The bee., 1901-06-20

NO. mine. A nail lncn copper wire
was used, and as it had to be sus-
pended from the roof, the work of
attaching hangers for the wire was
a tedious job. A trial trip which has
proved satisfactory has been made
with the new motor and it will soon
be put in regular service.
Foreman Toombs says that work
on the new trestle at Barnsley will,
If plans don't miscarry, soon be built
by the st. Bernard Company.
False reports about the present
production of coal in this county are
being circulated for the purpose of
bolstering up Jim Woods lost cause.
"All the mines practically shut down
except Darlington, and that runoing
only about half time" is the way
they talk to their dupes.
Several agitators were in our midst
last week for a few hours, but they
soon took their departure for the city
OF strong drink, where they could
revive their dropping spirits.
The attempt to take life, as was
evidently the case last week when
the boarding house occupied by in
offensive colored non-union miners
was fred upon at night, was a das-
tardly affair and shows the spirit of
assassins as has been manifested at
Providence on several occasions.
The sore disappointment over their
failure to stop all mines in this re-
gion in obedience to their COM
mands, has so incensed them that
now it seems murder will be resorted
to if necessary to carry their point.
Still the U. NJ. WIS are loud in
their boast that their order does not
approve of harsh means to ac-
complish their purpose. But when
houses filled with non-union miners
are attacked, men shot at from am
bush and other unlawful acts COM
few reasonable people will
believe that such acts are prompted
By a pure heart.
Seeing their cause a week one, and
knowing justice was acting against
them, the toughs who recently
innocent laboring men be-
cause they dared to be free men,
while on a visit to Greenville, Ky.
called upon the court when the cases
against them were up for trial, to
pass the same up without eXamina-
tion to a higher court.
VIM. Morris, formerly an employe
of the st. Bernard Company here,
but now of Pembroke, KY, was here
last week, and while visiting among
friends and relatives said that as he
had secured the job of carrying mail
from Pembroke, KY, to a point six
miles away in the county, he would
not again resume mining for while.
With the thermometer registering
50 in the shade, is it any wonder that
the miners here are called upon to
lose about two days weekly.
The agitators, or would be home
destroyers, find very little pleasure
in coming to Darlington. The mere
fact that they get the cold shoulder
on all sides casts a gloom over their
visits.
The Monarch Coal Co. are justly
enraged over the attack made on
their men last week, and will spare
no pains to bring the guilty men to
Justice. This is the second time
their men have been attacked in the
night from ambush with guns, and
once there was an attempt to blow
them up with dynamite. We have
yet to hear of the first man being ar
rested and punished. The strong
arm of the law should be thrown
around these men, by the officials,
and protection given them.
Supt. Harris, of the South Dia-
mond mine, came up one day this
week, and says that all is quiet at
his place. No effects of the presence Z.
Of the mine workers felt-in fact
only their presence would indicate
there was such a thing as an aqi-
tator. They have not only lost their
they ever had any-but
their standing, financially and 9TH
erwise, Is also gone.
The attempt to waylay and murder |
Seer stary Hall, of the Oakhill Coal
Co., cast a gloom over our county.
The fact that a business man, if he
hould disagree with another ON
Iuestions of interest to all and of
-ital Importance to both lobor and
apital, should by so doing place his
ife in jeopardy, is a serious one, in
iced, and will evidently hereafter
ause the thinking public to more
losely consider the good or evil of
abor organizations, as they appear