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Show GOULD DIDN'T MEAN IT. - t.vf And To-Day the Strike Assumes an Exasperating Phase. Engines "Killed," Trains Ditched, and There May, Be Wofk fop: the Military. W The Knights and Jay Gould In Session Ses-sion To-Day, bnt as Yet Nothing is Settled. 4 - The Strike Is Continued." St. Louts, March 29. At 9 o'clock to-night the Executive Committee rescinded the order or-der issued this morning for the men to resume re-sume work. . "-; i BAD WORK AT ATCHISON. j c - . Atchison, Ks., Maroh . 29. The situation here to-day was very serious. The strikers, not satisfied with simply "killing" thti "en-ginesditohed "en-ginesditohed the trainstampered with the switches and soaped the" track. The sheriff and posse manned a train this morning and ran the gauntlet, barely escaping a misplaced mis-placed switoh, and sent it west. In the afternoon af-ternoon two trains arrived. The switch was thrown ahead of the second one, and the rails smeared with . soap, so it was impossible impos-sible to stop the train, which was ditched. The engine was then dismantled. The men were more reckless than at any time during the strike. They declare Powderly has sold them out. Warrants are out for about 100 strikers. The sheriff has a disciplined force of deputies, and thinks he can make the arrests. ar-rests. New Yobk, March 29. The spirit of exultation ex-ultation which filled the hearts of the Executive Ex-ecutive Board of the Knights of Labor this morning soon changed to grave anxiety. When William O. McDowell called at Jay Gould's house at 9:30 this morning, he was not as favorably impressed with his reception recep-tion as he was with the reception accorded him at Gould's1 house on Sunday. Gould gave McDowell to understand that there had been a misconception of his telegram to Hoxie, which was sent Sunday night. McDowell at once returned to the Astor House and oonferred with the General Executive Ex-ecutive Board, and two of the members at once returned with McDowell to Gould's office. the conference these was shobt, And an adjournment was had until 3 o'clock, the hope being entertained that at that hour Powderly might bo well enough to attend. At 3:20 McDowell entered Jay Gould's office without Powderly. At about 4 o'clock the conference ended. Subsequent inquiry at Gould's office -was answered by the following follow-ing statement, of which Gould was the author: au-thor: "Mr. Powderly has evidently misunderstood misunder-stood the meaning of the telegram sent Sunday Sun-day night to Mr. Hoxie. Our position is that this strike has been in a condition for arbitration all the time. We have had an agreement with the workmen for some time that all differences were to have been submitted sub-mitted for arbitration before any strike should be resorted to. Manager Hoxie has the matter in hand. -He has full control, and matters must be settled with him. We are just where we were before Sunday's conference." con-ference." The gentlemen who represent Jay Gould at his office said: "The conference of Sunday Sun-day between Gould and Powderly was as citizens only, it being distinctly and often stated that neither' gentlemen was acting officially." New "Yobk, March 23. Mr. Gould this afternoon sent the T- TrOIifa04iiMkXS3?B xa POWDEBLI,- ; Who makes it public as the matter referring to an interview with Gould. The letter is marked "personal:" J. V. Powderly, Esq.: The papers this morning published the following: Jay Gould has consented to our proposition for arbitration, arbitra-tion, and so telegraphed Vice-President Hoxie. Order men to resume work at once. (Signed) J. V. Powdeblt, G. M. W. They published an interview with you, which leads one to think the officers of your order in St. Louis may misconstrue your message into a consent on the part of this company to conform to the requirements contained in a letter from the secretary of your order, dated Philadelphia, March 27th, which in my letter to you of the same date, I declined to consider. You remember that at our conference on Sunday, I said to you the position of this company was unchanged in this respeot, and the whole matter was left in the hands of the first Vice-President and General Manager, with the instructions contained in my telegram to him, which was written before my interview with you and read to you at the time. this telegram stated: "We see no objection to arbitrate any differences between the employes and the company, past or future." While I feel confident con-fident your understanding of this matter is the same as my own, I write you this in order there may be no grounds for misunderstanding misunder-standing hereafter. Very respectfully yours, Jay Gould, President. When this was received by Powderly he wrote down these notes, which were taken to the conference: "Do I understand