The American Railway Strike
Scheme to Paralyse M.
President Cleveland lias decided to prosecute tho leaders in tho striko movement on a charge of criminal conspiracy. Numerous nivests liavo beon mndo. Severe conflicts liavo takenplnce between tho polico and tho strikers in Chicago. The rioters aro apparently indisposed to interfere with •>-- the military, New York, July 6, The Knights of Labour liavo ordered nil tho members between Chicago and Snn Francisco'to striko and thus paralyse all works,' Serious disorder lias taken placo in Indianapolis, At Chicago, tho troops refused to lire /upon tho strikers, the Mayor having' declined to give a writton ordej.'. to that effect, but they changed with tho X bayonet, The police, however, tired on the rioters. I Chicago, July 6, A mob numbering j 10,000 fought the police with bludgeons, aud wrecked a portion of the railway buildings. I Civil war is threatened in the city. • Washington, July 6. The Governor of Illinois asks for ' the withdrawal ijf tho Federal • Wk troops, Tho President declines on the ground that So ninils are-ob-structcdand the pi&ess of thoFcdorM" Courts impeded, f I j . J^M '. ■.: rte.;. : ! . ™
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4768, 9 July 1894, Page 2
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187The American Railway Strike Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4768, 9 July 1894, Page 2
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