210 Cents Per Week. CLEVELAND CENTS. MORNING AND SUNDAY TWO ND PLAIN DEALER. FIFTY -SECOND YEAR. CLEVELAND, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 21; 1894.
will not reconsider their determination to work for. tlie company. except for $1.50 a finish dative can get all the butt men we prefer we. need not to have trout le," it would please us to have the old men return to work at the terms that have been offered, which is the best the comp any can do. Halts of the 200 men on strike were paid $1 a day and the other half $1.25.
The difference. wag 1 due- to the fact. that half the force way; composed boys and old men who can really not earn more than $1. Just before the strike occurred the men told me? they wanted more money. I asked the im how.
much wanted and when they said $1.50 I told them that the company, could not afford it, the but that matter. I sere Mr. Hanna about Mr. Havana me to' offer all of them $1.25 day and provide transportation, whether they used the company's lines: or not. Before I got back to the place where they were working inho I met the strikers.
Some of: the are out have worked for the company every summer for five or six years, and as they know more about the wot than some of the new men they are wolth more to. us. The company will not try to get other men until we are that the strikers do not care to work have: their transportation furreturn land take the current price for such nished free." A 0110 Postmasters 'Appointed. Washington, April senate in executive session' confirmed the following Ohio postmasters: John Li Davis, Shawnee; Tubert G. Aplefeldt, Kenton; Pratt K.
Mapel, Columbus Grove; Thomas J. Franc isco, Cuyahoga Falls; Henry Roesser, Carietta; John P. Thomas, Marion; John W. Alsop, Galion; William Smith, Leipsic; George T. Reef, Corning; James Trotter, Steubenville; C.
L. Russell, Mt. Gilead; G. F. Pollock, Cardington; Ulrich B.
Newman, Greenfield: Patrick H. Murphy, Ashland; John W. Morrow, Ada; George H. Moody; Mechanicsburg; Oscar N. farihugh, Middleport; W.
T. Haviland, Bellefontaine. STUCK PINS His Anatomy. When He Was Not. Looking B.
Clark's Grounds for Divorce -Other Cases. (Samuel B. Clark confesses in his petition for divorce filed in the courts yesterday against Anna Clark that he was badly fooled in: his selection of a wife. Hie Its says that he a. discovered month after that be inarried wretched housekeeper and was both careless about her own persondl appear-.
since as well as of her household affairs. One of her habits was to use the towel which, was in service in tue bath. 100m wipe the Cobwebs were the principal ornaments about the rooms of their house. She had the bad of sticking pins into the plaintiff when he did not feel like indulging in such pleasantries. He says also that bis wife is a divorced woman and re her upon the representation to that she was divorced on: account of the fault of her husband, but he found upon investigation.
that the divorce was secured, on 5 account of the fault; of the wife. Nellie Quinn that her husband, James Quinn, a puddler by trade, left their home in Youngstown on the morning of March 24, 1891, and has not turned since. She says that she is. perfectly ignorant of his whereabouts and tion to her maiden en name of Nellie Walsh. asks the court for divorce and restoraMartin Hein, who, married Lena Hein in Kalvari, Poland, in 1890, says that his bride of but three years finds more congenial companionship in the society of a man called John Ziegler.
He says that she lives with Ziegler in Plymouth, Pa. and has so lived for the past month. The husband wants a SEALSKIN SACK And How Detective Gallagher Managed to Recover It. 'A sealskin sack, stolen from Miss Kate Kelley a few days ago, found in 8 peculiar place Thursday night by Detective Gallagher. The garment, which was valued at $275, was taken from the owner's bedroom at No.
58 McLean street. about 7 o'clock Tuesday morning last. Thursday night Detective Gallagher was told by neighbors that strange noises had been heard in a Tacant house near the foot of Franklin avenue, on the hillside. He visited the house with a lantern, and after a long search came across the article in the garret. Miss.
Kelley called at police headquarters yesterday and it. The Officiating Clergymen. An error was made in yesterday's paper regarding the names of the clerymen who officiated at the laying of the cornerstone of Bedell Memorial church. It should have been said that Rev. Dean Williamg and Rev.
