Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1886, Page 8

HORSESHOERS 0N A STRIKE. The Jour Bhoers Organize a Union and De- mand Higher Wages, CATTLE WITH HYDROPHOB!A nway Builder—Iunaway In Funeral of Mrs, Ene wold — City Hall Bids Other Local, Horseshoers on a Strike A dissatisfaction that has existed for aome time among the journeymen hors shoers of the city, on account of their poor w culminated at noon vestorday in a general walk-out of the workmen from the shops of Hayes, Nelson, Ben nett, Murphy, Cunningham, Watson Karbach, street car barus, Rodgers, Peter son, Nclson, Muldoon, McEvoy, Moore Shaw, Richard and one or two others, ail of the principal shops in the city I'he strikers, about forty in all, walked | out at a signal and met at the shop of Lewis & Dikinson on St. Mary's avenue to organize in order to bett nforce their demands, The obje ct of the walk-out is to secure an advance of wa, I'he seale has been, hereto fore,&” to £2.50 per day for floor workers, and ¥2.50 to for tire hands, although no te has been by the bosse. The workmen are organizing to a uniform and £3.50 for demand fe tloor worker; vu formal o of %3 o fire workers, ‘I'hey claim that their work is ‘der and more profitable to their em: vloyers than almost any other kind of jour labor, while their pay is far pelow the ave One of the leaders of the movementsid to a Bek reporter yesterday afternoon, in explain ang the situation: **“There is more work for horseshocrs in Omaha than any other city inthe country it o1 shoes wiil only last about thrée weeks on thi ment, and when you think that the more driving horses in use in the than any place west of Chicago, you begin to imagine how much work there I'he pruL ietors get good 1 their wor charge, brdinanly, $200 for puttng — on a set of shoes but th above this. The Jarg will run rt of the work Ve st is the or, An average horse shoer will easily shoe ten horses 8 day and this has heen constituting a s rk although the mostof us shoe from s to fourteen horses ench day and then are hardly able to tuke care of the work that is rushed upon us. Some of the proprietors, probably the majority of ede to our demands ? soncession to be general We have met here to organize. We will form a norseshoers union mul insist upon a uniform seale of wages. “The men left Lewis & Dickinson’s qm,, a_body, marching to the oflice of Erdman, Sivteenth and Dodge st where a meeting was _held to form 0 Horseshoe union. After the meeting was called to oader, John Dugan, was chos iwman, Toval Hansen, " g secretary, and Mr. Norris, corre- spondir retary. A number of the men expressed their views on the situn- tion and some discussion was indulged them,ar but w in regarding the of wages. It wis fiually decided to make the seale $3 per day for work on the floor, $3.50 at the tive and fifty cents an honr for over time. A motion wasithen e: ed that the men in the differént shops revort the action of the meeting to the bosses and make de- mands in decordance. Another meeting is to be held this evening at 80 o'clock at which the men are to report their succe: While t much in earnest, the discussion 4 most moderate character, and it was urged that the men should meet the bosses in a spirit of fair- ness, and return for the wages paid a full equivalent in work. An ugreement was drawn up for the forming of 2 union and to this about forty men signed their names. Those signing comprise nearly all the journcymen ~ horseshoers in Omaha, there being but six men working at the trade who meeting. LATHERS STRIKE SUCCESSFULLY. re not present at the ‘The lathers of Omaha yes- morning left work and a demand on the bosses 10: §8.50 per da ately formed, tli union was immedi- mployers granted the demand and the men retarned to work, ON FORMED. whu weny THE U The horseshoe strike for higher wi met lust night and out S Omana Thirty- wre in the enrolled their names as members of union, John Dugan was ¢ president, Charles Ripley, vic Joe Norris, treasurer; 'i-d\nn Skinner corresponding secretary, and Peter Fivz- gerald, sargeant-at-arms. The scale wiges was fixed at $3.00 for floor work- ers and §3.50 for flre hands, with 50 cents