Show telegraphic NEWS N M march I 1 all the freight conductors and brakemen on the atlantie antio pacific road went on a strike last night the new superintendent wanted to reduce waxes wages nearly one half which the men would not stand freight trains arriving rl ving here are abandoned t tut ut every y t thing h tog is quiet it is understood that t the e engineers offered to join the strike if the other men wished it so but they refused everything in the freight line is at a deadlock dead lock the strike of conductors and aad brake men on the A P road Is complete i throughout the entire line and business OR OB the road is virtually suspended westbound passengers corn cam ing ing into albuquerque are sent to call fornia by the southern pacific road the road is making an effort to fill the places of the strikers with raw men but the effort so far is not very successful cessa cess ful ul the strikers are perfectly QUIET AND ORDERLY and no demonstration of any kind hits has been made to indicate any disposition to resort to violence the strike af facts about men the majority of whom are married the trouble between the conductors and brakemen and the atlantic pacific company as given by the strikers is as follows we like the men on all other roads are paid a certain amount per mile our now new superintendent tori derit who recently arrived from georgia issued an order compelling to do a certain amount of yard work for which we receive no compensation thereby preventing us from earning what we consider fair wages bhea a our committee remonstrated with him and asked him to rescind the order he refused to do so and replied that he be could procure plenty of men is in georgia who would work for 45 per month and it necessary he be could run his trains train with negroes after becoming satisfied we were not receiving proper treatment and had bad no redress we wa concluded to go out CHICAGO marcia march L 1 late tonight it was given out that grand master sar geat had telegraphed to henry walton chairman of the abe executive board of locomotive firemen requesting him aim to see beeall ibal the members on oa the reading road that have taken the places of the Read reading liag men that went out december 1887 3 and request neat them to sever their connection with the company and saying they would be paid until they could find employment elsewhere and allow the men now out to return to work it was further said they would assist the brotherhood to win the struggle with the burlington road mr walton wired that lie he would at once transmit the necessary orders to the brotherhood lodges chief engineer arthur then transmitted the following edward kent chairman executive board engineers new york go to philadelphia at once and use your iril luence to get all the brotherhood engineers who took the places of the reading strikers to LEAVE TUB THE SERVICE of that company tarnishing furnishing them with the financial support of the brotherhood the 0 B Q are using the strikers to beat us in me ine conflict we must checkmate them signed P M ARTHUR eighty of the striking sti aking reading engineers who arrived here wednesday night to take places returned late tonight the local press bureau at a late hour the following intelligence of undoubted reliability was secured at a late hour tonight to the effect that the chairman of the engineers and Fir emens ance committees upon all railroad lines intersecting parallel to or con ceo necking cec tina with the C B Q system will meet in this city tomorrow or next day this meeting is preparatory to is a general strike upon all ail these lines this includes the 0 M st P 0 A northwestern wisconsin central rock bock island and minnesota northwestern we steria 11 KANSAS CITY march 1 A confer ence committee of locomotive engineers from chicago arrived here today for the purpose of at arranging ranging matters with the ROCK ISLAND ROID ROAD I 1 that company having complained that the strikers had bad been obstructing their business in IB kansas city atter after consultation sul tation with the abe railroad officials the committee bound itself to see ace that the rock bock island freight engineers were not Inter interfered ferid with and gave per pernis nassion slon to the road to handle the passe passenger jager business between kansas city sart and cameron missouri between which points the company uses the burlington tracks burlington rains ran today about the same as yesterday that the strikers striker sare are holding in reserve was descar described abed tonight ut ht by the general manager of a railroad other titan than the burlington Urmina terminating tIng here he said granting Grant iBn that no compromisers compromise is reached between eab e C B Q and the striking engineers and that the company succeed in filling the places of the strikers there is another phase that will pres present elat itself which will not only embarrass embarrass embar rase the burlington company out but will prove dangerous ang erous to other corporal cor corporations ons burlington tin on company with all its locomotives manuba manned can resume local business and successfully conduct it but there it will stick through bust noes ness it cannot do if brotherhood of engineers take a stand against it they could slid and pro probably bibly would refuse