Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-25
SLEEPING UNDER ARMS
Georgia Soldiers Will Give Threaten
ing Miners a Reception.
RUMOR OF AN IMPENDING ATTACK.
Several More of Tennessee's Mob Arrested
by the State Troops.
THE CONvIcTs WILL BE RETURNED SOON

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
ATLANTA, GA, Aug. M.-Atlanta't
military companies are sleeping under arms
tonight. A special train stands ready tc
rush them through to Cole City in three
hours The Dalton Guards and the Rome
Cadets are already under way.
A rumor reached the city yesterday after.
noon that the Tennessee miners were con.
templating an attack on the coal mines in
Dade county in order to iberate the Georgia
convicts confined there. The Governor was
not in the city, but he was soon in com.
munication with the Office here by telegraph,
and since then the wires have been hot
conveying messages to and from the
Governor to the city officials here and in
Cole City. Adjutant General Kell has put
himself in communication with the Dalton
Guards aud the Rome Light Infantry, and
has ordered them to be ready to march at a
moments notice These are the only COM
panies in the northern part of the State,
but if any more soldiers be needed they can
be obtained in very short while.
Yesterday evening Mr.. Julius Brown,
! who is the attorney for the lessees of the
State convicts at Cole City, received tele
gram from Mr.. Conner, the General Super
intendent of the miners at Coal City, saying
that he was informed that the miners al
Whiteside, Tenn, were preparing to attack
the stockade at Cole City to release the con.
victs confined there.
Soldiers Ord cred to Get Ready.
He stated further that he thought one
company of soldiers would be able to hold
the miners in check if they made an attack,
| and that the presence of the military
might prevent terrible disaster. Mr..
Brown hastened at once to the capitol and
tary and principal keeper Jones OF
the penitentiary department. The
telegram he had received was repeated to
Governor Northen, who was down at Ham,
ilton, and the Governor at orce wired Ad-
jutant General Kell to be in easy reach
and to put himself in communication with
the military officials, who might be needed,
and order them to be ready to march at q
minutes notice.
For the first time in the history of the
Capitol there was light burning through
out the night in the Office of Principal
Keeper George H Jones. He spent the
night there instead of returning to his quiet
home in Norcross, for the officials at Cole
graph Office here had Instructions to send
any message to the Office at any hour of
the night. The long night wore away
at last, but no message wss received. Gov
ernor Northen wired to the Sheriff of Dade
county to uphold the law at all hazards and
to render all assistance possible to the Off
cials at Cole City in case of an attack. The
officials at both ends of the line have taken
the matter in hand, and if an attack is made
they will be able to drive back the miners
at short notica
Preparing to Give a Warm Reception.
When Principal Keeper Jones was asked
what he knew about the rumored trouble,
he replied that he had received letter this
morning, written yesterday, saying that
everything was quiet This letter was
written yesterday morning, but the condi-
tion of affairs seems to have changed since
then, for this evening Mr.. Julius Brown
received telegram from Captain Reese,
asking that more arms and ammunition be
sent The telegram was carried at once to
the Executive Office by Mr.. Brown himself,
and a case containing "a guns and a supply
of ammunition was sent on to Cole City.
The guards will be all armed, and,
together with the Sherif's posse, the
miners will find warm reception waiting
them if they should conclude to attack the
camps The Whiteside mine, from which
came the report of the contemplated at
tack, is over in Tennessee, but is only six
miles from the mines at Cole City. 1t has
all along been believed that the plan
of the Tennessee miners was to
wipe out the convict business in Tennessee
and then they would release the convicts
confined in the mines at Cole City. The
Atlanta battalion was furnished with three
days rations tonight by Quartermaster
General West, who says: eff an attack is
really made on Cole City we will show the
Tennessee miners that Georgia is a warm
place for them" The Governor is in close
communication with Cole CITY