El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-05

ed from that generally accepted and
always accurate authority. the Amer
lean Cyclopedia. on the conditions
which existed during the democratic
period 1S93-lS96. in which the actual
experiment of free trade was made. and
coupled with its closing years the
threat of free silver.
July Is. 1898: Denver. Colo: four
| banks close thir doors and there are
runs on other financial institutions.
| July 10: More banks close their
| doors.
July 20: Kansas City; fight between
| strikers and non union miners at Weir
City.
.hly 30: Two bank failures in Mil
| waukca and runs on banks in many
iother places
July "a: More bank failures in
the west
| July 26: New York: two stock ex-
| change firms fail.
| July 81: Ten banks suspend. most
of them northwestern. Other business
failures reported.
| July IS: More failures and suspen-
sions. including nine banks in the west
| and one in Kentucky.
| August l: Collapse of the Chicago
provision deal. Many failures OF COM
mission houses. Great excitement in
| the board of trade.
August 8: The Chemical bank. one
of the strongest in the country. is IN
able to fill its weekly orders for small
currency.
August: Madison Square bank sus-
ponds.
August Il: Much excitement on the
east side of New York among Hebrew
laborers. Police called out
August %: Encounter between an
archistS and socialists averted by the
police in New York.
August %: Meeting of anarchists
broken up by the police.
August 20: Kansas coal miners
strike ended with nothing gained.
1894
January Is. 1894: Secretary of the
Treasury Carlisle announces his in
teEtion to issue bonds.
January II: The Secretary of the
Tree s,Iry offers $50. Gao. 900 loan for
public subscription according to his
announced intentions.
January %: Strike in Ohio of 10 900
miners.
January %: A mob of foreign min
ers destroy property at Brantville. Pa, |
and other places.
February 16: Many New York silk
factories close on account of strike.
February Is: In Ohio all the mines !
OF the Massillon district closed by |
strike. |
February 30: IN Boston a riotous |
assemblage of unemployed workmen |
dispersed by police.
March 2: Six thousand miners in
Jackson County, Ohio. out of employ
ment.
Paterson. N j.: General strike
among the silk weavers.
March 5: In West Virginia strik- |
ing miners burn the railroad bridges |
and commit other lawless acts.
March Is: AT Paterson New Jersey:
riotous proceeding on the part of the |
striking silk weayers.
March Il: In Colorado Governor |
Waite orders state troops to Cripple |
Creek to suppress mining trouble.
March 20: In Boston a large body of |
unemployed workmen march to the |
state house and demand employment.
March "a: A movement is inaugu- !
rated in various parts of the northern |
states. known as the Army of the |
Commonwealth. CoXeyiteS. etc. pro-
posing marching to Washington and !
demanding help at the hands of con-
gresS.
March 81: CoXeyites are a source of /
terror to certain western towns upon
which they quarter themselves
April /: In South Carolina a large
force OF state militia Is ulSpacueu W
the scene of the whiskey war in OAR
lington and Florence.
In Ohio a mob of strikers at East |
Liverpool becomes riotous and several |
persons injured.
April 9: In Chicago 5000 plumbers. !
painters. etc. go on a strike.
April In South Carolina the governor |
assumes control of the police and de-
clares martial law in all the cities of |
the state. |
At ConnelsviIle Pa. 5000 coke work |
ers strike.
April 1: In Pennsylvania . men
killed and one wounded in coke riots
April IL: General strike for higher |
wages on Great Northern Railway.
In Alabama: The general council OF ,
United Mine " orkers orders strike
affecting 5000 men.
April 10: Strike on the Great Nor
thern spreads to the Northern PACING
April 20: In Omaha mob seizes
train of box cars and attempts to de-
port KelIev's industrial army. but the
army refuses 10 go.
April 2l: About $50. 900 miners stop
work in sympathy with the coke strlk-
ers of Pennsylvania.
April -: Arrival of division of
the Coxey army at Washington.
A division OF the CoNeyites arrested
| at Mount Sterling for holding up
railway train.
United States troops ordered TO as
sist the civil authorities in the far
| west.
On the Great Northern railroad sys-
out on strike.
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