A. B. Putnam conducted the opening services and Rev. Thomas Lyle delivered the address. OH; A Shock in Car.
Thursday afternoon's thunderstorm made things lively in one Euclid avenue car. There were several passengers in the car when suddenly there was a sound similar to the crack of a revolver and the front seat of the car, which was filled occupied, was enveloped.in a sheet of The occupants of the car made a leap for the ground and the car was Alled only with a sulphurous amell in less time than it takes to tell it. One or two of the passengers felt the shock quite severely. and were troubled nausea during the remainder of the trip; none were injured. Pi A Stag Party.
The Commercial Travelers', association will give a stag party at rooms in the Masonic temple this evening. It will be pretty' much of a Disagreement in Libel Cace. The Polish libel case which has cost the county over $300 came to an end in police court Friday. -M. Chrostowski, editor of the Morning Star, was tried on the charge of publishing a libelous article about Father Ignasiak of Erie.
The jury was unable: to agree, they standing seven for acquittal wand five for conviction. In Judge. Logue's charge to the jury there was doubt as to how the case should have been, decided. but the ending is claimed to be caused by the fact that one or more of the jury were A. P.
As. Tablet to Jenny Lind. London, April Christian Schleswig Holstein unveiled a tablet in Westminster abbey today to the memory of Jenny Lind, died on Nov. 2, 1887, when sixty seven years of age. Circle of Mercy.
A meeting of the Circle Mercy was held yesterday afternoon. from Mrs. L. A. Russell, president of the organization, was read.
Mrs. Russell is now in California. She said in her letter she will be home May 7. 1p 1p 1 1 $2 Cents. (On Trains 5 In the Jackson (O.) fields there is ill feeling' and the is of Indiana block coal train tithe unfavorable reports are from Tennessee.
About 3,500 miners, in what is known as the North Jellico district, do not wish to strike, and say they will not go out. They are all, wor nearly all, non-union men. The union men in the adjoining districts say they will. compel to come out. It is feared that bloody scenes are ahead.
There is much restlessness in the Alabama fields, but the reports a are so lacking in positive state ments that it is not easy to forecast. 'At Somerset. the men will not immediately strike. Dealers here are preparing to advance prices. NEW CANAL ROUTE.
Representative: Van Voorhis Introduces a Bill Affecting. Ohio. Washington, April Van Voorhis of Ohio has 'introduced a bill for a survey of a ship canal route connecting Lake Erie and the Ohio. river by way of the Ohio canal and Muskingum river. It is to have a sufficient depth to transport the largest boats of the great lakes.
QUIT WORK. Brick: Masons at Strike. Richmond, Richmond, April brick masons quit work today. They demanded that on. Saturdays they work but: eight hours and receive pay for nine, hours'.
work. Contractors refused, hence the strike. A conference all day in session failed to bring a compromise. 7: BADLY BEATEN. The Dalton Gang Whipped by United States Marshals in Oklahoma Several Were Killed.
Guthrie, O. April report of A battle, between the gang and deputy marshals near Ingalls, fifty-five miles from this: city, is confirmed today. The fight occurred at the house of Bruce Miller, -cue of the outlaws. The officers surrounded the house just before daylight. were until one of the desperadoes came out just about daylight to feed the horses.
Ha was held up and told to return to the house, the bandits to come out, one at a time, unarmed, and surrender, or hostilities would be commenced. The outlaw ret to nis companions and fully. a half hour's consultation wag held by the bandits before a stir. was made. by, either purty and the in coinmand of the party ordered his men to begin firing.
caged bandits returned, 10 the dock tire. Mrs. Miller, who had rea flesh came out and begged that she might be permitted to ride, to Ingalls for i doctor. tu attend herself and also her baby and hired: man; who were both: wounded. She would not state how many outlaws were' killed, but admitted Bill Dalton and Bill Doglan had been, seriously, if not fatally, wounded: The night was kept up all day Wednesday.
Shortly after nightfall the bandits made a break from the house and fled, pursued by the deputies. They went in the direction of the Creek Indian country. The messengers who brought this news did not learn whether or not Dalton and Doolan had been killed, but was told that three fatally wounded bandits were left in Miller's house after their companions had broken" through the line of officers, He states that two of the officers' posse were killed and three wounded. TO RECOVER PENSION An Interesting Case in Which Ohio "Parties Figure. New York, April interesting case will come up before Judge Addison Brown in the United States district court on Monday next, when the suit brought: by the federal government against the American Exchange bank of this city will be tried.
In 1881 Mrs. Caroline Hinckey applied for a mother's pension, as her son Louis Hinckey, had: been a member of the Forty-first Volunteers of Ohio. She filled out the necessary papers and sent them to Washington, but before anything could be done she died. In 1886 Mrs. Carolina Swetzer, her daughter, took the matter up, and the pension bureau consented to allow the original application.
Pension Agent Barger sent the woman a check for $2,115.40 in 1889, drawn on the First National bank of Bellaire, 0.. The American Exchange National bank is the correspondent in this city for the Ohio bank and collected the $2,115.40 from the assistant United States treasurer and forwarded the money to Ohio. The government nOW sues to recover this sum, but the bank claims the government's loss: was caused. by negligence of its own. officials.
'GOV. M'KINLEY WIll Deliver the Address of Welcome at the Great Ohristian Endeavor. Convention. For -some time the committee of has been endeavoring to secure Gov. McKinley to deliver the address of welcome at the great Christian Endeavor convention next July.
The question was unsettled until yesterday afternoon, when the following telegram was received from Rev. Dr. J. Z. Tyler, chairman of the committee who called on the governor I personally: Announce that Gov.
McKinley will deliver the address of welcome." 91 committee. members are busy as bees nowadays preparing for the speedily approaching convention. As vet: accommodations have not been' secured for the number of people, even at a moderate estimate, who will come to that Cleveland when in It is probable, however, the opening hymn is sung at the Saengerfest. hall every delegate will have been assigned to a room and boarding place, as the committee will have more notices of places where accommodations may ve obtained as the time for the convention draws nearer and Cleveland's people realize the enormity of' the affair. Heavy Damage Suit Muncie, April case of the Muncie Pulp Co.
vs. the National Water Filtering wherein they demand $40,000 damages, bag been 'decided in the New York courts, allowing the plaintiff $15.000. The case has been in the New York courts since 1891.0 No Business Transacted. Washington, April was practically nothing done by the house today, as the private session calendar was was devoted taken to up. evening pension matters.
Cents.) NO. 1112 A HOWLING MOB Follows a Molder Home From the Standard Foundry. 114 Excitement in Labor Cir4 cles Throughout 42 the City. The Police Will be Held in Reserve in All Stait tions Today. An Extraordinary Demonstration.
Herald, Grand and Rawlings Streets 7 Filled With an Angry Multitude-Threats 'and Execrations--Trouble With an Enraged Mob--Police Precautions. There wa's considerable excitement at the Standard foundry yesterday, and it Is extremely fortunate that no blood was spilled. The striking molders were not to blame. 600 street and sewer fresh from their intimidation of down town. workmen, at the foundry shortly after: 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
A little while before that hour a large number of street workers paraded north on Herald street and passed aloug to. Streator avenue and Bertram street, where the sewer' gangs were working. Several hundred men, consisting of the Little Consolidated strikers, the Petrie workers and others, swept down on these forces and created a stampede. The sewer men: were forced to join the mob. With these.
re-enforcements the crowd started toward the Standard. They left Woodland avenue 'at Guard and walked down the Nickel Plate tracks, past the foundry, keeping up a howl and jeering at the workmen within. All kinds of titles were applied to the workmen. Work was suspended in the foundry and every possible preparation 'made for detense. The nOW excited crowd moved down the tracks to Herald street, then turned up toward the foundry, with picks and shovels flourishing in the air and yelling in the most threatening manner.
'The detail of half dozen men, led by Capt. Madigan and, Lieut. Searles, took a stand in front of the office fence. Vice President Valentine of the Molders' union likewise marshaled the committee and took a position in front; of the gate. presence and.
words of caution had an excellent effect: upon the 'The striking molders, 100, attempted methods 'of paciticationi The mob hung about the works, sulle a and threatening, until rain came. The violence of the shower caused most Of them to disperse. Everything remained in a comparatively quiet condition until 5:30 o'clock, when the shop closed for the day, and thin occurred one of the most extraordinary scenes in history of Cleveland labor troubles. then laborers were permitted to pass unmolested, but when Fred Engle, a molder, left the shop, it was la cue for an angry demonstration. It has been customary for one of the co inpany officials to take him from the in a carriage, but the carriage was 'not brought out last night.