an hour for over time. Shaw, Cunningham, Watson, and Peterson, proprictors of shops, have acceded to the demands of the workmen, and will pay the wages asked, and some of them arc even encouraging the men in their claims, The workmen are indiznant at statement made by Mr. Bennett in evening contemporary not worth more than sy he bragzed on them as long were working for In-« than city the Rickard the an that his men were I Tl they think, that has changed his upm of them. It is understood that all of the propri fors of the shops, with a possible exe tion, will grant the demands of the work men and that the horses of Omaha will hereafter be shod by union men, THE TY HALL. Regan & Co, Present a Bid for the Construction of ity Bascment, Yesterday morning at 1 oclock the board of public words held & wmceting at the room in Creighton block. All the mem- bers were prescnt. grading the alley the chamber of The contract for in the block behind commerce was let to Katz & Callahan, the price being 24 9-10 cents per yard. This price is considercd vory lugh, but it 15 clnimed that there s not much earth to be removed and be- #ides itis not easily reached or ecarie “The board also approved of the esti- mates of the Fanuing & Slaven, sweepers ol(lu- streets, for $1,150.51 It also ap- proved of the voll of the paving in spector for 1,200, ‘Phora were no bids handed in up to 11 o'clock for the construction U’ the base- ment of the new ¢ all until & few min- utes after thut time lh.n,.m ap- peared with one. It sto build the sub-basement for 20,240 and the base- ment proper for making s total for the whole basement of $18,610. The of | in enough money to provide for the erec. tion of tr msement this year, | the feeling is strongly expressed on | bt the work 8hould be completed ‘ before winter. | T'he reason that our tractors have not taken bidding is bees older home con an interest in the se some of them have as much 100,000 worth of work on hanids wers elaim that they eannot get brick enongh in this city to fimsh the part requiring that material. This is cortainly a strange thing that in a city of this size, where there are so many ~en gaged in their manufacture, that bricks are still difticult to be procured HYDROPHORBIC Ninec of Them Kiiled in the County of Sarpy CATTLE Adjoining A roporter of the Bes learned Sun day that there have been at least nine deaths of cattle in Sarpy county within the past few weeks v consequence of a | disease which seemed to batile not alone the skill but even the knowledge of veter inary surgeons. The eattie become wild. rush around with it violence, attack trees and fences and make it n matter of danger for any person to approach them. As a matter | of safety thesenine head have been killed | The owner, however, brought in the best | vetermary skill to diagnose the case, but the dingnosis was not satistactory. They then sent for a member of the state liv stock commission, and Mr, Din sponded. He pronounced the anthray, which he said was caused by cattle in grazing upon low and marshy ground, taking into their systems a germ ced the wildness men x| the isolation of the sted tupon high and dry done, but without affording any relief. ‘The farmers in the vicinity be lieve the eattle were afflicted with hydro- phobin. They know that one man, John Scefus, lent to the county, had two ground. of his cattie bitten by a dog, ‘and these were among the first to display the symptons mentioned. Among those to loose cattle was J. D, Clark, who regrets n excellent Jersey heifer the ki of i - TRAMWAY THI BUILDER, Otherwise James L , the Contrac- tor of s City. A reporter of the BEg yesterday met Contractor James Lillis, of now cable tramway o of varied exper railway building, mong othe the gentleman who is building the line of the He is a man of this city. ignce in the line having successfully ing constructed the cable line of Kans: City. He kas now about one block this city supplied with yokes, which are set at adistance of about four fect apart. Of these, it is estimatad that about two thousand will be required for each block of double track. The jokes now put in place are yetto be enclosed with