Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — STRIKE NOTES. [ARTICLE]

STRIKE NOTES.

Of the five men arrested for killing ofEngineer Barr, two were released and three await furtller examination. Thursday night, at Brazil, 200 strikers guarded -the jail to preveat-Sf-lynfrhing by a mob said to have been organized at Terre Haute for that purpose. The Vandalia railway company, on behalf of the widow of Barr, will sue Clay county, the sheriff and his bondsmen for damages. Three persons in addition to the five already held, were arrested for complicity in Barrs’ murder, Friday. One was a boy named Ernest Poor, only 14 years of age. A scrimmage at Ebenczer graveyard, near Shelburn, occurred, Monday, between the militia and strikers in ambush. Several shots were fired at the dynamiters. Friday word was received at Camp McKee that a ma i was lying in a deserted house, dangerously wounded, and’ it is supnosed that he is one of the strikers who attacked’thc militia. ■ Sheriff Mills is to be maJe to tell all ho knows as to who have been the leaders in the depredations which occurred previous to the arrival of the militia, and also the names of the men he saw gathered in the various mobs about the station at Shelburn and at other points while the militia was escorting the trains safely past dangerous localities. Mills was at the head of several posses, and it is stated called many m«*n by their first names, asking that they desist from their attempts to molest the trains, and also cease interfering with the sheriffs in their attempts to servo warrants.

A dispatch from Shelburn, Friday night, states that the troubles are now thought to be over in that region. It is the general opinion that al) the troops except one battalion will be ordered home, Sunday. »•;-» The Cripple Creek miners are disposed to', surrender to the authorities. Friday Gov. Waite telegraphed an order to Ad-jutant-General Tarsney instructing him to accept the surrender of the miners, not to disarm them but to protect them with all the power at his command", to keep the deputy sheriffs out of their headquarters, to make no arrests, use no force, but let everything be done voluntarily. “If the armed deputies resist,” the Governor added. “I will call out the unorganized militia and suppress the insurrection.” The condition of the miners in the Shelburn district is desperate. Thel»families are on the verge of starvation. Fdrty car loads of coal passed through Shelburn, Friday. The train was not interfered with at any point, but the speed was materially reduced through the miningdistrict. The arrival of the troops at Cambridge, 0., Friday, appears to have settled matters in that district. There has been no trouble for several days. 6 A mob of strikers burned a bridge on the Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling road, Thursday night. The Governor ordered Adj.-Gen.’Howe to send a detachment of militia to Belmont county, near the sceno of the disturbance. The troops ordered out in Maryland have quieted matters. Operators say the strike is over. There is still serious trouble in West Virginia.