The Portland daily press., 1897-08-14
THE FIRST BLOOD SHED.
A Strikers Face Cut BY Horn at Plum
Creek.

| Pittsburg, August 13.-The first blood
shed during the present miners strike,
was that of Jacob Mott, drummer in
| the Mcdonald band.
morning near the Plum Greek tipple.
The 1000 strikers in the camp at Plum
| Creek left the camp at 3 O'Clock this
| morning and divided into two squads
at Center, one body going to the Center
| school house, and the other to the Mi
| ners' houses. The Center squad was
headed by the Mcdonald drum corps
Sheriff Lowry accompanied by number
| OF deputies met the miners and read an
injunction to them. They paid no atten-
| ton, but marched on. The deputies
closed in. No blow was struck and no
| weapon drawn, but there was lively
| scuff1e, during which horn i'll the hands
Of one OF the band men was pushed into
Jacob Motifs face and he was badly cut
over the eye. Blood flowed in streams
from the cash and the sight of blood
| checked the pushing men. The sheriff
again read the order of the court and
| ordered the crowd to disperse and to APP
pear in court Saturday to make answer
| to tho bill filed. The band again tried
his deputies The deputies closed up
More showing and pushing followed. The
| deputies pushed ahead until both bodies
were closely packed and it looked as if
| serious trouble would follow.
| Sheriff Lowry again ordered them to
dispense and threatened them with arrest.
| After some hesitation, the strikers
moved back, turned and marched to camp,
| closely followed by the sheriff and his
| deputies.
This afternoon William j. Brennan, at.
torney for the strikers, said that he would
enter suit against W. P. DeArnitt, for
perjury in connection with the affidavits
fIa tn, 4hD e.. Al.
ton issued yesterday. Mr.. Brennan said
that one of the defendants named had
been dead two years and two others had
not been mining coal for about the same
period. The names, he said, had evidently
been taken out of an old book.
Proposition to the Miners,
Decatur, ILL.,, August 13.-The miners
leaders in their conference with B. B.
Ray, decided to submit to the city and
county authorities proposition. If the
authorities will permit one man from
each district, making delegation of about
IL men, to come in and arrange meet
ing for the Decatur miners to attend and
if the Decatur men refuse to attend or
| they say they do not want to strike, the
invading miners will leave for home.
Miners Offer Refused.
Wheeling, W. Va, August 13.-The
| offer OF the miners at the Laughiin Iron
and Steel Company's mine to give 10 per
cent of their earnings to the strike fund,
| and the proposition of the company to du
| plicate any sum the miners might give
was not satisfactory to eastern Ohio
| strikers, and this morning the marching
column from out of the Cleveland, Lorain
| and Wheeling railroad mines marched
with flags and band to the Laughlin
mines.
| \ The men at work refused to coms out
till the national officers had passed upon
their proposition. Except the Laughlin
and Aetna Standard mines, everything
in this vicinity is closed down.
VIII Arrange Wage Scale.
Knoxville, Tenn, August ia special
to the Sentinel from Jellico, Tenn, says:
The operators and miners of this district
met here in joint session yesterday and
appointed committee to arrange a wage
scale for the district. 1t is believed that
a settlement will be made before final adj
iournment.
Miners Insists on Rights.
. Decatur, ILL.,, August 13.-Archie Neil
and John David, two leaders and peakers
for the Springfield marching miners, con-
ferred this afternoon with B. B. Raw.
Gov. Tanners representative They told
them they thought they had right to
enter the city as individuals, and SO far
they had done nothing to be kept out at
the point of the musket He advised them
to confer with States Attorney Mills and
they went to the court house to see Mills.
About hundred miners from Sprino
field and Pana came as individuals and
went quietly about town. Several went
to the coal shaft, but were warned away
by two policemen on duty there.