conercte. This work will be commenced to-mort rning, and consume a great d er Mr. Lillis has now a contr as already mentioned in the Br the cable line for the construe about two miles und a half. The ¢ the work per mile, to the owners at least, will not be less than $100,000 per mile. He is now negotiating with the company for other contracts, covering about six milet more of te Arrival of the Kemains of Enewold from California. The remains of Mrs. R, C. Enewold arrived Sunday morning, over the Union Pacific rond. They were met at the depot by Undertrker Riewe, the hus- band of the decensed and a number of sympathizing friends of the bereav husband, who seered greatly to f Miction. The pall bearers were I, ] sen, sen. B.F. Madsen, . olson, R. Peterson and L. P. Péterson The remains were mmm,mmul by brother of the de conveyed to the late resi . . Mmfm qu-oI\ wlwrv friends called and the were held. The remains were interred i Prospeet Hill cemetery. - Runaway Indians, Lewis Hamilton,one of the Indian police on the O wtion, came in from Lincoln Sunday evening where ohe had been sent by the adjutant general of this department. He found about twenty- two Indians, young and old and of both sexes, who had left the reservation with- out the consent of the agent. They brought with them a number of poni and subsizied by selling bead work and other trinkets. ~ They had commenced to imbibe frecly of ligiior and were getting larious, the effect of which, 5 o, wouldbe to conflict with » eitize! Hamilton told them of of the agent, and they imme consented to return home. They (.n\ morning by wagon route Fun at the Stadr, “Herz und Dollar™ was the play at the e theater Sunday night. It was wit nessed by one of the largest audiences of the sexson. The piece was o most amus- ing one, although it lacked the strength of story which is so often noticed in the plays at this place. It was of the Ameri- can sensational order, and comprised & number of interesting pictures. The whole strength of Iln-tnmp'm\ was re- quired to produce it and the sitting was excellent, Mossrs, Baureis, Horsky, Puls, and Mes wreis, Puls-Ahl and Lindema slineated their characters excelle The burden of the piece, however, ‘'was horne by Mr. Schmitz, whose singing and acting secured him half a dozen recalls. U P Promotions, A few daysago, W. A. Gaines, one of the promising employes of tho Union Pacific road, was promoted from brake- on man the passenger train between Omaha and Couneil Binfs to conductor on the work train between the Blufts and the bridge. Siuce then he has been promoted to the conductorship on his old run, instead of Conductor Inlo, who has been transfer the dumm; fter Charley Mack will run the ter only from 6:85 o'clock a. m., to 2:50 o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. Inlo will run from that time uutil 12 o'clock at midmght Gaines' old place on the transfer train has been filled by Wm Dy on Walked in From Chicago, Julius Horrizhoy, a Germaun, arrived i Omaha yesterday after 8 remarkable tramp across the country from Chicago. He left Chicago on the first day of Au- gust and walked by the wagon road to Maudison, Wiseonsin, thence to Dabuque and on.to Omaha vis Cedar Rapids and A s Moines. He used tho country roads bid wus referred to the committee, As | ly and did not ride a foot of the the plans contemplat massive lo was provided with ample fulllnl'll\nn the ntioned lu-nh and made the trip merely as a mat- are considered r 3 ectnlly ws | ter of cxperiment and to satisfy him ftis koown that there is not now | self of his abilities as a podestrian. The money enough rilable to ) i rly seven hundred wile: eomplete the ~ vortions mentioned in ‘remarkably good tim R + & Co., are aware of this fact, and ering the natnre of tho roads and isfied to earry the discrepuncy | the fearfelly warm woeather of the month e e A R P employed in muking the journey. coming thoy of con Fuere but recently loeated n this cily hither from Des Moines, although have already secured a number Yucts for stone work in this city. int your roofs with I X, L. Slate Loave orders at office, Room 6, ! Nutional Baok, THE ()\L\H \ ’ A TRAMP DOG. nd on the