LABOUR TROUBLES.
THK STRIKERS IX AJIEIUCA. (I'-V KI.KCTKIO TKl.KfiltAl'H.—copviuoht.) New Yoi'.ic, July 1 5. Tut; minors of Idaho are cntronched in a strong 1 position and will opposu the troops. I'll" of one of (In: iniiifs hiis' n killed nnd Ins body terribly mutilifed. The minors have captured several reporters mid imprisoned them. Martial law has been proclaimed at Carnegie's Homestead. The Idaho miners are dispersing voluntarily, but retain their arms. July Hi. Twelve of the non-unionists who wore captured by the unionists of Idaho on Thursday last wore murdered, in cold blood. Those on strike continue their outrages, and have destroyed two railway bridges by dynamite and cut the telegraph wires. They threaten to dynamite the Bank of Wallace, owing to the cashing of the cheques of non-union men. The military invest all the towns in the vicinity of the scene of the disturbances. Fifty non-union men have relighted the fires in Carnegie's works, but the trooj.3 had to draw sword to prevent the strikers from interfering.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3122, 19 July 1892, Page 2
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