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EIGHTH TEAR.
GENEIJAL NEWS.
DOMESTIC.
In response to the senate resolution the
postmaster general has informed that
body that the total number of revovals of
fourth-class postmasters from March 4,1885,
to March 3, 188C, -was 3,G45, divided among
the several states and territories, as follows:
Alabama 56
Arizona 9
Arkansas 06
California.... 73
Colorado 33
Conneticut 100
Dakota 123
Delaware 37
Diet'ct of Columbia 1
Florida 20
Georgia 01
Idaho 14
Illinois 613
Indiana 409
Indian Territory. 0
Iowa 399
Kansas 253
Kentucky 191
Lonisana 32
Maine 292
Maryland 137
Massachusetts 127
Minnesota 121
Michigan 311
Mississippi GO
MiBSoun 2S0
Montana 17
Nebraska 87
Nevada 9
New Hampshire 127
New Jersey 255
New Mexico 12
New York 1013
North Carolina 130
Ohio 878
Oregon SI
Pennsylvania 938
lthodo Island 2T
Bouth Carolina 47
Tennessee 116
Texas 74
Utah .r
Vermont 123
Virginia 310
Washington Torr'y.. 2o
Webt Virginia 138
Wisconsin 205
Wyoming 4
Lieutenant Mans has made a supplemental
report in reference to the murder of Captain
Crawford by Mexican troops, near the Ari
zona line a short time back. It has been
sent to Washington. The report contains
his own statement, Lieutenant Shippes', Mr.
Horn's and that of the hospital steward, all
white men, who were present at the time of
the attack, which occurred in daylight.
Crawford wore his undress uniform. Mans
wore a long United States overcoat. He says
ho was within ten yards of the Mexicans.
He says that while the Mexicans wero talk
ing they sent men quietly around to the hills,
where the scouts were fortunately gathered.
While talking to Horn one of the Mexicans
suddenly raised his gun and Bhot him in the
arm. The hospital steward says that while
he had his back turned the Mexicans fired
two shots at close range. Ho was in the un
dress uniform of his grade. The Mexicans
refused to answer any of their cries. The
scouts killed four Mexicans before they jould
restrain them.
The supremo court of the United States
has affirmed the judgment of the court of
claims in the suits between the Union Pa
cific railroad company, and the United
States growing out of charges mado by the
railroads for transporting the mails and the
government emploj es accompanying them
and on the part of the government in refer
ence to its claim for five per cent of the
amount of the earnings of the road under
the act of 18C2. The court of claims decided
that the railroad company was entitled to
2,910,131 for services rendered the govern
ment nnd t'.iat the United states on their
counter claim were entitled to recover $4,
487 and gave judgment in favor of the
United States for the difference. From this
judgment the United States appealed.
A dispatch from Albuquerque, N. M.,
hajs: A man named Groendick? a cowboy in
the employ of C. H. Fitzpatriclc, who owns a
largo cattlo ranch about twenty miles from
hero brings the news that a band of Mexi
can borders had attacked Fitzpatrick's
ranch and killed one man named Ira Mes
kin, driving the rest into the house where
they weio boseiged. The only weapon the
cowboya had was a Winchester rifle, and
this was in the hands of Meskin when he
was killed, and was captured by the Mexi
cans. The men in the house are able to
keep the attacking party out by barricades
for a time, but Groondick, seeing that they
would bo massacred if not relieved, had es
caped himself by crawling on his stomach
along an area through the underbush clear
of the attacking party. Assistance was at
onco dispatched to rescue the ranchrcs
The supreme court of Indiana decided the
last of the telephone cases. The decision
was given by Cluef Justice Niblack. It cov
ers the constitutionality of the laws passed
by tho last legislature for the regulation of
telephone affairs. The points involved by
the law reducing rentals has previously been
decided in the case of Hackett against the
Rtate, nnd in this the court re-affirmed its
former opinion by simply calling attention
to it. Regarding the non-discrimination act,
the court holds, at length, that the telephone
company is a common carrier, and as suh
is subject to all the regulations which the
law imposes upon common carriers. It can
not, therefore, refuse service to any person
who demands it, and fulfill the legal require
ments. The construction of the extensions of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad
from St Joseph, southwestward and north
westward is assured. The proposition of
that company that if St. Joseph citizens
would toko $2,000,000 stock in the enterprise
tho road would be built, has been practical
ly accepted, nearly one-half of the amount
having been raised within forty-eight hours
after the subscription was open to the public.
The completion of the Burlington 3b Mis
souri bridge across the Missouri river, at
Rulo, will result in transferring the through
trains of that road to the St Joe branch.
All tho cloak pressors belonging to
tho Independent Cloak Pressers' union,
in New York City, joined ,the
ranks of the strikes. The cloak cutters stop
ped work. Altogether about 7,000 persons
axe idle in the different branches of 'the
cloak-making trade. Six firms have acceed
ed to tho demands of 'the strikers. The
strikers demand that no work be given to
outside contractors, the prices heretofore
paid to contrctors to be paid to employes
direct, all of whom shall be members of the
union, and that no work be done on Satur
day, tho Hebrew Sabbath.
