The Portland daily press., 1877-08-06
THE COAL STRIKERS.
DestitutiOn and Suffering Among
the Rioters.
SIGNS OF RETURNING
REASON.

New YORK, Aug. 4.-The coal, hoppers at
New Stratsville, Ohio, were burned Thursday
night It's feared that this is the beginning Of
lawlessness in the Hooking Valley.
A Scranton letter tells ptiful story of the
miners sufferngs-large families are living on
$18 or 500 per month-meat is an unknown
luxury. Women and children are actually
dying for want of food, but the miners are de-
termined to hold out for better wages. Despite
powerful military protection, but few miners
have returned to work, and the few who seek
employment are warned to desist by the strik-
ers.
The Lehigh Valley railroad officials at
Pittstown declare that they will discharge all
protection is not guaranteed their road will be
closed
Gov. Hartranft is ill at .Pittstown, but refuses
to leave his car.
Regulars continue to arrive at Pittsburg.
At Harrisburg, ten Pennsylvania Railroad
employees charged with violence were held for
trial yesterday, making thirty-fve in all.
Thirty striking employees were also discharged
yesterday. Thirty-seven rioters are jailed at
Reading.
In the Lehigh and Schuylkill region, the
miners aod laborers are apparently determined
to re-establish the workingmen's benevolent
association, the Miners Trade-U MON. AS soon
as that is organized, a general strike is antic-
pated
In the upper Luzerne region, coffin notices
are sent TO ''Dlackleg miners, or persons OBJ
n0xious to the Molly Maguires.
The strike in the Summit Valley district of
the middle coal fields is now general. Lawless
miners from Wyoming district wrecked the
coal train on the Mahanoy division of the Le-
high Valley road Thursday night. brakeman
wissa branch Of the Philadelphia and Reading
road was discovered just in time to prevent the
wreck of an express train.
Col. Styles of the I'd Pennsylv ania regiment
| from Philadelphia at Scranton, will demand to
be sent back, on the ground that the law only
days, while they have been on duty fourteen
days. They sympathize with the CHASTITY mis-
cry which they observe.
AWILREsBARRE, Aug. All except the
night trains are running on the Valley Rail-
road. Freight trains run regularly, and Gen.
eral Haredekoper's division is stretched along
the road twenty miles, guarding it. Affairs
| throughout the valley are quieting down. The
Lehigh and Susquehanna company will not at
tempt to open the road for several days.
The miners held large meeting in Danas
Grove this afternoon. They sent an invitation
come and inform them why the military are
here. The Mayor made speech counseling
them to be peaceable. They adopted resolu-
ton asking that the military be taken out of
the valley. A part of them marched through
the streets with music. General Osborne
places are being filled by military from other
sections Of the state. The Lehigh and Susque-
hanna road will start trains on Monday.
HAzELToN, Pa, Aug. 4.-The delegate meet
ing of miners of the Hazelton region to-day
resolved to ask for an advance of 121 per cent.
from the 18th inst, the companies to be given
until the 10th to signify the acceptance. The
main object of the meeting is said to have been
the reorganization of the Workingmen's Be-
nevolent Association, but nothing definite is
known as to the result on this point.
NEW YORK, Aug. ga Wilkesbarre des-
patch says that of the 70 rioters arrested, evil
dence was secured against only three. The
others were discharged.
Five hundred masked men are holding secret
meetings nightly across the Susquehanna at
Nanticooke. Many people think the troubles
at Wilkesbarre are not over yet. Gov. Hart
ranft has gone to Harrisburg and Pittsburg.
He has dismissed the third division for their
apparent sympathy with the rioters.
A PIttsburg despatch notes the departure of
several companies of regulars for Wilkssbarre.
The strikers on the Pittsburg branch of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad are sending threat
ening letters and shooting at men on the
trains.
Tom Scott wanted the county commissioners
at Pittsburg to settle the claims for losses by
fires, &c, but they refused holding that the
county was not liable.