The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-30

TERRE HAUTE, May 2s.-SpeciaL-
w. H. Lyford Of Chicago. general solicit
tor Of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail-
road company. arrived in this city at
o'clock tonight with restraining order
which he has in conjunction with Messrs.
Lamb and Beasley. the roads attorneys
here secured at Indianapolis today OF
United States Judge Baker, enJoining the
striking coal miners and all others from
interfering with the progress OF the coal
train Of twenty-four cars, which the
strikers sidetracked at Clinton Locks Sat
urday and now have in their possession.
United States Marshal Hawkins also
arrived this evening. Tomorrow morn
ing, armed with the writ and with a
reasonable force he will make an effort
10 move the coal train. The writ is
Issued under TIE provisions Of the inter
state commerce law. The train is in the
heart of the troubled Indiana mining
district. and trouble is feared.
The federal government being behind
the writ all the force necessary to move
the train will be used.
Saturday posse of Terre Haute police
trying 70 move the train was driven off.
barely escaping with their lives.
The coal is partly owned by the Chi
Cage & Eastern Illinois company and
partly by Chicago dealers.
The miners have sworn the coal shall
not be moved, and most Of them are
armed.
BRAZIL. May 2S.-Three hundred
miners have stationed themselves at
Fontanet. north of here on the Big Four,
and stop every freight train. They
thoroughly examine each car to see If
any coal is being transported. They now
have ten cars of coal sidetracked and
guarded night and day.
TERRE HAUTE. May 2S.-The 500
miners who captured a Big -Four train and
came to Terre Haute Friday and returned
10 their homes Saturday have made no
further move 10 20 to Pana TO get the
miners there out. The belief here is that
the idea of going TO Pana has been aban-
doned
CAYUGA. May 2s-Special.-Sixty
miners from Sherwood and 100 from
Clinton arrived at this place this morn
ing and marched to the mines, four miles
west Of this place. known as the Hiberly
mines, operated by ". s. Millikin Of
this place and the Jackson mines. The
miners at those places have been digging
for the local trade and supplying the Glover
Leaf railroad at this place. They have
been asked to quit several times. but have
not complied. 1t is now proposed to force
them out. The strikers are armed and
some of them filled with bad whisky and
serious trouble IS feared.
BRAZIL, May 2S.-Special.-The Brazil
chamber Of commerce had called pub
lie meeting to be held Wednesday night
at the city building to consider the grav-
ity Of the situation due to the miners
strike Business men and citizens are
taking in hands the interests Of our
clay works. which are crowded with or
ders. but closed down and their employees
out OF work because Of the want of fuel
These works mine their own COAL bur
their men have been prevailed on to come
out and the strikers insist that they
shall stay out and let the employees abide
the situation until a general settlement
shall have been brought about. The
chamber Of commerce invites the strikers
to select a representative committee to
attend the meeting called.
BRAZIL, May Special.-Vandals
were at work at Stearleyville, a shipping
point on the Center Point division of the
Vandalia Sunday night. ?. S. Mace
who operates a slope a mile from Stearley-
vile, began loading a fiat last Saturday,
leaving II stand partly loaded on the
switch over Sunday. Last night some
unknown persons unloaded the coal and
ruined it by breaking il to pieces and
reducing It to dust