Show miners miner starving f lebanon ind aug 31 an immense meeting was held tonight at the opera house in behalf of the starving coal miners min in indiana judge thomas J terhune made a statement ot of tle tee condition of 0 the miners as he found it while making his investigation as governor mounts special commissioner lioner in the course of Us his address he said there are families in de itule condition thirty thousand people are literally starving A few years ago they received per ton now the average price paid is about 35 cents per ton A good miner can make 81 a day andis and is allowed to work two or three days each week they are compelled to trade at company stores and the prices they pay are left entirely to the nine mine operators the miners admit that they cannot live on the present scale of wages A large subscription to the relief fund was raised |