The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-03

The news received by the last
steamer was that the strike was near
ly over. The news received yesterday
corro0orates this and states that the
great lockout is thing of the past
The recent actions of the strikers are
given below:
CHICAGO, July 25.-In the Ameri-
can Railway Union contempt cases
today Judge Woods delivered a brief
opinion, formally overruling the mo-
ton of the defense to quash the infOr-
nations.
Judge Grosscup announced that he
would take no part in the contempt
proceedings, as the defendants are un-
der Indictment in the United States
District Court, over which he presides,
and the same questions of law Will be
raised under the Indictment.
District Attorney Milchrist an
| nounced that Special Counsel Edwin
Walker is i'll and suggested that the
hearing be postponed until Walker is
able to take charge of it. The Court
continued the case until September
9Th.
By order of the Court the bail of the
| four prisoners was reduced from $16,-
600 to S1OUO each today.
Attorney w. w. Erwin, counsel for
the American Railway Union officers
violently assailed the Government
officers and indirectly the courts.
| Judge Woods showed suppressed ex-
element by his trembling hands.
| Erwin asserted that in case of injus-
| tice the power of the people back of
| the Government reverts to the people.
| His tall frame quivered with excite
ment and his voice rose almost to a
| shrek. Erwin declared that the
roads had entered into a conspiracy to
sustain the Pullman Company in its
fight with its employees. The Supreme
| Court must decide, he said whether
| the men were not justified in resisting
such conspiracy when the courts
were silent regarding it. "The ques-
| ton is" he declared, "whether the
people are sovereign or have delegated
| all these powers to combinations OF
wicked men and representatives who
| are asleep"
Debs, Howard, KelliheT and Rogers,
| after a lengthy conference with their
| attorneys, decided this afternoon to
give bail. Since their commitment
| to iail the prisoners have refused nu-
merous offers, but because of the con
tinuance of the hearing until Septem-
| ber decided to change their tactics.
| William Shakeli and William F'itZ-
| gerald appeared as bOndsmen, and the
four men were released.
| CHICAGO, July 25.-Simon Reskins,
Russian, hurled many stones at the
massive residence of George NJ. Pull
| man today, breaking ten or a dozen
| large plate-glass windows. He was
arrested and charged with malicious
mischief Reskin is said to be we'll
| known European anarchist. He was
held to appear for trial in the Crimi-
nal Court.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-The Presi-
dent has appointed John ID. Herman
of New York and Nicholas T.. Worth
| ingtou of Peoria, Ill, To act with
| Labor Commissioner Carroll d.
Wright in the presidential commits
| sion to investigate the Chicago strike.
| MIR. Herman is a well-known law
yer in Utica, y. \. He has been a
! particular and thorough student of
| labor questions and has written seV-
eral important contributions To the
| literature on the subject. He was
| chosen because of his uadoubted thor
ough understanding of the subject
and his well-knowu sympathy with
| the laboring classes.
| Mr.. Worthington is now a Judge of
the Illinois Circuit Court. He repre-
| scented the Peoria district in Congress
about eight years ago.
CHICAGO, July 25.-Judge Lyman
| Trumbuil has wired To W ashingtou
! declining 10 act as Government arhi-
traitor in the Pullman strike for the
| reason that the act under which the
arbitrators are appointed will contine
! their Investigations 10 the recent
! strike, and, iuasmuch as the trouble
| is over, he sees no need Of investigat-
! ing.