Show AND LOCKOUTS or th chic chicago igo line ard and tho the santa Ps fa Ci feb 23 2 the switchmen and on oil the chicago western indiana road went on a strike tonight to night 0 As the road is a belt line on oil which tho the louisville new albany chicago wabash chicago eastern illinois chicago A eric grand trunk and atchison topeka a santa fo fe enter the city not a train over those roads is able to leave leavi athe the cl city it y tonight file i tri kers this morning presented demands for an increase nerease of 1 25 per cent in wages to resident president thomas and superintendent warner odthe of the belt line and a long on conference resulted the officials were not ready to 11 grant the mens demands illimeda immediately and another injecting was arranged for later in the day and its as late as 1 president thomas declared that thai they there would be no strike and tile the switchmen said tile same two hours later without any ally barnin warning and with no further development clophe elop ment it in tile negotiations the men quit work arid and business is at a standstill nothing 0 was tha jt astrike until eungil a Bu su burbon train W waS al halted at sixteenth street by an lopen switch signals w wert ert giefen the engineer to come ahead I 1 il 1 I 1 could plainly free that the s twitch W was open ahead of him he be declined to move and the gora geri nere warre compelled to alight 0 arid and kother see ther means of re achino their homes taj strikers do not exceed 00 buto buethe but 1 1 tV the probability is that the strike itile may ay spread to other road were at once notified and abarge force of men vi was as sent to thi yards to quell any possible disturbance but so 0 o far the men have shown a peaceable disposition bione tione the were later reinforced by a detachment of pinkerton men inen and a force of detectives and watch L wi nieu employed by the road tile the 1 latter be began bean an work on oil the switches a anda elated ted trains were ivere made up and lid the last of them sent out by midnight ht tho the prospects for a bet nt of the diali difficulties are not bright as president thomas de dc Millie men acted in bad faith and did not keep keel their agreement as to the length of time tim 0 lie he ws to have to conci consider der the demanss nifty 11 ile he was disposed lie he says alto to grant gant anything reasonable but stat the mens action 11 haare as re 4 from all obligations 7 or r dili cil es lie ile may have in made ade av i I 1 I 1 I 1 re SWITCHMEN to EKA feb 22 J C ever oleff chairman of the gre made this statement toUa about the aligned aliened threatened Aril cilby the santa fe fc switchmen tf ot aing has been said about a sy rikand int and grand master wilson has ant out no circular authors ing allemand ai lemand for an increase of 25 23 wt ber avit we represent only the antee proper and the advance we ava asked for amounts to abou abo U A J ag centa per day tabs 5 enil wildly bean refus refused ed an and mr I 1 1148 to talk the mat matoic e men here to 4 no V t A ul u th le 9 ark abday day as usual 4 ili r 0 1 ex STRIKE I 1 A r O nl tv eb 22 the anad idi C 1 I 1 ye R by the santa fe r il alt Haton 4 t oil and las vega aga 8 wen went out t tf rn lk at 4 this after afternoon nood THE BANK ROBBERY pa ila feb 22 this town was thrown into most intense excitement this evening by art an attempted bank robbery and the murder of a prominent citizen in attempting to capture ake bu burglars one of the men was captured and narrowly escaped lynching lunching lyn ching boys saw five men trying to force an all entrance arance into one of the back windows of tile the leechborg leechburg Leech burg bank building ino they the gave thet the alarm to constable collars S S mccullo mccullogh rali and councilman william shaefer ane burglar drew a revolver arid and fired anti and shaefer fell dead shot through the heart mcculloch McCullo logli Kh returned the fire and while the shooting was going on a great number number af people collected the man who shot councilman shaefer w was is caught and hurried to tile the lockup at least citizens formed r po posse pose se and started after the other men the murderer was locked up ane the prison m was as sur i funded by a crowd of armed men arid and threats of lynching lunching lyn ching were freel freely y indulged in but cooler leads heads prevailed arid and the crowd dispersed put but little can be learned about the gang that did tho business it is certain tain the second bur burlar burglar lar was wounded and tho the chances of liis his capture are e good as tile the whole town is is scouring the country for him |