Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-05-26
THE MINERS STRIKE.

Reports from the Great Mining Districts
Show Determination of the Strikers
to stand Out to the End--Riotous Dem
onstrations In Illinois.
COLUMBUS, o., May 23.-If the Ma
tional Mine Workers officers here give
out the reports that come to them from
the great mining districts without re-
serve, the failure of the Cleveland con-
vention to reach a settlement has not
disheartened the miners. Yesterday
the following brief summary of reports
received was given out by President
Mcbride:
Washingtonville, o.: Endorsed ac
tion of convention. Men firm"
Latrobe, Pa. standing with re-
newed vigor and appointed William
Prentice to act with national officers"
Runeysburg, Pa: willing to stand
out all summer"
Larimer, Pa: care with the officials
in this fight"
Maynard, o.: Seventy cents per ton
and national settlement"
Salem, o.: 'Stand with decision of
miners delegates"
Hall Shaft, Shenango, Pa: ''As firm
as ever"
A special bulletin, the first issued
since the Cleveland convention, was
sent out Tuesday from national head
quarters to all local organizations. The
story of the convention is briefly given,
and passing to the strike, President
Mcbride says: "No miners movement
ever covered the same area of territory,
or was participated in by men repre-
senting as many nationalities or speak
| ing as many languages; and no move
ment has ever equaled in magnitude
| and solidarity or evidenced the power
| of concerted action as has the present
one.
From all quarters reports come of a
coal famine, and while we regret this
because of the hardship to others than
our craft, yet upon a coal famine de-
pends our success; hence the sooner and
the more general the public experience
distress for the want of fuel, the quick
er will they turn their eyes to the mine
workers condition of life
He closes with these words: "This
fight must be won by cutting off the
coal supply, and we are doing that eff
fectually. Every days idleness now
counts for more than a weeks stop or
dinarily."
LA SALE, Ill, May 23.-A riotous
demonstration occurred among the
striking miners at the mines of the
Union Coal Company, just across the
river yesterday afternoon, in which
eight or ten non-union men We're seri
ously injured. Mine Superintendent
Hetherington and Edward Cummins
were the most seriously hurt, both be-
ing beaten into insensibility. The
strikers, to the number of 600 or 7Ot
from the mines of the Union company
at Oglesby, Peru and this city, held {
mass meeting in the afternoon, at (which
it was decided to prevent the score OIL
more of men engaged in cleaning ou
the mines from remaining at work.
The mob, composed of Poles Hum
and Italians, scarcely any of whom cal
understand the English language
marched to the mines across the rive
armed with clubs and stones and call
ing out the men at work there set upol
them and beat them brutally. A fev
of the non-union men took refuge il
the company's offices and barricade
the doors. The house was almost de
molished by the enraged foreigners
who dragged the worlmen from thei
hiding-places and handled them yer
roughly.
Sheriff Taylor had, in the meantime
sworn in force of deputies and reir
forced by the La Sale police, disperse
! the mob, which, having accomplishe
its purpose, offered no resistance.