Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-02

Serious Charges Are Preferred
Against the Leaders.

Seven leaders of the strikers are inmates
of the county Jail at Chicago. Today they
will be aEraigned before United States Com
missioner Philip F. How're. on the charge Of
crimnally violating section $40, chapter 5.
of the United States statutes relating to
crimes and criminals, and which provides
| that if two or more persons conspire either
to commit any offense against the United
States or to defraud the United States in
any manner or for any purpose; and if one
or more of such parties should do any act
to effect the object of such conspiracy all
of ?the parties in such conspiracy shall be
liable to a penalty of not less than $1,000 or
more. than $1,000, or not more than two
Years Imprisonment.
The prisoners are Edward O'Neill, Charles
Saylor, alias W. Ii. Taylor, John Duffy and
William McMullen, who were arrested at
Hyde Park on the charge of knowingly and
willfuIy obstructlng train No. . of the
Illinois Central railroad, which carried the
mails of the United States, and Frank Nc
Sorvy, fireman, .. Gusseno also a fire.
man. and James Murlin. a switchman, and
wEo are charged with knowingly and will
fully cbStructlng weSt-bouna train on the
Rock Island road at Blue Island. and which
train also carried malls Of the United States
|. The arrest of the men at Blue Island was
erected late Saturday night by a posse Of
UnnIr States deputy marshals in charge OF
Chief Deputy John A. Logan. Upon reach
\ ing the scene the fifteen marshals were
confronted by mob of over 6UO men, head
| ed by Murlin, who had been recognized by
numerous spectators the striker who
threw the switch that ditched the engine
| OF the outgoing train on Saturday night.
The mob was ia an ugly mood, and for q
while 1t looked as if the deputy marshals
were at its mercy.
| Deputy Logan ordered mis- men to display
| their insignia of office. and told the crowd
| that he and his men were there for business
and proposed to serve the warrants which
had been intrusted to them. Thereupon the
! three
! were known to several of the deputies were
captured without opposition on the part Of
| their associates.
The mob oontented itself with crowding
around and shouting at the officers. When
the prisoners were booked at the county
JAN they made strenuous and viciferous de-
nlands for hearing and bail, but no atten-
ton was paid to their request and they
were locked up in cells.
The preliminary hearing before United
States Commissioner Hoyne was fixed for
| ~ o Clock this morning, and in the mean
time the men were compelled to remain In
Jail. number of local members of the A
r. L. visited the Jail last evening and late
J last night, with the intention of Offering
themselves as bondsmen, but were informed
that bail could not be accepted until a pre-
hmlnary hearing had been made.
- sympathy With the Strikers.
! At a four hours meeting of the Trades
and Labor Assembly, the largest labor
body in Chicago, held yesterday afternoon
resolutions were passed rendering all the aid
possible to the American Railway Union
and empowering the executive board of
their body to act as it sees fit The senti-
ment of the meeting was strongly in sym
pathys with the strikers. A lively session
was held. during which the lie was freely
passed and any man who dared oppose the
extending of aid to the strikers was round
ly and openly denounced.
Delegate Tommy Morgan, a socialist, de-
clared now was the time for the struggle
between labor and capital which has been
so long impending, and that he was in ia
vor Of at once stopping work In Chicago in
order TO prevent what must be in the event
! OF the failure of labor to win in this con-
test bloody revolution. These sentiments
were hailed with wild cheers from the dele
gates.
At the headquarters of the A RU every
! thing Was quiet Very little business vas
transacted, most of the directors and or
sanizersr taking advantage of the many
local meetings to take a rest
| Committees reported that the remainder
! OF the Brotherhood firemen in the Illinois
Central numbering about eighty, had been
won. over, and a result no suburban
| trains could be run, first intended yes
| terday.
| The engineers, however, are divided and
| unless more pressure is brought to bear II
| will be impossible to Influence the men as
| body. The members OF the order of Rail-
| way Conductors division of the Illinois
| central have also split, a number having
| resolved to support the A. r. Y. at all haz-
| ards.
| The fremen on the Northwestern perfect
| ed their new organization yesterday and
| all OF them have been ordered out No
| freight trains were gotten out and Il was
with difficulty that the passenger trains
h@srssfun, on account of the fact that most
OF the passenger men on both the Galena
| ana wisconsin divisions have been won
| over Assistant Superintendent Moulton
acted as fireman on the Milwaukee mail
train leaving Chicago.
Another meeting of the Northwestern
| trainmen will be held today
The places of those of the passenger en-
who quit yesterday were promptly filled
! report reached headquarters Yesterday
afternoon that the pins in the puzzle and
thteriocking switches on all tracks in the
south end had been pulled early in the
| morning. and that no trains could be run
over the terminal until a complete read
Justment of the switches was made This
| expert labor
\ "A Telegram received at headquarters from
| the strikers committee at ST Paul yes
terday afternoon. announced that the Great
Northern, officials had instructed their en-
| ployes that they need not handle the cars
| OF roads involved in the strike. Late YES
terday afternoon the tower men on the
| northwestern went out, and all switches
| ana crossings are blocked in consequence
| 1t was reported by wire at headuuarters
that the tie-up on the Wabash system had
been completed in the afternoon and the
eight trains, including mail trains were be-
ing held at Decatur.
False Report About Strikers.
! The railroad situation in California was
worse yesterday than at any time since the
beginning of the strike. Early in the morn
| Ing report came from Dunsmuir that the
9oo-font trestle between that place and the
| town of Mott had been destroyed by strik-
ers. later report stated that but 100
feet of the trestle had been burned, and
| this was subsequently confirmed. The deed
| is not generally attributed TO strikers or
| their sympathzers, as they assisted in ex-
! rguishihg the flames, and had delegated
| a number of their men to aid in the pro-
! lection of railroad property
The Oregon express, which left Oakland
| at 8 o clock Saturday night, was tied up at
Red Bluff early yesterday morning, the
strikers stopping the train by greasng the
| tracks, and detaching the Pullmans from
the day coaches. The strikers assembled
| around the engine, abused the engineer,
| fireman and guard, but made no attempt to
! iniure them in any manner. The train had
| not been able to resume its journey up to
last evening.
7 At Sacramento the situation has not
| changed. Yesterday afternoon Chairman
| Knox of the A. r. L. received the follow
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