The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 3 No. 123, Wednesday, March 31, 1886

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PROPOSAL AND ACCEPTANCE OF A PLAN OF
SETTLEMENT.
The Strikers Seem to Be Left Entirely Out of the
ArrangementThe Blair Eill in the House
—Steagall Sentenced to Hang.
The following is the correspondence
between Gould, Powderly and Hoxie,
which led to an agreement to adjust
grievances of employes of the Missouri
Pacific, as stated below:
Nf.w York, March 30.—H. M. Iloxie,
vicepresident, St. Louis: Will you meet
with the general executive board of the
Knights of Labor, or with a committee of
your employes who are Knights ot Labor,
for the purpose of hearing what their
complaints were, and for the purpose of
making a settlement of present difficulties,
alike honorable to both sides, either
on a basis of arbitration, or by mutual
agreement, and the same to be binding
on all parties. A. L. Hopkins.
Later in the day the following was reciived
by Mr. Gould and a copy of it was
transmitted to Mr. Powderly:
St. Louis, March 30.—To A. L. Hopkins,
New York: Replying to your inquiry
for Mr. Powderly, of this date, I
will say that yesterday I received from
Mr. Gould the following, (Mr. Gould’s instructions
to Mr. Hoxie are quoted) to
which I sent the following:
St. Louis, March 30—To Jay Gould,
Esq., New York: I have yourmessage in
relation to your interview with Mr. Powderly,
also letter of instructions, and 1
will carry them out to the best of my
ability.
1 am therefore willing to meet a committee
of our employes, without discrimination,
who are actually at work in the
service of the company at the time such
committee is appointed, to adjust with
them any grievances they may have.
FI. M. Hoxie.
After having received Mr. Hoxic’s dispatch
Mr. Powderly caused the following
to be sent:
New York March 30.—To Martin
Irons, St. Louis: Have been in confercnce
all day, with result that VicePresident
Hoxie agrees to the following: (Re—
peating Hoxie’s telegram.) Have your
executive committee order the men to
return to work and also select a special
committee from the employes of the
Missouri Pacific to wait on Mr. Hoxie to
adjust any greivances. Do this as quickly
as possible. • The board will leave for St.
Louis tomorrrw. Frederick Turnf.r,'
Secretary and Treasurer.
St. Louis, March 31, 3 a. m.—Mr.
Martin Irons, at 2 o’clock, refuses to say
whether he will obey Mr. Powderly’s
telegram to him and order the men back
to work. It is known that up to his hour
(3. a. m.) he has not done so.
New York, March 30.—At an interview
with a gentleman who was at today’s
conference, it was learned that the
committee of the Knights of Labor submitted
a proposition for arbitration,
which has been referred to Mr. Hoxie, of
St. Louis, as Gould declined to act without
the advice of Hoxie, and the meeting
adjourned to await his answer. Should
Hoxie reply this morning his views will
be at once sent to Powderly and his associates,
and should they desire they are
at liberty to make them public. Gould
and Hoxie both express themselves as
willing to receive any statement of their
troubles and to hear grievances; cmployees
must, however, belong to the
class making the complaint, but no
question would be asked as to whether
men are Knights of Labor or not.
Kansas City, March 30.—As a Missouri
Pacific freight train was passing the
lumber yards on its way out this morning,
two men ran forward and threw the
switch open about midway the train, thus
derailing a dozen cars and wrecking a
number. A squad of police turned out
and chased the two men, who proved to
be strikers. One of them surrendered
and the other refused to halt, when the
officer fired in the air three times to
frighten him. This was without effect
and the man was about to get away,
whereupon the officer brought him down
with a bullet wound in the leg. The
wound is not dangerous. The affair had
an ugly effect on some of the strikers,
but it rerriains to be seen whether it
will intimidate them or incite them to
further violence.
St. Louis, March 30.—Notwithstanding
the announcement made by Governor
Oglesby, of Illinois, that he did not
consider the condition of affairs in East
St. Louis serious enough to warrant the
issuing of orders calling out the militia,
nevertheless AdjutantGeneral Vance has
telegraphed from Springfield to Capt.
Wells, Co. 1, Fifth National Guards, to
instruct his men to equip themselves for
active service and await further orders.
Three freight trains started out this
morning from the Missouri Pacific yards
guarded by police. No crowds of any
size congregated in the yards at the time,
and none were assembled at any point
along the route leading out of the city.
Ft is stated that the company could now
run out the regular number of trains if
the necessary number of men could be
procured to move them.
St. Louis, March 30.—Officials of the
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain railways
today made formal announcements
that their agents would receive
freight for shipment to all points on their
respective roads as before the strike.
General Superintendent Kerrigan, of the
Missouri Pacific, said this evening that
business was progressing favorably upon
the whole system. Full traffic is not yet
resumed, of course, but every day shows
an improvement. Fully 150 trains have
been moved today on alt lines, and there
was less interference than on any previous
day. The men are applying for
work at many points on the road and
are being engaged as fast as their servi
ces are required.