you, from your personal letter of this date, that you refuse arbitration? and must I so telegraph Martin Irons?" ' When the committee arrived at Gould s office he had gone out, but they were received re-ceived by Second Vice-President Hopkins, who made this answer: "You may say distinctly dis-tinctly to him: 'No, we do not. He is not so to understand that letter, but is simply referred re-ferred to Mr. Gould's written communication communica-tion to him, which he is prepared to carry out in every particular.' " The committee then returned to the Astor House and Powderly formulated A BEPLY TO GOULD, Setting forth that the proposition for the men to return to return to work on an agreement agree-ment to submit the complaints to arbitration was made in good faith. The letter continues: contin-ues: "When you made the telegraph order to General Manager Hoxie, contained in your letter, in which was used the following follow-ing language: 'We see no objection to arbitrating any differences between the employes em-ployes and the company, past or future,' I accepted your approval to the general principle prin-ciple of arbitration in equal good faith, and at once issued our order for the men to return to work. We are not particular, in the adjustment of the present difficulties, whether the arbitrators appointed by your company shall be named by General Manager Man-ager Hoxie or yourself, or whether their number shall consist of three, five or seven. We can imagine no greater misfortune for your company than that the impression should eo forth, not only to the members of our organization, but to the community at large, whose interests are suffering as the-result the-result of the present condition of affairs, that a break has occurred between the interests inter-ests which you represent and which I represent repre-sent by reason of a technicality. A rUHTHKB CONFERENCE HAS BEEN ABBANGED For to-morrow morning, at which Mr. Powderly Pow-derly will be present, if at all possible. He is quite ill. . . . . . The following telegram was sent to the district master workmen, at St. Louis, Sedaliaand Fort Worth to-night: "Complications "Com-plications have arisen since the morning as to the method of arbitration. Another conference con-ference will be held to-morrow. (Signed,) ...T.W.nngLff to-day's conference. New Yobk, March 30. Powderly, Turner, Bailey Hayes and McDowell are now in conference with Jay Gould, George Gould and Vice-President Hopkins, at the othce of the Missouri Pacific Company. St. Lours, March.30. The Missouri Pacific is preparing to move freight trains as usual to-day, and there is a greater air of activity about its large freight depot than at any Erevious time during the strike. No trains ad left St. Louis up to 10 a. m. The sita ation there is considered somewhat threatening, threat-ening, though no outbreak has occurred. TBOOPS IN READINESS. St. Louis, March 30. The Adjutant-General of Illinois has directed the Fifth regiment regi-ment of State troops to hold itself in readiness readi-ness for service. This is in obedience to a call for troops at East St. Louis. : New Yobk, March 301 p. m. The question ques-tion as to the general principle of arbitration arbitra-tion is being thoroughly discussed at the conference between Gould and the committee of the Knights of Labor tonday. The session ses-sion began at 11 o'olock and still continues. Hoxie, in St. Louis, is connected with, the committee by direct wire, and is taking an active part in the conference. Gentlemen who have been in the committee room all morning state that the outlook for an agreement agree-ment as to the manner and conditions of settlement by arbitration are very favorable. St. Louis, March 30. Three hundred and fifty men employed by the St. Louis Transfer Trans-fer Company reported for duty at the regular regu-lar hour this -morning, and when about to begin their duties were told by the' superintendent superin-tendent of the company that it had been deoided to furnish them protection hvpo- forming their duties by -detailing v ' - '; A SQUAD OP DEPUTY WAMTTAT.B . . To accompany them during he "day and to guard them from molestation from the strikers. This was what the men were waiting wait-ing for, and they immediately struck j declaring de-claring they wanted no protection. 