The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-21
STATES RIGHTS coURTEsIEs.
BALTIMORE, July 20, 1877.

regiment of troops through your State
IN its way to Cumberland.
john LEE CARROLL,
GoUsrnor Of Maryland.
WHEELING, July 20, 1877.
TO Coz John Lee Carroll, Baltimore Nd:
| grant your request with pleasure.
Ii. NJ. MATHEWS,
Governor.
| A message also passed between Gov.
Mathews and Gov. Carroll asking and
granting permission to West Virginia
troops to pass through Maryland.
EXCITEMENT AT CUMBERLAND.
CUMBERLAND, July 20.
special TO the Register.
The troops have just arrived, two
trains are lying at this point held IN
check by the strikers. Great excitement
is manifested. The strikers at Keyser
say they will fight the troops at that
point. An east bound train this morn
ing was boarded by tramps at Sandy
Hook, and the engineer and conductor
was compelled to run it through TO Bal
timore nj the muzZIe OF revolver.
There Is no doubt but that blood will
| have to Oe shed before the rioters Will re-
turn TO their homes, rs they are now
seeking obscurCe places wherein TO
wreak their vengeance. Have just
received intelligence that Hampton
Stevens and man named Davis,
two of the ringleaders of the
strike were arrested at Martinsburg this
morning, by the Light Guards, and that
the strikers will attempt no interference
ut that point until the military is with
drawn, athoughithey have threatened to
blast rock from the deep cut six miles
west of Martlnsburg, anA blockade the
road. Il.
HOW THE STRIKERS ARE KILLING TIME.
GRAFTON, July 2O-9P.M.
Special To the Register.
! The strikers have two balls in full
blast here tonight, one at Brinkensn
Hall and another In u vacant store room
on Main street, with sufficient force
about the depot to "Hold the Fort"
They held another meeting this after
noon, the object being to discuss matters
connected with the strike and to keep as
well organized rs possible. A subscrip-
tion paper WAS circulated about town this
evening and about thirty dollars were
subscribed by the citizens Tor the benefit
Of the strikers. All are quietly awaiting
further developments. II.
STOPPING OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
MARIINsBURG July 20, 10 P. NJ.
| Special dispatch TO the Register.
The rioters are concentrating in q
threatening manner at Keyser and Cum
berland. At both places both freight
and passenger trains are being stopped
by the mob. The Fifth Maryland regi-
ment left Baltimore early this evening
for Cumberland All the prominent
railroad and military officials left this
evening for Keyser Everything has
been unusually quiet in and around this
place. Twenty-Five freight trairs left
this point to-day. The Mathews Light
Guards will, In I'll probability, start for
keyser or Grafton some time to-mor-
row. A.
EXCITEMENT INCREASING.
PIEDMONT, July 20.
Special Dispatch to the Register.
The strikers along the entire road have
taken fresh courage, and trouble is to be
spprehended at sll points except Mar
insburg, where no further demonstra-
stra ion will be made while the military
remain there. OF the five trains which
left that place yesterday, west bound, none
of them reached their destination, two OF
them being stopped at Sir Johns run,
two at Cumberland and one at Keyser.
The fireman and engineer being badly
beaten by the strikers at the latter place
where there are 100 United States troops
encsmped, who arrived there to-day.
! A special train accompanied by ten re.
porters il, on the way up. The troop train
stopped several times to remove obstruc-
ascertain the condition OF affairs
/ ahead at Cumberland. The excitement
/ j. at fever heat, and the Fifth Maryland
/ Volunteers have been ordered there to
/ qucl all distuI Dances and protect the
trains at keyser. The excitement, if
| possible, is more intense, and the strikers
declare that they will resist even the
military before they Will allow train to
pass that point They boldly asserting
that at least l,2OO Georges Creek miners
had promised them aid, and that num-
Der Of them we're at that place o.dsy.
At Piedmont the excitement: Is not
/ shown to ssch an extent, but the strikers
src silently working for their cause,
detying both the civil and military
powers in the most brszen faced manner.
Tney have enlisted the sympsthies of
the miners in the whole Georges creek
region, who are secretly organizing
/ themselves into secret order
and will prove formidable sllies to the
. lawless rioters.
INCENDIARY PROCLAMATION.
The following 'ncendlsry prociama-
ton WAS issued and posted up to-day by
IN. striEars and sppakes for itself: