Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1886 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Advices from Pittsburgh, Pa., say that the strike in the coke region is assuming serious proportions. Four thousand ovens wud 6,000 men ars idle. The Hungarians, who constitute the majority-of tho strikers, are well armed, ferocious from drink, and threatening trouble. Three hundred of them visited the ■works at Stonerville and compelled the men working there to knock off and join their ranks. Adjutant General Guthrie has been requested to send a regiment of the State Guard to the disturbed districts, but he hesitates to | comply. Gov. Patt.'son, of Philadelphia, in a public address at Lockhaven on the evils of f ' railroad discriminations, alluded to the Standard oil monopoly as having disbanded Legislatures, mocked the law, and corrupted the avenues of justice. The Delaware Oil Works at Chester,

Pa., were almost entirely burned out The fire started from an explosion. Nearly all tho buildings employed in the manufacture of lubricating and paraffine wax were burned. The loss is about #40,000. An explosion occurred in the Oriel coal mine, at Newburg, W. Va., resulting in the imprisonment of forty-five persons in the shaft Tho first dispatches report that it is feared most, if not all, the imprisoned miners are dead. A Boston dispatch says “a notable strike ended yesterday, when it was announced at Lynn that tho firm of Morgan & Dore, which operate shoe factories in Lynn, Richmond, Me., and Pittsfield, N. H., had yielded to the demands of the Knights of Labor. This strike, which has been in progress a year and a half, originated with the lasters in the Richmond factory. The firm has now decided to discharge all the men not belonging to the unions who have been hired in the place of strikers, and to adopt a scale of wages satisfactory to the Knights of Labor. This is one of the most decided victories won by the Knights in New England, and causes great rejoicing.”