Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-18
No RUSH TO SIGN.
OPERATORS NOT SUPPORTING THE
UNIFORMITY AGREEMENT.
COAL-NINES TO Be REOPENED
SO the Pittsburg District Owners
Decide at ~ conference.-the
Invade Cofieen, IiIinois-"GeneraI,
bradley Arrested and Jailed.

IL 4 sd L lNNI, IA, August lt.-in lAt
opinion of a number OF coal operators,
the uniformity agreement, admittedly a
good thing Will not receive the support
its articles are said 10 warrant. A can
vass Of operators shows that they are
not rushing 10 the committee with signed
agreements in their hands. In fact, they
are all holding back and each seems
willing to see what the other fellow in
tends to do A number Of coal men said
they yet had the question under advise
ment although they thought it improba-
BILE that they would sign. Others stated
that they were willing for the New York
and Cleveland Company to head the list,
and seemed unwilling to have their names
enrolled until President De Armitt an
nounced that his company had actually
signed.
The committee claims to have secured
the signatures Of a number Of coal firms
and operators whose places of business
are out Of the city. SO far as can be
ascertained, however, the only Pittsburg
firms that are enrolled are j. j. Steiler,
who signed only for his Panhandle
mine; Henry Floershim, who was the
first man to place his name at the foot
Of the articles, and David B. Brecken-
ridge. Of the Eclipse Coal Company whose
mines are at CoaA Centre.
WEST VIRGINIA COAL.
WHEELING. w. VA, August T.-Com-
mittees of Belmont county strikers are
closing up all Of the peddling banks on
| the Ohio side with the exception Of one
which supplies Bellaire's Water Works.
Sentiment against this move Is strong,
| and the Eastern Ohio strike leaders do
not favor it. Manufactures are getting
West Virginia coal or putting in natural
| gas. There Will be no sympathetic strikes
among the workers on account Of the
use Of West Virginia coal. There has
been a heavy increase in the amount Of
FairmOunt coal. The three cOal-carrying
roads centerng here are handling more
coal than at any time since the strike
! started. The strikers have not made a
move against the coal-trains, their dis
astrOus experience Of 1S95 being a lesson
they have learned thoroughly.
THE INDIANA FIELD.
EVANSVILLE. IND, August H.-Both
| the Sheriff and the police were ready to-
day to give protection TO the owners OF
! the First Avenue coal-nine, and to those
! Of the miners who still desired to work,
/ but their services were not needed At
| the regular meeting Of the striking miners
| IT, was reported that there were only
! about fifty men al work in the -FOUR
mines OF this city, though the mine
| owners claim that they have a larger
| force at work. and enough men at any
| rate to supply the most pressing OF
orders. The leaders Of the marchers are
! still out Of town, but the men seem TO
be getting along all right without them.
| They are still camping near the city.
| PRACTICALLY MARTIAL LAW.
PITTSBURG PA. August T-Martial
| law has. TO all intents and purposes. been
| declared i'm Plum. Patton, and wilkins
townships by Sheriff Lowry. The three
mines of the New York and Cleveland
| Gas-COal Company are I'm these town
| shins. and all roads leading to them win
be patrolled by his deputies.
! Persons walking or driving along the
| roads who cannot give a satisfactory
account Of themselves Will be ordered 10
| leave the neighborhOOd, and upon re-
| fusal will be arrested.
The Sheriff will not attempt to break
uD the camp Of the strikers until the
| court has passed upon the question, but
announced to-day that he Is determined
10 stop the marching. and trespassing
uDon the company's property. No one
will be allowed on the cOmpany's proper
| tv who fails To have a pass signed by
| Superintendent De Armitt.
ALLEGED ANARCHISTS.
Passengers on the morning train from
Pittsburg TO Turtle Creek say a man,
who gives his name as John Monroe,
and said he was from the Osceola mine.
announced that he was going to see SUI
uerintendent De Armitt. The claim is
made that there are number of An
archists in the vicinity of the mines,
who are after the De Armitts. They are
not in the camps, however.
The contemplated plan TO have the
women make marches. which was TO
have been inaugurated to-day, has been
definitely agreed upon by The leaders.
and the wives and daughters of the
strikers Will now take up the work
which the men have been enjoined from
doing.
II is the intention. TO begin the work,
and have the women do the marching
while the men remain in the camp. The
leaders think the injunction is not opera
tive against women.
A new element is 10 be introduced into
the situation at an early date. The
farmers I'm the entire country surround
ing the camps are making active pre-
parations for a demonstration TO show
their sympathy for the strikers.
SUITS AND COUNTERSUITS.
Suits and countersuits promise to be
one Of the most prominent features OF
the coal-miners' strike. While the New
York and Cleveland Gas-Coal Company
has been prosecuting its injunction case,
the miners have been gathering mate
rial on which TO bring suits not alone
for wages, but for respass.
President Dolan said this evening that
as soon as time afforded the miners
will bring an action against the officers
of the New York and Cleveland Cas-
Coal Company. The question of the
RIGHT of the strikers TO visit employees
of the company at their homes. and
plead with them. and the right Of depu-
lies 70 interfere with man when he
Is walking on a highway toward resi-
dence even though he Is compelled TO
walk on the property of the company.
will be looked into
DECISION AGAINST STRIKE.
GREENSBURG, PA, August lit
was decided tonight that there would
he no strike at the Aroma and Madison
mines. The go miners held a meeting
and out Of that number only six miners
voted 10 strike.
STRIKE AT AN END.
CARLYLE ILL, August 17-Three
mines situated in Clinton county re-
sumed operations this morning. Conse-
ouently. the strike is virtually at an
end i'm this vicinity.
STRIKERS INVADE COFFEEN.