The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-26
STRIKE MUST END
Else st. Louis People viii Not
Be Allowed
To Shoot Fire Crackers on the
Fourth of July.
MAYOR HAS SAID TT
MAYOR HAS SAID IT.
Will Issue a Proclamation to
That Effect Soon
Unless a Settlement of the
Trouble Shall Be Reached.

st. Louis, Mo, June 26.-Unless the
street railway strike is ended by July
4, Mayor Ziegenhein says he will pro-
hibit the use of fireworks of any descrip-
tion in st. Louis on that day. He an
nounces that proclamation will be is
sued two or three days before the ma
tion's holiday. In explanation of his
proposed action, the mayor said:
Il have decided to issue a proclama-
ton forbidding the use of fireworks of
any description in this city on the
Fourth of July. This I deem the wisest
course to pursue under the circum-
stances and I hope the people who will
be prevented from celebrating the day
as they are used to doing will look at
this matter rightly and see that it
would be a grave mistake to allow fire.
works to be used in this city while the
strike remains unsettled. I announce
my decision this early so as to warn the
dealers in fireworks and save them
much loss"
Lee V. Cottner John Kilker and Mar
tin Manion have been arrested and
locked up on the charge of cutting
trolley wires. 1t is said there are a
number of other menwho We're interest
ed with the three mentioned and the
police expect to have them in custody
soon.
The troubles between the management
OF the SUBURBAN road ana the employees
union seems to have broken out afresh
after a satisfactory arrangement for
settlement had been agreed upon by
Manager Jenkins and the grievance
committee last Thursday.
1t was understood after the meeting
at which the agreement was reached,
that there would be no necessity for
arbitration, as both sides We're confident
that the trouble could be adjusted salts
factorily between themselves. Since then,
however, it is said that the union insists
that arbitratorS shall hear the griev-
anceS of the men and decide the QueS-
| tiOnS at issue
| A strong and organized protest
| against the proposed issuance of a proc
| lamation by Mayor Ziegenhein forbid
ding the discharge of fireworks on the
| Fourth of July is being made by a COM
/ mittee of dealers in fireworks. They
Y called on him and asked that the pro-
! posed proclamation be modified 50 as to
| not prevent the use of ordinary fire
| works. leaving the ban on fire arms, can
| non crackers, booms and tOrpedoes of
| the dangerous size. The mayor refused
to make any definite statement to the
committee.
Three prominent citizens presented a
| proposition for the settlement of the
| strike to an official in authority of the
| Transit company today, and received
| assurances that the proposition was
| looked upon with favor by the official
The committees f-appointed-waS
/ asked by the Transit company official to
| secure the acceptance OF the proposition
| by representatives of the strikers and to
call upon the company after having Sc
cured this. The plan of settlement Of
fered by the three citizens is founded
upon reinstatement of former employees.
The coroner's jury conducting the in
quest on the body of Robert H. Stilson,
the non-union motorman,. who died Sun
day from the effects of a gunshot wound
received May 29, in a disturbance at
California and Chippewa streets, re-
turned a verdict of homicide this af-
ternoon and declared that 1.-THE de-
ceased met death at the hands of par
ties unknown to the jury