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Miners Advised To Be Peaceful

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
May
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Bluefields, -May 9.- The niiners have been advised by the leaders of the strike to attempt no violence either to person or property. So far there havo been no clashes between the soldiers and miners. Sixty-fivo men have joined the union and it is now oertain that 500 men are out in tbe Virginia mines in favor of the strike. The Browning company is serving notices on its men to vaoate the tenement houses. Today is payday and what the eviction of the minors will result in no one Knows. Pocahontas is pnietically uuder martial law. No one is admitted into tha' place unless by pass, the public ways are guarded and the commanding positions are all In charge of the militia. The companies in Pouahontas are determined to continuo mining at all hazards.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News