The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-07-13

Late Monday afternoon there was a pitched
battle between the regulars and the mob in
which nine men were wounded, some OF
them fatally. Two of the killed were a man
and woman who were taking no part but
were hit by stray bullets. The governor OF
Indiana sent n large force of militia to Ham
montl, and the unruIy elements were held in
| subsection.
Sunday night the committee of the trades
unions of Chicago after long conference de-
cided to order strike unless the trouble was
settled the next day. As result the stage
employees and the carriage and wagon work
ers. teamsters, molders. machinists. brewers,
bakers and iron workers and during the after
uoon other trades in rapid succession went
out.
Sovereign, the General Master workman
of the knights of Labor ordered the whole of
that order out Tuesday. He said, "Sincerely
believing that the flames of discord are being
purposey famed by the railway corporations
ut the risk of the life of the government,
take the liberty TO appeal to you, and through
YOU to the conscience of the whole people, i'm
ploring you to lay down the implements of
toll for a short season and under the banner
of peace and with patriotic desire to pro-
mote the welfare, use the power of your ag-
gregated numbers
He and his associates figured that this would
call out go 900 men and $50 900 more would
"
scheme proved farce. UptO yesterday not
over 5000 men ut Chicago had obeyed the or
der. Many of the labor unions fatty refused
to strike. among them the Typographical
union. Debs' order was disregarded wholly
at Buffalo, Baltimore and Plattsburg. The
Missouri Pacific conductors joined the st.
Louis switchmen and others in refusing to
strike. "Stick to your engines" was the
stern order that went out from the headquar-
ters of the Brotherhood to every member
throughout the west.
There are 10000 regulars and militia in Chi
cago. Gen. Miles has handled the problem
with both energy and discretion. lie inn
pressed upon the mayor during their talk the
fact that the troops are there to protect the
government buildings and to see that the in
ferstate commerce law is not violated. If it
becomes necessary to call out the troops down
town, the mayor has been given to understand
that the troops are at his disposal and await
his orders to fire.
The situation seemed threatening in Califor-
mia especially San Francisco and Sacramento
for a while longer. because the militia behav-
ed shamefully, and the civil officials, from
the governor down, have done not much bet
ter. The governor skulled outside his own
capital on the fimsv pretext that the strikers
prevented him from reaching II. and where
the striker had absolute control of the South
ern Pacific and the whole system tied up, so
that not an overload train arrived for eight
days. But, Gen Ruger moved energetically |
with regular troops and the strikers subsidized /
All the pent-up fury of Ceur d Alene in /
Idaho has broken forth again. saturday night |
Wardner was in state of terror and help 1
lessness. and the hills surrounding the town /
were filed with armed rioters. saturday /
morning. with tremendous roar. the power /
house of the Bunker Hill and sullivan mines
was blown into the air by heavy charge of ]
dynamite. The roar answered by chorus OF i
Mid wells and pistol shots from the mountain
side. The citizens patrolled the town. fear
ing an attack. The sheriff seems powerless.
Governor Mcconnell has been urged 20 call i
nut the militia and senator Shoop went to the
President and called for troops
are making for active hostilitie>-
Miners are notifying all unfriendly to them TO
cave at once under penalty of death. Gov
cConnell ordered the state militia 60 get
ready to move at once. They will be aided
~ federal troops.
several efforts were made with the coun-
enance If the city authorities TO induce the
Pullman company to arhitrate hut il refused.
insisting that there was .'Hofhing TO arhi-
RATE
While the trouble Was at a. height the
Governor Of North Dakota actually tele-
,raphed to pel,s asking permission to bring
he state militia back By rail from the state