Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-18
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Miners Returning to Work

diners returning TO YORK.
BELLAIRE, o., June 49, Near $500
people found work in the mines in this
part of the Ohio Valley to-day. The
others, about half of the miners in the
district, will await the result of the con-
ference at Columbus tomorrow. The
soldiers have all gone home.
MARTINS FERRY, o., June lS.-The
miners at Laughlin nail works, Gay
lord, Long Run, Bellaire and other
mines returned to work to-day.
BRAZIL, Ind, June 1S.-The decision
of the miners in conference at Terre
Haute Saturday has created much dis
satisfaction among the strikers in this
city. They bitterly censured the meet
ing and vowed they would return to
work if they had to carry shotguns to
defend themselves with.
SPRINGFIELD, H., June 1S.-The
coal strike in Illinois is probably at an
end. The conference of the miners,
which has been in progress here since
Saturday morning, came to a close last
evening. Ascale was agreed upon and
it is believed it will be accepted by the
operators. Next Wednesday is the
date fixed for the resumption of work.
CINCINNATI, O., June lS.-Reports
from the Hooking Valley this morning
indicate that all of the miners except
those at Straitsville and Lost Run have
returned to work. BY tomorrow all
Of the valley will be in operation. The
Wheeling & Lake Erie mines at Dillon
Vile, Laurelton and Long Run were
put in operation this morning and all
the Wheeling q Lake Erie engineers
were ordered to report for duty at
general headquarters.
CUMBERLAND, Md, June 1S.-The
situation in the Georges creek region
this morning remains the same as last
week. The Consolidation, Eckhart,
Holman and Allegheny went to work
with about the same number of men.
The rest Of the mines al Frostburg and
Homecoming are still idle. Gov. Brown
arrived this morning and is now at
Frostburg. He is anxious to reduce
the military force Oh duty to the small
est number consistent with the require
ments of the situation. 1t seems to be
generally expected that the breakdown
of the strike is close at hand. Governor
Brown will go to the mining region.
Two hundred miners went to work at
Elk Garden this morning at 40 cents.
CHICAGO, June 1S.-Thc Seventh Regi.
ment of the Illinois National Guards was
ordered out last night to assist T.. S. Marshal
Brinton in making arrests of striking miners
who have intcrfcrred with trains at Mount
Olive.
WHEELING, W. Va, June 1S.-All the
troops in Marshall county, two companies,
broke camp carly this morning on orders from
Adjutant General Hollcy, and everything is
quiet now. About $50 miners in this dis
trict went to work this morning accepting
the Columbus scale.
OTTAWA, H., June 1S.-Thc miners at
Alarsoillcs resumed work this morning, but
the La Sale miners refused to go to work at
the scale adopted by the Columbus conven-
ton. 1t is very probable that the S%treator
miners will resume work next Monday as
many of them are suffering for want OF the
ncccssarics of life.
S%rRISGFIELD, Ill, June 1S.-It now ap-
pears that the conference of the miners
which has been going on here for the past
W days will comc to naught. Several Of the
leading operators said this morning that the
scale prepared would not be accepted by them
Conference of the operators will probably be
called either to-day or Tomorrow.