Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1908 — OPERATORS ARE SOLID [ARTICLE]

OPERATORS ARE SOLID

Agreed That They Will Not Resume the Check-Off System at the Coal Pits. MINES IN THE POCKET RUNNING Death of Rollo B. Ogleebee at Indianapolis—Currency Salve tor a Rejected Lover. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 18.—The Vandalia Coal company notified the miners’ district headqunrters that it would not discontinue the check-off. and the company’s mines would continue in operation. A. H. Ogle, president of the company, is a member of the executive board of the operators’ association. The mines at Sullivau are closed with two exceptions, both miners and operators awaiting action at other places. A meeting of the executive committee of the Indiana Bituminous Operators’ association was called for last night to consider the •trike. Vandalia Line® Up Again. At this meeting there was a change in the position of the Vandalia Coal company. The operators decided not to resume the check-off system and the Vandalia company receded from Its position. and now stands with x the other operators. The miners will, therefore, face the situation just ns it was last Friday, when the strike was started. Sixteen Thousand Men Involved. Ihere are 16,000 men in good standing with the miners’ organization in the bituminous field of the state. Two thousand or more in the Clay county block coal field are not Involved In the dispute- Of the 16.0QQ perhaps 1.500 men are employed whose owners are not members of the Operators’ association, and they will continue at work. These independent operators control not to exceed sixteen per cent of the output of the field. ' “Pocket” Mine® Are Working. Evansville, Ind., Aug. 18. Th® southern Indiana coal miners continued at work, and It is the general opinion of the operators that there will not be a general strike. It is understood that the operators will continue the check-off system. A representative of the local operators has left for Terre Haute to present the matter to the executive board of the state association of operators. It is not the intention of the miners to strike until the operators have had an opportunity to consider the discontinuance of the -check-off system.

HE GOT HIS MONEY BACK Rejected Lover Is Repaid His Expenditures on the Girl He Didn’t Get. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 18.—A formal agreement and the payment of the cash was made in the presence of County Clerk Berry by which a rejected suitor accepted from the favored one the amount of money he had spent In preparation for marriage, including the marriage license Tee. Damian Jokubaitus, a Russian miner, had no claim for the $38.50 on his rival which £e could collect at law, but the rival was willing to reimburse Damian If he would withdraw peacefully. A week ago Damian took out a license to marry Euaefa Stanguatis, a Rushian girl, of the Seelyville mining Then she her mind and promised to marry the other Russian, named Pehibaltis. When the two med alled at the clerk’s office it was to have the license changed, but the clerk told them tbe only way was to cancel it and take out another. This meant $2, but the amount was gladly paid. In Damian’s $38.50 were all his courting expenses. Rollo B. Oglesbee Dead. Indianapolis, Ang. 18.—Rollo B. Oglesbee. head of the bank department lu the state auditor’s office, died suddenly at his home 2621 Sutherland avenue, at 3a. in. yesterday. Heart trouble, due it is believed, to overwork, was the cause of death. Oglesbee. who wag known in the state as an author and journalist, had been in tbe state auditor’s office one year. He was born May 8. 1859. A widow and five children survive. For two weeks Oglesbee had been away from his office at Intervals,, but his condition was not regarded as serious. " ’ 9 Has Been Collecting Bags. Richmond. Ind., Aug. 18.—One hundred thousand insect*, properly catalogued and labeled, are the results of the work of slaac Woods, of this city, during the last five years. Woods is an ardent entymologtst and baa devoted his time almost entirely to the collection of bugs during these years. Poured Coal Oil on the Fire. Terre Haute, Ind.. Aug. 18.—Mrs. Edward Irons, and her eighteen months’ old baby were burned to death in their home here. A bottomless coal oil can found by the firemen indicates that Mrs. Irons had poured oil on the fire and that an explosion followed. Result of A Love Altair. Bedford. Ind,, Aug. 18.—MIm Della Henderson, nineteen years old, shot herself in the head, the ball going through and coming out of her mouth. The tragedy Is the tesuit of a love affatr. '