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Show Southern Pacific llrahemcn's Strike Houston' Texas,'1 Tebrnary 19. Freight traffic 011 the Southern 'Pacific Railroad be-' twoon horl oiid wewUrleaus is entirely, suspended, sus-pended, owing : to the brakemen's :strike'j A ; tjommittee'-of two brakemen left for New Orleans last night to inquire into tho grievances griev-ances of the men on the Morgan division. ,The,nien here say they have no grievances of their own. Local agents of the Southern. . Pacific Company to-day discharged sixteen freight handlers and fifteen clerks, because of the suspension- of. business.' ' It is understood under-stood that agents all along the line as far as El Paso have been ordered to do likewise. ' |