Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-18
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC News
The Strike.

1QS S(rlhc.
P1rrsBURG, Pa, Aug. 1S.-The strik.
ing miners encamped about the mines
of the New York and Cleveland Com.
pany, did not march this morning as
they had planned to do. 1t was their
purpose to start for the mines headed
by q brass band, but when they were
ready they beheld deputies standing
just outside their camp. The march
was at once abandoned.
WHEELING, VIVA Aug. 1S.-Camp-
ers are still at the Montana mines, not
having succeeded in closing them en-
tirely. The march to West Fairmont
and New England mines is scheduled
to begin to night, when the o. S. Court
injunction will probably be served un'
der Judge Jackson's new ruling that
marching columns are an intended in
timidation and contrary to law.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 1S.-Judges
Stowe and Collier handed down their
opinion in the miners Injunction case
shortly after 10 o'clock this morning.
The decision makes the preliminary
injunction permanent. Immediately
after the filing of the decree the court
ordered similar decree to be drawn
in the case against the Bunols miners,
in which the injunction was applied
for.
P1TTsBURG, Aug 1S.-A house to
house canvass in Pittsburg and Allie
gheny has been decided upon for the
purpose of collecting money and pro-
visions. Permission was granted by
the authorities, and start was made
in Allegheny to-day. The leaders are
hopeful that enough funds will be Sc
cured in this way to carry them through
the great struggle.
FAIRMoNT, W. Va, Aug. 18.-.One
hundred and ninety of the Montana
campers were arrested this morning for
marching, which Judge Jackson claims
is violation of his Injunction. They
we're taken to the depot and guarded
for FIVE hours, when special train took
"a OF them to Clarksburg. The organ
izers claim that their men did not
know they were violating the iniunc-
ton and that according TO its terms it
should have been read to them. Icy
say that there will be no trouble in Sc.
curing the liberty of the men and that
while one man looks after them the
other three will organize the remainder
of the N en-. Public sympathy runs high
in favor of the miners. Bust
|, ness men are arranging meetings, Pc
titions are being signed and today
there is more likelihood of general
LAYING down of tools than at any time
since the strike began. At present
only two big mines remain uncrippled,
CASTOR and New England. The opera.
tors claim 1S9 men are at work at Mon
1 tana to day against 122 yesterday.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 1S.-The ac'
ton at the meeting of coal operators at
Cleveland yesterday is in accordance
with the plan mapped out after the
uniformity agreement had been for
mulated. The agreement provides that
all coal contracted for on the 81 cent
basis shall be mined at that rate until
the contracts are filed. 1t is known
shat the requirements of the lake trade
by September Is are 5000, 600 tons. If
the contracts are not filled the operators
will not only lose large amount oil
money. but put themselves in posi-
ton to lose contracts for all time to
come.
HAzELToN, Pa, Aug. 1S.-The stu
alton among the strikers in the Honey
brook district remains unchanged TO-
day. The leaders have difficulty in re-
straining some of the foreigners from
violence.
P1TrsBURG, Pa, Aug. 1S.-The in
dications are that the camp about De
Armit's mines will be abandoned and
there will be no more marching.