Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — THE STRIKING MINERS. [ARTICLE]

THE STRIKING MINERS.

The Clay county striking miners are using vigorous measures to enforce their demands. They aro well organized and disposed to make trouble at various points. Every train loaded with coal passing through or from the county has been stopped. The coal from several trains has been unloaded and pulverized. Saturday strikers stopped a north-bound freight train on the Chicago & Indiana coal railway and wanted to be hauled free to Stone Bluff, where some miners were said to be at work. The trainmen refused to haul them, and the train was held from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., when it was brought back to Brazil. Monday morning as the north-bound local fre'ght on the C. & I. C. pulled into Mecca it was boarded by five hundred striking miners who held the train captive on Saturday and who demanded to be hauled to Stone Bluff. The conductor telegraphed to the trainmaster that his train was under the miners’ control and he was ordered to sidetrack it. W. H. Lyford, solicitor of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway, appeared before Judge Baker, at Indianapolis, Monday, and secured a temporary order tc prevent any further interference with trains until June 7, when the motion for a permanent injunction will be argued.

Little ducks require almost twice as much food as chicks, but they grow very rapidly. They should be fed four times a day and given al) thev will oat. One of the laziest men in the country Is John Curtis, who is serving a three years’ sentence in the state prison at Salem, Oregon. Curtis worked in the foundry, and about three months ago took off his boots, on the plea that they hurt him. and then burned his foot so severely that he was laid up. When the burn was healing he put vinegar on it and aggravated it to prevent Its getting well. The prison physician threatened him, and managed to cure the wound. Curtis was set at work again. He worked four days, and then with a It itcbet cut off his left hand. It took two blows. One cut through the fleshy, part of the hand, the other clean through the wrist i.o'.nt. He confessed that he did it to avoid work. . .