The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-09-06
USE THE TORCH.
Pocahontas Colliery Company's Prop.
erty Fired in West Virginia.
Guards and Miners Fight.

Bramwell, w. VA, Sept. 3.-The
great mines of the Pocahontas Col
licrics company are on fire. Tuesday
morning strikers applied the torch
to various portions of the mine near
the west entrance, which is on the
Virginia side and The mine is now
said TO be burning furiously. The
guards and strikers fired vollcy after
volley at each other, but at this hour
it is not known whether any one WAS
killed. The governor of Virginia
will be appealed to to send troops to
Pocahontas at once.
Bramwcll, w. Va, Sept. 3.-!The situ
alton in the Flat Top coal field is en-
IT, mely critical, and the skirln;sh be-
tween the strikers and the guards at
the Pocahontas c, l!cries company's
mines Tuesday morning, after the fir
ing Of the mine by the strikers, has
greatly enraged the miners. from the
fact that Il number on their side were
severely injured. Adit. Gen. Baker,
who has been in this section for a few
days looking over the territory. left
Monday at midnight for other fields,
informing the operators before he
left, however. that he thought the
presence of the militia unnecessary at
that time. The outbreak of Tuesday
morning. however, will probably cause
a change in his mind. and it is thought
here that before tonight troops will
either be in the Flat Top region or en-
route. The Pocahontas Galleries
company have the fire in their mine
practically extinguished but that COM
pany has doubled it's force of guards.
as another attack is feared any hour
Many shots have been fired from ann
bush toward the direction of nonunion
miners going to and from work in the
Flat Top field.
Charleston, w. Va, Sept. 3.-Judge
Keller opened his court Tuesday. heard
the preliminary motions in the con-
tempt case against the strikers ar
rested at Rend, and adjourned the
hearing of the main issue to the first
day of the regular term here, Dcccm-
Der 8. The defendants are charged
with violating the Injunction issued
by Judge Keller at the suit of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Coal Agency COM
pany, and question has been raised
in it that was not decided in the one
formerly tried here. II is said thatthc
coal companies on New River were
named as parties defendant for the
purpose of giving the court jurisdic-
ton; that the interest of the coal com
panies lies on the other side; that n
court of equity will put them on the
plaintiffs side, where their interest
lies, and that then the jurisdiction of
the court will be destroyed and the
case will have to be dismissed. 1t is
not likely the case will ever be heard.
for if the strike is ended before court
meets there will be nobody enough in
terested to prosecute it.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept. 3.-President
Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers,
returned from Philadelphia Tuesday
night. He said so far as he was aware
there was no change in the strike situa-
ton. The miners were as determined
as ever and did not propose to work
until the operators granted their de-
mands or agreed to arbitration. Mr..
Mitchell said he placed no crcdcncc in
the reports that certain mines were i'm
operation and were turning out large
amount of coal for the market.
Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. 3.-Gov. Stone
has made an appointment for Thurs
day noon to meet a committee from
the state Legislative board of railroad
employees of Pennsylvania to inter
cede with the executive in behalf Of
the striking anthracite coal miners.
The committee will request the gov
ernor to take immediate steps to bring
the strike to close. and, if necessary.
call an extra session of the general as
sembly for the enactment of legisla-
ton making arbitration compulsory