The board of directors and transportation
committee of the Merchants' exchange, of
St Louis, in a joint meeting, adopted resolu
tions demanding that the strike upon the
Missouri Pacific railroad, and the Gould
southwest system of railroads shall cease,
and as a means to this end that the strikers
upon these roads shall either return to their
former positions, or discontinue hindering
those who are willing to work. The resolu
tions also invoke the civil and military pow
ers of the cities, counties, and states, and if
necessary of the United States, to enforce
the law, which shall put an end to the pres
ent deplorable condition of affairs.
A conference was to . have been held be
tween the Knights of Labor and the morocco
manufacturers to Wellington, Del., for the
purpose of adjusting wages, etc, for the
coming season. The Knights' committee pro-'
ceeded to the place of meeting, but no man
ufacturers appeared, and the general suspen
sion of work in all the shops was ordered and
promptly obeyed. The strike involved 2,000
persons. A portion of those employed by
Charles Mullen are authorized to return to
work and finish up perishable stock. The
manufacturers claim that they were taken
by surprise, and there was no concert of
action among them in staying away from
Hhe conf erenoe.
Congressman Stephenson, of Wisconsin
says that the committee on public lands, of
which he is a member, has decided npon re
commending that the homestead law, which
now requires a settler to live oti bis land five
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changpd and so as to reduce tho time to thir
ty months, with a piovisfon to tho effect that
at least ten acres be under cultivation for
that length of timo. This is in addition to
the other recommendations tho pre-emption
and timber culture laws to be repealed,
which have already been published.
Mis. Henry Franke, aged 42 years, living
near Reading, Pa., on a truck farm, kindled
a fire with coal oil and while so doing the
flames were ignited to the can, which ex
ploded with terrific force. The burning oil
scattered over the body of tho woman and
upon her two children, agen 7 and 11 years.
The frantic woman ran into the yard and
jumed into the istern and was drowned.
Tho children we 3 so terribly burned about
the face and boay that they can not recover.
A Piedmont, W. Va., dispatch says: The
miners' strike in the surrounding bitumin
ous coal fields is assuming a very serious as
pect, all tho mines being boarded up, and
to morrow the men will bo paid off and dis
charged. Besides the thousands of miners
idle, several hundred railroad men here are
idle. The loss in the immediate vicinity is
10,000 per day. Foreign labor will proba
bly be introduced by the mine owners.
A dispatch from El Paso, Tex., says:
Trouble is again brewing among the brake
men, and other freight employes of the
Southern Pacific at this point, and another
strike may result to-day. Tho freight men
are greatly dissatisfied at the recent pro
motions of men who but recently entered
tho employ of the company, over tho heads
of many old employes. It is claimed by
tho men that this breaks an agieement in
the settlement of the recent strike.
A petition is being circulated for signa
tares among tho employes in tho Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad shops and
yards in Milwaukee asking that the working
time be reduced to eight hours and pay the
same price as now paid for ten hours. The
petition asks also that time-and-a-half wages
bo paid for over work, and double wages for
Sunday work. The circulation of the peti
tion is causing a good deal of uneasiness.
Tho boycott instituted against the publish
ers of the Kansas City di-ectory by the
Knights of Labor because of tho work being
done in a job office employing non union
printers, who at tho same time are members
of the Printers' Protective fraternity, has
broken down. The contract for the perform
ance of the work was placed with the pro
scribed firm.
Tho river and harbor appropriation bill,
as completed by the house committee, makes
a total appropriation of 1:,164,200, will be
come available immediately upon the pas
sage of the bill, as there was no appropria
tion made for mer and harbor improve
ments last session. The present appropria
tion virtually covers a period of nearly two
yoars.
The labor committee of tho house held a
protracted scssion? which was entirely con
sumed in a discussion of tho western strikes
and tho feasibility 6f formulating some
measure or measures that will prove effica
cious in relieving the strained relations of
tho strikers and employes now existing, and
no formal agreement has yet been reached.
Tho great striko of four thousand work
men at the National Tube works, at McKees
port, Pa., ended satisfactorily to the strikers,
and work will be resumed in all the depart
ments at once. General Manager Flagler
restored the wages ruling in 1884, and ad
vanced tho wages of laborers to 1.25 per
day.
The number of bushels of grain in store in
tho United States and Canada, March 27,
and the increase or decrease as compared
with tho previous week, was as follows:
Wheat, 49,773,979 bushels; decrease, SG1,335
bushels. Corn, 10,796,383 bushels; increase,
01,332 bushels.
The Mississippi river at Burlington, la.,
has been rising rapidly for a week past and
the bottom land on the Illinois side is be
ginning to present the appearance of a lake.
With the big rise coming from above, fears
are expressed by some of another bad flood.
All tho inside operators in tho dress and
cloak making establishments of New York
city, left work pursuant to u call of the 8trike
committee. They .numbered nearly two
thousand. Negotiations are pending for a
settlement of the difficulties.
