The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-25


at jerks farm, three miles from
Yankton, ID. T.. vein of coal has been
struck at depth of 240 fleet. The drill
is now four feet into the coal forma-
ten. Before reaching this formation
the drill passed through four layers OF
cOal-one at 80 feet. one at l20, one at
bles camel coal and burns readily,
leaving little ashes. A shaft will be
sunk.
The Vosburg tunnel of the Lehigh
Valley railway, twenty-five miles north
Of Wilkesbarre, Pa, is rapidly ap-
preaching completion. Tuesday was a
gala day in Vosburg, the tunnels from
the opposite sides of the mountain hay
ing been blasted through at 4 in the
morning. The tunnel is 1895 feet long
twenty-one feet high, twenty-eight feet
wide, and runs under a mountain 1856
feet high. 1t saves five and a half miles
in distance, and was begun year ago
by engineer Owen. The measurements
are so exact that the variations in meet
ing are only one thirty-second part of
an inch. Three hundred men are en-
ployed. Not one accident has yet oc-
Cured.
The new winter wheat crop has be-
gun to move. There is little OF it in
Chicago yet, but thai is because that
city is near the northern edge of the
winter wheat belt. Baltimore received
considerable quantities last week, and
st. Louis began Wednesday, If we ex-
cept a very few carloads previously re-
ceived. But there is also very good
export demand for the old spring
wheat, which is invited by the unusu-
ally low prices that now prevail. The
shipments Of wheat from Chicago last
week aggregated 55, 600 bushels, and
included about 800. 900 bushels more,
while New York parties contracted to
move out some 100000 bushels from
that port. ,...
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Ohio,
indicates intense excitement at that
point. The mine operators threatened
for several weeks to import Italians
TO take the places of experienced min
ers. They have at last carried out their
threat. A train bearing thirty-three
Pinkerton guards and forty Italians
arrived there Tuesday. The men went
Immediately to w. Il. Brooks & Sons
mine, section 10. Besides the guards,
who arrived on special train, eighteen
others, who had been here several
days, were also placed on duty. Here
tent was pitched, and sentinels post
ed, and operations begun. The Pink
erton men, armed with sixteen-shot re-
peating rifles and three English bull
dog reVolvers, 42-caliber, are prepared
for any emergency; military discipline
is rigidly observed. No person is al
lowed inside the picket lines without
pass. At Buckley, Ohio, few miles
from Jacksonville, the town is under
control of the uniformed and heavily
armed force of Pinkerton's men, guard
ing the property of the Columbus q
Hooking Coal & Iron Company. The
citizens, principally miners, naturally
indignant, applied to the sheriff OF the
county for an order restraining the
guards from patrolling the village.
The action of the operators in this par
ticular is censured, as it is calculated
to cause trouble. The Mayor has
sworn in a number of extra police, and
the city is we'll guarded. The operat-
ors boast that they will have 5000 more
foreigners at the mines within a short
time. They say that if they cannot
collect a sufficient force in New York,
Chicago and other large cities, they
will send to Italy. They have tele-
graphed Governor Hoadly, urging him
to order out the state troops to protect
the people from these dangerous
hirelings. The Governor has replied
that he cannot order out the militia
until asked to do so by County Sheriffs
or until lawless demonstrations have
paralyZed the civil arm of the govern
mpnt