to haul baul trains in which burlington cars were made up and such action would te be effectual in blocking through bust busl ness if I 1 the connecting lines should insist upon the performance of the service it would precipitate A STRIKE on OH their own roads and there is not much doubt that under these circumstances they would refuse burlington cars that company will have but one resource it could transfer the freight at terminal points to foreign cars out but 10 lo bifid bean expensive process and w would u place it at a fatal disadvantage against other roads the burlington road today moved a larger number of passenger trains than any previous da day this week and also report t a partig partial al resumption of at freight traffic on most of the divisions divisio Bs they succeeded in getting four switch engines at work in this city and cleared out quite a number of cars from the lumber district an A n evening paper today asserted that a conference had bad been held between president Pre aident perkins general manager stone and T E detweiler Det weiter representing the engineers and was emphatically dented denied this morning b by y both sides it appears that secretary carhill brought chief arthur and grand master maser aster aser sargent official information that members of their organization had taken the places of knights of labor oa the reading road they assured ca carhill 11 they had previously no know bengi ledge other than vague newspaper reports that this thing had occurred both expressed willingness to request their men to QUIT THE employment in return secretary caygill agreed to keep the or er reading engineers in the city from taking places on the burlington the men it was agreed would be beheld held back 34 24 hours inthe it the brotherhood men quit the reading knights would return home after this settlement was made mr arthur and his bis comrades seemed much more cheerful chairman hoge of the grievance committee said complaints had reached him that several roads were violating toe the neutrality agreement he declined to say which were toe the offenders but the rock island and the companies using the st louis bridge were on the list secretary debs of the Fir emens brotherhood said that unless this assistance was stopped a veneral Len cral strike would be ordered within 4 hours SAN FRANCISCO march I 1 an attempt was made mrs afternoon to murder james mcm shatter ex judge of the superior court and a prominent man in the state his assailant was carl lange brother in law of judge Sh shatters son A divorce suit baa ben pending for sume some time between the younger shatter and his bis wife lunge lange who isa is a sailor by occupation aaion assaid to have threatened the fiveson lives of several ot of the members of the shatter family on ona a number of occasions judge shatter shafter had bad just left the court adart room in the city hall ball this afternoon when lange met himat him at the door and fired two shots neither taking effect shatter immediately tried to take the pistol away frum lange and in the struggle the men fell on the floor door and the weapon was discharged twice the shots again failed to take effect lange was then disarmed by bystanders by standers slanders and placed under arrest new naw YORK march I 1 ane big f furniture factory factora of pettier street and lix lexington ington avenue caught are at 1215 today almost the entire torce of the fire department on man hattan island was called to the threatened point the building is partially occupied by herter bros also furni ture manufacturers W H ertell furniture manufacturer and the pneumatic tube co the building is owned by pettier the vanderbilt bilt hotel on the me northeast corner was seriously damaged by the tire fire the hospital for the ruptured on the northwest corner was also badly scorched ed at halt half past two the are was under control the loss is estimated at al 41 1 SUTTER CREEK cal march I 1 althis this afternoon the butter hotel root roof was discovered in flames the fire fanned oy a strong southern wind scon I 1 spread through all the business houses bouses firemen were unable tot stay near the flames llames nearly all the business places are burned the loss probably will he be between a hundred and two hundred thousand dollars sutter suiter creek hats baa a population of fifteen hundred SAW SAN ANTONIO march i 1 while a freight train was crossing a bridge this evening at hondo bridge on the southern pacific road ta the e br bridge dge gave way capt etheridge a 9 stock to ck dealer and robert hardesty v a b brakef r akeman flan were killed and conductor D davidson avidson and brakeman lethall fatally injured ROME BOMB march I 1 negotiations between the vatican and russia have proved roved fruitless russia demanded impossible in possible concessions stipulating that the catholic bish bishops opil throughout russia should be appointed by the czar that the russian language age should lauru be exclusively used in in catholic churches in russia both in preaching and in catechising catechi sing and that the offspring ot of mixed marriages marriage should be educated in the orthodox ortho lox russian church LONDON march I 1 bhea a credit oi of EM for missions abroad came up in the commons today labouchere moved a reduction redaction of the cost