The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-06-16
THE MINERS STRIKE.
THE STRIKE OF THE MINERS WILL
NOT BE COMPROMISED.
The Conference Between Illinois
Operators n the Miners Comes to
Naught and the Struggle Will BE
Continued Indefinitely.

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Continued Indefinitely.
Danville, ILL.,, June 1.-Matters are get
ting desperate with the striking miners
in the Danville field. Many of the fami-
lies are starving. Relief committees can
vass the farmers for fifteen miles for
something to eat. st. Elizabeth hospital
of this city is out of coal ard it's patients
are suffering for want Of food and
warmth. The miners refuse to allow the
sisters coal. They propose to stop all
trains carrying coal ana are stopping
freight trains and examining the box cars
to see if they contain coal.
Stotdale, Pa, June 1.-The situation
in the coke region is quiet and peateable.
The strike leaders Say the governors
reclamation was not intended to sup
press meetings and marchings any more
than it was to do away with the deputies
and their Winchesters. Meetings of the
strikers will continue as usual. Two car
loads of negroes were imported last night
for the Frick Standard plant, and forty
two Austrians have been run into the
Meyer works of the Rainey company.
Birmingham, Ala, June 1.-The COM
mittee appointed by the citizens mass
meeting to confer with the operators and
miners committee, with a view of adjust
ing the strike, if possible, met the opera
tors. After a prolonged conference moth
ing was accomplished, the operators de-
clining to recede from their original prop
osition of 20 per cent reduction. The
operators believe they have about VOL
the fight, but the strikers are firm yet.
Cripple Greek, COL, June 1.-The war
clouds that hover over Bull Hill and
Battle Mountain look very threatening.
A rumor has reached the camp that the
deputies are preparing to advance toward
Bull Hill, and the miners are preparing
to give them a warm reception. There is
no truth in the runner that the miners
have a lot of deputies prisoners. The
strikers are making prisoners of men
whom they consider dangerous to their
safety, and it. is stated that fifty persons
are thus held in custody.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, June 1.-The presence
of the military companies at Evars yes
for a time, but they rallied from their
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bots, where a great mass meeting was
held i'll the public square. The speakers
disc'aimed any intention to do violence,
and scored the calling out of the troops.
1t was asserted that it was not a strike,
but merely a suspension of labor, aud
that they proposed to stand firm until
the demands were satisfied in other
fields.
Keokuk, Iowa, June IA delegation
of strikers marched from Centerville to
Deauia and forced the miners in a pri-
vate mine operated for the Keokuk &
Western railroad to stop work. The rail-
road is hard pressed for fuel and has
taken off local freight trains two days
each week.
Charleston, w. Va, June "a tele-
grs m from Montgomery states that as
the miners at Powellton were leaving
the mines last night several shot. were
fred at them from the surrounding tim
Der, resulting in four men being killed.
None of the men who did the shooting
were discovered. The proprietor of the
Powellton mines telegraphed tn, fact of
the shooting to the governor, stating that
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and asked if nothing could be done to
protest his men.
Cripple Creek, Colo, June 5. - The
strikers have spent the day in perfecting
creased to-day by 800 men who came
from the district Of Pueblo. Women
and children have been strea ming toward
thSS nlao0 from V;otor o,J Altman Tho
miners nave loaded beer kegs with dyna-
placed them on the crests of Globe Hill
and Battle mountain.
Denver, June 5.-Gov. Waite has re-
Quested Assistant States Attorney Soils
and Solicitor Stephen A. Prett to give
hin an opinion of the Cripple Greek
situation and his duty as governor. They
have replied in effect that the governor
should grant Sheriff Bowers demand for
troops to aid him in disarming the strik-
ers. What action the governor will take
has not been announced. 1t is under
stood Gov. Waite has been given power
BY the strikers to agree upon terms of
arbitration.
Springfield, ILL.,, June 5.-Gov. Altgeld
to-day received the following telegram
from the sheriff of Williamson county,
at Marion, ILL.,:
II am powerless in the hands of 1000
men and women, armed with dynamite
n guns. l am compelled to withdraw
my forces at Carterville."
The governor has replied, asking how
many deputies the sheriff had and what
acts of violence, if any, had occurred.
Thirty guns with ammunition were for
warded.