Two hundred and fity men e nployed in
the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee
freight house, at Grand Haven; Mich., struck
for an advance, and double pay for Sunday
work. They have been getting fifteen cent3
an hour and want twenty.
There has been another drop in the trans
continental passenger rates. The Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe announced a through
rate from tho Missouri river to San
Francisco of SO net, or 10 from Chicago,
good for ninety days.
The Knights of Labor have been very ac
tivo on the Chesapeake & Ohio road lately.
It is said that if the men are not granted
their request, that the ten per cent reduction
mado several months ago be restored, they
will strike May first.
A dispatch from Vincennes, Ind., says: A
warrant was issued for the arrest of Spears
Holhngsworth, county treasurer of Knox
county, on a charge of embezzlement. He
is alleged to be short in his accounts between
80,000 and 100,000.
The national council of the National Union
League held its annual session at tho Ebbitt
house, in Washington, It C. There was a
very full representation of states. Officers
for the year were elected, including.Presi
C. H- Grosvenor.
An armed mob visited the jail at Vicks
burg, Miss., and after battering down the
doors secured possession of Fred Willerosa,
an Italian, charged with rape. The man was
taken to a tree in front of the jaiL and
hanged.
Judge Thacher and W. E. Curtis, of the
South American commission, addressed a'
sub-committee of theenate committee on
foreign relations, inrsupport of Senator
Fry's bill for a congress of American repub
lics. At a recent meeting of the employes in the
tobacco factories in Baltimore, Md., a com
munication was read from Gail & Ax, em
ploying COO people, reducing the hours of
labor per day without reduction of pay.
The strike of the New York cloak makers
still continues. At the headquarters of the
strikers it was announced that the firms of
Opperheimer fc Villinsky had yielded. The
strikers expect final success.
Three of the largest manufacturing estab
lishments of Detroit, Michigan, have volun
tarily announced a ten per cent advance in
wages, to take effect April 1st Over two j
tnousana men are anecteav
The Iowa house of representatives passed
the bill to abolish circuit courts and reorgan
ize judicial districts. It divides the state
into nineteen judicial districts, with forty
three district judges.
A heavy snow storm is reported in Dakota,
about three inches falling. It is particularly
regreted as the fanners had already com
menced spring seeding, and toe ground was
ia good condition.
SETTLED AT LAST.
Tlie Great Kailroad Strike is ordered otthy
Grand Master Powderly, and the wheels
arc again set in motion. Knights of Ii
hor not guilty of Lau lessncss to bo talcen
hack.
POWDEELX'S ADDKESS.
St. Louis, Mo., March 20. A long secret
circular issued by Master Workman Powder
ly, addressed to the order of the Knights of
Labor, has just been made public here, and
is the most important document that has yet
been issued bearing upon the acts and con
dition of that order. Mr. Powderly opens
by instructing the secretary of each assem
bly to call a full meeting and read the circu
lar before it. The address then orders the
assemblies to cease iniating new members
till the relations of capital and labor shall
becomes less strained than at the present
time.
Mr. Powderly says: "An attempt to win
concessions or gains with our present raw
and undisciplined membership would be
like hurling an unorganized mob against a
well drilled army.
"It is not fair to take in new members,
and take up their quarrels and have them
expect pecuniary aid from those who have
helped to buildup the order.'
Powderly then dwells upon the advisa
bility of taking in new members" and says,
"We must not fritter away our strength and
prospects of final success by rushing into
useless strikes. We must add to the car
cinal principles of the order 'patience.'
Scales of prices must stand as they are
for the present, if strikes are necessary to
raise them. You must submit at the hands
of the employer in patience yet awhile.
Bide well jour time, find out what you are
justly entitled to and the tribunal of arbitra
tion will settle the rest."
Ho then warns the assemblips against ad
mitting employers into their midst and
warns them against politicians and says
that the use of the name of the order in a
political contest is criminal.
Referring to the eight hour system he
sajs tho order must not strike for it on May
1st, for no such order has been or will be
given. The order cannot hope to change
the sentiments of 00,000.000 of people by
that time. He cautions tho order to select
efficient men for officers who are honest and
temperate. The Knights struck because one
man was discharged, and an injury to one is
on injury to all, but adds it is not wise to
injure all for the sake of one.
Mr. Powderly alludes to the relations of
the order to the church, and says: "I am
ashamed to meet clergymen and tell them
that our order is composed of law-abiding
citizens, when the next dispatch brings the
news of a petty strike or boycott.
"I write this to lay before the order the
exact condition of things. I am not able to
do the work required I am asked to main
tain a false position. I say to the world
'Iuiights of Labor do not encourage or ap
prove of strikes,' and yet strikes are con
tinually breaking out."
One of two things must take place, either
the district and local assemblies must obey
tho laws, or I must be permitted to resign.
I am willing to do my best, but must have
the support of the assemblies or every effort
will fail. No violence must bo permitted."
MAEcn 20. A number of additional
I switchmen and shopmen were ordered out in
bt Louis. Tho situation m Last bt. Louis
is becoming serious, all attempts of tho
yardmasters to start trains being thwarted
by the strikers. At many other points the
strikers show a disposition to go to work.
