The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-21

gueclRl DlHpatch TO the lnteuibencef.
FAIRMoNT, W. Va, July 10
A careful resume of the last twenty
sour hours show out little change in the
,,rlke situation. The sensational re-
ports which have appeared in the daily
papers, reflect very much on the In
,eFrlty of some OF the reporters. At
uonongah. where the men came out
Yesterday morning. sixty miners are at
work to-day. All is quiet, and there is
no semblance of any disturbance.
The report that the miners had struck
at Hutchinson. the mines OF the Worth
,prton Coal and Coke Company was
entirely without foundation, as nil the
men are at work except one or two who
stated their intention last Sunday, at
the Willow Tree school house meeting.
10 strike.
The Clark Coal and Coke company's
plant. at Prlchard. has twenty-three
men at work, leaving a shortage OF fif-
teen or twenty miners, These were at
the WILLOW Tree meeting. as that mine
is very close to Monongah. The other
mine OF that company at Chieftain
Spring is running as usual with Its
regular complement OF men.
Big Mines Working Fall.
The CASTOR, New England. West Fair
mont, Montana, Virginia and Pittsburgh
and some smaller plants are having 10
trouble.
The miners in the Paiatlne mine,
which employs about twenty men, came
out to-day, through sympathy, as they
asked and were granted an increase a
Few DAYS ago. Thisis Is the condition OF
the mines this evening.
L. V. Debs spoke at Rivesvllle TO-
nlght. The town is almost opposite the
Montana mines, and by making this
appointment at s O'Clock. he was able
% have some OF the miners there for an
audience. The tension is very much re-
llsyed. and Il is hoped that wise coun-
sells viii prevail and nothing done to
cause trouble between the mine owners
and employee
Deb' Mission Failure.
The above Is In brief m exact state
msnt OF the situation as st is here to-
night The general impression is that
the mission Of Organizer Debs into this
region has been a failure. and Debs
himself when he talks frankly, admits
Il. He stated to-day that the result OF
his EFFORTS thus far have been dlsap-
pointing There Is complaint here on
oil sides against the lurld and greatly
exaggerated reports that have been
sent out from here by sensational cor
respondents, portraying trouble. There
Is absolutely no foundation for many
OF the stories. The report that Debs
addressed 1000 people on the public
square here last night, was untrue.
The crowd was much smaller, and prin-
clpaliy made up Of citizens, not one
hundred miners being among them. Tho
meeting at Monongah yesterday, was
offended by about three hundred. and
this morning sixty OF the strikers re-
turned TO work. The miners ore oil
peaceable. no threats nre being made,
and the sole reason given by the few
who hive quit work Is sympathy. They
have no grievances OF their own, and
make no complaints against the Fair
mont operators.
Sensational HspoTts.
A Sensational story in this noring's
Pittsburgh Dispatch, pretending to give
a list of miners grievances, had no
foundation. Another that one mine Is
an arsenal and guarded by guns. is alb
Eolutely untrue. These sensational re-
ports are doing much TO aggrnvate the
situation outside OF this state, and In
jure the cause OF the miners OF the
country at large. 1t is a form of agita-
tion which can do no good. Most Of the
miners here. am informed, are in
hopes that their striking brethren else
where will succeed In their negotiations
for arbitration IN order that the agita-
ton here may cease.
The operators say they do not be-
llcve there viii be anything like a gem
eral strike In this region. The outcome
Of the meeting AZ RivesYlile tonight,
viii not develop until morning As
elsewhere Doba made moderate
speech. In all his public addresses he
counsels peace and Helf-restrnlnt. Sum
ming up the situation. should uay that
the prospects for trouble here. even
bhou1d more men 20 out, ore very poor.
Debs' meeting nt Rivesvillo was almost
a failure. about ono hundred people be-
Ing present There was not much en-
thuslaHm. II In claimed the company
kent the minffg nWay O. A u,