The record-union., 1894-06-22
Serious Condition of Affairs at
WalstOn, Pennsylvania.
HUNS RUNNING THINGS TO SUIT
THEMSELVES.
English-Speaking Miners and Their
Families Driven From Their Homes
Two Regiments of Militia Dis
patched to the Scene of the Trouble
The Strike at Pena, Illinois, De-
clared Off.
Special to the REooRD-UN1oS.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
PUNxsUTAwNEY Pa.), June 21.-
Walston tonight contains about 1900
foreigners, who are in an attitude far
from peaceable. The mine officials are
powerless. and the Huns are running
things at the mines 20 suit themselves.
An additional lot of firearms were
purchased to-day, and the hardware
merchants could have sold a hundred
Winchesters if they had had them. Very
few English-speaking miners are now at
Walstcn.
The citizens of Punxsutawney and
WaIston are much alarmed at the present
critical condition. The bumpers are
compelled to leave the pumps and the
mines are rapidly filling with water.
John Snyder, mine Superintendent at
Walston, was compelled to leave, and
has been staying in this town. The
militia is expected tomorrow. The
foreigners understand the troops are
coming, and the highway leading from
this place into Walston is swarming with
hordes of Italians and Huns, who are
greatly agitated.
The greatest fear is now that there will
be an attack upon the English-speaking
miners and their families. They have
been driven from their homes, and in the
darkness fathers and husbands have been
separated from children and wives, and
the children are running around crying
for protection.
TROOPS CALLED OFT.
HARRISBURG (Pa.), June 2l.-The Fifth
and Sixteenth Regiments and Sheridan
Posts have been called out by Governor
Pattison for service in Jefferson County.
Sheriff GOurley telegraphs that 200
Hungarians and LOCO sympathizers are
within three miles of Puxsutawney, and
the situation grows more alarming every
minute. The mob is in possession of
mining properties at Woolstow.
MINERS FAMILIES I-vICTED.
PoMEROY (O.), June q. = Fourteen
families of union miners were evicted at
Spillman to-day and their places in the
mines taken by sixty Southern negroes.
After the eviction the miners were paid
for their gardens and treated to several
kegs of beer.
FORCED TO COME OUT.
SULLIVAN (Ind. }, June 21.-Tbe miners
at Star City resumed work. and they
delegation of strikers. The purpose now
is to wait Tor orders from the officers of
the State Federation.
INDICTED FOR MURDER.
BRAZIL Qnd.), June 2l.-The Grand
Jury to-day returned indictments against
nine striking miners charged with mur-
der in the first degree, in killing Engi-
neer Barrow of the Vandalia line.
THE PULLMAN STRIKE.
CHICAGO, June 21.-The Peoples party
and its principles were indorsed by the
American Railway Union Convention to-
day by rising vote. The delegates de-
clared themselves unanimously in favor
of Government ownership of railroads.
1t is stated the boycott of the Pullman
Car Company is assured.
The convention appointed committee
to consider the question of declaring a
boycott against Pullman cars. If the re-
port to the convention tomorrow is
favorable the necessary orders will be
sent out at once. A committee was an-
pointed to confer with the Pullman
people.
STRIKE AT PANA DECLARED OFF.
PANA 1ll.), June 2l.-The strike at
Pana was declared off at a meeting of the
Miners Union to-day. Every man was
given the privilege of getting work as
best he could at the operators terms, but
most of the local strikers will have to
leave town, so it is reported, because
their places have been filled by strangers
The State Committee called on the oper-
ators and the latter told them that they
had all the miners they could employ at
present and would not recognize the
union.
EFFECT OF THE STRIKE ON THE IRON
TRADE.
New YORK, June 2l.-The Iron A ge
to-day says: The partial resumption of
work has given a number of mills an
opportunity to resume work and the sup
ply is therefore more liberal. Still the
| quantity of raw material available for
soft steel is yet very limited and will re-
main so until the coke strike is finally
settled. The leading Connellsville inter
est had advised some customers that they
could count upon regular supply from
now on. but the fact remains that on Sat-
urday last less than 1000 ovens out of
IL. 500 were running. Nor is it certain
whether scenes of violence will not pre-
cede the final collapse. In any event il
will take some time before the Western
steel trade will again be swinging along
in its accustomed style. 1t looks as
though at least one large Pittsburg union
mill will break away from the Anal
gamation Association. With all these
doubts as to the early resumption of full
work, buyers are not taking hold.