The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-11
VIOLENCE IN THE STRIKE
AN ENGINEER ATTACKED ON HIS
LOCOMOTIVE.

His Assailant Felled Him With Coup
ling Pin-No Meeting Held by the
Executive Board of the Knights
Individual Mine Operators Offering
Men Big Inducements.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. lO.-One of the
Reading strikers at NorriStown last night
attacked an engineer upon his locomotive
and knocked him down with coupling pin,
and it took three men to drive the rioter
from the engine and arrest him. He is now
locked up awaiting trial.
There was no meeting of the General EX-
ecutive Board of the Knights of Labor to
day, because only three could be got to-
gether, and it requires four to constitute a
quorum. MessrS, Barry, Aylesworth and
Secretary Hayes are here Messrs. McGuire,
Carlton and Bailey are moving about the
country and cannot be found promptly. II
one Of them should appear tonight the for
malities preceding a meeting would cause
another days delay.
About l25 cars of coal passed down the
Reading road to-day, all from individual
mines. Such of these mines as ship over
the Reading road have a capacity of $50
cars per day, but some of it is dropped
along the road before reaching Reading.
Several offers, some AK high as 20
per cent. above the December basis,
have been made by owners of individual
mines, but their men refused if the coal was
to pass over the Reading road. None of
the Schuylkil miners have as yet expert
enced the effects of the strike in financial
way. There is still due them two weeks
pay, which they will get Saturday. The
company will distribute then among the
miners over $350,000.
A SETTLEMENT PROBABLE
Late developments bring an early settle
ment of the Reading railroad difficulties
entirely within the range of probability.
1t is learned that General Manager S. b.
Whiting, of the Coal and iron Company,
held quite a lengthy, conference
with General Manager Mcleod and
other Reading officials of high rank
to-day, and although all Of
those concerned are extremely reticent as
to what transpred, the belief is generally
entertained that preliminary steps were
taken looking to a settlement within a short
time either by compromise or arbitration.
1t is now regarded as a certainty that no
further steps will be taken in the matter by
the General Executive Board of the knights
of Labor. There has not been a
quorum of the board in the city at
any time since the strikes began, and while
the expression of an opinion favorable to
the strikers by three members of the board
who were present at the conference to-day
with the strikers representatives and others,
was entirely informal, the representatives
of the strikers express themselves as salts
fed that they have the moral support of the
order at large, and say that as it was not at
any time intended that the matter should
be placed in charge of the general board,
this favorable expression is all they want.
PoTTSvILLE WANTS PEACE.
PoTTsvILLE, PA, Jan. 10.-The most i'm
po rtant action in the strike situation to-day
was the formation of committee of lead
ing mercantile men of the county to wait
upon President Corbin and urge arbitra-
ton Pottsville, together with the principal
outside towns, are represented upon this
committee, and President Corbin has tele-
graphed his willingness to give them an
audience at III o'clock tomorrow.
AN AGREEMENT.
SHAMoKIN, PA, Jan. 10.--The Enterprise
Coal Company and its miners have reached
an agreement The miners will receive 8
per cent advance on the So 80 basis, and the
company also agrees to use Pennsylvania
railroad engines in hauling coal, SO that non
union men will not handle the product of
the mines