Items Of Interest

The wives oí the miners who continue at work in the Plnm Créele and Turtle Creek mines in the Pitteburjf district ave a strong factor in bringing about the success of the coal miners' strike in that section. A mass held by the camping strikers near l'lum Creek mine was attended on Sunday by 1,000 miners who had persisted in working the previous week and nearly every onc was accompanied by his wife as a result of missionary work the women by the strikers. The meeting was inaugurated by religious services conducted by Rev. Lincoln Lash, assisted by a choir of 20 colored jubilee singers, after which Mrs. Mary Jones, the Chicago agitator, spoke for about au hour, putting the case very plainly to her women auditors. She placed the responsibility for the success or failure of the strike on the wives. The result of the meeting was the assurance fram nearly a thousand men that they would join the strikers and it is now thought that it will only be question of a very short time until the De Armit mines are tied up completely. Miners' Strike News, The strikers about the De Armit mines are continuing orderly and are g-aining accessions to their ranks constantly. The 150 men employed at the Horner & Roberts coal miae at Elizabeth refused to g-o to work; about 75 miners at the Equitable mine in the same locality also struck. The Bunola men who were persuaded to come out all remained away from the pit and no coal was mined. The mine company leased the ground where the strikers were camped and ousted them, but another field has been secured by the strikers which the owner refused to lease to the company, and a permanent camp established. A special from West Newton, Pa., says: "The sympathy of this entire community is with the striking coal miners. The use of a large building has been given free for a commissary, and the townspeople and farmers have contributed provisions liberally. Several hundred dollars have also been contributed." The output of the De Armit mines was still further reduced by no coal being taken from the Oakhill mine. The three men at Sandy Creek mine mined one góndola car in three days. Counsel for the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Co. (De Armit's mines) has prepared a bili to be presented to Judg-e M. W. Acheson, of the U. S. circuit court at Plttsburg-, on behalf of the non-resident stockholders of the coal company, asking for an injunetion to restrain the striking miners from congregating near the mines at Turtle Creek, Sandy Creek and Plum Creek and from interfering with the workmen of the company. This new move is being made for the purpose of g-etting the aid of the U. S. marshals as well as the sheriff of Allegheny county, to break up the strikers' camps.