Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-14

| field; A. II. Breneman, Girard; D. H.
| Kiley, a RAILROAD detective, Chicago; AL
| Morgan, Ch;caao Edward Green, Mount
| Olive; Ernest Lang, miner, Mount Oh
| i've; William Harmon, Girard; Ernest
kemmerner, miner, Mount Olive.
| Coroner John Hart went to the stock
| AIDE and subpnnaed a number Of the
company's miners as witnesses. 1t is a
question as to whether any violence will
be offered the StocEade miners when
they come from their barricade to at
tend the INQUEST. Coroner Hart ex-
pressed himself as positive that no DEM
onstration would be made saying that
all feeling had at least temporarily been
subdued by the presence of the soldiers,
but at the Sane time adding significant
~ that the su0pWnaed miners would be
looked after carefully while en- route to
the town hail.
t':,sor Neil Relieved.
Mayor II. Noll of Virden is harness
maker by occupation. He was a much
relieved man when the militia arrived.
He said:
Il felt greatly relieved when the SOL
diers unloaded here. The town is now
in their hands, and anticipate no fur
Their trouble. l had seven special no.
lice sworn in to help protect life and
property, but this handful of men was
of no avail The miners made it warm
for Sheriff Davenport, and he left town.
friends taking him four miles to Gil
rard, and later he was taken on to his
nome in Carlinville, where he is now.
AS soon as he left, l felt the weight of
responsibility rested on me, and when
the soldiers arrived 1 was a hapnv
man.
The town has resumed its normal
condition. | cannot closely estimate
the nunher of miners here yesterday.
out L judge there We're between 1900
ana 2,oco. Great numbers of these have
gone, and the worst is undoubtedly
over. Inc business houses, as you see.
are open today, and there is little ex-
cltement. The town is in the hands of
the militia Row, and my duty is ended"
Latest reports are that j. T.. Eyster. |
OF the Climax Trading |
company, the establishment controlled |
by the Chicago Nirden Coal company.
who was severely beaten in the scrim-
mage, has improved slightly.
Spirited .tw:;y by Musons.
''-A' FAY 81 IL member of the
NnlRhts OF Pyth:as and stands high in
ne Masonic lodge. He was spirited
away from the Buckles hotel during
he night by his fellow Masons and is
low in hiding at a private residence,
I is thought he will recover. Rumors
o the effect that he was dead were cir
ulated in order to deceive the strikers.
Is 1t was believed by his friends that
mould 1t become known that he still
wed there would be concerted action
n the part of the miners to finish their
loody work
Mr.. Eyster is q years old and was
orn in Pennsylvania, but came here
rom Kansas City, where he had been
ngaSed in clerical work. Business men
peak very highly of him, but all are
unanimous in saying that he was too
ASH, and If he had needed the advice of
IS friends he would not have been mo-
's;ed. Some of the miners claim thew
ere under the impression it was Man.
ger Lukens they We're chasing, and if
Estef had not shown fight he would
ave been allowed to escape unhurt.
"A fulnof was circulated that the dead
'dy or deputy sheriff had been found
tulnIlelu near the StOckade This |
owed to be untrue, however, the story
aing founded on the fact that a large
'ol of blood had been found in the field r
n incident showing the intense feeling =
the miners developed when word was =
used that man from the stockade
as in barber shop on jackson street :,
ar the square. In a few moments a -
ovid gathered in front of the place y
ord was passed by the soldiers of the =,
eket duty to headquarters and re-en- -
Fcements sent on the double quick to -
'perse the gathering throng The man ~
turned to the stockade unmolested. y,
The Sto"i&ade Visited, n,
Colonel Mcknight of the governors M
l1f, accompanied by Adjutant General
cse, at midnight visited the stockade II
the ChicaGo-Virden Coal company st
q served formal notice on Manager tn
kens, who has been inside the stock er
e throughout the trouble, that the hi
diers would visit the stockade and II