Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1886 — THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The Boane Iron Company, of Cliattano oga, will remodel its extensive works into a Bessemer steel-rail mill and employ 1,000 men. The plant has been idle for five years. The strike of nailers which has beeD in progress throughout the United States for the past year was ended last week at Pittsburgh by the adoption of a compromise scale. An exciting episode in the Lake Shore Railway switchmen’s strike occurred at Chicago. It was a wild chase of a Nickel-Plate engine, literally black with infuriated strikers, and a Milwaukee and St. Paul engine drawing a box-car filled with men down the Lake Shore tracks after two engines drawing two cabooses filled with railroad officials, imported switchmen, policemen, and reporters; and the exchange of pistol-shots for heavy iron coupling-pins, brick», and lumps of coal. Tho pistol-shots were fired by Matt rinkerton and four officers on the platform of tho rear caboose, and the iron missiles and coal were hurled from tho sloping tender of the Nickel-Plate engine, which was slightly in advance of the Milwaukee one, and running tender first At

Grand Crossing the Lake Shore engines were obliged to come to a standstill The pursuing engine was reversed, but not one second too soon, and, as it was, it went crashing into the caboose with sufficient force to throw a number of men from the tender and drive the train forty or fifty feet forward. The instant the collision took place the strikers swarmed out upon the tracks and took possession of the Lake Shore engines and cabooses, and they were then drawn back to Chicago. Four men on the pursuing engine were shot, but none dangerously. A large number of strikers were arrested.