The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-11-19
MOLLY MAGUIRES.
Outrages in the Coal Regions.

The Molly Maguries are again at their
lawless work At the mining town of Ply
mouth. below WiIkesbarre, on the line of
the Lackawanna and Bloomsbury division
of the Delaware, Lackawanna aud Western
Railroad, attempts were made, few weeks
AGO, upon the lives of mine boss and fore
man of colliery No. 3 of the Wilkesbarre
Coal and Iron Company by a member of
the organized outlaw brotherhood, who
were driven of, but not until one Of the
assailed was wounded Shortly subsequent
to the above the body Of John Dunleavy
was found in the streets of the town, the
body being frightfuliy Elutiated.
The criminals in both cases we're allowed to
escape The adjoining town of Kingston has
witnessed numerous kuklux outragcs, and
the citizens are naturally alarmed at their
frequency, particularly as the perpetrators
are allowed to 90 undetected and unpun-
ished In the city of Scranton consider
able lawlessncss exists. Persons are muir
derously attacked in the very heart of the
municipality, and, being plundered, are left
to die in the streets Rufiians openly at
tempt to outrage women upon the princi-
pal avenues, and in several instances have
succeeded in their designs. The most re-
cent cases Of this kind were those of the
assault of Garret Walsh Oh Miss Eliza
Kroft, and half a dozen desperadoes upon
an unknown young women In Lackawanna
avenue. After a desperate resistance all
these Outragers were arrested.
The brigands roam III the streets almost
unchecked. and indulge i'll the most riotous
demonstrations The houses of John
Fehrenhold and John Thorn, on Penn
sylvania avenue, have been attacked and
damaged Great stones were used in the
work of destruction, while a shower of bull
lets we're poured into the dwellings,. MIR.
Thorn received painful, if not serious
wounds Ex. City Treasurer ODonohue,
Joseph Party, Messrs. Cear, Williams, and
others have undergone painful cruelties at
the hands of the banditti. On Tuesday
night Michael Judge, one of the inspectors
of the election in the Third District.
Twelfth Ward, Scranton, while returning
home from the polls, was fatally shot by
some road agents, and reports reach here
of the committal of similar acts elsewhere
on the same night.
These evil doers haunt the city during
the nocturnal hours and disappear to their
secret headquarters upon the approach of
daylight. A clew never obtained to the
whereabouts of those who make these mid
night assaults In the bordering towns of
Dunmore, Olyphant, Pine Brook, Hyde
Park and Believe, lawlessncss and incen-
diarism are quite prevalent. Since the
strike at Pine Brook the diaboiism has
augmented considerably The strike was
occasioned by the Lackawanna CoaIand Iron
Company reducing the wages of tue opera
tives about twenty-seyen cents per day, and
STIMULATING that the loading of six cars, in
stead of five, should constitute day s
work.
4 difficulty Of the same kind has ori-
ginated at the Fairawn coliiery. As both
operators aud collicrs are equally deter
mined TO hold the positions taken, it Is hard
to state when the trouble will be adjusted
The Pine Brook brigands usually IN
augurate a riot on the Sabbath day, and
make onslaughts upon all innocent and in
offensive citizens. At the last outbreak
Jack Hetzcl and Conrad Babblea were
badly injured. At the same place L. Nc
Ginty suffered III the same manner, rob
berry, however, being added to the crime.
At OIyphant, as elsewhere IN the nor
thcrn coal fields of Luzerne county, deep
and bitter hatred is exhibited by the law
breakers and others toward the Welsh
miners, and at every opportunity afforded
they are made the subjects of attack. Many
of them have already suffered physically
and otherwise, and they live in daily dread
of renewal of these attempts upon theiE