St. Paul daily globe., 1895-03-16
LIVELY ON LEvEE.
FrOwning Guns Protect Ne
gro Roustabouts--Strik-
erS Quiet.
CHICAGO POLES RIOTOUS.
Police Compelled to Make a
Raid on a Church in
Chicago.
OMAHA RIOTERS IN COURT.
Arrests in Connection With
the Milwaukee Murder
Mystery.

NEW ORLEANS, March 15.-1n the
last twenty-four hours there has
been no change in the labor situa-
ton in this city. All day long work
has been progressing on the Wharves,
but, as before, it was the negroes or
at best ''black and tan gangs" Chalf-
white and half-colored) who loaded
the ships on which the fighting took
place on Tuesday, and they were
under the protection of bodies of
state troops fully armed and pre-
pared to suppress any outbreak of
the riotOus element.
The troops left the armories at
o'clock this morning. and took up
positions on the river front at the
landing occupied by the Prince, the
Harrison, the West India and Pa
cific lines, these being the points at
which trouble was deemed most
likely to occur. Ships of several for
eign lines are being loaded by their
regular gangs, but against these
there is no protest. At Sundown the
troops were ordered to resume duty
Gov. Foster held conferences with
committees representing the white
screwmen and the merchants, but in
neither meeting was any result
reached. He spent several hours in
endeavoring to bring the screwmen
to sense of their duty and RESPONSE
bility, and to securing a pledge that
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pete with them without fear of bod
lily harm, but without avail. The
merchants were no more tractable.
His eXcellency sought to secure
from them a promise to pursue
more conciliatOry policy to bring
about a reconciliation of the two in
terests, and on a basis Of mutual
concession. The merchants, how
ever, adhered to the position set
forth in the address adopted by them
on Tuesday. They said they had not
sought this trouble but now that
they were in it they were deter
mined to see it through, and would
not yield an inch. 1t is said that
they have placed in the governors
hands $4,000 toward the expenses
of the troops, and have promised as
much more as may be necessary.
The governor says he will remain
here until the trouble is settled, and
is sanguine of being able to effect
settlement very shortly.
Judge Noise, of the criminal dis
trict court, today charged the grand
jury with special investigation of
Tuesdays riot. A large number of
witnesses appeared before the grand
jury today. A number of men ar
rested upon the charge of instigat-
ing a riot were arraigned before
the recorder and were remanded for
trial before the criminal court and
placed under bonds to appear for
hearing.
When the steamship Niagara fin
ishes unloading she will not remain
at this port to take in her cargo of
cotton, but will go to Galveston for
it. The Niagara is lying at the
wharf near the head of Phillip island
in the vicinity of the place from
which a party of rioters fired upon
the negroes and killed one of them
last Tuesday. Yesterday she was
being unloaded by non-union labor.
1t is impossible to say at this time
how many other ships will be or
dered away by their owners, or how
much commerce has been diverted
by the troubles. While it is believed
that there will be no more lawless-
ness, as the militia are kept on
guard, it is known that the griev-
ances of the white screwmen are
deep-seated, and the determined
spirit of their sympathizers may
Show itself as soon as Il e troops are
relieved of duty.
Several militiamen on duty during
the day met with injuries more or
less serious, but in each case the
hurt was received by accident or
through carelessness.