Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-19
COAL SHORT.
The Coal Situation at Wheeling, W. Va,
Getting Serious.
MARCHING MINERS JAILED.
Operators In the Pittsburgh District Pro-
pose to Resume Work at Their Mines
The InjuDctiOns Against the strik-
ing Miners Made Permanent.

WHEELING, W. Va, Aug. 1s,-The
local coal situation is beginning to
grow serious. The supply for the city
gas works from the Floersheim mines
upon the Wheeling division of the Bal
timore & Ohio is narrowing decidedly
short and new arrangements will soon
have to be made. Coal is selling in
local yards at IL cents a bushel,
just double the usual price. Slack
brings six cents and both are hard
to get at those rates. There are
500 families in Wheeling in need Of
coal, while all factories that do not
use gas are hampered for fuel. On the
Ohio side of the river manufacturing
establishments using thousands of
bushels of coal daily have had their
supplies cut down or shut off. In the
Fairmont field OConnell and his
campers are still at the Montana
mines of the Watson company, not
having succeeded in closing them en-
tirely. The movement in the Kama
wha valley shows no change. A few
more men went to work this morning
and Dilcher's column succeeded in win
ming few more recruits in the upper
valley. The new campaign of the agi-
tators on the Norfolk & Western rail-
road has apparently borne no fruit
Miners Arrested for Marching.
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 were taken to the depot and
guarded for five hours, when "a Of them
were taken to Clarksburg The organic
ers claim that the men did not know
they were violating the injunction and
that the order should have been read
to them. Public sympathy runs high
in favor of the miners. Business men
are arranging meetings, petitions are
being signed and to-day there is more
likelihood of general laying down of
tools than at any time since the strike
began. Atpresent only two big mines
are uncrippled. The operators claim
ls9 men are at work at Montana to-
day against 1872 yesterday.
Operators Propose to Resume.
CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 1S-At a meet
ing Of representatives of "a coal COM
panies of western Pennsylvania here
yesterday, it was decided that the
mines in the Pittsburgh district should
be started and operated without fur
ther delay, on the ground that the
miners had taken high-handed posi-
tion; that nothing but an unreasonable
price for mining coal would satisfy
their demands, and that they had been
unwilling to treat with the operators
On any fair grounds; also, that there
was no course left open to the oper-
ators at this time. At least three
tourths of the tonnage of the Pitts
burgh district was represented at the
conference, and all are unanimous and
agreed to resume operations forcibly,
# necessary, with the exception of NJ.
A. Hanna & Co.
Injunctions In Pennsylvania.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 1S.-When
court opened this morning Judges
Stowe and Collier handed down
decision in the injunction proceedings
Of the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal
Co. against the United Mine Workers
Of America, Patrick Dolan, William
Warner and others. The pre-
liminary injunction was made
permanent and the plaintiff was
ordered to file a bond of $1,000
to answer for such damages as might
be sustained by the defendants by
reason of the injunction. Immediately
after the filing of the decree and upon
motion of Thomas Patterson the court
ordered a similar decree to be drawn in
The case against the Bunola miners, in
which the injunction was applied for
DIV Rufus c. Crawford.