Instead of. that Unzle walked unaccompanied from the office and started south on Herald Rawlings. He was at once retognized and the clamor commenced. "Shoot the scab," him A a rail," and similar remarks went out from the -A gang of boys were the first to start the pursuit. They yelled and flourished sticks and clubs and threatened the molder.
Patrolmen McElhaney, pert and DeHondt: immediately of themselves as escort for him. They warded off a crowd of about 200, who kept close to their heels with threatening veils. Engle and his. escort passed Grand avenue and turned down Rawlings. Women, children and dogs came; from every house and: fell in line.
When Engle arrived at his home, No. 34 Rawlings avenue, his escort consisted of four patrolmen and Capt. Madigan c'f: the police department and about 200 others. He. went into the house and reinained there.
The disturbing element went. home with Engle. Then Assistant Superintendent Heigho of the foundry came olut and surveyed the surroundings. Vice President Valentine said that the molders would use every endeavor to, prevent Everything about the Standard fbundry was quiet last night. The usual number of strikers were performing sentinel duty around the works and beL aved in a quiet and orderly manner.
The Police Are Rendy. The police will be prepared today for any outbreak among the men. 'hey will proceed a of riot. Deputy Superintendent" McMabon issued an order yesterday that every available policeman ehould be held in reserve at the police stations subject to a call at any moment to any part of the city. This inlarly detailed corner men, who no 'are A sort oludoy the entire day force reguof picket men.
The order was transmitted last night through all the precincts by the police exchange. In case of: any serious outbreak it will be possible to assemble policemen in any riven spot within an incredibly short spade of time. Deputy Superintendent McMahon has had considerable experience in the handling of riots and proposes to act with promptitude. During the exciting time while the strikers and laborers were surrounding the Standard foundry yesterday afternoon, it was rumored that an endeavor would be made today to prohibit the carrying out of city contract works on Payne avenue, near Willson. The strikers claimed that the are vorking.
for too small wages. P'olice will be kept in the neighborhood today to prevent. any violence. 1. What Mulhern Says.
Supt. George G. Mulbern of the Little Consolidated, into whose hands has been put the completion of the River extension, where the laborers) strike originated, is not worrying a great deal about the cessation of work. He will try. the waiting policy to "whether the men ANIMATED.
The Salvation Army Revival in Association Hall. Much Enthusiasm -Music. The Scene Was Inspiring in the Extreme Extraordinary People Reached by Extraordinary Methods-Characteristic Exercises Association hall presented an animated appearance last evening with its platform the uniforms army, bedecked with flags and brilliant, with which held a monster demonstration at the Y. M. C.
A. building last evening. Previous to the meeting there' occurred a large parade, participated. in' by more than 400 of the Salvation army men and women, including two brass bands. In the parade also was a carriage containing the, principal speakers of the evening, Major and Mrs.
W. J. Cozens of Cincinnati and Staff Captain and Mrs. J. N.
Parker. The hall, including the two galleries, was filled. to its utmost capacity. The people came early in the evening, yet many came too late to obtain. admittance.
The first exercise' of the evening was a characteristic one. Every soldier in the audance was requested to arise, and a volley" was given. To anyone unfamiliar with this feature of. theSalvation army meetings the volley must have come as an overwhelming surprise. Between the enthusiastic shouts of the army and sonorous if rather discordant notes sent forth from the brass volume of sound' was sent out from the hall that must have impressed an outsider with the idea that the M.
C. A. building was the scene of a rejuvenated Babel. Then came the inspiring songs a'ways found 'at the of the Salvation army, beginning with "Crown Him with its oft repeated chorus, inspiring under 7 any circ*mstances, but doubly 'so with the surroundings in which it was sung evening. A seventeen girl with a sweet, pathetic then led the audience in an earnest prayer for the souls of those present, a prayer that could not fail to impress to some.
extent even the most blase listener in the audience. A. solemn hymn followed, sung softly but: as earnestly as the previous rather noisy one, with bowed heads as in Private Fox then sang a rather unique song of his own composition. The verses included the names many well known popular songs, but the choruses were as many well known hymns, -and the congregation in singing them with will. Then came another.
hymn Gauring which the entire audience was invited to. and did assist in keeping time by the clapping of hands. Major Cozeng gave an informal talk on the well known and often reiterated: purposes of the army. He proved to be an interesting speaker, illustrations and introducing sustaining apt anec- the interest of the meeting in a wonderful manner. An earnest speaker always, he was doubly in earnest last evening and threw an intensity into his remarks which disarmed the cynics and critics present and prepared the way for the speaker who followed.
