Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel (Newspaper) - July 18, 1883, Fort Wayne, Indiana VOL 108 WEDNESDAY EVENING JULY 18 1883 PRICE FIVE WILL REMOVE SEPTEMBER 1 Into My New Store KEY ROTES The Great Strike of Telegraph Operators Agitated But Not Commenced The Western Union Company Appoints a Committee to Consider the Hatter The Cigar Makers and on a Other Labor Troubles shops will not b will fillip I X K AW working force The members of II LIl MM II the protective union say they will re- main firm to their determination and au j Courtney Indulge by Wagner the Present Stock of i j run Cits Bold at a GREAT In order to commence with a New Stock LOUIS WOLF KEYSTONE BLOCK 24 ST Ff IND Strike of Telegraph Operators NEW YORK July 18 feverish feeling exists in circles over the threatened strike Every person interested is anxiously awaiting the result The executive committee of the Western Union directors and a committee of the brotherhood held a meeting early this morning but what transpired could not be learned Cipher were received by the committee from various parts of the United States The operators are ready to leave their desks at a ment's notice W B Somerville of the West Union company said today that there to be little ity that the company would grant the request nnd that the strike seemed to be inevitable The demands were unjust and unreasonable and if a strike should happen the company would fight it to the bitter end W J Doaley manager of the ope rating room of the Western Union company said he did not believe a strike would be without mature deliberation on the part of the operators This there was an unusually large force at work in the office numbering between 600 and 700 The ordinary number of ab was from fifteen to twenty Sve There were only nine absentees this morning Mr Dealy said he had at least fifty letters from employees promising to stand by it in the event of a strike There were twenty-nine chief operators in the office each ing under him from eighteen to twenty five men This morning vass was made by these chiefs among the operators to ascertain if possible the real strength of the disaffected portions and how large a force might be relied In case of a strike The first report showed that out of thus through their unwillingness to work with the twenty six men who they claim violated the promise made to them over persons a few of them women will this afternoon be thrown out of employment and fifteen cigar manufactories closed A lockout Is confidently expected BROOKLYN N Y July strike does not appear to be general Onj a few besides those at store are standing out for an increase of five cents an hour There are about 100 employed at the store and most of them struck saying they cannot maintain their families on twenty cents an hour when they do not make full hours Green hands are employed in the place of strikers The employers say they will not yield LINEHEN ON A STRIKE CHICAGO July linemen of the telephone company of this city went out on a strike at noon to day and will hold a meeting at 2 o'clock this afternoon to outline their future course of notion iu a Bitter Their Wagers The East Bound St Louis Pool Interests Con- The Great Telegraph Lines of South America Opened for Business Chang who has been negotiating heie with Tricott the French ambassador has arrived at Thrown She Track s Fa July train on the railroad about a from here was yesterday twelve cars being thrown from the track striking acow William Thomas of this place wae killed James Hoffman brakeman was seriously injured Thomas was a traveling Bailsman LOCAL LINES PLASTERERS CINCINNATI July 18 plasterers national tion spent the day the without completing their work Mill Belle Forey of Is in thecity her friend Fry W M Haley cousin of the late Maj 0 W Drake wai in town day on way J E who used to run a greenback paper here hu tued B Beeson in the superior court for On account of the game of bate ball Saturday Mr Harris bai changed the hour for the ten mile race from until o'clock thus giring The Race Canada July river continues rough though the prospects this afternoon for a rice are dubious Neither Hanlan or Ross were out this morning Tbe influx of visitors was greatly ed by the trains from all parts last night The wind is blowing a little The water is now too rough for the race QUITE A BOW N Y July 18 is said that Banian approached Courtney at his headquarters this morning in bad temper A verbal row followed in which is said to have unusual He offered to put up f and row Courtney a square race on any body of water in America Courtney kept cool and asked Hanlan how much he had to pay for cutting his boat at exhibiting and ing to bet he would crowd Hanlan to fasten his time A SEVERE STORI The Southwestern Part Missouri the of Disasters of Struck by Lightning nuti ion Max was token quite ill this afternoon Miss Bell in at on a four week's visit Hon Allen 7 of the supreme bench in iu the city Miss Nellie Freeman and sister of are in the city Miss Frankie Bond will shortly visit friends at Indianapolis Mart Houer now with a Toledo house is