Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-06
0a FROM ALL QUARTERS. READING STANDS ALONE Against The Demands Of
 The Miners. GAIETY TAT THE WHITE HDuSE Carlisle Gives Out His Com-
 mittees.
 STEAMERS TO RUN TO INDIA Fire In The Brooklyn
 Navy Yard.
STEAMERS TO RUN TO INDIA
READING ALONE STANDS OUT

I
 Against she Increase Demanded by tn. l Coal Miners.
 l SHENANDOAH, Pa., Jan. 5.-Amone the in 1 dividual collieries that to-day conceded tn, ! advance demanded by the strikers was tn.
 Thomas Coal company's Kehley Run collierJ I here. This leaves the Reading company
 alone in the fight in this section and with l only four individual allies in the lower field The only hitch now feared in the case of the individual mines is the possible refusal of the miners to mine coal to be handled by non-union railroaders. Such acomplication is deprecated by public sentiment as unwise in any event, but especially so as directed
 against individual operators who have no
 option as to the roads for shipment. The
 Reading company has an abundance of
 empty cars side tracked all through this seo-
 tion that there will be no trouble
 for the individual operators to get cars
 if the railroad can move them after
 being loaded. The success with local freight is
 not an assurance. A number of defections
 have been met with in the ranks of the non
 union rallroaders owing to the ostracism and
 lnconveniencies they meet. The company
 has been compelled to transform several
 freight cars at Mahanoy Plane into eatinp
 and sleeping rooms while it's offices and ma.
 chine shops are likewise adapted. The joint committee to day began the publication of the Pointer, weekly paper intended to pre- sent their side of the case. It is rather in- Aammable in tone. The miners met in mass meeting tonight for special organization.
 READING, Pa. Jan. 5.-More coal trains than at any time for the past forty eight hours are coming down the main line of the Reading road tonight, but this is not due to the activity in the Schuylkill regions The latest is that less individual collieries are working to-day than ct any time heretofore and but two mines opened by the company, the Brockside at Tower City aud the Suffolk coal cars now being rushed into this region contain coke from western Pennsylvania When the furnace men found that there was to be @ scarcity of coal they ordered coke and this is now being used by some furnaces Any coal scarcity that may arise in the future l will not interfere with the furnaces. As an instance to show the scarcity of coal in this l ,ity it may be stated that force of twenty l nen will be put to work in this city to-mor- l ow morning to load the buckwheat coal that l he company iGas stored near the round | houses. There are about forty thousand tons 1 # it and heretofore the company has made | se of it themselves, but they sold one thou and tons of it to @ dealer in this city and | ave ready market for the rest.
 Chairman Lees circular to the Knights of l America appealing for funds to sustain twen- ytwo thousand locked out miners and de- ouncing the 'hard hearted, cruel and tyr anical men who have amassed colossal for unes from the miners toll, i" has created con- ldersble excitement in this city. Commit ses will go ahead to solicit money for the triking miners.
 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5.--A special to the ress from Pottsville says: The miners' strike more complete than ever. Hitherto the ! umber of idle and working collieries has cen willingly stated at the office of the Coal l nd Iron company. To-day the officials there lid that they had been instructed not to i've out these figures. The miners say the ,ason is that there are no Reading collieries orking at all. The best information, hows yer, is that the Suffolk coliiery near Mahanoy ity and the Brookside at Tower City are l ill working, but with crippled forces. The I enry Clay, Reading colliery near Shamo- in, was compelled to shut down to-day be- suse the shaft running the machinery of the reaker was broken. Two Reading mines le Richardson at Glen Carbon and the North rankin near Trenerton were working yes rday, but are closed to- day on account of le strike. One of the individual collieries, le William Penn near Shenadoah, which l IS been working under an agreement to ! 'ntinue to pay the advanced basis pending shut down to-day The reason
 that the miners refused to cut coal to be ] aded on cars handled by non-union men