Speaking Cleveland, he "We of the army are especially interested in Cleveland for. the reason that has the -honor of having listened to the first Salvationist who ever spoke: in America, in 1872. He spoke here for many moths, then returned to the old country, leaving his converts to continue the work in this Major Cozens stated that there are 3.109 different bodies of Salvationists; 321 different countries and seventeen languages are involved in the army's work. There is also a Salvation navy of four vessels. There.
are eighty-three training schools, rescue homes for fallen women. Maior twenty homes of rest and forty-eight Cozens announced that the location Salvationists' colony over the sea would be made public within a few weeks. After Major Cozens' address there followed another typical army scene, when the soldiers were called upon to rise again and wave their handkerchiefs while singing an army hymn. now a Salvationist, next speaker. George Watson, a twenty convict, He wag followed by a Cleveland exsaloonkeeper named Ford, who advanced to the front of the platform and led the congregation in singing and then gave his testimony briefly.
Ex-Saloonkeeper and Gambler Johnson, a well known man' in Cleveland, who has been in the army seven months, was the next speaker. Mrs. Cozens, Staft Captain Parker and Mrs. Parker were other speakers. They gave interesting and vivid descriptions of the work in Cincinnati and Cleveland, 1 IROQUOIS CLUB.
New Method of Entertainment InLast Evening. MOLITOR'S CASE. His Acquittal Asked Unon a Technicality; A The Iroquois club inaugurated a departure from its usual program of exercises last evening by introducing the first of a series of lectures by men of local and outside Dr. T. A.
Burke lectured last and ne will be followed by Dr. Stafford of Baltimore and Prof. Maurice Francis Egan of Notre Dame Dr. Burke university, gave a lectures the subject of was' trated by charts and by a mounted skeleton, which was referred to frequently. The talk was remarkably entertaining and its practical nature the plain and simple treatment of the subject rendered the first lecture of the course a success.
The new Iroquois Glee club, composed of twenty-five members, is a source of amusem*nt 'and pleasure to the members and will furnish the club with frequent entertainments. A The -habeas corpus. proceeding. against J. F.
Molitor was on hearing before Judge White yesterday. Molitor is under arrest charged with having violated the Sunday liquor laws. His case has gone through several courts, commencing with the police court and ending in the Ohio supreme court. He was arrested and placed in jail and removed on- a writ: of: habeas corpus. He was arraigned upon this writ yesterday.
His counsel sought his acquittal upon a technicality, insisting that there was DO record of an affidavit of Molitor's arrest upon the police court record. They. contended that this fact vitiated the entire proceedings against their client. Judge White reserved his decision upon the issue. LARGE LOCUSTS.
The Seven-Year. Pests Turn Up. In Missouri. de 1 St. Louis, April -A special to the Republic from Moweaqua, says: turning the soil- in this Vicinity, a number of farmers have discovered numbers of locusts of extraordinary size.
This appears to confirm the rapidly spreading belief that we are to have the seven-year locusts: this year." WOES OF THE UNEMPLOYED. Congressman Davis' Idea of an Industrial Volunteer Army. April Representative Davis of Kansas has introduced a long bill reciting the Woes of the unemployed and directing the secretary of war to immediately. enlist "500,000 men in an industrial volunteer army to serve for the period of one year after The army is to be clothed and fed and paid regular, be soldiers. employed on Instead public drilling works, they such as canals, rivers and.
harbors, public highways, etc. To defray the expenses of this army the secretary of the treasury is to issue $50,000,000 of legal tender notes and certain other forms of currency. The bill specifies the following issues of money to pay the army: 10 replace the waste and destruction of notes under the act of 1878; $150,000.000 to replace national bank currency retired; $100,000,000 annually hereafter to keep up the volume of money. 2 Fatal Shooting Affray. Little Rock, April Morgan and John Mason, rival merchants at Harris, engaged in shooting affray this morning.
in which both received fatal injuries. The trouble grew out of business matters. LIKE BANQUO'S GHOST. Doty's Bill to Increase the State Will Not Down -A Bitter Pros- pect. 11 Columbus, April fight over the Doty bill to increase the state debt to the tune of half a million dollars is to be renewed in the house.
