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Show ARE PROUD OF MRS. MITCHELL. Wife of the Mineworkers' President " Reared Among Miners of Danville. There are over 3,000 coal miners in the Danville, III., coal field and every one of them is proud of the ability displayed by their national president, John Mitchell in the recent strike and before the strike commission. Danville Dan-ville miners are still more proud-of the fact that Mrs. Mitchell was born and for many years lived among them. Mrs. Mitchell was born in Catlin, a small mining town five miles west on the Wabash railroad, and grew to young womanhoood in that village. She was the daughter , of James O'Rourke, coal miner, who was employed em-ployed in the old Ohio shaft, located just west of the -village. t Catherine O'Rourke attended the public school of Catlin. When about eighteen years of age she removed with her family to Beardstown, where she met and married John Mitchell, then a common coal miner. "Old Man" O'Rourke. was a member of the "holy rollers," as the miners Employed at t " .hbs. John nrrcHELL the Ohio shaft were called, and is remembered re-membered by all of the old-time miners min-ers of this section. ToMrs. Mitchell's devotion and encouragement, en-couragement, the president of the Mine Workers' union admits he owes much of his success. |