Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-13

bceins IL new leaders are supsu'u'e''
they also will be gathered In.
while tho bi9 ma jorty OF the strikers
are willing TO 20 to jail unresistingly'
there are n few hot-heads who decIare
that they will not be taken alive. Ihis
minority may be the means OF cduS''e
strife In the morning
A CAMP BREAKS UP.
PITTsBURG, PA, August R.-The
camp cf the strikers near the mines OF
the Westmoreland and Penn Gas-Coal
companies. az SSwin, Pa, which were IS
tablished yesterday. has broken UP. ana
all but ten OF the Nrikers nave gone
back to their homes. The cause OF the
dlsbanding OF the little army is attributed
10 the fact that the people OF the neigh
borhood refused 10 contribute provisions
and money for tire maintenance OF the
strikers. solicitors for provisions sent
out from the camp were invariably
turned away empty-handed. The strikers
last night became discouraged. ana IN
little groups quietly took their departure
hungry and footsore, after the long tramp
Of tho day The committee In charge
OF the camp said to-day they would re-
turn soon with ample provisions lot
long stay. II necessary. The miners VINO
are at work In this district VIII not
strike.
FREIGHT TRAIN SEIZED.
BRIDGEPORT, o., August E.-Three
hundred miners, from wheeling creek
Maynard. and Barton, Tnassed mere Iast
night. and marched to the Riverside ana
Belmont mines They succeeded In get
ding all the mon out, and returning,
marched 10 Martins Ferry, TO get the
Laughlln men out. The Barton ana
Maynard men tagged the night freight
and took possession, compelling the crew
TO carry them into this place.
FORCED TO FLEE FROM CAMP.
COFFEE. ILL, August 12.-Frank
Campbell. who was until yesterday the
trusted lieutenant Of General Bradley,
was forced TO flee for his life from the
strikers camp west OF town this eve
ming. He was pursued by an angry mob
Of Slavs. who charged him with having
sold Bradley and his men out to the
Coffee Coal Company. Campbell denies
the charge. Tonight Sheriff Eandie
posted a proclamation ordering the
strikers to disperse from their camp and
leave the county.
CAMPERS ORDERLY.
DECATUR, ILL. August 12.-About one
hundred miners from Lincoln and SPRING
field are now in camp at Mantle. 1hey
are quiet and orderly, and so far have
shown no signs Of giving trouble at any
time. The men stayed at work In the
Mantle mine all day, and told the man
agement that it was their desire to con-
tinue at work.
Sheriff Nicholson and Mayor Taylor
drove to Mantle this afternoon and adj
vsed the marching miners not to come
10 Decatur, and told them that any indi-
cation OF violence would meet with prompt
measures Of repression. The Decatur
miners say that they will stay at Work,
and that they will be fully protected. The
marchers will reach here tomorrow.
MARCHERS SUCCESSFUL
MARION, ILL, August 12.-The march
ing strikers succeeded in persuading the
men at Johnson CITY, five miles north or
here. to quit work, and then marched 10
this city tonight, and will endeavor 10
get the men in the three mines at this
place TO strike. The Marion men are de-
cidedly against a strike.
STRIKE SEEMS A FAILURE.
EVANSVILLE, IND, August l2.-The
coal-miners' strike in this section APP
pears TO be a failure. The marching
delegations persuaded the men to come
out of the mines, or portion of them,
yesterday, but to-day the men went back
to the number of about half. All are ex-
pected to go into the pits tomorrow.
The mines along the Air-Line-the Ayre-
shire Bonneville. Little Sand, and
others-are reported at work.
STRIKE IN CANADA.
GREAT FALLS. MONT, August r.
Five hundred coal-miners, employed by
the Alberta Coal Company at Leth-
bridge Canada. went out on strike to-
dav. for an advance of 10 per cent. in
wages.