Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-19
 QUIET ALONG TIE LINES. Presence of the Military Seems to
 Prove Effective. SOLDIERS SENT TO ADGER. Citizens Determined to Aid the GoVernor-No Special
 Grand Jury.
SOLDIERS SENT TO ADGER.

and not a single thing occurred to mar the even tenor of affairs in and around Pratt City or the mines. The presence of the military seems to have had a tendency to suppress all attempts at evil doing.
 TROOPS SENT TO ADGER.
 The Jefferson Volunteers, Lieutenant Warren commanding, went down to Adger on the Birmingham Mineral train yester- day afternoon and will camp there tonight. The cause of the company being sent to that point is the fear of violence that ex- ists among the negro miners there. The assault at Pratt mines Monday afternoon has alarmed the negroes in the Blue creek region and they fear an attack from the striking miners there.
 The negroes at Adger, Sumter and Johns, it is said, have all received notice to leave the mines, and are threatened with death should they refuse to obey the order. Frightened by this threat, those at Sumter and large number at Johns would not go in the mines yesterday morning.
 MT. John T. Shugart has been retained to defend about forty of the strikers now in iail charged with murder in connection with the riot of Monday afternoon. He stated to an AaB- HERALD reporter yester- day that he would probably ask for pre- liminary trial Monday next. He said he had large number of witnesses to see be- iOT0 u0 COulu btdle utnultcly Lhhb hC WOuiA ask for the trial on that day.
 Bowman & Harsh have been retained to defend large number of the prisoners.
 MORE ARRESTS.
 Sheriff Morrow has not relaxed his efforts to run down and capture every man in the mob which fired upon the negro miners and the guards at Pratt mines Monday af- ternoon. His deputies, up to o'clock yes- terday afternoon, had brought in nineteen for the day, making total of seventy nine at that time in jail who, it is alleged, were in the mob. Those arrested yesterday were as follows:
 White-Jim Nelson, Alfred Mott, James Brodie. Henry Bousack, Henry Retallack, Will Swain, Ben Shoners, Louis Boisell, N. Benoit, Ernest Mott, Will Harden, Emile Gopttie.
 Colored-Mathew Mum, George Dor ough, Anderson Miles, Joe Banks, Jim Washington, Cato Meredith, Morris Harri- son.
 There are yet some twenty five warrants that have not been executed.
 THE SPECIAL TERp1 WILL NOT BE HELD. The following letter from Governor Jones 10 Judge s. E. Greene IS self-ex- plaining:
 BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July IS, 1894. Hon. Samuel E. Greene, Judge of the Crim- nal Court
 [ DEAR SIR: After consultation with you, the attorney general and the solicitor, I
 
 constitution, tits doubtful whether the grant in general terms to your court of the power conferred on circuit courts and judges, which IS your only authority to order a special term, would be upheld as a valid law, and in matter of such conse- quence it would not be wise to take any risks. l, therefore, withdraw the request COD ptained in my letter of yesterday. Yours truly, THOMAS G. JONES,
 Governor.
 LOTTERIES FIRED UPON.
 Sentinels at Pratt mines shot several times at stragglers Tuesday night, but so far as known none of the shots took effect, the parties each time running off into the woods.
 At slope No. 5, where the Warrior Guards were on duty, one of the sentinels says he saw man approaching him and he gave the command to halt. The man stopped and squatted down, and as he did so put his hand behind him. The senti- nel, thinking the man was pulling his pistol, fired at him and he ran off.
 There were probably dozen shots fired during the night by different sentinels at loiterers who refused to halt when com manded to do SO.
 ARMED MEN SEEN.
 body of men, numbering about twenty, each carrying gun, was seen shortly after noon in the woods not far from slope No. 1, and detachment of soldiers was sent out to look for them. They had instruc- tions to arrest every man they came across who had gun or pistol and could not give satisfactory account Of himself
 The detachment was out for several hours, but saw no suspicious characters. Two or three detachments of soldiers were sent out to scout the surrounding sec- tion, but found nothing out of the ordi- nary on the trips.
 GETTING DESPERATE.
 Yesterday afternoon a middle aged white woman reported to Secretary P. K. Me- Miller that five or six white men, claim ing to be miners, had visited her residence near Pratt City early in the day and forci- bly taken therofrom all the provisions she had on hand. They remarked at the time that they had no money and swore they were not going to starve.
 MT. Drake, dairyman living near the city, also reported to Secretary McMiller that some miscreants had killed and car- ried of valuable milch cow belonging to him, and that he was forced to keep his cows up, fearing lest they would again be depredated.
 JEFFERSON sHARPsHooTERs ORGANIZED. The following well-known citizens met in Erswell's hall last evening and organ ized a mounted rife club. The member ship will be strictly limited to fifty mem bers. It will be on the order of social club for recreation and amusement, but on call of the sher.f if can appear as staunch up holders of law and order. rifle range will be at once secured, and, as nearly every member Is already a good shot, the club expect to speedily make record sec ond to no rife club in the state.