Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-07
DESPERATE EFFORTS
MADE IN WEST VIRGINIA
TO Counterfeit the Action of Those
Miners Who Refused to
Join the Strike.
LAYING SIEGE TO WORKING SHAFTS
Trouble Brewing About the DE Ar
mitt Mines--- Proclamation OF
the sheriff Not Consider
90 by :hc Strikers.

Wheeling, w. Va, Aug. 2.-The
striking miners organizers in the
Wheeling district are making desper-
ate efforts To counteract the effect of
the refusal of the men III the two
mines of the Boggs Run Coal company
to come out. The mine at Mounds
Vile was working yesterday with a
small force and thirty-three OF the
men at Elm Grove were at work. The
Glendale operators assert that their
mine will resume Monday with a full
force. There was a decrease i'm the
amount of coal brought out of the
Fairmont region yesterday. For the
past week the average number OF cars
coming to Bellaire, on the Baltimore
and Ohio, has been 200, but yesterday
there was a falling off of one-half that
number.
Washington, Pa, July 3t.-More
than 300 more miners marched 10 Cook
d Sons mine at McGoyern and are
now established in Camp Victory.
They are from the Miller's Run region
ss III :S:;ssss ~: sss s.. .;ns s ssd
sioiiaf demonstratioon ~.re held. naa
it is reported that armed deputies ac-'
companied a body of the diggers ON
their way to the mine through the
ranks of the marchers. The campers
are not at all discouraged. and when
approached on the subject say the
siege has just begun.
May BE Tronblc.
Pittsburg, Pa. July Sl.-At midnight
1t looked as though the sherif's procla-
nation would be the biggest factor in
bringing about trouble In the vicinity OF
the De Armitt mines. Last night a
meeting Of strikers was held at j Hill
and II was decided to pay no attention
to the sherifIs proclamation. AS 1t was
considered 70 be an outrage. At the
meeting it was reported that President
Dolan, M. +. Carrick and other leaders
told Inc men that the mandate OF the
sheriff was unjust and could o be en-
forced. The result of the meeting was
that three meetings were arranged for,
one at midnight, one at 2 a. m. and one
at a. m, and the men marched through
the Turtle creek region In three divi-
sions TO reach their meeting places. The
different times were chosen for the
meetings as the best time to catch the
working miners when changing shifts.
Excitement run high.
The strikers camped at Turtle Creek
late last night aud started on a march
to Sandy Greek and Plum Creek with
the intention of closing these mines,
and they made all plans TO intercept
the Oak Hill miners who start for work
about 4 O'Clock in the morning. Just
before the strikers started for Sandy
Creek a delegation OF fifty miners from
the Mucklerat mines OF the j. i. Corey
Coal company came In and united with
the strikers.
The deputies at the DE Armitt prop
erty number 1926, the majority OF whom
are at Turtle Creek and Sandy Creek.
Excitement In Scottdaie.
Scottdale, Pa, Aug. 2.--Wild excite
ment prevailed here at 10 o'clock last
night. AS the afternoon turn OF nom
union men who had taken the places
OF the striking iron workers at the
Scottdale Iron works were going home,
one OF them, said TO be a man named
Painter, became incensed at the re-
marks of some boys, and deliberately
fired at them. A large crowd was gath
cred about the station at the time and
they started after the non-union man,
who fired four or five shots into the
crowd before he reached his boarding
house. The house was Immediately
surrounded by an excited crowd and 1t
was with some difficulty that they were
cooled down.