The herald., 1897-08-16

1t is said tonight that 300 strikers will
march up the river to the Short Creek
mines and force out the small number of
men at work there.
IN ILLINOIS
MOUNT OLIVE, ILL.,, Aug. 15.-Inter-
est in the strike situation has centered
here today. All day long preparations
have been made to renew the siege at
Coffeen. Farm teams and wagons have
been hired and instead of tramping the
miners will ride and make use of the
wagons for beds. About ten large loads
of provisions left here this evening. Gen.
Bradley is still in the camp with rs men,
but by sunrise tomorrow morning it is
estimated that 1000 men will re-enforce
the camp.
Citizens of this place who have been
"held up" by the Coffeen authorities and
not allowed to enter that town have
employed attorneys to bring suits for
damages. The litigation to follow prom
ises to be as interesting as the strike
itself. About fifty women, wives of
miners from this and surrounding towns,
are making arrangements to go to camp
tomorrow. Their object will be to in
fuence the wives of the miners there to
prevail on their husbands to join in the
demand for the scale of wages and to
join the suspension
Thirteen wagons loaded with men left
Staunton tonight for Coffeen Some are
accompanied by their wives. They de-
clare that they have riot given up meet
ing the Coffeen miners, but will stay with
them If it takes all summer.
NOT READY TO STRIKE
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-The 1900
members of the United Brotherhood of
cloahmakers in the Greater New York
district did not go out on strike today
as some of them had predicted. The
strike is still in allegiance and definite
action will be taken one way or the other
at a mass meeting Wednesday night
next.
APPLICATIONS HEARD
CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 15.-The Com
mercialTribunes special from Parkers-
burg, w. Va, says: Immediately upon
Judge Jackson's return from his vaca-
ton last night he opened court and
heard applications for injunctions in six
cases against Fred Dilcher ct al, leaders
" y
The plaintiffs in the case were six coal
and coke companies, all of Fayette
county. In each case an injunction was
granted, the hearing of all the cases for
a permanent injunction to take place at
Charleston on November 10. A motion
to dissolve the temporary injunction will
be held in the same city on September Z
should the defendants so elect The or
der is in every respect identical with the
one issued upon the application of Jas.
Sloan, jr, one of the principal stock
holders of the Monagh company, against
Debs and the strike leaders in the Fair
mont region on July 2S, and it in every
way prohibits the defendants from tres
passing upon the property of each of
the plaintiffs, or interfering in any way
with their property business or mines,
either by trespassing or efforts to induce
the men to quit work. The order is a
lengthy document covering every ma
terial point asked for by the plaintiffs
as fully as was done in the Sloan case.
A CONFLICT COMING
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. ia special to
the Republic from Coffeen, ILL.,, says:
Gen. Bradley still holds forth west of
town. His crusaders are returning this
evening from Mount Olive and Staunton.
There was string of visitors going and
coming to the crusaders camp all day
from the surrounding country. Sheriff
Rande went tonight to his home at
Hillsboro. Deputy Willoughby is in
charge of the mine guards and is placing
his men out on all the public roads.
More deputies are coming in tonight
from other parts of the country. The
outlook now is that the crusaders are
going to try to force their way into
town. Every precauton is being taken
that they do not get in.