The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-08-23
MINES TO BE SMOKED.
ll1E MOST PROMINENT LEADERS
OF THE STRIKE f. ARRESTED.
commissioner Ford Gives Bond In
sum of Of$1O,OOO-Other Coal
Creek News.

Ford Gives Bond in
sum Of 5 $1O.OOO-Other Coal
Creek News.
BY Telegraph to the State Chronicle
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug % Twenty
three men supposed to be in sympathy
with the most notorious of the miners
were arrested near Coal Creek today and
locked up. Several of them are suspected
of holding up the mail train between
Clinton and Coal Creek last Thursday
night. One of the men who is wanted is
l.. A. Roescher, a. German who for the
past year has conducted shooting gal
lery on the creek. He is practiced
sharp shooter and last week went to
a high point overlooking fort Anderson
and erected himself small barricade.
From behind this he kept up constant
| fire and it is believed that he killed pri
| vate Smith. Proof sufficient to show
| that he was an anarchist of prOnouced
views, has been discovered. He has
been very active among the miners since
his arrival at Coal Creek and many be-
lieve that he has directed in person the
attempts of property and human life re-
Gently made in that vicinity. All the
leaders prominent in the labor troubles
of the past eighteen months, save Lind
say, are absent from Coal Creek on what
will prove to be an extended vacation and
the deluded miners and citizens who were
led into open rebellion against the State
are left to suffer all the penalties. Geo.
E. Irish, well known in Coal Creek, who
has been known and recognized for
months as leader and advisor of the
miners, is in demand This morning
the Knox county officials were given
authority to arrest Irish at once. He was
arrested at Lyonsville by deputy sheriff
Hall. Chas. T. Alleman, assistant mine
inspector for the State, is wanted at Goa
Creek by military officials He is charged
with having acted in concert with
the miners for months and ha!
aided labor commissioner Ford il
keeping the miners posted in al
the movements of the State military
forces and civil authorities. Allemar
went to Coal Creek last Thursday but has
not been seen there since early that af
ternoon. This morning certain men wht
had authority to arrest Alleman arrived
in this city. They secured at once tn
aid of the local authorities and
thorough search is now being made 70
the man. Commissioner Ford gave bono
: to day inSum of $4,000 He was re
leased by Gen. Csrnes and is now at hi
residence in this city. The latest sensa
tion at Coal Creek is that mine are t.
be smoked in order to drive out the min
ers who are supposed to be hiding in tn
bowels Of the earth.
Gen. Stevenson at the IIOhna II III o use
By Telegraph to the State Chronicle.
t NEW YORK, August %. Genera
n Adlai E. Stevenson received number c
5 callers at the Hoffman house today wher
S he is stopping. The general and Do
l. NJ. Dickinson were elected members {
v the sub committee to look after the wes
: Mr. Dickinson, who has been i'll at hi
brothers cattage at Bay Ridge, returne
, to this city today. An address signe
; by Carl Schurz, Oswald Ottendorfe
VIM. Steinway, Louis Windmuller an
. Gustave b. Schwatz, was today il
~ sued to the German American voter
{. urging them to aid in securing the ele
tion of Grover Cleveland.