in the city for a day or two Master Mechanic of the Two to Death by 11 Lund Slide at St Louis It is the knowledge that Tiie Biggest M and Cheapest Aie the superlatives that can with perfect consistency without be to the twenty-one operators twelve were doubtful and nine promised to stand by the company Later reports indr this proportion represented the division of feeling throughout the whole force v NO ACTION KET NEW July was an- in the morning papers that a committee of the would wait upon the officials of the Western Union county at 11 o'clock to day to demand an answer to their petition in relation to wages and hours of work Up to o'clock none of the committee bad ap A meeting of the directors all an opportunity to attend Al Foote has been grossly insulted A member of the ball nine wrote Mr Foote asking him to accept the management and work the gang into the Northwestern league The second annual excursion of the Fritz Keuter to Rome City occurs August 22 This is Andy excursion and hia name will insure an crowd John Maier the professor of the guitar goes to Warsaw next Tuesday when he take part in a concert for the benefit of Sirs Bessie Matthews formerly of the Conservatory The veteran engineer Henry Stock in witnessed his first game of base ball yesterday He waa well pleased with way the Fort Wayne boys play ball and is anxious to again Bee them on the diamond field James Fox is having a petition asking the common council to pass an ordinance compelling all coal Pools Consolidated ST Louis July of railroads interested in east bound live stock east bound dead freight and local coal pools have ished their respective thus deposing R M Moore of the dead freight pool Isaac H Enox of the live stock and L G Remer of the coal pool and decided on the consolidation of three ships on and after August 1 H 8 Depew general freight agent of the Short Line has been commissioner of the consolidated pools and will assume the duties of hid office August 1 W abash ii on a of inspection west Councilman Kramer and family go to City to-morrow to remain a day or two General Foreman J 0 Wills has returned alter a two weeks visit to friends in the far west Miss Frankie Glutting went to De- catur to day where she will be tho guest of friends for a week The band is in town day en route home from Chicago where they accompanied the big ex- cursion Sisters Soyder and Moore A Storm July Missouri was visited by a severe der storm last A F ler's large barn and slaughter house at Garbage WHS struct by lightning anl burned to the ground Loss no insurance Several stables and barns were also struck by ning sud destroyed At Marshall the storm of wind and rain was very severe Trees were rooted fences leveled corn uprooted and blown flit At the of God a new structure blown over by the tornado A man Slack was billed by lightning and blown a mile off Telephone wires and were destroyed was also visited by a storm but the damage waa slight of the Ti company will be STOCK OF I held at 1240 and the result an far as it refers to the petition will not be known for an hour or two thit time There is no evidence I of an unusual excitement among the operators this morning although the situation is discussed with much in- terest wherever a lot of them gather COMPANY NEW YORK July it a regular I meeting of the executive committee 1 of the directors of the Western Union the following a committee consisting of ex Governor J W and John j TYrry bo appointed to enquire into I the complaints of inequalities of com men to weigh all coal sold in the city Mr Fox is very severe on his ren and claims they need watching Yesterday Mr John MacDougal and daughter Miss Katie who is by Miss Nora left for Buffalo N Y to attend the Before returning they will visit Niagara Falls and possibly the sea side Mrs Paek the equestrienne rode bout the streets this morning in a raggy behind a white horse and at the Nome the low I Do business on popular j and condition of Guarantee nil Employ polite I Mark all goods in plain Special attention is to the reduct ons in prices of Summer Clothing Whjte Vests We have bargains for bargain hunters L CO 27 Street of this company if any anc to this committee THE STRIKE OF MEN NEW YORK July 18 are no 1 nsw to day in strike The members of tb 1 international employed by S Olten berg are at unless or ar discharged to-day e members of trie union The Hill Case WASHINGTON July the opening of Hill investigation Thomas announced that his ments compelled him to retire from the case offered in evidence the vouchers for moneys paid to George L Damon on account of safes and repairs thereto since 1876 for public buildings in New York Philadelphia Barton and other cities for a majority of which safes no con- tracts were made Judge Wylie overruled the pleas in abatement entered by Wm Pitt attorneys in the star route esses The Plague ALEXANDRIA July ports of deaths from cholera are as At Damietta 8 Mansurah 28 22 11 7 6 and C CAIRO July number of from cholera in this city during le twenty-four hours ending at eight lia morning were sixty one New Lines BOGOTA July 18 via ness ei