Beat's ofa Ca tramp passenger is a Rtest, the Trucks common | The specimen on all the the country, and he may be found day after day 1 the remote ecorner of freight car or stowed away upon the'trucks | of a Pullman Yesterday morning however, & new specics of the genus was discovered. Ho was found lodged | on the truck frame of one of the Union Pacific _cars when the east boand train | reached the shaking depot, He with fright, pulled out and_covered with was dust. e was a kindly-looking shepherd dog. How long he had ridden, how he | had gotten into his position, nobody knew. Some of the depot men held that | he was ecaught under the train while moving and saved himself by jumping | upon the trucks | his was Officer Mares | theory. Others Id that a tramp had | taken him abonrd, and thnt the tramp lind fatlen and was killed, leaving the canine [ to beathis way alone. At all events the | poor dog was adopted by Engineer Clark TESTIMONY. between the two trains, in another part of this paper veferred to, has been under consideration by C. W. Kouns, division itendent of the Union Pacific W. W. Dolby, assi superintendent of the Missonri Tt has been held in the oflice of the former and is conducted with closed doors. Messes, Baird, conductor; John F. Shannon, engineer; William Mangen, head brakemen, and Peter MeCaft B ond brakeman of the Union Pacit were awaiting their turn to apy fore the officers in question. R bott, Thomas O'Connor, John Rufe E. W, Stiver he Missour likwise aw cifie crew, wet iting a hearing Return (\l'llle l‘olux(-llln(‘ll. The junketing councilmen of the city have returned from their week’s trip looking hale and hearty and as if their long journey had not wearied them in the least. They report ing had most delighttul time and were heartily received and entertained whereyer they made a stop., During the entire trip their head- quarters were in their special car, they only sleeping out of it one night at Lead- ville, the narrow gauge road that eity not permitting the wid to be iransported over the line councilmen were enthu. tic in cofnment on western mountain scenery. P, Ford, on heing asked what part of the landscape he onjoved the most, replied: SAUthe place where they put up iron bars to keep the R i together.”” The council will hold itheir usual meeting to night. Jolly Hun Sunday evening the Union Pacific night train took out a B. & M. ear full of merry pleasure seckers. They were 1l Morton, son of J.S. Morton, the ant general freight agent «.i the €., R, & Q.5 Wallace Kirk, son of J. |\HI\, tne late great sonp maker; John n“ 1w Morton, of Jay Morton & Co, ke, and " Jumes Kitby, represen Dwight & Co. They bound for the lmnmw fields in the vicinity of St. Paul, Neb., and were supplied “wit1 every- thing necessary to make the hunt enjoy able. The gentlemen were eatled upon by Robert Easson, of Paxton, Gallagher & Co., and spent some pleasant minutes with them wh le they w waiting for the starting of the train. The their et Wells, Pargo & Co's Testimony. The trial of Tom Cas charged with the robbory of Wells, Farge & Co's ex- presson the road between Deadwood -and Ft. Robinson, on the 9th of last Janu- ary is in progress at the former place. All of the clerks n both the depot and uptown oflices, who handled the money which disappeared, gone as witnesses to the trial are B Cooper, the bridge me T, St. Jnhn and Edwara \\nlh cle in rnam street of- fice und William Mc nney, one of the men at the depot. cy is the driver of, the stage which bore the money, and if he be found guilty of the crime, the stage company will be held responsible for the amount, which was §6,000. The Bank.of Commerce. The organization of the Bank of Com merce with $100,000 paid up capital to succeed to the established business of Garlichs & Johnson, was perfected Sat- urday by a_meeting of the stocknolders, held at the banking oftice of Garlichs & Johnson, which was attended by some of our hest known citizens. The Tollowing board of directors were chosen: Samue R. Johuson, Robt. L. Gurlichs, ( B, Barker, F. B, on, Wm. Sievers, with (3 ' president; Robt! president: £, B, Johnson, cashie The new organization takes effcet