Mr. Hoxie has been named by the
board of directors Of the Missouri Pacific
railway as its continuing representative
in dealing with the strikes on its lines,
and will adopt no course of action that
will be inconsistent with the position that
he has heretofore taken.
Washington, March 30.—Reprcscntative
George D. Wise, of Virginia, said
to the members of the Virginia democratic
association, in a speech recently,
that he was a democrat, had worked for
the democratic party, and wanted the
fruits of his labor. He did not want a
president ruled by republicans and mugwumps,
and he did not believe in the
sentimental nonsense about civil service
reform. He said he would not recognize
the existence of a democratic administration
until there were more radical
changes.
Helena, Ark., March 30.—A tornado
of unusual velocity swept over this section
last evening, doing considerable
damage in this city. The Atlantic Beer
garden was blown down and on to the
roof of a onestory frame house adjoining,
crushing through the roof and setting
fire to it from a cooking stove. By a
great effort the fire was extinguished before
it had time to spread. The walls of
the Plcfora house and other large buildings,
remnants of the late fire, were
mown to the ground. The coal fleet was
swept out into the river, and the distress
signals of boats added to the confusion.
The Phillip county court house was unroofed
and stripped of its window blinds.
Glass doors and windows were smashed
into shells. The direction of the tornado
was front west to east.
Chicago, March 30.—Mr. P. D. Armour
was asked if the threatened boycott
on his packing house had seriously
interfered with his business. Mr. Armour
replied: “I can’t say that we have
not been free from slight inconvenience
on account of the boycott, but the fact is,
that as yet we have not been seriously affected..
The future I do not care to refer
to, as I never attempt to cross a river
until I get to it.”
New Orleans, March 30.—General
Manager Wheelock, of the New Orleans
division of the Texas Pacific railway, telegraphed
from Marshall, Tex., to the
mastermechanic in charge of the shops
at Gouldsboro, La., af follows:
“There will be a number of mechanics
here, more than we can give employment
to; if you need any let me know what
kind and I will send them. Please inform
all persons that all our shops arc to
be conducted in the interests of the rcccivers
as officers of the United States
courts, and the rules and regulations of
the Knights of Labor, or any other organization
will not be permitted to cut
any figure in conducting the business of
this company. Any man not willing to
accept this proviso must quit the company
at once.”
THE STATE.
Henrietta, March 30.—The jury in
the case of A. A. Steagall, for the murder
of his infant child, at this place, last
February, after being out twentysix
hours returned a verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree and assessed his
punishment at death. The verdict appears
to meet with general approval.
This is the case in which Steagall an excounty
attorney, was arrested on the
death of his daughter, whose dying
statement was to the effect that he had
compelled her to submit to his brutalities
for three years. The body of
the child was found where Steagall
was known to have concealed
it, and on the examining trial the
testimony of the physician who attended
the dying girl, and concerning the dead
infant, was such as to arouse public indignation
to an almost uncontrollable
degree. Two attempts at lynching were
ouly frustrated by the prompt action ot
the authorities, the last time Sheriff
Wright cutting Steagall down in an apparently
lifeless condition, and standing
the crowd off" with a cocked Winchester
rifle held to his shoulder by one hand,
the fingers of which were menacingly
pressing the trigger. Steagall was removed
to Tacksboro jail to save him
from mob fury and vengeance, and was
brought to this place for trial at the
present term oncourt.
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LOCAL POLITICS.
DRAWING THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE
CITY ON MR. STURGIS,
As to His AntiPerquisite Views—Mr. H. M.
Thompson Responds to the Second Warders
Maj Hinchman to the Front.
LET Tin: RECORD SPEAK.
To lac Editor of The Day.
During the present canvass for mayor,
the Hon. F2. A. Sturgis has arraigned the
“perquisite system” on every street corner
and alley, and his tirade of abuse
has found its way into the court house,
before the Municipal Reform party, in
such language as this: “The perquisite
system is rotten to the core;” and on last
Saturday night, at the court house, Mr.
Sturgis, in his reply to Mr. Baker, being
anxious to show the consistency of his
record, after paying his respects to the
“rotten system” declared to his hearers
that the first thing he did when he went
into office in 1878, was to agitate the
question of “perquisites” and succeeded
in abolishing it, so far as the city a/torney's
office was concerned, and he had
Mr. l’rathcr, then city attorney, placed
on a salary of fifty dollars per month.
If Mr. Sturgis will retrace his steps about
eight years ago he will find in possession
of Recorder llrinkcrhoff, among the city
records, the following facts:
In city record, page 76, that on the 5th
day of July, 1878, an ordinance was
passed fixing the city attorney’s salary at
fifty dollars per month. This was under
tho administration of Mayor A. J. Iiyrd
and before Mr. Sturgis went into office.
As the records further show,
on page 82, Mr. Sturgis went
into office on August 1 st, 1878. Instead
of putting Mr. Prather on a salary; on
the 8th day of September, A. D. 1879,
Mr. Prather’s salary was dropped,
and he was placed back on perquisites of
two dollars and fifty cents for every conviction.
This was done under the administration
of Mr. Sturgis, who, at the
same time approved the ordinance, allowing
all the city officers perquisites.