1 No freight can be now brought across the river to this city, for the ferry is the only, means of transfer, and this new strike Renders that useless, for no trains can be procured to do the necessary hauling from the railway to the river landing. Three freight trains started out this morning from the Missouri Pacific yards, guarded by a strong force of polioe. . There were no crowds of any size congregated in the yards at the time, and no trains were molested at any point along the route. It is stated the company could now run their regular number num-ber of trains could the necessary number of men be procured to run them. AT EAST ST. LOUIS No serious occurrence has as yet occurred, although several attempts to start out freight-trains freight-trains have been resisted by the strikers. An Illinois & St. Louis railway engineer was approached by a number of strikers who requested re-quested the engineer to desert his post. This he . refused to do, and the men "killed" the engine and took it back to the roundhouse. round-house. On the Vandalia tracks an attempt was made to make up freight trains, but the engineer en-gineer complied with the request of the strikers and the train was abandoned. No opposition, however, is offered to the efforts of the Wabash to resume freight traffic, and it succeeded in sending out a freight train. St. Louis, March 30. The Iron Mountain road has sent out four freight trains without with-out molestation to-day. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of William Mc-Connell Mc-Connell and William Conroy, striking Missouri Mis-souri Pacific employes, charged with obstructing ob-structing the passage of a Missouri Pacific train March 23d. JUDGE ADVOCATE M'GABY WAS ARRESTED Yesterday on a charge of trespassing on the company's property, taken before the court this morning and allowed to give bail, pending pend-ing preliminary examination. New York, March 30.-2:45 p. m. The conference still continues, and the discussion discus-sion is covering a very wide field. Congressman Con-gressman O'Neill's bill has received considerable consid-erable atten tion, and General Swain has been before the body giving his views as to its merits. Owing to the number of matters being discussed, it is not likely that the gentlemen gen-tlemen in conference will be able to finish their labors to-day,' but up to this time considerable con-siderable progress toward an agreement" has been made, and it is now thought that a decision de-cision as to whether or not the differences can be settled by arbitration will be arrived at to-day, but the details will have to be arranged ar-ranged to-morrow. DITCHING TRAINS. Pabson, Kansas, March 30. Passenger train No. 154, northbound, was ditched five miles south of here and the engine, mail car and baggage car thrown down an embankment. embank-ment. The mail car struck against a telegraph tele-graph pole and broke it. The only one seriously hurt was Mail Agent Moore, who had been taken home at Osage Mission. The track will be cleared to-day. The wreck was caused by a fish-plate being removed and the rails spreading. The fishplate fish-plate was then spiked down so the rails could not possibly get to their place,there by making the wreck inevitable. Great indignation indig-nation is manifested by citizens at the perpetrators per-petrators of the crime, and it is likely the guilty ones will be arrested and punished, as detectives have obtained some clues as to who the guilty parties are. CONFERENCE ADJOURNED. New Yobk, March 30, 2:50 p. m. Conference Confer-ence just now adjourned to meet again tomorrow to-morrow morning.' It is stated that con siderable progress has been made m negotiations negotia-tions for settlement by arbitration, but the whole matter is in such a crude state at present pre-sent that no details or results of the day's labor can be made public FIFTEEN HUNDRED RAMPANT STRIKERS. St. Louis, March 30. The Sheriff of St. Clair county has telegraphed to Governor Oglesby that 1,500 strikers at East St. Louis are blockading all freight trains, and hold the State of Illinois in contempt, and that it is folly to attempt to move a train in the absence of a strong force of troops. The Governor has ordered a company at Decatur to go to East St. Louisv SUBMITTED TO HOXIE. New York, March 30. In an interview just held with gentlemen present at to-day's conference.it was learned that the committee of Knights submitted a proposition for ratification, rati-fication, which has been referred to Hoxie at St. Louis, as Gould - declined to act without the advice of the former gentleman. gentle-man. The meeting adjourned to await its arrival. Should Hoxie reply this evening, his views will at once be sent to Powderly and his associates, and should they so desire they are at liberty to make the matter public. . GOULD AND HOXIE Both expressed themselves as willing to receive re-ceive any: of their employes, and to hear their grievances. - Their employes must, however, in each case belong to the class making the complaint. For instance, should the engineers desire to arbitrate any matter the complaint must be presented to the company, and all negotiations nego-tiations carried on with the engineers complaining. com-plaining. . No questions wtll be asked as to whether they are Knights or not, but they must be employes of the company. |