The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-12
THE MINING TROUBLES.


EvistiOas in the Pennsylvania Coke Re-.
GfOns-Sad Results Of . Strike In Illl.
aois.
CONNELLsvILLE, Pa, Feb. 4-Twenty
Of the striking miners of the coke region
were evicted FROM the houses Of the COM
panies yesterday, as their tenure was under
irOD-clad leases. A furious snow storm was
raging at the TINA They were not COM
PEELED to remain out IN the cold, however,
being taken In by those who were not
evicted. The condition of a few of the
evicted families Is pitiful. but in the main
they are well provided for, having been
thrifty and laid by a considerable sum of
money. So far the sheriffs of Westmore-
land and Fayette Counties and their depu-
ties have met with no resistance. The
evictiOns thus far have been confined
to the leaders of the strike, a few
being singled out here and there from
the different works. The evictions will
become general to-day. The operators
claim that the backbone 0f the strike is
broken, and that before the evictiOns be.
come general the men will submit and re.
turn to work. The miners and coke draw
ers occupying houses owned by the opera
tors say the greatest trouble the COnnells-
vile coke region ever witnessed has only
commenced, and before they will submit
blood will flow. No attempts have been
made to evict any families at the larger
works, where the greatest resistance and
most violence has been enacted. At such
works as the Standard and Norwood at
Mt Pleasant, where several thousand men,
mostly Hungarians are employed, the
houses are castles, containing men well
armed. After evicting the families in this
region yesterday, Sheriff Sterling and his
deputies proceeded to Valley works,
near Scottdale, where they will com
mence the work OF eviction again this
morning. if the men In these works do
not resume. 1t is not thought probable
that they will and that then the trouble
will commence. The strikers are now GEN.
tering their whole fight on the works
operated by the syndicate. which controls
over half of the coke ovens in the region.
A few individual operators and all the fur
mace operators have granted the advance.
The syndicate has not one hundred men at
the works. There Is considerable destitu-
ton among the strikers mostly on account
of fuel. as the operators will not allow
them to mine coal enough to keep them
from freezing, thinking by this means to
force the men to work. In some cases,
where the men have torn down hog pens
and cattle houses for fuel. suit will be fnsti-
tuted against them for damaging property.
The demand for coke is now great and fur
naces and mills are shutting down all over
the country for want of it.
MORE EvICrIONs.
UNIONTOwN, Pa, Feb. 4.-Twenty writs
of ejectment of as many families from
houses Of II. C.. Freck, at Leith. were
placed in the hands of the sheriff up to
noon. But three families have been evicted.
A number of others were allowed to re-
main. promising to yield possession last
evening. The sheriff and his posse have
gone to TrOtter works, where they will
eject number of families this evening.
The weather is intensely cold and the suf-
ferings Of those already evicted are painful
to witness. Some have been taken into the
houses of neighbors. while others are hud-
died together with their few effects in the
snow, the only protection being q few bed
Clothes.
EFFECTS OF STRIKE.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. 4.-In the county
court yesterday the ten -year-old daughter
of Pressly Saunders was found hOpelessly
insane and sent to the asylum at Jackson
vile. Tho girls insanity is the second case
resulting from the late Wabash shop strike.
Saunders refused to quit work, and was as
saulted BY strikers in the presence of his
family. The acts of violence which ensued
so excited his little daughter Ida as to
throw her into commissions and ultimate in-
sanity