The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-22

Troops Ordered Out to Repress Riot
GUS Foreigners.

. wALSTON IN A FERMENT.
Troops Ordered Out to Repress Riot
GUS Foreigners.
PUNxSUTAWNEY, Pa, June 21.-Wal-
ston tonight contains about two thousand
foreigners who are in an attitude far from
peaceable. The mine officials are in town,
and the Italians and Hungarians are run
ming things at the mines to suit themselves.
Additional firearms were purchased to-day,
and hardware merchants could have sold a
hundred Winchesters il they had them.
Very few English-speaking miners are now
in Walston. Those now in the town are
compelled to stay, as their lives are threat
ened If they attempt to leave. The citi-
zens or Punxsutawney and Clayville are
much alarmed at the present critical situa-
ton. and held a joint mass meeting to-
night to take action In regard TO bringing
IN guards and undesirable men. The Ital-
ians claim that they have a Frenchman
among them who is an adept at making
bombs and that they have plenty OF good
ones made. The bumpers have been COM
are rapidly flooding with water. John
Snyder, mine superintendent at Walston,
was. compelled to leave. and has been stay
ing in town. He resiged his position to-day
and left for his farm in Ohio.
A company OF militia is expected tonight
from Ridgeway, and the remainder Of two
regiments ordered out by the Governor will
arrive Tomorrow. The foreigners under
stand that the troops are coming; and the
place into Walston are swarming with Ital-
ians and Hungarians wrought up to the
fear now is that there will be an attack
upon the Notwithstanding miners and
their families. They have been driven
husbands and fathers hav been separated
from their wives and children, and the
women and children are now running
around CRYING for nrOfpCriOn Word has
just come to town that the more daring of
the foreigners want to come TO this place
and search for the missing English-speak-
ing men, and should they come it is feared
there will be bloodshed. The citizens are
greatly excited, and the more timid are in
terror lest a riot takes place tonight
should the foreigners come to town. The
troops will arrive about 4 o'clock in the
morning.
Outrages by Soldiers and Deputies.
FORT SMITH. Ark. June 21-The re-
ports OF brutality by United States troops
and deputy marshals in evicting miners and
their families from the Indian Territory,
as related in these dispatches yesterday,
were brought to this city by miners who
had been forcibly elected from their homes
in the Territory, and are corroborated in
some instances by eyewitnesses 10 the
evictions. There are a large number OF
the box cars in which they were shipped
from the Territory. They are mostly Ger
mans and b,,t BG Oh nasIS and and SPEAK SPEAK tb broken 4a1
lat5 the same story OF rough treatment by
the soldiers.
Illinois Scale Endorsed.
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. June 21.-The miners
of the Springfield subdistrict this afternoon
Endorsed the scale adopted by the miners
conference Sunday, and decided that each
miner working pay 121z per cent. of his
! wages toward helping those out of employ
Advices 10 the officers Of the miners union
state that most of the shafts in the Peoria
and Canton subdistrictS resumed to-day,
while at Pana, where the operators refused
the scale. one hundred only OF eight hun
dred miners went to work to-day The eff
several large Springfield factories, employ
ing hundreds of men, TO resume work to-
Southern Illinois Miners Resume.
ST. LOUIS, June IA large number of
mines in southern Illinois resumed work
to-day. Among them are the Carterville
Coal Company's mine. Brush mine, St.
Louis and Big Muddy, two at Breeze, one
at Trenton, the Joseph Taylor at Ofallon,
Oak Hill. Oakland. Ayers and Randalrs
Belleville, Tilden, Walnut Valley, Bran
denburg OF the Glendale Coal Company,
Mission field and Peoria OF the Console
dated Coal Company and F. ]. Langmeyers
in the Breeze district. Active prepara-
sions fSs s Tbs Sonso aGe being gom maae
CNElI ~ OALRaAI
expects TO reopen several mines tomorrow.
Danger Point In West Virginia.
WHEELING. w. Va, June 2l.-Nearly
two hundred George Creek strikers are at
Elk Garden. W.. Va. and more are ex-
pected to arrive tonight. To-day they
prevented half OF the miners at Elk Gar
den from working, and they claim they
will be able to force out the remainder to-
morrow. Sheriff Dixon. with fifty armed
deputies. is on the ground and is In COM
munication with Governor McCorckle. 1T
scene. The miners held a secret meeting
tonight, and the situation is considered
serious
Must Leave the Territory.
SOUTH MALISTER, /. T., June 21.-In-
dian Agent Wisdom interviewed eighty
three miners to-day and asked them to
show cause why they should not be re-
moved as intruders. The majority of the
men interviewed will have to leave the ma
ton. The United States troops have been
ordered from Alderston TO Krebs to keep
the peace and enforce the orders of the
who the agent designates as intruders.
There are no hopes of the mines resuming
operations soon.
Union Miners Evfcted.
POMEROY. o.. June H.-Fourteen fam
lilies of union miners were evicted at Spill
man. W. Va, to-day, and their places in
the mines taken Dy sixty oOutneTn negroes.
Eleven armed nonunion men are now work
ing there. that being the only mine in op.
Grafton. After the eviction the miners were
paid for their gardens and treated 10 sew
eral kegs of beer.
VIII Not Pay n DfTerentiaI.
CLEVELAND, o., June 21.-The Massil
Ion district coal operators held a meeting
here to-day and adopted a resolution no
TO pay the differential demanded by their
miners, and to open their mines only upor
the terms agreed to at the Columbus con
ference.
Mary Lee Mine Still Burning.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. June 21--The fir
in the Mary Lee mine is still raging. al
though every effort is being made 10 ex
tinguish the flames Several OF the mer
taken out Of the burning nine will likely
die from the effects Of he burns received
Negro MlIcrs Dynamited.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. June 21-At War
rior, last night. a house occupied by negro
miners was dynamited and six men were
injured.