The bee., 1901-10-24
CHRONOLOGY OF VIOLENCE.
Array Of Happenings in Hopkins, Webster and
Christian Since the Agitators Came.

Nov. 29.--Sheriff of Christian County
warns United Mine Workers not to
interfere with employees of Empire
coal mine
Nov. 30.-All mines running steadily.
Dec. 4.-Warrant for Tom Clements
for threatening to shoot non-union
miner at Boxtown.
Dec. 6.--Woods claimed Oak Hill and
Morton's Gap miners have Joined
the union and will cease work TO-
day" These miners and all others
in Hopkins County made full runs
to-day. Hamp Mcintosh fined for
trying to make men join union.
Dec. 0.-End of second week of Jim
Woods strike" shows the Hopkins
County coal production for the week
greater than the average.
Dec. 11.-Not more than 80 Hopkins
County miners have become union
men.
Dec .14.-The Hopkins County mines
produced nearly 5000 tons more coal
during the first two weeks of the
strike" than they did the preceding
two weeks.
Dec. 29.-Robt. Hollomon, guard for
Providence Coal Co., seriously shot
from ambush at night by Neut. Bliv-
ems, a member of the United Mine
Workers of America.
1901.
Jan. 21.-Deputy sheriff and three
possemen fred on by marching
unionists near Carbondale mines.
Battle followed in which two of the
10 union men were killed.
Jan. 22.-Hiram Blivens placed under
$500 bond at Dixon for attempting to
assassinate Robt. Hollomon of the
Providence Coal Co.
Jan. 31.-Larger tonnage Of coal pro-
duced by the miners of Hopkins
County during January than during
any month in the history of the coun-
ty-13S,357 tons.
Feb. 1S.-Non-unlon miners boarding
house at Providence dynamited and
shot into at midnight.
Feb. 2S.-Coal output for the month
greater than for any previous Febru-
airy in Hopkins County.
March 2.-Four union men arrested,
charged with participation in the at
tempt to blow up the Providence
non-union boarding house Feb. 10.
March 12.-Two nonresident agitators
fined at Darlington for the ostenta-
tious display Of fire armc.
March 13.-Lergest production of coal
for any single day by the st. Ber-
nard group of mines.
Farlie, of Alabama,
stated TO the operators at Louisville
that the production of coal in Hop
kins County had been reduced sixty
five per cent--by the efforts of the
United Mine Workers.
March 30.-Buslness men Of Madison
vile issue signed statement saying,
"All the mines Of Hopkins County
are getting out as much coal as ever,
IL not more than ever before" and
"All the mines of this county have
all the men they can possibly en-
ploy, and applications for positions
are being refused daily"
Plucky young lady driving alone
from country stopped on road en-
route to Darlington by n union man
and asked IL she was ''in favor Of
the union" Hopkins County
mines show full production for
March.
April III. ID. Woods, district presi-
dent of United Mine Workers, with
a gang Of union miners, entered an
Illinois Central passenger train ut
Central City and took off the train
fifteen negro laborers whom they
thought were en- route to Hopkins
County mines. The negroes We're In
charge of representative of the
railroad and were going to Paducah
to work for the Illinois Central road.
They were detained at Central City
and sent back to Louisville.
April 9.-Keg of powder exploded near
midnight on porch of Jno. Duncan,
colored non-union miner at Barnsley.
$500 reward offered for arrest and
conviction OF perpetrators.
April Shooting at Monarch mines