Mr. Powderly was interviewed at his home
in Scranton, and said most emphatically
that tho strike would not be extended east,
and that this must be the last strike under
taken without full authority from the ex
ecutive board.
THE LETTER TO GOULD.
New Yokk, March 27. The following let
ter passed from the general executive
board of the Knights of Labor to Mr. Jay
Gould to-day:
Noble Okdee of the K. or L. of
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Ski
America. "Office of the Gen. Sec.
Philadelphia, Pa., March
Mr. Jay Gould:
Sib The general executive board would
be pleased to have an interview with you at
your convenience to-day tor tho purpose of
submitting the southwest difficulties to a
committee of seven . for arbitration.
Three of the committee to be appointed by
yourself and three by .the general executive
board. The six to select the seventh member
of the committee. Their decision in the
matter to be final. Should this proposition
be accepted we will at once issue an order
for the men to return to work.
By order of the general board.
rSicnedl Fbedekick Tueneh,
Secretary of the board.
After consideration Mr. Gould sent a re
ply to this request denying the interview,
giving his reasons to considerable length.
tbatnb move.
St. Louis, March 28. Several trains on
the Missouri Pacific left here to-day without
being molested by the strikers.
The Wabash switchmen struck to-day.
The United States court on application, has
ordered the United States marshal to protect
the property of the company.
At Texarkana, Ark., an attempt was made
to start a freight train but 400 strikers forci
bly prevented it. The sheriff telegraphed
th6 governor, who at once sent a company
of militia to uphold law and order. Several
trains passed through Atchison and one was
sent out, but not without considerable re
sistance. An attempt to start trains at Kansas City
foiled. The strikers held a public meeting
at Kansas City in the board of trade hall and
explained their stand. A largo crowd was
present
At Little Rock, Ark., trains are being run
nndor the protection of the officers.
OOVEBNOB MABTIN'S PEOCLAIMATION,
State of kansas,
Executive Depabtment,
'
Topeka, March 25, 1886.
To the Sheriffs, County Attorneys and other peace
officers of the State of Ka nsas : ,
Kansas has no water ways within its bor
ders. Its internal commerce is carried by
its railways. The railways are common car
riers, and the prosperity of the state and the
interests and welfare of its people farmers,
mechanics, merchants, manufacturers, la
borers and all others are dependent npon
the uninterrupted operation of the railway
lines of the state. The internption of these
great 'arteries of commerce is n disaster to
all, and hence is the concern of all. Their
operation is vitally essential to every com
mercial, industrial and agricultural interest
of the people, and hence not only the great
est good to the greatest number, but the
greatest good to each individual citizen, is
subserved by their uniterrupted operation.
We axe now in the third week of -the most
serions business disaster that has ever be
fallen our state. The forcible stoppage of
transportation on a long line of railroad
touches the interests of a third of the people
of Kimwiw, several hundred thousand in
number. SeppKesof food and fuel are cat
STOOKLFARMINQ THE BASIS OF OIZR, nTOUSTRIEa
WA-KEENEY, KANSAS, SATURDAY,
off in many localities; farmers, mechanics
and manufacturers are prevented from
selling and shipping their stock and goods,
and from paying thousands of laborers hith
erto in their employ. Thus, the "strike" of
a few railroad men cripples and stops the
business and industry of great masses of
our people. " .
The cause of the difficulty is not our pro1
vince to determine. We live in a law-abiding
state and are the servants of law; corpo
rations and people must alike obey the law.
As new grievances arise, new' legislative
remedies will be found and adopted, but we
must act under and obey and enforce tho
laws we have. Those who violate the law
should be arrested and brought before the
courts for trial and punishment. The
stopping of transportation and the stagna
tion of business have endured long enough.
The wheels of industry must be put in mo
tion. No one class of men have any right,
in law or equity, comm6n sense or justice, to
paralyze the business of the country, to
work disaster to the tiller of the soil, to close
the mills and factories of the state, and to
throw thousands of workingmen, engaged
in every department of human activity, out
of employment. The rights of the many
cannot be yielded to the claims'of the few.
Tho men engaged in this "strike" may
have just grievances; they may be the vic
tims of corporate greed and power. But
this fact does not justify lawlessness or tur
bulence, or the destruction of property, or
the forcible stoppage of the transportation
lines of the state, and the resulting loss and
wrong to hundreds of thousands of people,
in no wise responsible for the controversy
between the railway company and its em
ployes. The people of Kansas, acting through
their representatives, can bo relied on to
see that the just grievances of any class of
citizens, or any wrongs done by corporate
power, are redressed and prevented by law.
