The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
RESULT OF STRIKE CONFERENCE
NOT KNOWN
ALL REFUSE To TALK
Neither Governor stone or President
Mitchell Will Tell What Trans
pfred-It is Thought that Confer
ence Was Barren of Result-Much
Activity at Several of the Col
heries Last Night and the Com
forts to Start Up TomorrOw-Crisis
Expected this Week.

Harrisburg, Pa-. Sept. 13-Governor
stone declined tcCay TO divulge the re-
suit of his conference with President
MitcheL last night at the executive
mansion. The governor said the con-
dltlons were SUCH that he did not feel
justified in making a statement, ex-
cept to repeat that the strike was dis
Cussed with the best of feeling.
NJ. K. McMullen. of Pittsburg, who
came here with Mr.. Finn TO attend
the conference vent east On an early
morning train and it is presumed he
has gone to New York to meet j. p.
Morgan and tel. him what occurred at
the conference
District President Nichols is the
only one of the strike leaders who re-
mained in Harris burg after the con-
ference. He is as reticent as the 9TH
ers who were present and would say
nothing when asked if he thought the
meeting would result in a settlement
Of the strike Ill the persons who
We're present evidently have deter
mined to make no statement for fear
that they might say something that
settling the strike.
Wilkesbarre. Pa. Sept. 13.-President
Mitchell went to Scranton this eve
ming. Before his departure he was
asked whether le had a statement to
make regarding his conference with
Governor Stone early this morning. He
said he had none The reticence of the
chief officer of the miners union weighs
heavily on the business and indus
trial strike region, who was hopeful
that the meeting between them would
result in some plan for a settlement
of the strike. The silence of Mr..
Mitchell is interpreted to mean that
the Harrisburg conference was barren
of results.
There is more or less activity at all
the collieries in this region tonight and
it is said that some Of the companies
will make desperate efforts to resume
work at many Of the collieries on Mon
day. Fifty men were sent to the Con-
yo1ham Mine cf the Delaware and
Hudson Company tonight. The COM
pany expects to start work with good
force of miners on Monday. The coal
operators say the conference between
Gov. Stone and President Mitchell was
merely friendly talk and that neither
party to the conference submitted a
proposition. The operators think the
crisis will come next week and that
a break in the ranks of the strikers
is among the possibilities. AT strike
headquarters here Mitchells subordi-
| mates claim the companies are in nc
| better position to start their Collieries
now than were two months ago and
| that there would be no break in the
strike.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 13.-Judge
Cochrane, of the United States court
| for the eastern district Of Kentucky,
| at Maysville, today granted a tenn
| porary restraining order against the
| Chesapeake and Ohio railroad from in.
| terfering with the delivery of groceries
| in the West Virginia coal fields? Suit
| was brought by wholesale grocery
| firm Of Cincinnati. The hearing for q
| permanent injunction was set for Sep
tember 30th. The firm in ist petition
| claims that seven carloads Of gro
| ceries shipped to the West Virginia
coal fields had been sent 800 miles be-
| yond their destination.