The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04

Chicago, July "a most sweeping
order was telegraphed over the entire
Northwestern system today. It will
throw out of employment 10000 men.
1t is intended TO strike from the pay
roll during the continuance OF the
strike every man who is not absolutely
necessary for The dispatch of what
business the company may be able to
handle.
Cute Trick of the Strikers.
Chief United States Deputy Marshal
Donnelly said. today, that most of the
men who appeared at his Office to be
made deputy narshals were sent there
by the strikers.
There were 200 men sent here this
morning by the managers of. the
strike" said he, cit was useless for
Us to keep on with the business of
swearing il deputies, for nearly the
whole supply was coming from the
ranks of the strikers. Many of the
deputies we had yesterday at Blue Is
Sand and other places were in sympa-
thy with the strikers and were not TO
be depended on by the government"
Tint stolen Powder.
Great anxiety was caused today
among the railroad officials by the
theft of powder at Lansing. The fact
that tomorrow Is a holiday, ALLOWING
4he ranks OF the strikers 70 be rei1-
forced bY thousands of working men
svao ere al work today. gives the situa-
ton a serious aspect, and the mystery
which surrounds Inc disposition of tba
stolen powder adds gravity to the
theft.
Deputy Sheriff Spears at Roseland
telephones to the sheriff's office that in
his opinion, the stealing of the powder
at Lansing was for the purpose of
blowing up the bridges at those points
to prevent the arrival of the deputies.
No Compromise to Offer.
In an interview last evening John H.
Egan, manager Of the General Mana
gers associs lion said: 1.-The railway
companies do not recognize in this
strike the element of Pullmanism and
viii not have it injected into the ques-
ton at any stage Of any proposition.
we have no compromise to offer, and
there is none that we will accept, as
the railroad companies are standing to-
gerher. There is no back down from
Dur previous stand and we are filling
the places Of the strikers whom we
no longer 'consiaer in our service"
Nd StOcA
Today for the first time in the history
of the live stock trade in Chicago not
single carload of animals reached
the Union stock yards by rail The only
live stock relieved was a bunch of thir-
teen hogs that came in wagons.
Thousands of packing house employees
and other WorlSnen of the packing
town were made idle The Michigan
Central tried TO make up and start a
- Z, i L..
The trainmen abandoned the cars with
a scant notice and the beef was left
to rot on the tracks.
Gradually Spreading.
The Pullman boycott is gradually
spreading. The Burlington which en-
pioYs non-union men. is about the only
Chicago road not affected. The Chicago
& Northwestern, which up to last. night
had escaped, is completely tied up to-
DAY. Its suburban traffic is very heavy
and great inconvenience results from
the stoppage Of this Branch of business.
The Illinois Central Erie, Milwaukee
e St Paul, and Great Western all re-
port a like condition.
The general tie-up at Detroit today
stops the Michigan Southern and Mich
igan Central effectuany. The Western
Indiana terminal over which the Grand
Trunk Chicago & Erie, Wabash. East
ern Illinois, Santa Fe, and Monon roads
enter the city was handling passenger
trains with a reasonable degree Of eff
cheney up to last night Today all these
roads are again in trouble. new diff
Guilty is presented by the refusal of the
engineers and firemen to risk their.
lives by working with green hands, and
the railway managers themselves are
not anxious for fighting They are ex-
ceedingly careful of precipitating a bat
tie on The Fourth of July and will
make no serious effort to move trains
before Thursday morning. They also
say that the suspension Of business at
this time is not an unmixed evil. I'VE
know perfectly well that freight is in