Great Miners' Strike

Pittsburg, June 29. - Notwithstanding the denials of the local officials of the Miners' association an afternoon paper publishes a long article in effect that the national officers of the unlon wlll issue orders at once for a strike in five states. The edict, the paper says, will go forth from Columbus that the men are to lay down their tools on Saturday. Nearly 175,000 men, it is said, will be engaged in this great conflict, and the battlefleld will cover the bituminous coal centers of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. The mining rate asked for is 69 cents, based on the thin-vein district in Pennsvlvania.