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Show STRIKERS CAPTURED Militia Takes 69 Miners to Paint Creek Junction Junc-tion For Trial 1 Charleston, W. Va . Feb. 18. A i company of militia, commanded by I i Major Davis, at daybreak surrounded i the strikers' camp at Holley Groce, j on Paint Creek, and captured 69 men, every man iu the cauip They were taken under heavy guard to Paint Creek Junction, where they will be tried for alleged participation In the disorders early this week, when n dozen or more men were killed and many wounded. Tliore are now about 125 strikers and sympathizers at Paint Crock Junc-tlou Junc-tlou awaiting trial by (he military commission, which planned to begin its work this afternoon. Military officers were sent into tho country north of the Kanawha river j today to inquire into a report tha; miners at a mass meeting at Smitn-ers Smitn-ers Creek last night hod adopted resolutions res-olutions In which tbe death of Governor Gov-ernor Glasscock, General Elliott and others leaders was decreed. The signal corps restored the wire service throughout the Paint Creek country during the night. |