The laws of Kansas, in so far as tho inter
ests of her workingmen are involved, are
more liberal than those of any other state
in the union. The legislature, at its last
session, enacted a law, the object of which
was to settle conflicts between employers
and their employes by peaceful and honor
able arbitration. Kansas has taken the
lead on many great questions, and can
be relied on to do so on all questions affect
ing the rights or interests of her working
men. I therefore call upon "all sheriffs, county
attorneys, and other peace officers to dis
charge their duties under the law to preserve
the peace,' to protect property, to see that the
commerce of the state is not interrupted by
violence, or lawless acts, and to arrest and
bring before the courts for trial and punish
ment all who are guilty of any violation of
law. In the discharge of this duty you have
power to call upon every citizen to aid you,
and I appeal to all law-respecting citizens to
support your authority, to the end that order
may be restored, that tho commerce of the
state may be resumed, and that industry
and prosperity may take the place of un
seemly feuds, business stagnation, and in
dustrial paralysis
All the lawful authority of the state will
be exerted to support local officers in the dis
charge of tho duties thus enjoined upon
them, and all persons are hereby warned
against interposing any obstacles in tho way
of the officers of the law, or obstructing tho
lines of transportation on which the com
merce of the state is carried.
In Testimony Whebeof, I hereunto set my
hand, and cause to be affixed the great
seal of the state of Kansas. Done at the
city of Topeka, this 25th day of March, A.
D., 18SG. John A. Maetin.
By the Governor:
E. B. Allen, ,
Secretary of State.
New York, March 28. The strike on tho
Texas Pacific and the Missouri Pacific rail
ways has been settled and to-morrow morn
ing it is expected that the 12,000 men who
have been idle in consequence of the strike
will return to work.
The wheels of commerce will be set in
motion and the complete isolation of St.
Louis and a big slice of the southwestern
part of the United States will be at an end.
The strained relations which seemed to ex
ist between the officers of the Missouri rail
road and the general executive board of the
Knights of Labor on, Saturday were only
strained in appearance.
To-day Grand Master Workman Powder
ly and W. O. McDowell, a member of the
Knights of Labor, from Newark, N. J., a
railroid roan himself, havingbeen president
of the. Sea Beach railroad, representing the
Knights of Labor, and Mr. Gould and
Vice President Hopkins, in behalf of the
company, met at the house of Mr. Gould.
After a consultation lasting several hours,
matters were amicably settled, .and the stri
kers were ordered to resume work.
the basis of settlement
is the proposition of the Knights to submit
the whole trouble to a committee of arbitra
tion, consisting of three selected by the
Knights and three by the company, another
to be appointed by these six.
It was not settled who should constitute
the committees of arbitration, but before
the confefence of to-night adjourned ar
rangements were made for a further confer
ence between Mr. Powderly and Mr. Gould
at 9:30 to-morrow morning, and at that con
ference it is probable that the committee
will be made up or arrangements will be
made for its formation.
The roads affected are the Iron Mountain,
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Missouri
Pacific, in fact all the roads leading out of
St Louis except the St Loui3 & San Fran
cisco. "The result is not a surprise to me," Eaid
Mr. Powderly, late to-night "I find that it
is almost an invareable rule that when two
men of average intelligence are brought to
gether, and are both actuated by a sincere
desire to settle any trouble the desired end
can be reached. I have no doubt that had
Mr. Gould been at home at the time the trou
ble broke out, and if I could have seen him
the strike would not have lasted a week, and
all this loss of money and property could
have been avoided. I am exceedingly glad
that we have been able to settle the matter.
fatklx and hoxobaely.
"I have .no possible doubt that the order
sent out will be obeyed to the letter, and
don't therefore, care to express an opinion,
on any contingency which is so remote as to
be practically out of the question. I can't
tell when I shall go home; certainly not un
til all the details of the settlement have been
made." .
New Yobs, March 28. Conferences be
tween Jay Gould andT. V. Powderly to-day
and this evening have resulted in orders from
each of them to the parties to the southwest
ern strike, ordering an immediate resump
tion of work traffic, and pendingarbitration,
to which Mr. Gould consents.
HOW THE AGBZEXENT WAS BEACHEJ).
New Yobk, March 28. This morning at 11
o'clock T. V. Powderly and W. B. McDowell
called on Jay Gould at the latter's residence.
There they met Messrs. Gould, Hopkins, and
George Gould. There was a general discus
sion of the situation in the southwest by
both sides, and a better aMHerstanding was
arrived at than had been had by either party
hitherto. After talking antil 1, o'clock p.
m. adjourned vatil evening.
APRIL 3, 1886.
At 7 o'clock to-night they met again.
At 8:30 p. m. Mr. Powderly had to leave to
keep an engagement with Congressman
John O'Neil. of St". Louis, chairman of the
house committee on labor, who came from
Washington to render assistance, if possible,
in settling tho strike.
Mr. McDowell, however, remained with
Mr. Gould and his party, and Mr. Gould
finally handed to Mr, McDowell the follow
ing communication:
President's Office,
Missouri Pacific Railway,
"
March 28, 1886.
T. V. Powderly, Grand Master Workman:
Deab Sib: Replying to your letter of the
27th inst.j I wish to say that I will to-morrow
morning send the following telegraphic
instructions to Mr. Hoxie, general manager
of the Missouri Pacific railroad, at St Louis;
In resuming the movement of trains on
the Missouri Pacific and in the employment
of laborers in the several departments of this
company, give preference to our late em
ployes whether they are Knights of Labor or
not, except that you will not employ any
persqn who has injured the company's prop
erty during the late strike, nor will we dis
charge any person who has taken servico
with the companyduring said strike. Wo
see no objection to arbitrating any differen
ces between the employes and the company,
past or future, and hoping the above will be
satisfactory, I remain,
Yours, very truly,
Jay Gould, President.
