Show THE GREAT STRUGGLE HOED I 1 at midnight the strike was called off THE DAYS sensational EVENTS dynamite used in the allegheny Allce heny freight yards troops ordered out to protect the yardmasters Yard masters BUFFALO aug 24 at midnight tonight sweeney fe head of the switch mens 0 order officially recognized the fact that the strike movement of the switchmen which was inaugurated twelve days da sago ago h had a d failed and in official terms the strike was declared off the roen men will before daylight be notified by the local officials that they are now at liberty to gelback get back their places if they can by noon today each of the labor leader lenders save arthur and arid thurston were in the city at 4 this afternoon the leaders went into conference sweeney immediately set forth at length the tile position in which lie and his men are placed at tho the conclusion ion of sweeneys statement sargent reiterated what he had already said that bis ills men would not go on oil a sympathetic strike unless all railway organizations did so dark clark stated that the conductors had no grievance e and that while they believed belie the demands of the switchmen to be just there would be no strike of conductors haveit save it was wab to redress the wrongs of the conductors wilkinson lor for the trainmen informed the switch mens leader that he felt that the original demands of the switchmen were fair if ever demands were bat his ills order could not consent to co operation by sympatric sym strike in these statements sweeney received an ultimatum the conference broke rip about 7 sweeney proceeded at once to a conference with local representatives of the switchmen this proceeded until after 11 then representatives of the press were called into a small room adjoining the conference chamber and to them sir sweeney announced that a conclusion had bad been reached by duly authorized representatives senta tives of the switchmen and arid that it was to the effect that the strike ended at midnight tonight aug 21 A car loaded with steel ingots ingols was blown up with dynamite on the side track of the allegheny railroad this morning the car was consigned to the carnegie company the dynamite was placed under the car under the very noses of the officers on guard no clue to the perpetrators HOC HESTER N Y aug ai the night dorco of the ew ork central switch switchmen men employed at Ito chaster truck early kearly this morning andlauer and later the dav force alo also struck le r demand was double doable pay for sunday work later after a cot coule ray renca with railroad officials they resumed work pending the cn consideration of their demands BUFFALO aug 24 A A detachment of a company of the twenty third regiment of brooklyn Brook ln in in command of lieutenant J F I 1 handy had trouble with some men in the freight yards of the new york central at early this morning the yard yardmaster master had reported that coupling pins i of freight cars ears were being pulled and arid a detail was sent out to look for the persons who were doing this work they saw sav four me men n acting s u 2 viciously and gave chaw chase to them A nut number ter of shots were fared fired by the soldiers and two men gao gave themselves Tes up the other two escaped the prisoners wore were taken to court this lla morning orning and held to the grand jurkat jury at rochester ochester It it is now I 1 learned earn that a number of sw sia itch iteli tenders tram train conductors conduct ora and arid lard yard nien also struck with the tire switchmen mak madlne ing f aty in all allare all are now at work vork again but pia play go out this afternoon under the present circumstances it w would on id 6 be e unwise to remove any troops winve we are getting the most serious part of or tho the business says adjutant general porter tile broo troops wm will r remain nain here liere until the law is is obeyed and d respected isted there is no further danger to persons or p property r 0 er ty if more troops are need needed LAthey they ll 11 will i irani came and bo be kept for the same term the ante mortem niort eri statement of thomas manaher Man alier who was shot at farm lat lait night by members of the twenty second was a taken thi this morning iio ile said he lie had been a switchman for the buffalo creek railroad waa was a native of america and was 31 years ears old lie was standing at the corner OF 01 ganson street and turnpike early list last evening with four or five kotlier men manaher kone one of the men Nv working on the lehigh valley road and the man fired two shota shoto at him from front a revolver |