opportunity for getting together in large numbers as they have been doing heretofore. Still some of them at the stock yards found time for in- dulging in making grave yard 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 oi the day was the showing of it's teeth by the Building Trades' coun- cil of the city in calling out the steam fit- ters in big packing houses at the stock yards, with the threat that it was merely preliminary to calling out it's 1000 mem- bers and the tieing up of all buildings in the city.
 Another feature was the patrolling of sentries before the federal sub-treasury, in whose vaults lie some $l5, ,00), 900 of Uncle Sam's money, which General Miles thought might prove temptation to some of Debs' followers not to be resisted, and 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 inn provement in the situation, and these were not confined to Chicago. Here the postla authorities reported notable improve ment in the handling of the mails. Out side of Chicago it was noticed that the strike, while it made no progress worthy of mention, gave many evidences of having reached it's culmination and of falling in- 1uence. To begin with, the promise that the seaboard trunk lines would be tied up at Buffalo was not fulfilled.
 The strike wes extended to Pittsburg, as predicted at number of points in the tie-up territory. The strain was frightened at one or two points, when men who had agreed to go out failed to do so, but the most significant of all, perhaps, was the refusal of the American Railway union men at Louisville, Colorado Springs and Denver to obey Debs to strike.
 Joliet also reported defection in the ranks of the employees of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern. On the other hand, the friends of law and order had occasion to be pleased on aC count of the massing of troops here, and at the ordering of a decided movement of troops by the president with view of lifting the embargo on the Pacific coast both by the northern and central routes.
 To this end he ordered General Merritt at St. Paul and General Otis at Vancouver barracks to see to the opening of the North ern Pacific Hue, while General Ruger at San Francisco and General Brooke at Omaha were similarly instructed to set things to moving on the Central road near the North ern Pacific system. To all this the only foil which the managers of the strike were able to show was an arrangement between Debs and Grand Master Workman Sover- eign of the Knights of Labor to call out the members of that or" ,,azation, some 15O, ,O0O in number, pret 2aed the other four nlem- bers of the executive committee would agree to the order calling them out. So that if the arrangement goes it will add no small addition to the forces of idleness.
 There has been rift in the cloud, but the cloud is still there.
 The Daily News issued at o'clock an extra containing the following important information, and they vouch for it's cor rectness in every particular;
 s'Late this afternoon President Debs of Daily News reporter that he had received g message from B. F. Lawrence, president of the First National bank, saying that