The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-16

company was sent back to CoaldaIe
where the soldiers boarded coal cars and
were sent to Tamaqua to quen any dis
turbance the scattering strikers might
stir up there. Further along the road a
company was deployed to protect a col
liery while the marcherS were passing
it and later it was also sent to TamaQua-
The three companies combined In the
latter town and soon had the marcherS
well scattered. While all this had been
going on the North Side marcheT's had
everything their own way in the Mosque
honing valley. They reached there after
2 o'clock and succeeded in persuading
enough men to remain away from the
No 1 colliery to compel It's shut down.
General Goblin sent two companies OF
soldiers over there and soon had order
NEARING AN END.
New York, Oct 16.-Local coal dealers
say that the great strike is fast nearing
an end and that the miners will go back
to work within q week The heads of
the big coal-carI'ying roads say little to
confirm such an opinion. but one OF them,
after being pressed for his own views,
fntimated that there would be a settle
ment IN the near future. others laid the
responsibility on President Mitchell,
saying that he has not yet informed
them officially OF the results of the
Scranton convention.
Many rumors have been in the air
One story was that a gigantic coal strike
was planned for next April, in which
both anthracite and bituminous coal
miners would combine for still higher
wages The hinge upon which this story
turned was that the resolution that the
wage schedule as demanded by the min
erS was only to obtain until next April,
at which time the agreement between
the soft coal mine operators and their
employees will terminate. It is said that
should the miners in both hard and soft
coal mines unite in declaring strike,
the paralysis that would follow would
put the miners in a place to dictate
terms on short notice.
President Maxwell of the Central rail-
road of New Jersey, took a rather opti-
mistic view Of the situation. He said:
THE action of the Scranton cOnven-
ton indicates progress toward a settle
ment, but am not in a position to say
when it will come. The miners appear
to look on conditions with more con-
serYative views than was at first ex-
pected. / have had no formal notice OF
the conventions propositions and only
know of them through the newspapers
Wholesale prices for coal have stiffen-
ed. This is due, it is said, to the fact
that wholesale dealers feel that the
strike win soon end and wish to get a
still bigger margin while it is yet posi-
BILE Retail prices range from $3.50 to
Sc rs for white ash and 81 to S7.25 for
red ash, delivered to families. The price
before the strike was IS.
Shares of the anthracite carrying
roads were strong in the stock market
ware and Hudson Office during the day
that the washeries of that company near
Scranton were in operation for the first
time since the beginning of the strike.
MARCHERS ARRESTED.
Tamaqua, Pa. Oct. 16.-Between %
and 80 unruly narchers We're arrested
by soldiers at various points along the
line of march during the early part of
the day. Later all but few were dis
charged. They were accused of carrying
concealed weapons and melting to riot.
Two miners on their way to work today
in the NesquehOning district were severe
ly beaten.
STRIKERS MEETING DISPERSED.
CoaIdale. Pa, Oct 16-The local union
of the United Mine Workers met early
today and prepared to welcome in a
body the marcherS from HazeltOn and
vicinity but the soldiers got here before
the strikers and dispersed the meeting,
ordering the men to their homes
STRIKERS WILL NOT WORK.
Shamokin, Oct. 16.-Despite an active |
canvass made yesterday by a. number Of
men to induce miners to go to work to- |
day at collieries between here and Hick- |
ory Ridge, no one reported for duty this |
morning and the persons circulating Pc |
titiOnS asking men to resume work !
pending a settlement of the terms of the |
Scranton convention have been disap- |
pointed
GETTING RESTLESS
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 16.-Some of the |
striking mine workers in the Wyoming |
valley are getting restless over the de- |
lay in settling the strike. Many of them |
expected to be at work by tomorrow, /
but it now looks as though the fifth /
week would go by without operations be- /
ing resumed.
The operators here are still all of one
mind. and say "if the men want to re-
turn to work at the 10 per cent. increase
originally offered them they are liberty
to do So"
PREPARING TO RESUME
Scranton, Pa, Oct 16.-That there is
a positive assurance of the end Of the
strike of the anthracite miners seems
certain today in view OF the preparations
which are being made all through the
Leckawanna valley for the resumption
of work. The coal companies are crowd
ing their mine siding with empty cars
and the end of the week win find thou
sands of cars in place where formerly
only hundreds were to be SEEN This is
done in order to be prepared for the
great demand for coal which will neces-
state the running of the mines and
breakers to their utmost capacity for
weeks in order to get the stock ahead to
meet the winters demand.