Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-05-24

The laborers and soldiers went on tc
Bellevue, and the Welsh carried the life
less bodies of their comrads to Co opera.
tive Hall, where an inquest will be held.
By this time the excitement was intense
beyond description. Men, woman and
children running to and fro Oh Main
street, ready for any retaliation A war
rant was issued by Alderman Jones for
the arrest of Thomas Gerty. the man
who is president of the !aborers' movement,
and who was one of the party working at
Briggs Shaft. Constable Tompkins ar
reted him, and while the man was on his
way to the alderman's Office thousands
surrounded him, crying Hang him"
Lynch him."
1t is wonder that Gerrty was not
torn to pieces. but be was finally locked
up in the alderman's Office. Mayor
Monies went to Hyde Park and advised
the crowd to be quiet. They answered
that Gerrty must be sent to Wilkesbarre
Jail. Soldiers were sent after him and
be was taken to the depot en- route for
Jail. John Cornelius was quietly arrested
BY the police of this city and is out of
harms way.
A cannon is now stationed on Main
street to prevent an outbreak. The
Welsh are swearing retributiou. Davis
had wife and four children. Jones had
a wife aud no children.
SCRANTON, May lS.-Tbis has been
another day of intense excitement. A
warrant was issued for the arrest Of w
W. Scranton, who was at work superin-
tending Briggs shaft. He is charged
with being accessory to the murder of
the miners who were killed yesterday
Constable Tompkins took the warrant to
the shaft to serve but Lieutenant Seely
refused to allow him to take Mr.. Scran,
ton to Hyde Park. for had he done so
the infuriated crowd would have torn him
to pieces.
Tompkin was kept in custody, and
the soldiers took both to Scranton. Mr..
Scranton was escorted to Hyde Park by
two companies of soldiers and a multi
tude of citizens armed. the band playing
"llail to the Chief" He was tried and
sent to Jail. lie will be home tonight |
on writ of habeas corpus.
"CITY OF SCRANroNN. MAYOR's Or
FIcE. May ls. IS7l.-Whereas. l have
reliable information that the peace of
the citizens of this city, especially in
The Fourth. Fifth and Sixth Wards, and
the safety of property is in imminent
peril, and that a serious riot is apprehend-
ed in said wards. now, therefore, in order
to preserve the peace and protect pro-
perty, do hereby order and direct that
al places where spurious, vinous. or
malt liquors are kept be at once closed.
and that until the revocation of this order
here must not be sold or given away. in
said wards, any intoxicating drinks of
my kind. And do hereby further or.
Ter the police to disperse all tumultous
crowds of people. and l request all citi-
.ens to refrain from all acts tending to
disturb the peace, aud endeavor to pre-.
'erve the same.
W. N. MoRRrss, Mayor"
Judge Ward, of the Mayors Court.
las made speech to the miners. implor-
ng them to disperse aud return to their
ZONES. Your correspondent received a
'cofiu' notice to-day.
A little girl, carrying dinner pail for
Ter father. who is working at Filler.
Marsh & Co.'S mines. was brutally at
acked to-day BY six roughs.
SCRANTON. May l6 The excitement
# the past few days has subsided. The
irst inquiry made by most people this
morning. was :-"Did Mr.. w. w. Scran-
on, who was arrested and released yes
erday. accompany the men to work this
morning" This was soon answered in
he Affirmative in fact. it could not we'll
,e otherwise, as the Lackawauna Coal
company had pledged itself in the most
,oeitive manner that the men who had ,
AIKEN snch decided stand, and had en-
lured such an amount of abuse and per-
ecution. should be protected. Through
be presence of Mr.. Scranton they had ;
ONE to regard the promise as real
Guarantee to protection.
Accordingly. when the time came for
work Mr. Scranton was on hand and &C.
them to the scene of opera
ions. Notwithstanding the loud and vic
ent threateuings INDUCED in BY the mi.
Iers of Hyde Park. The number of the !.
Forking laborers continue daily to in.
rease, and this morning . force of over
evenly men entered the mine. :,
TIE Senate did not adjourn yesterday. {