Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-02
HE-UP COMPLETE.
Thousand of Men Joining the
Pullman Boycott Strike.
Move Expected in Chicago That viii
Bring Pullman to Terms.
Seven Strike Leaders under arrest-Aii Reads
From Chicago Blocked.

CnIcAGo, July AT 10 so this morning,
this notice was posted in the Rock Island
depot "All trains on the Rock Island are
abandoned until further notice. The no.
tice includes the entire Rock Island service,
suburban, local, through trains, freight and
passenger. Not train entered the Rock
Island depot this morning over the Rock
Island, and none moved out.
This afternoon at Blue Island, Illinois,
20 miles cut on the Rock Island, riot oc-
Cured between strikers and a posse. 1t is
not known how serious. Several arrests
were made, the prisoners being brought to
the city by carriages.
AT Riyerdale, % miles out on the Pan
Handle, mob of 500 threatens trouble TO
incoming passenger trains due this even
ing. Aid has been asked for posse and a
United States marshal has left for the
scene.
Seven leaders of the railroad strikers are
inmates of the county jail tonight. To-
morrow they will be arrsiened before
United States Commissioner lIoyne on the
charge of criminally violating a section of
the United States statutes, which provides
that if two or more persons conspire to COM
INIT any offense against the United States
VI hGltduu liIt ililttu t'ldlCS III any hl0hu1i
or for any purpose. or if one or more such
parties do any act 10 effect the object of
such conspiracy, all of the parties in such
conspiracy are liable to a penalty of not
less than $1,000 or more than $4,000, or
not more than two years imprisonment.
The prisoners are Edward O'Neill, Charles
aylor, alias W. II. Taylor, John Duffy
and VIM. McMullen, and were arrested at
Hyde Park on the charge of knowingly and
wllfully obstruCting mail train no % of the
Illinois Central, and Frank McSorvy, fire
man, Gus SenO, fireman, and James Muir
lin, switchman, charged with knowingly
and wilfully obstructing a west bound mail
train on the Rock Island at Blue Island.
The most conservative leaders in the
trades and labor assembly now admit that
it will probably be matter of few days
before most of the workmen in Chicago go
on a strike. In this case they predict that
the residents of Chicago will bring such
pressure to bear on George M. Pullman
Ihat ha will soon acCede to the demands OF
the men.
The engineers are divided and unless
more pressure is brought to bear, it will be
impossible for the union to irilnence the
men as body. Members of the Order
of Railway Conductors, division of
the Illinois Central, are also split, a
number having resolved to support the A.
r. L. The firemen on Northwestern rer-
fected a new organization, today, and were
ordered out.
\ report reached headquarters that the
pins in the puzzle and interlocking switches
on all tracks in the south end were pulled
Early Sunday, and no trains could be run
over the terminals until complete read
justment of switches was made. This will
require two weeks to a month of expert
labor.
At the request of the directors of the A.
B. L., the police have heen ordered to stop
the cries of newsboys announcing bloody
rios on the part of the strikers, IN order to
sell special editions of papers.
A telegram received at headquarters,
today, announced that the Great Northern
had instructed its employees that they need
not handle ears of roads involved in the
strike.
Late this afternoon towermen on the
Northwestern went out and all switches
and crossings are blocked in consequence
It is reported that the tie-up on the Wabash
system was completed today, eight trains,
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Tonight leaders of the American Railway
Union are predicting that within a week,
unless a settlement of the trouble is ef-
fected, every railroad in the United States,
East as well as West, will be placed I'M
der as much of an embargo as the roads
leading out of Chicago.
The managers Of the railways declare
they believe the strike will be short-livei.
Both sides predict important Developments
by noon Monday. Acknowledgement Olney
has appointed Edwin Walker, recog-
nized as the Nestor of the local bar,
s. a special United States attorney for the
the purpose of carrying out the laws relat-
ing TO the protection of mails and for the
enforcement of the enterstAte law. Twelve
hundred men were sworn in, today, az
United States deputy marshals.