The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-13
MORE MINES CLOSED.
ALL MEN IN TWO WEST VIRGINIA
NINE JOINS THE STRIKE.
The De Armit Mines Still the Subject Of
Contention-To Test the Force of III In.
functions by Holding ~Meetings-The
Marching to be Kept Up-Numerous Ap.
plications at Headquarters for Food.
West Virginia Coal Shipped to P~ittsburg.


Pittsburg, August 9.-Appeals for food
and provisions were numerous at the
headquarters of the miners officials in
this city today. 1t appeared as if there
was a wall from every section of the
district and miners in person were present
to ask that the suffering ones be looked
after. Secretary Warner was kept busy
answering the appeals. He said that they
had sent more than $1,000 worth OF
groceries and provisions into various
parts of the district. The appeals are now
coming in from the families, the heads OF
which are at the various mining camps
using their influence to keep other men
from working.
A series Of meetings are to be held all
over the district. 1t is expected to keep
Up the interest in every section and
strengthen every point where there is the
least indication of weakness.
President Dolan issued a call today for a
mass meeting of all the miners at Canons-
burg wednesday morning. 1t is expected
that Eugene V. Debs. Mrs. Jones, Patrick
DoIan, NJ. p. Carrick and others will
make addresses.
AT the instigation of Thomas E.. Sutton,
of Willocks, Henry Ulrich, Emil Nagel,
Henry Huser and Gustave Rings, miners
were committed to Jail for a hearing be-
lore AIbtI al y. u, NICAldSlCIo cl al
Gus charges today. Ulrich is charged
with aggravated assault and battery;
Nagel is charged with assault and battery
and Huser and Rings with unlawful as
Senblage. The arrests are the result OF
an alteration at Willocks, July 18th, on
account of the strike. Warrants are out
for q number of others.
Early this morning, the miners Of West
Elizabeth made a march on the mines OF
the Elizabeth Mining Company, formerly
operated by Horner & Roberts. About
fifty men were going to work. After a
consultation the men asked that they be
allowed to finish loading a fiat. They
agreed to go out as soon as it was load
ed. which will take several days. The
officials of the company made an effort
this afternoon to get permission from the
mining officials to continue work on a SO
cent basis. This was not given and it is
expected that the mine will be idle as
soon as the fiat is loaded.
Thomas Il. De Armit, superintendent Of
the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal
Company, worked hard today to get the
miners at Oak Hill to return to work.
By a house-to-house canvass he succeeded
in getting q few more diggers than have
been at work. Thirty-seven miners went
in. The men were told by Mr.. De Armit
that they would pc given five days to
vacate the company's houses. The strik-
ers say only seventy-five men out or Zoo
were at work in the Plum Creek mine TO-
day. The company claims almost a full
force was working. The strikers are
hopeful that the remaining diggers will
quit work after getting their pay. The
Plum Creek men were not present today,
and it is expected the company will re-
quire the men to sign a new agreement
before they are given their envelopes.
The Sandy Creek miners are awaiting de-
velopments. They are hopeful the courts
Will set aside the contracts of the COM
pany which the men were obliged to sign.
President Dolan will go to the Canons-
burg region and defy the injunctions by
speaking at a meeting scheduled for Au-
gust 18th. 1t is said only thirteen gondolas
were loaded at Plum Creek today. There
is to be a big demonstration in the MORN
ing at Plum Creek when the strikers be-
lieve they will be able to close down the
mine.
j. c. Dysart, a member of the uniform
ity commission returned to- the city today
after a weeks absence. He says the
work of securing signatures will be push
ed earnestly and he believes the required
number will be secured. The miners, he
says, cannot possibly win the strike, as
the mines still in operation can supply
the demand.
Some of the coal operators are getting
restless and threaten to attempt to start
their mines this week. w. H. Simmons, a
large coal dealer, says there is nc scarcity
of coal. Last night 250 cars Of coal came
into Pittsburg from West Virginia, and
large quantities are being shipped to
Pittsburg from the mines along the Penn
sylVania railroad.
Wheeling. w. Va, August9.-This morn
ing q small army of miners from Mounds
vile and enWOO gathered at the works
Of the Glendale company, eight miles be-
low the city and soon induced the work.
ing miners at that place to come out to a
man. Flushed with their success at this
point, the strikers, REINFORCED by the
Glendale men and by a body of strikers
that had come across the hills from Elm
Grove, went to the BOggs Run mines, and
camped on the hill side. This afternoon,
as the miners came out from their work,
the strikers took them in and secured
their promise to remain out of the mines
during the strike if all the men employed
by the Boggs Run would make the some
promise.
A demonstration against the Heatering-
ton and Wegee River mines, across the
river in the Belmont district, was to have
taken place tomorrow, but as the Heath
erlngton men came out today and joined
the strike the plan may be changed.