The executive board of the Knights of La
bor have sent out the following telegram:
To Martin Irons, Chairman of the Executive
Board of District Assembly 101, St. Louis:
President Jay Gould has consented to our
proposition for arbitration, and 60 telegraphs
Vice President Hoxie. Order the men to re
sume work at once.
By order of the Executive Board,
T. V. Powdebly,
Grand Master Workman.
The executive board also sent out the fol
lowing telegram:
To tho Knights of Labor now on a strike
in the southwest
President Jay Gould has consented to our
proposition for arbitration, and 60 tele
graphs Vice President Hoxie. Pursuat t to
telegraphic instructions 6ent to tho chair
man of. the executive board of district as
sembly 101, you are directed to resume work
at once.
Per order to the Executive Board.
T. V. Powdebly, Grand Master Workman.
Congressman O'Neil arrived from Wash
ington just in time to get the news. He sent
the following telegram at once:
To the Missouri Republican:
Settlement effected. Gould consents to
arbitrate. Executive committee of Knights
of Labor ordered men to resume work.
Congratulate our people on the result.
John J. O'Nfjl.
Congressman O'Neil said that the labor
committee had prepared a bill which ho
would present to the house to-morrow, in
which ho thought there wero provisions
which would prevent future trouble like this.
He said that some 9,000 or 10,000 people had
been directly affected. He expressed great
pleasure that the end came so peaceably.
He returned to Washington at midnight.
Messrs. Powderly and McDonald will
meet Mr. Gould to morrow morning at 9:30
by appointment.
AN ADDEESS TO THE KNIGHTS.
St. Louis, Mo., March 29. The joint ex
ecutive committee of the district Assemblies
Nos. 101, 93 and 17, which have been in ses
sion here this morning, have just issued the
following brief address:
St. Louts, March 29, 1886.
To the Knights of Labor of the Great Soitthicest:
Fellow Woekmen: We congratulate you
one and and all, on your manhood -and for
titude during our late great struggle for rec.
ogmtion ana right, now we accept arbitra
tion as just, let us demean ourselves as men
of dignity and manhood. Every man to his
post and to his duty with quiet and sobriety.
Let us exhibit the same zeal for the upbuild
ing of the businoss of the west that wo have
just done in proving that labor is king.
By order of the executive board of D. A.'s
Nos. 101, 93 and 17.
This address was sent to the different halls
where the strikers wero holding meetings,
where the men received it joyously and start
ed for their homes, there to prepare to go to
work. It is stated that this address has been
telegraphed to all points on the southwest
system.
Mabch 29. The great strike which was
thought to be settled on Sunday, is still in
progress. Complications have' arisen in New
York between Gould and Powderly, which
will at least delay the settlement. At Atchi
son and Parsons, Kansas, there was more
disorder and lawlessness than at any time
during the strike. . Trains were ditched and
engines disabled. Many of the strikers
claim that they have been sold out by Pow-
aeny.
Mabch 29. Mr. Powderly being interview
ed felt quite jubilant that the strike had been
settled; In the East St Louis yards con
siderable trouble was experienced in getting
out trains but finally one was taken out. At
St Louis warrants were sworn out at the in
stance 6f the special attorney of the Missouri
Pacific road against J. K McGarry, judge
advocate of district assembly No. 101, C. M.
Chase and a man named Burdette under the
general charge of felony, and by specific of
fense of obstructing trains and trespassing
upon the property of the company.
At Atchison considerable excitement pre
vailed. In the afternoon two trains arrived
from the Omaha branch. One passed the
junction and reached the yards in safety.
The second was not so fortunate. A switch
was thrown ahead of it and the rails smeared
with soap, so that it was impossible to stop
and the train was ditched at the switch. The
machinery of the engine was next doctored
and steam applied, which effectually dis
mantled it Later the strikers run down to
Union street and seized" an engine inside
the city limits, doctoring it so effectually,
that 1,500 will hardly repair it The men
were reckle? and almost frenzied and
bolder in their operations than at any time
since the strike was inaugurated. Theyde
.clare that Powderly has sold them out. The
company has secured a limited number of
men and will endeavor to start up their
shops to-morrow. Superintendent Fagan
announced that he will restore the old em
ployes to their places so far as he has vacan
cies, but will not employ those who have
damaged or destroyed property, or advised
such acts.
Have given Tongaline a trial in two
cases of neuralgia one lady aged sixty;
four doses gave permanent relief, the
other lady aged forty; neither have had
any return.
J. D. Donnohue, M. D., Batler Mb.
At a meeting 250 members of the Sea
men's union decided unanimously to join
the Knights of Labor. Among others Rich
ard Powers, president of the union,advocat
ed such a step.
