Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-07-13

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mob will act with all the moderation and
forbearance consistent with the accom-
| plishment of the desired end but the stern
necessities that confront them will not with
certainty permit discrimination between
| guilty participants and those who are min
| gled with them from curiosity and without
criminal intent. The only safe course,
therefore, for those not actually unlawfully
participating is to abide at their homes, or
at least not to be found in the neighbor-
hood of riotous assemblages.
| While there will be no hesitation or va
cillatiOn in the decisive treatment of the
! guilty, this warning is especially intended
to protect and save the innocent.
In testimony whereof, | have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
| United States to be hereto affixed
Done at the city of Washington this Sth
| day of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.
and of the independence of the United
States of America the one hundred and
! eighteenth.
(Signed) GROVER CLEVELAND.
| BY the President,
w. Q. GRESHAM, Secretary of State.
This proclamation was followed up Mon
day night by another of the same tenor,
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in particular to unlawful combinations
and assemblages of men at certain points
and places within the states Of North
Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington,
Wyoming Colorado and California and
the Territories of Utah and New Mexico,
and especially along the lines of such rail
ways traversing said states and territories
as are military roads and post routes and
are engaged in interstate commerce and in
carrying United States mails"
Fight at Hammond, Ill.
During the day on Sunday the seat of
war was transferred from Chicago and
Hammond, Ind, just across the state line.
The trouble began at daylight when mob
which had been in the neighbOrhood since
the evening before, overturned - freight
cars on the Chicago IL Calumet terminal
road, between Hammond and East Chicago.
Six of the number were thrown crosswise
over the main tracks of the Michigan Cen
tral, while two others were thrown across
the rails of the Nickel Plate. At the
break of day the rabble set fire to a Pull
man car that had been run on side
track
Troops were ordered to the scene, and
toward night the mob became so aggres-
sive that a volley was poured into it, killing
one man and wounding several. At this
the mob took to its heels. Not a few
threw themselves headlong on the prairie
where they lay fiat, so thoroughly scared
| that it was a matter of Indifference to
them whether the soldiers trampled them
down under sheir feet in the charge or not.
There was almost a riot when one of the
wounded was taken up the street to a
surgeons office. Two thousand men and
women blockaded the streets, filling the
air with cries for vengeance, and shouts of
'down with the militia"
Arbitration Refused.
1t was announced that Vice President
Wickers of the Pullman car company had
expressed a wish to meet a committee of
| the strikers Monday afternoon, but the
conference did not take place. A commit
| tee of the Chicago city councils called on
Mr.. Wicker to urge him to submit the case
to arbitration. His reply was, in brief,
that there is nothing to arbitrate. There
is principle involved which the Pullman
company will not surrender. 1t is tina:
employers must be permitted to run their
| business in their own way and without in
| reference from their employees or from any
body else"
The Beginning of the End.
the strike had reached its highest point and
Tuesdays developments showed that it
was umistkeably on the wave. Nearly all
of the passenger trains in Chicago were
running on time, and a train of 80 cars,
| loaded with beef, left the stock-yards for
the East--the first one since the strike be-
gan. The danger points in the city con-
tinued to be guarded by regular and state
troops, deputy marshals and police, and
few attempts at disorder and almost no
damage to property were reported. In
nearly every other state, except California,
the railroads seemed to be gaining ground,
and the indications were that the prompt
action of the authorities would prevent
much further lawlessness, even in that
state. Deb's orders to strike were disre-
garded both in Buffalo and Pttsburg, cut
ting off all hope that the strike could be
extended into the East
Debs Arrested.
An interesting development of the day
was the indictment for conspiracy by the
United States court at Chicago and arrest
of Eugene V. Debs and two other officers,
the vice president and secretary of the
American Railroad union. When brought
into court their bail was fixed at $4,000
each. Bonds were furnished and they
were released.
A General Strike Ordered.
When it became evident that Debs could
not carry his point through the railway
union, without the assistance from other
workingmen, strike of all the trades
union men in Chicago was ordered to begin
at noon on Wednesday. While there was
a response from some of the trades it was
not general, and one estimate was that
not over 5000 men came out.
As a last resort Grand Master Workman
Sovereign ordered a general strike of the
Knights of Labor throughout the country.
His order, he said, would affect nearly one
million men and he believed 500, 900 would
come out. The first wave of excitement
has passed, however; the folly of a strike
where there is no grievance is seen; more
than it is hopeless task to fight the
gov lent of the United States, and
T. is small prospect that anything like
,eneral strike of the workingmen of the
ountry will take place.
The Present situation.
Up to Thursday morning the situation
: was substantially this; At Chicago the
} railroads were getting their service back
: to something like its normal shape, More
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