River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-07-12

FLATLY REFUSED.
The Pullman Company Again Rejects
Oyerture@ of Peace.


CHICAGO, July 1.-THE final answer OF the
Pullman company has been given its employees.
No proposition for an adjustment OF the diff
ferences existing between the company and the
strikers by arbitration will be entertained.
Vice President Wickes was waited upon BY
joint committee OF aldermen and workingmen
at O'Clock Monday afternoon. To the over
lures made tending toward arbitration he
firmly replied that the Pullman company would
not recede from the stand IL had taken. The
refusal of the company to entertain any propo-
sition for arbitration was in direct defiance of
the order Of the mass meeting of union dele
gates Sunday night. and a strike Of the allied
trades win be instituted tomorrow morning
unless some adjustment OF the difficulties is
made To-Day. This, however Is improbable.
as Mr.. Wickes left no room to doubt that the
company would stand on the ground which it
has taken
Naval Militia Called Into Action.
The First battalion of the Illinois naval
militia was ordered out Monday by Adjt.
Gen. Orendorf The battalion numbers $50
men and at least $50 will be pressed into serv-
ice. 1t will be the duty Of the battalion to
guard the waterworks, crib and public VIII arves
Negroes Filling Vacancies.
Monday morning the Rock Island COM
pany distributed car load of negroes in the
towers along the road from Twenty-sixth
street south. A crowd of excited strikers
gathered around the tower houses at the diff
ferent street corners and threatened to
kill the negroes If they did not leave the
tower houses. At noon a mob was vainly
trying to burn the buildings when company
Of troops arrived and dispersed the crowds.
The recent action of the American Railway
union in voting to exclude colored men from
their ranks has caused considerable hard feel
ing among the negroes and IL Is said they will
fll the positions vacated by the strikers when
ever possible.
Michigan Men Return.
DETROIT. Mich, July 1.-THE strike in the
Michigan Central yards came to an end Mon
day when every employe who had been disaf-
fected returned to work. At the Union depot
the situation Is unchanged. No Wabash trains
arrived or Departed during the morning. The
Flint & Pere Narcotic and Detroit. Lansing &
Northern passenger trains are running on time.
Censured the Soldiers.
HAMMOND. Ind. July ia corouer's inquest
was held on the body OF Charles Fleischman,
who was killed Sunday In the volley which the
regulars poured into the mob. and a verdict re-
turned that deceased came to his death by a
bullet fired by certain United States soldiers,
said shooting being careless, unnecessary, I'M
warranted and criminal
A Militia Company Strikes.
TACOMA, Wash, July li.-TroOp A. of the
Second regiment OF national guards, OF Wash
ington. refused to ride on q Northern Pacific
train manned by non-union crews. The entire
troop consisting of sixty men, was placed IN
der arrest, loaded in box car and taken east
with the train carrying the balance of the state
militia en- route from the state camp When
Troop arrives at Sprague II will be court
martinled. All Of the troopers will resign,
however. on reaching home.
Cost of the Strike.
Outside the question of the turmoil of the
strike itself is another serious factor. The
strike is costing the country many millions OF
dollars. The dispatches printed from major
ty OF the towns give an estimate Of the losses
thus far entailed TO the business interests of
the several communities Figures compiled
from these estimates show that the loss to
business and the loss in wages OF strikers ag
gregate s2s 0O0.O00 The estimate is believed
to be low The showing seems to indi-
cate that George NJ Pullman's refusal to arbi-
trate and the efforts OF the A. II. U. to
force him to are costing the country g. 10000
day. The number of men thrown out of EN-
ployment, both by railroads and manufactur-
ing e Establishments which have been forced to
shut down through lack of fuel and raw ma
terial runs In the neighborhood of $1,000
Vice President Howard, of the A. r. u, esti-
mated the railroad men on strike TO number
81 800
Al the request of Mayor Hopkins Gov. Alt
geld has ordered twelve more companies of llli-
nois militia to Chicago.
The strike at indianapolis was materially ex
tended Monday by the walking out of the fire.
men brakeme1 and switchmen OF the st. Louis
division OF the Big Four road. They were per-
suaded to quit by an agent of President Debs
Terre Haute business interests are suffering
in an exceptional manner. None of the roads
have received freight at this point for week.
but as the switchinen have not gone out at
Indianapolis freight is received there and de-
livered to customers OF Terre Haute houses all
around the citv