There was, when the bill was under consideration on Wednesday, strong opposition to its passage without an amendment striking out the clause which provides for the payment of the $85,000 Wayne counstation bonds, held to be unconstitutional. It is now announced by Hon. John F. Locke, the recognized, mouthpiece of the governor, that a motion to. reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed is to be made in the house on Monday, the to have the clause by which the state assumes the payment of the bonds stricken out.
Some infuences have been at work in this direction and the promise is that a bitten fight will be con ducted along this line Mr. Locke is one of the strongest members on the floor, and, in view of the fact that he is recognized as reflecting the sentiments of the gubernatorial office, he has great weight in shaping the policy of the house. If he leads the fight against assuming the Wayne county indebtedness the chances are that the vote will be reconsidered and the $85,000 clause may be stricken out. IN HARD LUCK. Coxey' Army Refused Water 'In Maryland Town' 5 Hagerstown, April Gen.
Coxey left his army here tonight for a four days' absence in New York, during which time he will: stop at the Hotel Imperial and will attend the sale of some of his Kentucky thoroughbreds. Besides this he will' try to arrange with the railroads 1 for excursion rates. to Washington for the demonstration on "May 1.It is from this arrangement that he hopes to get the greater part of his crowd in the city.Should this plan succeed he and Browne declare there will be no trouble, in. getting 50,000 people to the capital besides those on the rdad. The army had to buy its own: firewood to cook supper on Logan bill and as the town authorities refused to' allow the army to draw on the hydrants of the town the camp was without water until the railroad company gave the use of a plug in the railroad yards.
Later in the evening when a severe thunderstorm arose H. C. Koepler, the agent of the Western Maryland road, again came to the rescue, giving the tramps the use of an empty warehouse, after a farmer named Ballantine had refused them shelter in an- empty barn near by. REFUSED TO STRIKE. Indiana Miners Will Not Go Out Until May 1.
Brazil, April block coal miners of this and neighboring sections held an immense meeting here today notwithstanding their officers urged them to strike tomorrow as per general order issued, they refused to do so by a majority of 750. The contract with the operators expiring May 1 will be carried out. IN THE WAY TO SUCCESS. The Bondholders Claim the Lackawanna Directory Illegal. Toledo, April in minority the bondholders 'of.
the Astor interest in the Ann controversy are in the way to ultimate success. They claim that the directory elected by the Lackawanna faction' is illegal, from fact that the inspectors chosen by the courts to supervise the. election were not presin a place other in than the one advertised ent and also that the meeting was held in the call. The. bondholders will hold a meeting tomorrow, elect directors and then await the decision of the court.
Weekly Review of Trade. New York, 'April G. Dunn's weekly review of trade says most of the reccvery realized in workers business has come from the fact that have accepted lower wages until consumption can restore prices. The coal miners' strike makes the future less hopeful; FORMIDABLE. Greatest Labor Demonstration Ever.
Inaugurated. The Picks to Drop at Noon Today Every Mining District in the United States Affected -No Coal is to be Mined Until the Mammoth Strike is Ended. 3 Columbus, April. The national. headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America in this city are receiving reports from the different states and territories.
indicating that the general strike at noon tomorrow will be the 'most formidable labor demonstration ever made in this country. President John McBride tonight. made an estimate. on the number of men that would quit work at the appointed. hour.
This is based, as he states, on official information received at the headquarters and is as follows: Pennsylvania 50,000, Ohio 26,000, Illinois 15,000, Iowa 5,000, West Virginia 6,000. Maryland 3,000, Indiana 5,000, Tennesse and Kentucky 5,000, :3 Missouri: 3,000, Alabama 8,000, Colorado 4.000. Indian teritory total 132,000. This includes only those who have held meetings up to last night and declared their intention of going out. President McBride predicts that' in a few days from the inauguration of 'the strike- 20,000 men in the Pennsylvania co*ke fields will suspend work and the movement 'will be joined by 25,000 in southern Illinois and Kansas and in the block coal district of Indiana.
