Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-11
OPERATORS CBNSURED
By the Kanawha Miners for Refusing
Arbitration.
". WYANT ROUNDLY DENOUNCED
For Having Acted In a Manner
Calculated to Create III Feel
ing Before the Trouble at
Bagle-Results of the Hearings
at Fayetteville-Ohio Miners
Almost Lynch q Man.
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The resolutions adopted at the meeting
Of the miners in Montgomery last night
severely censured the operators for re-
fusing to arbitrate. The miners are
still in favor OF a joint meeting Of
operators and miners, or are willing 10
submit the question in dispute to ar6i-
tration, the operators to select one man
the miners another and those two to
select the third, all disinteIested per-
sons, work to be resumed at once and
abide by the decision of the arbltrators.
Among the resolutions adopted is the
following:
Had the operators met the delegates
Of the miners of January 20, we are
confident that all of the trouble could
have been averted, and satisfactory
settlement could have been arrived at.
We regret very much that any lawless-
ness or violence, such as recently hap
pened at the Diamond mine, ever oc-
Cured, and it was much against the
wishes of the better element Of miners,
and we condemn it, but We do not con-
slider it fair that we should be held re-
sponsible for the action Of the unruly
element among the miners that is hard
to control, yet We justly claim that
there is an element among the operators
that deserves censure equally as much,
or more, than do the miners. 1t is
well-known fact that William Wyant,
through his domineering and tYranni-
cal methods since this trouble has come
about
Is DESERVING OF CENsURE
by his fellow operators. He has at diff
ferent times threatened and used very
insulting language TO miners passing
on the public road and by doing so pro-
voked and brought on the recent
trouble at his mine, and we believe he
did 1t for the purpose OF having troops
ordered to the scene Of the riot. He
has repeatedly ezasperated and irri-
tated miners by displaying TO
them Winchester rifles when
they were on the public highway
and on the railroad and by sending
them insulting and threatening messa-
ges that If they came to take his min
ers out to bring their coliins, etc, and
we denounce the SANDERS circulated
against us and this community. Finally
and lastly we desire to assure the pub
lie and his Excellency Governor Mac
Corkle that there is now no longer, If
there has ever been, any necessity for
troops to preserve the peace and en-
force the law of the State in this COM
munity, and we condemn all acts OF
violence Of persons and property, and
unreservedly pledge ourselves in mass
meeting assembled to obey and uphold
the laws Of our country"
RESULT OF THE HEARINGS.
The preliminary examination OF the
Eagle rioters in progress in Justice Bar
tons court at Fayetteville since last
Tuesday was concluded tonight.
1t resulted in one being held for mur
der without bail, nineteen held In 81, 900
30 await the action of the grand jury in
April and five dismissed. Bond was
furnished by six of the prisoners and
the rest went to jail. Cum Adkins, who
issued the warrant for the arrest Of
WANT and party is himself under
criminal charge, thus "nollying" pro-
ceedings for the time at least against
Wyant.