Sep- tombor ist, and wi k ess at the present location ul 3 .y Johnson. - ymen’s Muscle, Ella Mite In~|l s house of ill-fame, cor- ner Eleventh and Capital avenue was the scene of & lively ricket yesterday afternoon. An inmate of the place has a whom she thinks consider: other hand he does not seem to care much for her, but persists in paying at- tention to another girl, Mat came to o crisis at the time stated. The female first mentioned became suddenly ed while the two were in her pres- She attacked her rival and thrashed her severcly. The furniture in the room was budly smashed up, but no one dangerously hurt. The man ran away. An Excited Passenger, “This morning there was . very excit- able lady on the Union Pacific passen going to the Bluffs. The train had started and left her behind, She ran and was finally assisted to the platform b Oflicer Mares. She dropped her pocketbook and Mares picked it up. Then \)I made an attempt to jump off the train,claimin, wildly that her daughter was left behind. Three men were required to retain her from eaving the (rain until it finally pulled out of the depot Mr. Mg searched for the daughter in question, but could lind none. - J.L Wllldfl manufacturer of paper boxes, 108 8. 14th nll cet, Omaha, The Reunion Speclal, Yesterday morning the hx»l special train to the Island " eanion left the Union Pacific depot at 8:30 o'clock. It consisted of eloven cars, but they contained only about a dozen’ passengers. Other cars will be taken on at Valley, Schuyler and Columbus, and it is expected thit before the train shall have reached its destina- tion it will have been prm) well loaded. Opelt's Hotel, Muarch 16th, fi et The Latest Addition to Omaha. C. A. Baker, real estate man, at 1504 Farnam street, has the very latest addi- l incoln, Neb., opene t elass in every respect. I)\Il \ trains in this part of | | ence of the Bri) Schools and churches are being the county seat TAKING U, P and M. P Officials Learning all About the Collision Yesterday morning d af | ternoon the Sunday night's | | collisionon the Union Py mentioned m Sunds a tail-end collision on the ( lington & which flinders, trains body injured. ‘This powder nove ty v Nebraska National Bank OMAHA, NEBRASKA. Paid up c.|p|m\ 250,000 B\lrpluh ..e....80,000 H. W, Y W. V. Morse, H.'W. Yates, A General Banking Business N. W. HARRIs & Co. BONDS 1. ofhce ene cases where medicine 400d Tesults whatever, \“II IIRAAMNITIOC " ILLIIVIRINITIU SIX-CORD SOFT FINISH SPOOL COTTON. —~— Full Assortment for sale to the Trade by — VINYARD & SCHNEIDER IWTEERASKA. B]ul tion to Omal eighteen years Baker is ‘happy cream to the boys TUESDAY, no proposals accepted for It i8 s ten pound girl and i setting the ice COUNTY. An Effort to Divide Ke#th Grame, Angust 20 Steps A NEW and Form GRANT, Neb,, [Correspond. arc now being first time te divide Keith making a new eounty of the south taken for the county, half, which is to be cadled Grant, in honor of the nation's dead hero. The county will contain 1008 square miles, nine-tenths of which is good as can he, Itis a beautiful, level, divide country, not a stream in the county—thus, no bridges to build—and is covered with pioncer homes, most of which were built | this year. It now contains about five thousand people. The B. & M. railroad is about building through this district built and r up, of which Grant il Wil doubtless be probably the term- new tows spri is the Metropolis and 1mus of the railroad. - Voting for Sewer Bonds, The (14-4lmntunl.h‘mluv whether or not the city shall issn ),000 paving | bonds, payable in twenty vears, takes place to-day and at the polling places s Brk. Anothe nil Eind Sunday night about 5 o'cloc there was it Bur- Creston, I, Tt car's into the passenger There was 1o ngo, Quiney, near knocked seyeral f and delayed bout two lours B POWDEI Absoclutely Pus 2 aries. A marvel of pur- tsomeness. More ceon- ary kinds and cannt be viee President. H. S:Hug DIRECTORS: xlm A. E. Tou BANKING OFFICE: THE IRON BANK, Cor 12th and Farnam § ransacted. BANKERS, CHICAGO, “ounties, Cities and oth grade bought and sold. E 68 Dovonshire st. 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