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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1894
Page
8
Chicago labor strikes paralyze Belt Railway transfers disrupting inter state freight flows. Deputized officers guard trains at Riverdale and Dalton while crews clash with mobs, as Illinois Central, Chicago and Alton, and other lines report varied operations and halted services amid the nationwide disruptions.
Central people, manned almost wholly by officers of that road. With the protection of a number of police the damaged track was repaired. A special train stands on a side track at Ft. Sherman, ready to haul United States troops at the first call. The Trades and Labor assembly has given six men authority to tie up every industry in Chicago, in support of the strikers, if necessary. San Francisco, July 2.-There seems to be no improvement in the strike situation and judging by the occurrences of the past few hours, even if the Southern Pacific succeeds in sending out more trains from the Oakland yards there is but little prospect that they will proceed for on their way. All trains are allowed to leave the city, but are stopped out in the country.
In Indianapolis on July 2 a general tieup looms as the board of safety meets in secret session. Police are concentrated and United States deputy marshals have been called in. The U S arsenal force is ready to move at a moment s notice.
Springfield July 2 Governor Altgeld has ordered six companies of militia to Danville at once. Three more companies were sent to Decatur. The mobilization follows railroad requests and the order covers immediate deployment.
Prices on butter eggs poultry and produce across Pittsburgh markets and East Liberty Pa including creamery butters Ohio and New York cheese eggs and poultry ranges. Wheat corn oats hay hogs sheep and calves priced with effects of strikes on rail and western shipments. Local shops promote shoes, watermelons and groceries amid warm weather and planing mill screen doors and windows offers.
B Brooks has invented a machine to move or raise buildings with absolute safety on slopes. Write from Indiana Pa for terms. no pay until work proves satisfactory. Also ads for groceries, second hand piano, cheap shoes, Red Front, Pittsburg Dispatch subscription, and screen windows by W S Daugherty. Road wagons and carts listed at Calvin Bley’s on Philadelphia Street.
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