LABOUR, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2384, 19 July 1892, Page 1

LABOUR, ETC.

Washington, July 14. The miners of Idaho seized the adjutant of the troops as a hostage. The Governor of Idaho has declared the Boise Country in a state of rebellion. Twelve corpses of non-union men have been found in a ravine. The strikers have taken possession of the mines and are terrorising the whole district. They blew up the railway bridge at Millan with dynamite in order to prevent the troops getting up, and they threaten to blow up four mines in the event of an attack. They hold two of the mine-owner* - s ' hostages. t . New York, July 15. The miners of Idaho are entrenched in a strong position, and will oppose the troops. The manager of one of the mines has been killed, and his body terribly mutilated. The miners have captured several reporters and imprisoned them. Martial law has been proclaimed at Carnegie's homestead. The Idaho miners are dispersing voluntarily, but retain their arms. Twelve of the non-Unionists. who were captured by the Unionists on Thursday last, were murdered in cold blood. Those on strike continue their outrages, aud have destroyed two railway bridges with dynamite, and cut the telegraph wires, They threaten to dynamite the Bank of Wallace, owing to its cashing the cheques of non-Union men. The military invest all the towns in the vicinity of the scene of the disturbance. Fifty of the non-L T nion men have relighted the fires in Carnegie's works but the troops have drawn swords to prevent the strikers from interfering.