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Show MIXERS VS. CONVICTS. Free Labor Still Asaerting Its Klghts ! Tennessee. ,.Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 13. Late last night, after a consultation with Adjutant General Norman and his attorneys, Governor Buchanan ordered all the organized militia in the state to the scene of the trouble in the mining region, made requisitions on the sheriffs of Davidson, Hamilton and Knox counties for a posse of a thousand men each, and on the sheriffs of Anderson, Roane, Morgan and Marion counties for five hundred men or more if they can raise them. The penalty for any sheriff refusing to obey his order is a term of imprisonment and a line of $10. AH the troops will mass at Chattanooga this morning, a brigadier general in command, com-mand, and proceed at once to Knoxville, and fmm t Vi nr.. ...... 1. The posses are armed with all sorts of pistols, guns, etc. Two companies of infantry, in-fantry, one battery of cannon and two gat-lifig gat-lifig guns compose the Ashville troops. Miners Going Too Far. Chattanooga, Aug. 18. Earliest newt today announce the departure of Colonel .Wolford and a detachment of the Third regiment regi-ment from Herriman for Coal creek, where ISO militiamen, shut in an intrenched camp, are surrounded by several thousand angry miners. The feeling in regard to them was intensified when the bulletin this morning announced that the miners had held up a passenger train on the Knoxville fe Ohio for the avowed purpose of stopping any soldiers on board. The sheriff of this county this morning began swearing in citieens to serve as a posse to go to Coal Creek. A detachment of the Second resriment from Memphis has arrived to join the posse. The whole state is in a fevej of excitement and the miners are vigorously condemned on every side. tabor Trouble in "West Virginia. Fairmont, W. Va., Aug. 18. There was a i narrow escape from an outbreak at the Yaston coal works this morning, and the mines are now being guarded by the sheriff and a force of special officers. Two days ago the mines resumed operations with a force of non-uniou men, and 200 union men prevented the non-union men from going to work.. The sheriff and posse, after considerable consid-erable trouble, dispersed the crowd. More trciuble is feared. The excitement is great. : -Volunteer Called For. issued a call for all volunteers to meet at the court house and bring all procurable arms. Tbey will put themselves under the control of the militia. The body will take a special train for Coal Creek this afternoon. It is understood that General Carnes intends to take the convicts to Coal Creek, if the story of their release is confirmed, and beard the miners in their den. The Miners Suppress Information. Knoxville. Tenn., Aug. 18. The wires are now in order along the railroad to Jel-lico, Jel-lico, but no messages can be received or sent except on rilroad business. The miners min-ers have a committee at every office with an operator of their own, who repeats everything every-thing to them which passes over the wires Soldiers Surrendered. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 18. A special just received says that troops at Camp Anderson, Coal Creek, surrendered this morning. The soldiers and convicts are at 11 11 IU II I'll J 11 1.1 1 11 1. i us i byi1 . not confirmed. Better Late Than Never. Nashville, Aur. 18. The board of prison inspectors have decided that the lessees of the convicts have violated their contract, and will give them twenty days' notice of annulment. . m . ' |