He expects that by May. 1 all the bituminous coal fields will suspend' and 'no coal will be mined until the strike is ended. Some will continue work until their contracts expire May, 1. The union officers predict that. 125,000 men in the anthracite coal fields will join the strike and expressed the belief that the movement will become universal and may include 300,000 men.
74 NOT WORTHY ITS The Strike In West Virginia WIll be Insignificant. Wheeling, W. April -Tomorrow is the day set by the national convention of the United, Mine Workers, of America for all: the 'coal miners in the United States to quit work till such time as the operators shall agree to terms proposed by. the miners. The matter has been Virginia thoroughly, is looked concerned, and so there will be I into, far.
as West no strike worthy the name. "The operators are looking forward to a decided improvement in the industry in West Virginia in consequence of the strike, should it develop any considerable strength in other siates, and are prepared to, take full advantage of the situation, which they hope will present itself. Aside from the upper Panhandle and a few smaller sections there is, no semblance of union among the miners of the state. In this section, where the union is the strongest, it has had several contests with the operators within the, past three months and has. lost every one of them.
In nearly every mine non-union men are at work and the union is pot recognized except in a few peddling 'or retail banks. In the Kanawha valley. there never been a strong union, and the riotous strike of two months ago a left the miners entirely' disorganized. In other. sections the has no strength, and a carefully prepared census of the state, made within the past month, shows fewer than one the miners and co*ke makers at work, and all of these at wages below.
those paid six months ago. In some sections coal is got out at 30 cents and even 28 'cents a which is the lowest rate paid anywhere in the country. A number of the largest operators sent representatives to Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York and other reach, to- offer steady supplies to the points where. West Virginia can larger dealers in case they are shut off by the strike in the fields. from which they now draw their supplies.
It is the belief that if the strike affects any considerable number of mines West Virginia's output will be increased at least 50 per cent. West Virginia operators, to 'make the best of any possible situatiop, have their representatives at work in markets which they have.been unable to reach heretofore in the hope that they may be able to introduce their product during the expected extraordinary conditions. The fears of a coal famine anywhere are groundless, for West Virginia can supply the needs of tho wholo country for a few if necessary. In many of the large yarde there is enough coal to keep the busy hauling it out for several works. A careful "census of this immediate district taken.
this shows that 528 miners will quit tomorrow. at These are 'all employed ir the retail dealers' mines and are about one-fifth of the full number of men in the district. Reports from. the mines in Belmont about Jefferson counties, Ohio, show that 2,500 men will quit. THEY.
WILL ALL GO OUT. Columbiana County Miners Decide to. Quit With the Rest. East 5 Liverpool, April The total number. of coal miners who will strike with the United Mine Workers at noon Saturday in Columbiana county, will be about 1,500.
The employes of eight companies at Salineville, 590 men in' all, held a meeting today. 'and decided to come out. Only one mine, employing thirty men, will continue operations. Five companies employing 500 men in the northern Leetonia. part Salem of the and connty, Washingtonville including mines, will go, out to 'a man.
Two' bandred more in the central part of the county near New Lisbon and at: Cannelton and Darlington on the Pennsylvania state line will also strike. The East Palestine miners, to the number of 350, are already out. There will be only one company operating in the county after noon tomorrow. WILL BE SYMPATHETIC. Miners Along the Ohio River Have Small Grievances.
Cincinnati, April 8. -(Special.) -Adrices from the coal fields contributory to this ble market tomorrow. In the Kanawab, Big do not indicate any serious trouSandy and Peach Orchard districts whatever strike there: is will. be ampathetic. 1 TROUBLE FEARED.
Omaha Laboring Men I Go to Reinforce Kelley. The Stand Taken at Council Bluffs Tit Industrials Ordered to Leave Sacramento Under Penalty of ArrestThe Men Demand Transportation and Refuse to walk. Omaha, April thousand laboring men marched out of Omaha with banners flying, bound for the camp of Gen, Kelly's commonwealers at Weston, fourteen miles east of Council Bluffs. It was done upon the signal agreed upon at last night's meeting of the Central Labor union--the ringing of church bells and the blowing of whistlesannouncing that Kelly's army was still at Weston unable to secure a train for the Inside of five minutes 1,000 men had gathered at Jefferson square and was quickly organized into companies with 8 captain for every ten men. The march was then taken up through' Sixteenth street to Farnum, where the column proceeded to the city ball and counter marched.