are holding nightly services at the Free church on avenue 3 H ShoarT E B John Studabaker and Fred Eckart have entered suit iu the supreme court against the city of Fort Wayne for damages demanding The indications for the lower lake region as reported by the weather bureau at Washington for THE TINEI are an Fair weather stationary or rising barometer and temperature Before Justice Scarlett today a provoke case came up against Charles Parker formerly of Huntertown and related to wealthy people in Perry township and who married hie relatives wishes The ant is Parker's sister in law A suit for damages has been I filed iu the superior court by Edward Crushed to Death Sr Louis July fore 6 o'clock last evening p.s men named John Bottler and olas Roeder were drilling for a on a rocky edge on the face of bluff at tho foot of Cherokee street a large volume of clay became detached from the of the bluff forty feet above them They were com- overwhelmed and it required half an hour's work on the part of the quarrymen to exhume the bodies Both men were found to b8 fright fully crushed and it was evident that death was instantaneous Wabash The following notice has been ed upon the hook at Foreman J Q Wills office at the Wabash round 1 PERU Ind July j The following appointments take effect this FIRST AND SECOND H 0 Bonghton train An- B A Houghton road master De- fiance much attention She wears jockey cap and is altogether quite horsey in her make-up Moreover she is a pretty woman This morning the Lake Shore at this point two car loads o potatoes and three car loads of water melons Colonel the Isr agent Is to be highly commended for bis energy in securing a bi freight business for his road The little four-year-old gran child of a daughter of Dr Fiser fell out of the second story windo at the residence of Mrs France o South Calhoun street this and was slightly injured The child parents Mr and Mrs 0 S Gilber at Lima Ohio Fred informs a SENT I will not return n nnl in that On and fourteen other factories ging to the union i be locked out for an in I definite period One result of the ikc it Is will tout I Inn re Q administrator of bert a j D Vail assistant train master Drakeman killed some time ago Toledo while in performance of his duty against the Pennsylvania company The Knights of Pythias of this city I A B Adams road master have received a peremptory order from Grand Chancellor E B I stating that a lodge of that will be instituted at on the Butler and that all I E Cain road master Butler lodge Diust attend or Is fined each employed by THIRD AKD DISTRICTS H N train master man that family matters ha to do with the of Otto Steinbruck Mr infills that his late partner was on singing witn the Arion society Evidently he imagined bo In ol a Notice has been given that the telegraph Venezuela were opened yesterday to the frontier of Columbia where they with he land line of government are in direct connection with he lines of tho Central acd South American Telegraph company via Salveston The OH Exchange CINCINNATI July oil change M K Thompson president organized to promote the business o dealing in petroleum was opened to day in the rooms in Pike opers bouse adjacent to the chambe of commerce A T McLean 19 man ager and J B secretary CAPE VINCEST N Y July 18 burned this ing Hundreds barrels of ale and porter and of malt were destroyed Loss f nj insurance jin Linker the had another ac cession to his family afternoon now numbers thirteen The latent addition is B twelve pound boy and the proud pater can't a cleaver from a bottle of ia syrup McDonald the murderer is very isd at THE became we aid that he would be photographed Mi Doyle says that the ular grievance of tho eminent nsi s because he was accused of sending of sending to the country for B suit of clothes Sam says that any I will be glad of an to rig him j out A local reminiscence of Tom Thumb the dwarf who died the other day may be interesting just now When hero with the show be called for two quarts of champagne to his FIFTH ASD SIXTH DISTRICTS E M Hawley train master Peru F Sullivan road master Peru AND EIGHTH DISTRICTS Z late of the Nickel Plate assistant train Tilton A B Adams master J 8 Stevens chief dispatcher Carmi J M Gill nwistsnt train master will have authority on all and will re ort to and receive tions from the J S Goodrich chief dispatcher at Peru will have charge of the tors and distribution of cars on all tlie districts the seventh and room at the before the evening performance and afterward drank nearly a pint of brandy It was habitual intemperance caused his death This morning case of bsker et al the U S express com- pany came up again io the superior court A motion for a new trial hy Hon b Maxwell counsel for de- was overruled G Supl Eastern Division D G MOORE if upi 7th and 8th Dist B F MATHIAS gupt 1st snd 2d Dist To enable oar to the great bail contest and ten mile race Saturday the hall match with the club will be called clock and will be finished by giving ample time to dine the race which will be o'clock 18 N nety days lo to An to rc n Go io A Co for sion to In 18 MR oil M
