The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-08-06
MORE MINERS our.
The Strikers stili Continue to Gain
Aecessions 70 Their Number.
HUNGARIAN MIXERS ARE RIGTOUS.
italians Beaten for Announcing TheEF In-
ssntioa Of Going TO WOFk-Indisns Mia.
era MarehIug-1I lows and
Illinois Miners Quls Work.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, aug. 4-The strik-
ers still continue to gain accessiOns
70 their number from the New York &
Cleveland Co.'s men. Sandy creek and
Turtle creek mines are completely Idle,
and the Plum creek men are slowly
but surely coming into line with the
men encamped in the vicinity. Yes
terdsy nearly half of the diggers at
this stronghold Of the company failed
to go to work, and number OF those
who did go into the pit have promised
to quit as soon as they clean up the
coal now lying in their rooms. There
are close upon 2, 600 strikers in camp at
Turtle creek, $50 at Plum creek and 300
st Sandy creek, If this number is not
sufficient to deter the DeArmit miners
from going to work, all these camps
will be largely increased before the end
of the week.
Mr.. DeArmit is confident the strikers
cannot wholly shut down his mines,
and AYERS that a change viii come
over the scene within the next few
days, although he does not say how
this is to be brought about. Mr. De-
Arnit intimated he would soon spring
the injunction against the miners
which was granted May s5, 1895, and
which was sustained by the supreme
court after the superior court had re-
yersed the lower court.
HUNGARIAN MINERS ARE RIOTOUs.
WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. AT Cor
NTH, ". Va, last night Joseph Clio
zanni, an Italian coal miner, was beat
en- so badly by a gang Of striking Hun
garian coal miners that he cannot live
and four of his feliow-countrymen were
severely maltreated. The miners at
the Oakland Coal & Coke Co.'S mines
were organized last Sunday and joined
the strike, Manager William Nc
Laughlin yesterday notified the men
that if they did not go to work this
morning all would be discharged. Five
Italian miners declared their in
tention of going to work. They were
corralled by So Hungarian miners and
when they again declared their inten-
ton the Hungarians assaulted them
with clubs and stones. Sheriff Wilson
went to the scene, but the Hungarians
defed him and his two deputies. Last
night the Hungarians crossed the line
into Maryland. They threaten to kill
any man who enters the mine.
INDIANA STRIKERS MARCHING.
PRINCETON, Ind, Aug. 4.-The strik-
ing miners Of Davies, Pike and Gibson
counties have taken the marching
fever, and yesterday a movement began
in which they viii attempt to close
every coal mine in southern Indiana.
The march began among the DaViess
county miners. They invaded Pike
county and have closed the mine at
Rodgers and the Wooley mine at
Petersburg. 1t is reported here that
the strikers entered the Wooley mine
and drove the men at work out like
cattle. The strikers have threatened
to seize a Louisville & St. Louis air
line freight train and take it to Hunt.
ingburg, where they will call the men
out. They viii then 60 down the
Evansville branch on the air line and
close all the mines in Warrick, Spencer
and Perry counties. Trouble is feared
MISSOURI MINERS STRIKE.
BEvIER Mo-, Aug. 1.-The miners
employed by the Kansas & Texas Coal
Co, at Ardmore, No, seven miles south
of here, came out on strike for an
advance Of 10 cents per ton. The oper-
ators refused to grant their request,
whereupon all the miners, numbering
about $50. refused to go to work. All
the regular hands were laid of except
ing the engineers and the mines closed
down by the company.
IOWA MINERS GO OUT.
OTTUMwA, Ia, Aug. A thousand
miners went out in this district last
night, They demanded 50 cents and
si.OO from the operators. The latter
granted the sO-cent rate, but refused
to bind themselves to the winter
prices. The men at several Center.
vile, Rathbun and Flatbush mines
have also stopped work.
MORE ILLINOIS MINERS TO QUIT,
MOUNT VERNON, ILL.,, Aug. 4.-Every
miner employed in the local mines re-
fused to return to work yesterday.
They all called at the Office and were
paid oil ia full The company is filing
its contracts with coal shipped from
Kentucky and Tennessee. A coal
fsmine is probable here il few days.