The values of exports of merchandise for
the year ending with February, were $84
060,000 less than the preceding year, white
toe vanes of imports aereaetitf,,Wtt,
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CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
In the senate, on March 23d, the bill was
passed, granting a pension of 2,000 a year
to General Hancock's widow. Further dis
cussion was had upon Senator Logan's bill
to increase the efficiency of the army, and
upon the judiciary committee's resolution
respecting removals from office by the presi
dent, but no final action was taken. Upon
motion of Mr. VanWyck the senate took np
the bill to confirm entries heretofore made
upon public lands in accordance with the
Tulings of the land office, in force at the time
the entries were made. Mr. Plumb suggest
ed that an amendment be mado declaring
that the measure shall not apply to scrip en
tries. Mr. VanWyck accepted tho amend
ment, and the bill was then passed.
In the senate on March 24th a protest,
signed by 800 citizens of California, against
the cruel treatment of the Chinese,, was re
ceived. The most of the day was passed in
discussing the bill to increase the strength of
the army, and on the senate judiciary com
mittee resolutions concerning appoinments,
but without final action on either.
In the senate on March 25th, a bill was
passed creating a commission to ascertain
and report to congress the character and
value of manuscripts belonging to congress.
A letter was laid before the senate showing
the number of fourth class postmasters roT
moved during the past twelve months. 'The
number was 8,645. Mr. Voorhees addressed
the senate in opposition to the senate judi
ciary committee resolutions.
In the senete on March 20th there was a
long debate on the senate judiciary resolu
tions participated in by Ingalls, Logan, Har
rison and others. A vote was finally token
on the resolutions separately as follows: The
first resolution adopting the report of tho
committee on judiciary was adopted.
Yeas, 32; nays, 26. The second
resolution, condemning the refusal of
tho attorney general to send
copies of the papers called for by the senate,
was adopted. Yeas, 32; nays, 25. The third
resolution, declaring it to be the duty of the
senate to refuse its advice and consent to
proposed removals, the documents in refer
ence to the supposed misconduct of whom
are withheld, was adopted. Yeas. 30: nays,
29. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution declar
ing that nothing in the resolutions already
adopted was to be construed as declaring
that the conduct of the attorney general
rendered him liable to impeachment The
resolution was laid on the table. Yeas, 30;
nays, 2G.
In the senate on March 29 a memorial
was presented from Sacramento praying for
relief from the Umnese evil. The Logan
bill to inerease the army was further dis
cussed, and after an executive session the
senate adjourned.
BOUSE.
In the house, on March 23d, Mr. Reagan
reported the senate bill to establish a na
tional live stock highway, and Mr. Davis re
ported a bill to prevent the introduction of
contagious diseases into the United States.
The bill, known as the "Fourth of July claim
bill," involving $33,2W, was passed. The
house then went into committee of the wholo
on the Indian appropriation bill, and after
some discussion, adjourned.
In the house on March 24 a resolution was
reported calling on various cabinet officers
for information as to whether or not . em
ployes in their departments were permitted
to employ substitutes to perform duties, and
whether such substitutes were employed or
appointed, and if so, by whom, and whether
they, have passed the civil service examina
tion'. Adopted. Mr. Anderson, of Kansas,
asked unanimous consent that an order, be
made allowing the committee on labor to
report for action at any time, not to inter
fere with revenue or appropriation bills,
legislation for the purpose of providing for
arbitration in strikes on railroads. The In
dian appropriation bill was passed, and the
postoffice appropriation bill was token up,
but no progress was made.
In the house on March 25th a resolution
was adopted calling on the secretary of the
treasury for a list of claims allowed by the
accounting a officers of the treasury. Mr.
Hill, of Ohio, from the committee on terri
tories, reported the bill to provide for the
organization of the territory of Oklahoma.
Printed and recommitted. The house then
went into a committee of the whole on the
postoffice appropriation bill, and after some
discussion adjourned.
In the house on March 26, the speaker laid
before the house a communication from
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Fair
child, transmitting a draft of the bill to
amend the laws regulating emigration.
Also a letter from Assistant Secretary Fair
child, asking for an appropriation for the
storage and transmission of the silver dol
lar. The vote by which the house, a few
days since defeated the senate bill granting
a pension of 50 per month to the widow of
General Benham, was considered, and the
bill passed.
In the house on March 28th, the entire day
was devoted to a discussion of the silver
question.
In the house, on March 29, four bills were
introduced in relation to the present labor
troubles; one granting a pension of $8 per
month to all honorably discharged union
soldiers and sailors, and directing the secre
tary of wa to furnish artificial legs and
arms to disabled confederate soldiers; one
appropriating $147,748 to pay the losses sus
tained by the Chinene in the Rock Springs
trouble; one to regulate the rate on fourth
class postage, and one granting the right of
way to certain railroads through the Indian
territory. Mr. O'Hara introduced a resolu
tion for the appointment of a committee of
fivq by the speaker to investigate the recent
Carroll county court house murders, where
a number of negroes were shot The reso
lution recites that the matter has been ig
nored by the governor of the state and the
grand jury of the county. Mr. O'Hara asked
immediate consideration, but Mr. Regan
objected on the ground of constitutionality,
and the house adjourned.
