Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-09

Pittsburg, Pa, August S.-Although
to-day was considered day of rest
among the strikers, probably the most
effective work among the Plum Creek
miners was performed, and as a result
the strikers have been assured that
considerably less than two hundred
men will be at work tomorrow at
this mine.
A large mass meeting was held at
Camp Isolation this afternoon, which,
in addition to about one thousand
others. was attended by about two
hundred women, the wives and daugh-
ters of the miners who are still at
work in the Plum Creek mines. Not
withstanding the fact that deputies
visited the homes of these people this
morning and advised them TO not at
tend the meeting, nearly every wife
BROUGHT HER HUSBAND
with her. Because of the many re-
stricticns put on the miners, they have
hitherto been unable to get chance
to argue their cause with the Plum
Creek workmen and the occasion
given them to-day was taken advan-
tage of to the full.
The unusual opportunity to-day was
the result of the missionary work OF
the wives of the strikers from Nc
Donald, Finleyville and Carnegie.
These women have been working as
siduously during the past week and
secured the promise OF the wives or
the working miners to attend the
meeting and bring their husbands.
The result of the meeting was the
assurance from nearly a hundred men
that they
WOULD JOIN THE STRIKERS
tomorrow. The plan il for the men
to work until they receive their twen-
ty days pay, which will be given
them tomorrow, and then they are to
desert the pit, leaving only eight days
wages back, which, judging by the
action of the company in the case Of
the Sandy Creek strikers, yesterday,
will be refused them.
If this plea does not miscarry, the
strikers think it will only be question
Of very short time until the DeArmitt
mines are tied up completely
The meeting to-day was inaugurated
by religious services conducted Rev.
Lincoln Lash, assisted by choir of
twenty colored jubilee singers, after
which Mrs. Mary Jones, the Chicago
agitator, spoke for about an hour,
PUTTING THE CASE PLAINLY
to her women auditors.
She placed the responsibility for the
success or failure of the strike on the
wives, and made decidedly favorable
impression.
An epidemic of typhoid fever in a
mild form is raging in the vicinity of
Camp Determination, at Turtle Creek,
sixty cases having developed among
the citizens of that borough. The
campers have not been attacked as
yet, and as a precautionary measure,
the health officials have ordered extra
sanitary measures. Bad weather and
lack of sewerage in the borough is as
signed as the cause of the disease.
FIVE DEATHS HAVE RESULTED
up to date.
Only twenty-five strikers were in
Camp Determination to-day, but to-
ward evening it began to assume its
normal condition by the return of the
men who had gone home to freshen
their apparel and otherwise prepare
for the new weeks work. Before
morning the usual complement will be
on hand and the forces are to be di
vided into three bands, who will march
to the three pits and guard them at as
close range as the deputies will per-
NIT.
At a meeting of the labor leaders to-
night il was decided to change their
programme as to President Gompers.
Instead of coming to this district, Mr..
Gompers will go at once to the Fair
mont, w. Va, territory. He will be
accompanied by w. A. Carney, from
this city.