Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-07
NEWS Uy l6i6gfdpIl
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. | SIGNS OF 4 COAL FAMINE Nearly Every Mine In The Strike. TERRIBLE CRUELTY AT SEA. "A Fearful Crash On A
 TrestIe. THE P0PE'S JUBILEE GIFTS. The Republicans A Unit
 Against Lamar.
THE P0PE's JUBILEE GIFTS.
EVERY MINE MAY YET BE CLOSED.

EVERY MINE MAY YRT BE CLOSED. The Men Refuse to Work i'm ColIierfes Which Ship Coal over the Reading Road-A Coal K Famine Unless a Settles ment is Soon Reached.
 SHAMoKIN, Pa., Jan. 6.-The miners of the Excelsior colliery have refused to con-
 tinue work because the coal is shipped over the Reading road. A general meeting of miners will be held tomorrow. The opin-
 ion prevails that the miners working at all individual collieries shipping over the Read.
 ing road will quit. A total suspension is quite possible. Almost coal famine pre- vails. Everything is quiet
 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6.-The only utterance
 that could be gotten directly from General
 Manager Mcleod this morning was that
 'sthere is no change in the situation" A Walnut street coal operator who had seen
 him, however, made a strong statement to the effect that the thought of arbitrating the
 miners troubles had never been discussed by the company. He thought, as many others do, that the strike will only end with the
 miners succumbing and may therefore be protracted. s'The miners and the public generally ought to know" continued the speaker, "that the company cannot be wiped out of existence in week or month as the
 miners threaten, but that it is amply able to
 sustain it's position. It has s5, ,O00, ,O0e of
 cash and s15,000,0OO of available
 surplus in it's treasury, and having taken it's stand it will adhere to it." The scarcity of coal in the city yards has already had an influence on the price of that commodity and just at present big figures
 are ruling. As high as -$7.5O has been re- ceived for the best hard, but quotations ranging from $6 50 to $7 are common and only short supplies available at that. The Record, which has been selling coal at $5. 75 per ton, to-day advanced the price to $6.25 and coupled the announcement with the statements that the filling of orders will de- pend on the supply of coal and that each customer will be sold but one ton of any size.
 The Reading company have laid off about two thousand hands within the past day or two. These men were employed as engineers, firenneD, conductors, brakemen and coal hand lers. Only the persons employed handling freight have been retained. At some of the stations the crews will work alternately every week. There are hardly one hundred new men in active service to-day between the Falls of Schuylkill and Williamsport. SHENANDOAH, Pa., Jan. 6.-The Suffolk colliery at Mananey City, which was work
 shut down to-day. This concluded the Read
 ing company's attempt to it's colieries without the Knights. So far there has been
 ne trouble between the individual operators
 and their men relative to the handling of
 their coal by the Reading company's non-
 union employees The conservative and lead
 ing element of the Knights is opposed to
 eomplicsting the present situation and en-
 dangering possible negotiations by connecting
 the railroaders with that of the miners.
 They do not want to lose the business senti-
 ment that is in their favor and which will
 manifest itself in meeting of business men
 to appoint delegation to act in conjunction
 with others from country towns to visit Pres ident Corbin and urge on him the wisdom of arbitrsting the present troubles and avert disaster for the general industrial interests of the region.
 TOWER CrrY, Pa., Jan. Especial efforts are being made to run the eollieries in this
 vicinity with non-union men. The miners train this morning was empty, not one of the six hundred employees who travel to and fro to the Old and New Lincoln and Brook side collieries having put in appearance. There are some men in this section who have not worked for two months and these compelled to get days work whenever pos sible and have made application for work here. Tomorrow it is expected by the Read ing company that at least one hundred to one hundred and fifty men will be at work, but special effort will be made by the strikers to have the men quit