Later, towit, on the 21st day of Decernber,
A. D. 1882, on page 349 of the city
records we find Mr. Sturgis, on the last
night he presided as mayor, and
as one of his last official acts, increasing
the perquisites of the city attorney
from two dollars and fifty cents to a
larger sum in some cases. It is not my
purpose to criticise Mr. Sturgis for unintentionally
misleading the people, but,
to show how much better it is to keep a
record of everything; and how much
safer it is to rely upon the record than
the memory.
For proof of the statements I have
made I refer any one to the official
records of the city, which are open, at all
times, to the inspection of any reputable
citizen. Respectfully,
Waeo,March 31. Fair Play.
CARD FROM MAJ. HINCHMAN.
To the Editor of The Day:
I am asked daily whether I will be a
candidate for mayor this year. I take
this method of imforming my friends and
the public that I will not. Numbers of
my friends have importuned me to allow
the use of my name. I must decline
doing so, first, on account of the feeble
health of my aged mother, who has
urged me to have nothing to do with
politics; and second, because my business
demands so much of my time. The
solicitations 1 have had induces me to
believe I could make a successful race,
but I have no intention of departing
from my determination above expressed.
I am actively interested in Waco’s welfare
and want to see firstclass citizens
elected as mayor and councilmen. 1 am
tm antiperquisite and an antibond (for
any purpose) man. I want to see our
streets opened, though, and I want to see
some streets paved—the city to pay a
portion and propertyowners on such
streets the other portion of the paving.
Thanking all my friends, white and colored,
for their kindiy expreesions toward
me, in connection with the mayoralty,
I am very respectfully,
Waco, March 31. A. Hinchman.
CARD FROM MR. H. M. THOMPSON.
To Messrs. Dickey, Fordtran, Ripley and Others:
Gentlemen :—I notice your very flattcring
call as citizens of the second ward
for me to run for the office of alderman
at the ensuing election to represent you
in the council. While I am not an aspirant
for political honors, I feel it my
duty to accept your call, as 1 think it incumbent
upon every good citizen to
sacrificejhis personal interests to some extent
to further the interest of his ward
and the city generally. And in doing
this I fully realize the fact that there is
very much expected of the city council
during the next two years. The streets
should be opened and improved. A
good system of sewerage should be constructed,
and to this extent I am in favor
of bonding the city' to a limited amount
and only for specific purposes. I would
persue a liberal, but firm policy towards
all public enterprises. Such enterprises
should not be hampered by unjust legislation,
and it elected 1 promise you my
best efforts towards a liberal, progressive
and judicious management of the affairs
of our city. Thanking you for the confidence
resposed in my ability'.
I am very truly yours,
FI. M. Thompson.
Waco, March 31, 1886.
general notes".
The antiperquisiters of the third ward
meet at the hall of the athletic club tonight.
Candidates for aldermen ought to let
their constituents know how they stand
on public issues. Speak out, gentlemen.
The chances of the candidates for
mayor seem to be so evenly balanced in
the estimation of their adherents that
men can be found to bet money on
either'Sturgis or Baker.
As will be seen from his card, Mr. FI.
M. Thompson consents to run for alderman
in the second ward. He takes a
decided stand in favor of public improvements
and tells exactly what he is
in favor of. The people of the ward will
do themselves and the whole city a service
by electing him.
Washington, March 30—The vote on
the reference of the educational bill introducedby
Mr. Willis yesterday is considcred
a fair test of the sentiment on the
question in the House. The bill is an
exact copy of the Blair bill, now before
the committee on education, which has
refused to report it. When Mr. Willis
moved the reference of his bill to the
committee on labor, Mr. Miller moved as
an amendment to refer it to the committee
on education. The enemies of the
bill voted for Mr. Miller’s amendment and
its friends against. The result developed
that the friends of the measure had a
majority of eighteen. This will insure a
report at an early 'day, "and then the
only hope for its defeat will
depend upon such dilatory tactics as may
be resorted to after it comes before the
house. The policy will be to have the
committee on labor call it up when the
turn of that committee is reached, then
move to substitute the senate bill for it.
Its opponents will, however, use all parliamenta*
means to prevent a direct vote
on it, and are still hopeful of preventing
its passage. The Texas members all
arrayed themselves against it today, except
Mr. Mills, who was absent, but was
paried against it.
St. Louis, March 30.—Under the protection
of the United States marshals at
the Wabash railroad yards in north St.
Louis, regular passenger and freight
trains are arriving on time without any
trouble. Strikers have offered no resistance
to the regular business of the road
at that point and none is expected.
Washington, March 30.—There is
nothing new to report in Secretary Manning’s
case, said the physician, at 11
o’clock this morning. He is about the
same as yesterday. Fie lost no ground
and gained none. His improvement is
very slow, and in all probability it will
be sometime before any marked improvement
takes place. Neither of the
physicians spoke as confidently as they
did yesterday.
Vicksburg, March 30.—An armed
mob visited the jail at 10 o’clock this
morning, and after battering down the
doors secured possession of Frank Villerosa,
an Italian charged with rape. The
man was taken to a tree in front of the
jail and hanged.
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