At every street recruits were received and when the column reached the Paxton hotel there were 2,500 men in line. Each company was provided with an American flag and as fast: ag recruits joined they were formed into companies provided with banners. At Eleventh and Farnum streets the main column was met by a detachment of 500 men. They joined forces and proceeded to the Douglass street toll bridge across the 'Missouri river. Here they were met by the superintendent of the bridge, who said the company was, glad to give, them free: transportation across the river.
This wag a graceful act, for the men were prepared to cross with or without permission. It had been expected that the Uuion Pacific shopmen would join the column at. this point, but that part of the program was not carried out, for the company warned, the men when they came to work that those working would be expected to remain on duty all day. The master mechanic also prevented the blowing of the shop whistle. There were a number of Union Pacifio men in line of marchers, however, but they were.
men who had not gone to work this morning. Thousands of people followed the col-. ump to the bridge and other' thousands were on hand on the other side of tho river to welcome them. The cold seemed to have the effect bringing out a greater throng than: had been expected: last night, when the rain' was falling so heavily. All: the men seemed to be in excellent spirits and determined that the march should mean business.
The column had been 'preceded to Council Bluffs by a committee prominent citizens, ap-. pointed at' last night's meeting of the Central Labor union, including Rev. Dr. Joseph Durya, pastor of the First Congregational church, Rev. Dr.
Hamerson, of the First Presbyterian church, and Rev. Frank Crane, of. the First Methodist church, The committee was' to call" on Gov. Jackson and the 'managers. of the railroads and urge that the commonwealers be at, once started ou their While way east.
column, was or marching towards the Missouri, 'Gen. Kelly was in Omaha seated in the private car of President St. John of the Rock Island road, holding an animated Mr. 'St. John said, in response to a request for train, that he was not in a position to grant it even should he desire to do so, the matter was now wholly in the bands of the presidents of the trunk lines and no one road could grant a request for a train unless the presidents of all the other lines agreed.
Gen: Kelly then left the car and called on other friends for advice. One prominent man suggested that the army. levy on the farmers for horses and wagons; that the army be split up into squads of 100 men each, and that they spread out over stretch of territory twenty-five miles wide and march on foot across the It was euggeated that such a plan would soon bring the people of the state to time, for the army would devestate the country through which it and the railroads would then forced to take the commonwealers up and carry them out of the country. Gen. Kelly said the plan seemed to him a good one and he thought it might be tried.
He agreed to'call a council of his officers and place the plan before them. After deliberation if they agreed to it the plan' would be adopted. The general later left for Council Bluffs. It is said that some of the Anarchists who were in the column marching out of Omaha some dynamite with them but how much is not known. A strange sight was witnessed on march from the bridge to the heart of Council Bluffs.
Men and boys seemed to' spring up from the ground and the umm which crossed the bridge had. grown to over 6,000 men by the time it reached the heart of the city. The burly form of Capt. O' Donohue headed the columr and at intervals the line was broken into companies, each headed with a flag and acting under orders of a captain. At Fifteenth and Broadway the Omaha army was met by a detachment of Coun cil.
Bluffs laborers with a fife and drum band and a dozen flags. These acting as an escort took the company to Bayliss park where a halt was called and in response to a request form Chief of Police Scanlan a committee: was appointed to present the demands of the men to the railroad offi cials who were, it was said, to be found in the office of John Y. While the committee was in the office the men lined up along the sides of. the square, warming their toes by impromptu stamping on the pavement and cheering Dr. Duryea and Col D.
B. Daily adspeakers. In Mr. Stone's office, Rev.3 dressed the committee in a pacitic spirit, but the committee was warm and informed them 'that there was no use of multiplying words. They demanded to see some representatiyes of the railroads but were informed that none were in town.
CONFUSION IN OMAHA. The Result of Kelly's Conference With Gov. Jackson. Omaha, April outpouring from TODAY'S WEATHER. For Cleveland and vicinity, local rains, westerly, winds, slightly cooler.
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