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Show Strikers on the War Path.. ' Pittsbtjbg, February 8. The Commercial Gazette, Mt. Pleasant, Pa., special says: The strikers held meetings . at different j places throughout the Coke regions to-day, ! and decided to march in a body.to Scottdale ! to-morrow to attend a mass meeting. . The week closed" yesterday with several occurrences occur-rences of a character .which shows the determination de-termination and desperation of the strikers. A number f men who have been working in the pits received ; v ,-r:-r-:r t -i 1 . . " LETTERS BEABTNG THE INSIGNIA OF DEATH, With ooftlns and daggers rampant, while the inscription warned them to stop work immediately: im-mediately: itmder penalty of death. - The missives ;.were ' - spotted . with '. blood, . and . . " presented ' - a ' very sanguinary., appearance. - At noon yesterday forty strikers discovered three men ,at work loading load-ing stock and coke at Boyle's Bridgeport works. The workmen started to run, when the strikers gave chase, firing at the fugitives, fugi-tives, and abandoning the pursuit when they were satisfied that the men would not attempt at-tempt to work. The night previous, when the cars were run into Boyle's works, a band of Btrikers, ABBIVED WITH GUNS AND BEVOLVEBS, And lay behind the ovens nearly the entire j night to prevent any attempt at resumption j of work. The miners are thoroughly posted ' ; ;(m every movement of the operatives, bojng ! In oonstant communication, with, friends in Pittsburg. ' ' -- fr |