of the chamberlain flis bery hery mission A lengthy discussion ensued but bat the creft credit was approved gladstone and meet meat ot of the liberals supported aup wip ported the government the minority consisting of Parnel lites and radicals home secretary matthews vigorously opposed the motion that a commit tee be appointed to inquire as to the right of the government to interfere inter tere with meetings in trafalgar square matthews said the government could only regard the adoption of the action as all A VOTE OF CENSURE VIENNA march I 1 count kalnoky has gone glae to pesto peato to confer with emperor francis joseph WARSAW march I 1 the abe russian frontier guard has been increased by 2 men four regiments of infantry under general have arrived at Kisch eneff BERLIN march I 1 it i is reported that the session of the Reich reichstag btag will close march ath dr peters chief of the german african society has add suddenly deuly returned return ud from east africa it Is supposed that he be qu arreld with the german authorities sr petersburg march 1 all the powers have replied to the russian proposals concerning bulgaria eng land in her reply declares that she is unable to advise the sultan to take 8 eps leading to the removal of prince Ferdia Ferdi aad asad before satisfactory measures are proposed to set Bulgar Balgar iaB las f future after his his bis removal PARIS march 1 delesseps in his bis report to the extra meeting of the panama canal company today states that owing to the pre valance of the rainy season and the difficulty in procuring workmen he be can hardly insure tho thi completion ot of the canal in ISDO 1890 the directors have been induced to agree to the construction of licks by watch vessels of the largest tonnage may traverse the canal in 1890 before the work is completed pending trie de casion ot of the government regarding the lottery loan lean it has been decided to proceed with a third issue of bonds to the value of francs the repayment ot at which will be provided for by the creation creat ioa of a guarantee guara atee fund and f invested in rents LONDON march 1 1 stanhope 1 secretary of war has issued a memorandum relative to the ARMY ESTIMATES he admits that after careful inquiry it has been ascertained that deficiencies exist in the defenses of portsmouth plymouth and the thames which render En glands position dan dangerously 9 insecure stanhope pro proposes cales that active measures be immediately passed by parliament in order to remedy this weakness he further states slates that the system of organization recently prevail prevailing I 1 ng at the war office appears singularly ill III calculated to promote a comprehensive eom examination of th whole subject and explains the contemplated reforms lord charles Ber seford made a statement today before a committee of parliament regarding his reasons for resigning the office of junior lord ot of the admiralty after hearing bearing his bia views on the his mat administration ot of the navy the committee adopted a resolution demanding that the government appoint a commission to inquire into this branch of the service rove ROME march I 1 A large number of unemployed working men engaged in a liot liere today voclav lake bake shops were broken into and pillaged and the police who tried to arrest the rioters were driven away with stones finally the mob was dispersed disper led by the troops many ot at the rioters were arrested so no blood was shed NEW YORK march 2 general john newton has resigned his bis position of commissioner of public works of this city in order to accept the appointment as chief of the coast survey CHICAGO march 2 the agreement between the brotherhood of engineers and firemen and the knights of labor had no apparent effect on the number of applicants at burlington offices this morning the majority of men how ever more than en ginders gi officials of the company claim the situation is steadily improving fourteen passenger trains were sent out from chicago today and sixteen came in the company commenced running coal trains on the chicago division today and claim they are running local freight frela ht trains on most parts of their cyst system em at the round house on twelfth street the foreman said saad to a reporter today 1 lam I am tired looking at some of the men who are employed to take the place ot of strikers engines are IN A HORRIBLE SHAPE three of our oar finest locomotives are ruined and others badly broken down dow 11 11 A most important move was made in ade today by chief arthur in the strike rhe fhe following telegram was sent to each chairman of the general grievance committee of the brotherhood of engineers and firemen on the following lines of railroad viz chicago of s alton chicago northwestern chicago rock bock island pacific wabash railroad wabash western missouri pacific nion union pacific atchison to santa fe A aud and wisconsin central dear sir find and brother you are cereby authorized and ordered to come to the city of at chicago at once and report at headquarters there are many important matters to consider in connection lection with the chicago burlington quincy strike and your immediate presence is imperative be prepared to convey your committee from here at a moments notice CHICAGO march 2 chief engineer arthur to gave out |