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Show COAL MINERS REBEL AGAINST IMPOSED FINES ! SPRINGFIELD. Ill , Aug. :6.-On .killed and two wounded constituted today's to-day's early developments In the strike of coal miners who are rebelling against fines imposed by operators. Elmer Ghlardi. aged 13. was shot land InsUntly killed, and two men, said to be strikers, were hit by bullets j when Pleasant German, a necro, fired tie shots into a crowd of pickets who were established near the Jones and Adams mine here. German, a coal miner, was on his way to work when the crowd of insurgent miners began i throwlnc stones at him. He drew a j revolver and fired, then ran but w;s eertaken and placed under arrest Rob Jennings, a negro waiter at the Lakeside Country club, also died this morning The chef. W. D. McElboy is ina serious condition at a hospital in Canton. Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Brush, of Salem, o.. who also attended the dln- ner party, are dangerously ill. Mr. I Brush is publisher of the Salem News and the East Liverpool Review I Mrs. Clem Bates and Mrs Willis F Sanford Of this city also are in a ser-I ser-I lous condition. 00 |