The record-union., 1897-08-11
that not a carload Of coal has gone to
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1t is cIalTneQ InaI a NUMBER OF w est
moreland Company miners have offered
their services to the company as depu-
ties when the strikers. arrive. Fifty
deputy Sheriffs were transferred from
Plum Creek to Turtle Creek this morn
ing to see that order is preserved while
the diggers at the Oak Hill are being
paid All but a few of the Oak Hill
men Joined the strike ten days ago, and
Superintendent De Armitt says they
will not be paid.
At the Oak Hill mines, Master Me-
chanic S. S. Tarr, asserts that the force
at work in the pit is 100 per cent.
greater than yesterday. There are, ac-
cording to the best information obtain
able, twenty-five diggers in the mines.
The purposed march on the Spring Hill
mine of Alexander Dempster was not
made this morning, on account of a
heavy rain, which had the effect Of
making walking on the clay roads ex-
tremely difficult.
The reported purpose of the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company
to take the miners strike into the
United States Court here, ask for an
Injunction in behalf of the New York
stockholders of the company, and
thereby secure the aid of United States
Marshals and, possibly, United States
troops, in dealing with the strikers, has
been abandoned if it was ever enter
tanned. William P. De Arnitt says
he never had any intention of going
into the United States Court.
The company's attorney is quoted as
saying that he would take the case to
would show him a way to get it there.
Coal is in slow demand this week as
compared with last. Buyers are not so
numerous, nor are sellers able to get
such high prices. River coal is off from
10 to 20 cents a ton, and slack sold
down to 4;4 cents per bushel West Vir-
ginia coal is in light demand and prices
have visibly weakened.
The Labor Tribune has received a
letter from a correspondent at Birm-
ingham, Ala, stating that agents are
at work there securing negroes to take
the places of the striking miners in the
North. The letter says that smallpox
is prevalent among the colored people
in that section, and asks that the au-
thorities be warned of the danger of
spreading the disease through the
North by permitting the Importation of
negroes The operators here refuse to
discuss the matter of importing men,
but it is known that many are grow
ing restless and anxious to start their
mines.
The injunction secured against the
miners officials at Buenola was served
on President Dolan when he stepped
from the train at that place last night,
but he disregarded it and addressed a
large meeting near the mine a short
time later. This morning Judge Collier
extended the injunction to make it in
clude fifteen additional defendants.
A body of strikers marched to Can
onsburg early this morning and are
now encamped near the mines, which
are in operation. Operator Cook says
if the strikers interfere in any way
with his men he will have the entire
party arrested.
ATTEMPTS TO CLOSE A MINE.
WHEELING CIV. Va.), Aug. 10
West Virginia was peacefully invaded
by Ohio miners this morning. One
hundred and twenty-five miners from
the Mill Creek region marched through
the city and reached the Boogs Run
mine, just below Wheeling, at O'Clock.
The Ohio miners came for the pur-
pose of closing down Boggs Run, the
only railroad mine in the Wheeling Dis
trict nov being operated. They an
the city and reached the Boggs Run
miners join the strike, and to-day 200
more from Barton, Maynard and Pas
coe, other mining communities in East
ern Ohio, are to come.
The miners along the Wheeling and
Lake Erie have also announced a will
ingness to participate in this demon
stration, which may last several days.
With the West Virginia strikers gath
ering at Boggs Run, there are now
about 400 men there.
At this showing of force the 100
Boggs Run miners did not show to the
front this morning. A meeting will
probably be held to-day, but it will be
a difficult matter to get the men at this
plant out The men are being provis-
ioned from the Wheeling miners aid
store