The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-08-02
COAL RISES

the past week have sent coal up and II
Will not get back to summer prices again
tins season. The sharp rise to 1915 in
IN Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
and SO IN Delaware and Hudson, was en-
tlreiy unwarranted by the anticipation
of diminished production, and was aggra-
waited by a rush of the shorts to cover. = i
Nevertheless, everything indicates an
interference with the production which
will send up the price perma-
nently. The auctions of the last week
were indefinitely postponed, neither
the Pennsylvania nor the Lackawanna
company being ready to guarantee their
delivery. The miners of the Delaware
and Hudson canal company are all out
and demanding 25 per cent increase in
wages. This company has put up rates
90 cents. The Lehigh Valley is at
standstill, and there is no knowing when
it will ship any more COAL They win sell =.
what they have at so to 75 cents adj
vance. The Pennsylvania had its ship
ments interfered with by the strikes on
| the Erie, but, just as it advanced prices
| 80 cents, and Erie was ready TO receive
/ its coal, one of its bridges was burned
for the second time within week.
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
| INDIANAPOLIS July 29.-The en- +
gineers of the Vandalia road struck at
II O'Clock last night, and attempted to
prevent trains passing through Terre
Haute to-day by tampering with engines
and intimidation. Two trains went
through one run by Master Mechanic
Reddle and the other by foreign en-
gineer, but at a meeting held at Terre
Haute tonight the strikers resolved togo
to work tomorrow, and have so notified
the engineers at indianapolis, Efingham
and ST. Louis.
PROBABLY THROUGH.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, July 3l.-It is
] al, A. IL, ID
w. & c. r. r. will be overcome by a
compromise, the road paying back-yay
and taking an advance into consdera-
ton. The efforts to Outwit the strikers
Saturday failed.
AT MAUCH CHUNK.
MAUCH CHUNK, Pa July 29.-The
citizens have organized two companies
for the protection of life and property.
No trains running
AT PLYMOUTH, PA.
New YORK. July 31.-A dispatch from
Plymouth, Pa, says that 5000 miners i'll
that district have struck A squad of
strikers yesterday visited the collieries
and endeavored to persuade the men to
quit work. At Dry Hollow some of the
miners refused, and fight ensued.
The Germans were beaten, and sought
refuge in the breaker of the Keystone Coal
Company and the Wyoming and Lacka-
wana Valleys, and were much excited.
All business is paralyzed.
COAL TROUBLE.
SCRANTON, Pa July 3l.-The entire
Lackawanna region is idle. Week be-
fore last this region sent nearly 10000
tons of coal to market. Last week it did
not send a tithe of that quantity, and
next week it will not send any. The
miners of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company quit work yesterday
morning, and those of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company are i'll enforced idleness
on account of the destruction
| of head-house and bridge on
! their gravity railroad. The head
house, which was s located in
the woods of this city, was burned down
| at o'clock this morning by mob who
surprised the Waterman, and, tying him
with ropes to a neighboring tree, satu-
rated the woodwork of the head-house,
and then set it off with a match. 1t
made fierce blaze which was plainly
visible. The destruction of the head
! house compels
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from Hawley to Pittstown. It was not
the work of the company's employees,
Src@ 9f the strike h t2SH npon that tEa fRe
Pennsylvania Coal Company have re-
Gently been working on full time at their
mines, and the best of feeling exists be-
tween themselves and their workmen.
The latter are indignant at the das-
tardly act, and the pro, poets are that
the burned property will not be
replaced until the difficulty be-
tween labor and capital is settled here
A bridge on the company's road was
burned at Spring Brook on Saturday
morning, but it was promptly replaced,
and Sunday morning it was burned down
again. At Mill Creek, on the Delaware
and Hudson road, gang of 600 miners
surprised loaded coal train on Satur-
day. and forced the men to abandon it.
There is now
NOT A MINE WORKING IN THE VALLEY,
and all railroad communication with
outside towns is thoroughly blockaded.
The Hon. John Brisbin, of New York, is
still here, in consultation with the local
officials of the corporation, but thus far,
no effort has been made to re-
cover control of the railroads or
mines. Gov. a-Jranft has ten
dered to Mayor McKune the services of
the state militia, but the mayor declined,
as he did not want to shoulder the re-
sponsibilty of calling out the military
The city is very much excited over a
rumor that the regular troops are coming
to protect the men at the minepumps
and prevent the mines from flooding
and more than half the citizens
lay awake last night expecting
their arrival. A strong company of old
soldiers has been formed Ior the prouec-
ton of life and property, and every man
sleeps with musket at his bedside, ready
to rush out at the sound of the gong.
Heaps of mail matter lie at the postofice,
and we have not had newspaper or let
ter from Philadelphia for several days.
LIKE OLD TINES.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31.-The city
was quiet all the day and evening. The
force on duty tonight was reduced con-
siderably from that previously main
tanned. A reported fire in the Western
Union office at New York occasioned
considerable sensation among the
authorities as it was first reported
the break down of wires was
owing to an extensive riot and
confagration, which it was feared might
encourage a fresh outbreak here.
Tragic Test.