SAYIXGS SMART A"I OTHERWISE.
Like sonle arch-acting acting acrobat
Who tumbles in the ring
HppIs over head, and falls down fiat
This is a "backward Spring-"
And, as an army in retreat
Sways like a wind-blown larch,
This month is anything but fleet
Tis not a "forward March."
New York Journal.
Mrs. Bowles 1 guess that's a cheap
cigar your smoking." -
. Mr. Bowles "Yes, I swore off using
tobacco the nrst of the year. Boston
Courier. .
Westerner "Er excuse me but
doaen't my open window trouble you ?"
Lady Passenger "Oh, thank you.
I was feeling tt a little.''
Weflterner-WeD,IwouWn'ttnn aaj
rkkof cttchtnr oold. Then an soin
Emir aaaAc fin ml" Wju'imi V Auitaak I
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NUMBER 5.'
At a dinner at which the printing;
trade was well represented, an exchange
relates',, an English nobleman, who had
heard a great deal of praise bestowed
upon uuitenDerg, proposea the latters
health, but, upon some one tugging at
his coat tails and informing him that the
great inventor was detd, straightened
up and continued: "I regret to an
nounce that intelligence has just been
received announcing the death of Mr..
Guttenberg." PhiladelpJria Ledger.
At the Police Court:
A beggar has been arrested as a vaga
bond. "Then you have no employment 2""
said the Judge.
"Pardon me, monsieur," he replied:
without a blush. "You are mistaken-
I do the blind man" Graphic.
"For whom are you wearing that:
weed on your hat, Podson?"
"My wife."
"Is she dead?"
"No, but she's pretty sick, and T
thought Pd put it on now, so she might
see how bad Tm going to feel when she's
gone. Chicago News.
There was ' a sensation in the "Wash
ington Ephiphany Church, a Sunday or
two ago, when a well known lady walked
up the aisle with a pair of opera glasses
carried in her hand in a most conspicuous-,
manner. As soon as tho services com
menced she discovered her mistake, and
her devotions were somewhat disturbed
by the fear that other people had noticed
it. Columbus Dispatch.
THE NEtrrEK GENDER.
Teacher Mary, give me an example
of an object of the masculine gender.
Mary Mr. Jones, the grocer.
Teacher Now,' give me an object oC
the ferninine gender.
Mary You; Miss Smith.
Teacher And now of the neuter gen
der. Mary Mr. Bobinson!
Teacher Mr. Bobinson?
Mary Yes; he is neither man nor
woman, but an old bachelor! New YdrJr
Advertiser.
TOO CLOSE.
"Who broke this vase?" asked Miss?
Fussinfeather's father as he entered the
parlor one morning and found his daugh
ter gathering up the pieces of a majolica
vase.
"George and I broke it between us
last night," was the maiden's innocent
reply.-
"Broke it between you, did you! Well,
next time young Crimdonbeak calls yom
better not sit so close."
And then he left his daughter to pon
der on what he meant. YonJcers State
One of our brother journalists went?
into a barber shop the other day to have
his hair cut and, fell asleep during tho
operation. The barber, who awoke him
when he had finished, said to him:.
"You are tired. I understand it. It'ffi
the same way with me when evenings
comes. Ah, this head work is something;
terrible." Paris Echo.
A New Orleans dog every morning;
carries to each member of his master's
family the shoes and stockings doffed on
tho previous night and then goes and
gets the morning paper. But this is
nothing. Several Louisville dogs not)
ouly gather up all tho shoes and stock
ings, and get the morning paper, but go
down into the cellar and turn the water
on, prepare breakfast and make up the
beds. Courier-Journal.
Mr. C, has a weak, feminine, voice
"There is a dime for you, my brave sol
diers," he said, as he tossed the coin into
'the cap of a poor fellow who was blind.
"Thank you, marm," was the response
"Pm not a woman," was the indignant
reply. "Thank you, miss," was the
prompt retort.
Mrs. Wells (about to hire a new ser
vant) Now, in regard to going out vis
iting, I servant(interruptmg) Och, go
out whiniver yez loikes, you'll not find
Bridget O'Murphy harrud, mum, or dic
tatorial loike. Judge
"I got it, ma, hurrah I" shouted Jimnry
Triffboy. as he rushed into the house"
and made for tho warmest place next thev
.stove.
"Got what?" inquired his mother-
"Oh, Fve been 'lected president of the
bayB' cigarette club. Just squoze in by
two majority. Big thing I tell yer, ma"
"James, I shall speak to your father
about this. He will not allow you to
make cigarettes."
"Huh! He smokes a pipe. Pve got
my rights as well as ho." Hartford.
Post.
It is said that Confucins never spok
a word at dinner. We gave Confuciu
credit for being, more of a gentiamaa
than to always make his wife ask tit,
blessing. DansvUIe Breeze.
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been craned, do not'delay it loager. AaAi.
imanlMr that it is the last jevT
gjowtfa tfaataaadfl out tbe bearaaateatB
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