Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1886 — WAR TO THE KNIFE. [ARTICLE]

WAR TO THE KNIFE.

The Miwonri Painfic Eetxliatet by . Ordering the Strikers from , , Its Prenr.MA *’* i‘ -i... ... b »* . A Long and Weary Struggle Anticipated, with a Prospect of Some Bloodshed. ' F"' ’•- ’■ (St JxiuistMo.) telogram.] —----- General Superintendent Kerrigan, of the Miasouri l’acilie Railway, this morning iaorder expelling from the Missouri Pacific yards nil -Knighta of. Labor. Thia order includes the delegation of men .appointed by the Knights to guard the company's property. The order is as follows: “ You are hereby notified that your action in withdrawing from th- services of tne Missouri Pacific Railroad Company was a voluntary abandonment of the services of the company, and that you are no longer in its employment, and that your names have been stricken from its rolls. All such who are now about* the company’s premises are hereby notified that they must immediately Isfiyc the same, to the end that this company mav resume the traffic of the country, />- “William Kerrigan.”" ■♦Simultaneously with the appearance of the above ordf;r in the Missouri Pacific yards in this city twenty Pinkerton detecti ■ivcs r Trad'Kbouttiife"same number in tile pinploy of the railroad company marched into the yards under the command of Thomas Furlong, and ordered the Knights who have been guarding the property to leave at once. The oriter was obeyed and the freight turned over to the detectives. At Carondelet, where the bulk of the Iron Mountain freight is abandoned, the yards are still in possession of the Knights of Labor. 1 The company is engaging all the men it can to act as watchmen, but the applications are few, and the number now in its employ is not large enough to watch all the freight. The most important rumor of the day was that the Missouri Pacific would attempt to resutue business to-morrow. The officials of the road were questioned about it, but refuse to say where they are going to get men. Tonight it is-.stated that an be issued calling on the men to return to work, but they cannot return as Knights of Labor. ’Change to-day, and the situation discussed. While many of the merchants sympathize with the railroad employes, they question the wisdom of striking at this time and for the causes whieh-have been given;— — “There are two sides to the question,” said a prominent commission merchant. “The onerinan power in the railroad must be met by organization, on the part of employes, but it is unfortunate that just'at the opening of the spring trade this terrible blow shoitld eome en tbe city--and eounriy.” There is’but one opinion on the subject of interference with business, and that is, that in one-way or another the embargo on trade should be lifted. The question of whether the railroad could not be held responsible and be made to carry freight, even if this did involve paying a little high-er-wages than .usual, received considerable attention. In addition to the actual stoppage ’of the movement of commodities, oae . of The chief elements operating to check and depress trade is fear. The dealers .are afraid to move one way or another find prefer to await developments. Trade is, therefore, practically at a standstill, and scarcely anything was done to-day. The speculators, of course, have free swing, hilt even they are very cautious in their operations. The commission men can do little or nothing but wait until- shipments ean be made. This state of affairs is working up the feelings of the merchants to a high pitch. r The situation in East St. Lours-is alarming in the extreme. Not a pound of freight from.-anvof The Eastern trunklines can be brought across the river by rail, and the result is that the tracks on the Hast Side are all blockaded with delayed freight. The bridge is crowded with teams hauling freight to the city. -The number of laden coal cars now in the yards of the various roads across the river is enormous, and as there is no way of getting the <»al across the river except by hauling it in wagons or shipping it on the ferries, the blockade is likely to cause a cessation of work at the various mines throughout the district, and so throw 2,000 miners out of employment. This afternoon an attempt was made to start the Kirkwood passenger train on the Missouri PacUic, which was abandoned Sunday. When the signal was given to start the fireman on the engine, stepped off. and refused fire. No other man could be secured, and Superintendent Kerrigan jumped on "the.'-engine himself and fired her while the run was made to Kirkwood,-twelve miles out. -«■-'• The departure,of the passenger trains on the Missouri Pacific to-night was delayed about two hours i.n consequence of somebody having vritbdrawn the fire in the locomotives. A force. of sortie four hundred men has been employed by the company to operate their yards, and inore will be en-.. gaged as rapidly as the proper men can be obtained. The opinion is that if the railroad company attempts to run freight , trains to-morrow the effort will be resisted even to the point of violence. There is a feeling of great uncertainty as to what either side will do, and much apprehension is felt regarding the result. A report that the railroad company had applied or would apply to the United States Court here for the appointment of a receiver., so that the road may placed in charge of a court and be ijfiuer the protection of the Government, was denied. None of the roads centering hgre-have been at all interfered with, except the Missouri Pacific, Tliere are no indications Of trouble on any other road. Steps have been taken to have St. Louis merchants ship goods by the river to New Orleans, and thence to Texas by the Texas and Pacific Road, which it is thought can be kept open. Dan Rice, the one-time famous Shakspearean circus clown, is lecturing in Texas, .and is sai d to receive .ssoo_ a. wggk. .for bto... oratorical ground and lofty tumbling. satisfied with his place as Register of the Treasury, aud wants to be Superintendent of the Coast Survey. Dr. A. L. Frothingham, Jr., of Johns Hopkins University, has accepted the professorship of tirchieology in Princeton College- ’ That part of the United States lying west of the Mi sissippi River could be carved into 351 States the size of Massachusettst.,i..»imlu 1 ' ' I'l.11 li 1 ■.IA—F-.-wy ' The second volume .of “General Grant’s Personal Memoirs" will not be delivered to subscribers until-April. Miss .Kate Field’s object iu visiting Washington 1 ecently was to sell fifty acres of her Potomac flat? property. ? j ———■ —k— —■ John W. Oliver, the founder of die order of Sons of Tempe rance, is now editor of the Yonkers Statee/man.