Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-21
STRIKING MINRpc

0oN"n' iep. @o.-Conslderable excite-
ment and uneasiness exists at Brovnsv;,le and
other towns along the upper Nononsate
owing to the recent outbreaks and tbr.a+a,.a
violence by striking coal miners in tb.t -
ity. Nearly all of the coal mines here b.no 49,.
shut down for some time, the origipa, o.rsa -
trouble being reduction in prices ns;d g.
digging Within a few days past Several Of -.
mine owners have attempted to start mn -
duced prices with fresh hands, but the ia 80.
have become violent that the new msn -.
afraid to go to work. The former ernnInvees
IN some cases, have taken possession 81 tI,a
mines and threaten dire vengeance on anv one
going to work. On Tuesday night Sheriff
Work, OF Washington county, assem- bled posse
of deputies at Beallsville, and at 10 O clock he.
with lO8 men, mounted and heavily armed.
marched on Brownsville arriving there at 4
o'clock Wednesday morning. The sheriff inn
m!edlately went to work arresting coal miners,
In many cases taking them ont of bed, and
large number of the strikers were
jailed. In addition to the 10S men from BeaiIs-
Vile LIZ from CalifOrn:a and Greenfield were
sworn In and joined the other party at Browns
VILE making the entire number of deputy
sheriffs 23O. They are camped in Brownsville.
and West Brownsville, and made many arrests
to-day. Brownsville is in Fayette county. and
what authority Sheriff Work has is not vet
known. He telegraphed Sheriff Dean, OF Fay-
cite county, at Uniontown, yesterday, askipa
his help IN securing the arrest of the leaders,
but Dean refused to give it, saying he had no
authority to make arrests. GOV. Hoyt has
placed Company a of the Tenth regiment un-.
der Works command. They are atWashington'
awaiting orders. Many of the miners have fed
to the mines, where they have enough prori-s
sions to Withstand quite siege, and fears are
felt that bloody outbreak may occur at any
moment.
MUCH MARRIED M'LEoN.
AsHEvnLE, N. c., Feb. 2O.-John McLeon,
quondrm Methodist preacher, and the NEST no
torious bigamist ever known outside of Utah,
was arrested here tonight. McLeon, up to
Monday last. had married nineteen times, all
his partners being alive. It seems that he has
made business of going from State to State
marrying in almost every community in which
he found himself. acquisitions have been is
sued by almost every State South, asking for
the delivery of McLeon to the officers to be
sent from those respective States. He might
still be at large, but for the kidnapping of a
child OF his last victim, widow, Mrs. Bette
W. Fullerton, of Lynchburg, Va. He lodged
the child in the recesses of Walnut Mountain,.
barrel, desolate place, about thirty miles
from here The mother of the child came here
to-day, accompanied by United States deputy
marshal, and visited the cavern, where they
found the child almost starved to death A
warrant was at once obtained for the arrest OF
McLeon and placed in the hands of the proper
officer, who started in pursuit. His man MAS
found at Marion, Mcdowell county and COM
n1tted to jail. McIeon is about SO years old,
and exceedingly progressing In manners.
DISHONEST OFFICIALS.
CINCINNATI, Feb 20.-A dispatch from New
ark, O., says there decided commotisn at that
place on account of the publication, by order
of the city council, of the names of former
members of the council, with dates and
amounts of money illegally taken from the
city treasury under different pretexts, aggre-
eating $4,000. Many of the recipients are
among the most prominent citizens. A solic-
1tor Is instructed to commence suit for the
recovery of this money at once. This, added to
the recently discovered Irregularities in the
county clerks Office, occasions considerable
excitement.
TO HANG TO-DAY.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 20.-It is now definitely de-
termlned that George Washington, the negro
ravisher, will be hanged for his crime to-mor-
morrow at noon.