The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-26
A ROWLING PANDEMoN1UM.
PAY DAY AT THE COAL MINES.

OF MURDfE AND KlOl-MOhDEfSO Or a
MAGISTRATE.
A correspondent of the New York Times
thus writes of the scenes about Pottsville
last Saturday night: That part of the
Schuylkin coal district locally known as
"North of the Meuntain"-ad district embrac-
ing the Mahanoy coal-feld-was the scene of
a perfect saturnalia last night, throughout
the entire length and breadth Of IL. Yester-
day was payday at most Of the collieries in
the district-the first payday of any inn
portsnee since last December. The first
considerable money since the long strike
was paid out to the miners, and it was but
natural to expect that after all their pro-
testations that the long-suffering store keep
ers should be paid 'out OF their first earn
ings," the whole or at least the greater part
of it would at once find its way into the mer-
chants tills. Probably good deal oft did,
but enough went for bad whisky to convert
thirty or forty miles OF country into howl
ing pandem0nium. In ali the colliery vii
lagos, and some at least OF the principal towns
gangs of drunken roughs went staggering
along tie streets, flourishing revolvers, pick
ing quarTels with all they met, calling aloud,
stShow Us a man to shoot" and swearing to
kill the first man that insulted them. In
Mahanov City two men met on the streets,
quarreled, and without loss of lime pro-
ceeded TO empty their revolvers at each 9TH
too drunk to take q good aim, and, though
both fired a number Of shots, only one was
struck, and he but slightly wounded in the
cheek. The street was full OF people. and,
as might have been expected, many found
themselves quite too near the position OF
targets to be at all agreeable to them One
man, Christian Zimmerman, who was stand
ing at the door of store In which his Vile
was making purchases, was struck by
bullet, which penetrated his lungs, and at
loat vsnfo no xuo nUinH
known which of the combstants fired the
fatal shot, but both were arrested, not, how
ever, on charge OF manslaughter, but mere
ly of aggravated assault and battery on each
other One of them, John Dugan,
leased in $500 bail but the other, William
Thomas, better known as bully Bill"
A Notorious CHARACTER,
was committed to prison in default of 1880
bail, and went very willingly, as he thought
the county Jail was a safer place tor him at
present than the streets of Mshanoy City.
A singular fatality seems to attach to this
''BUlly Bill.'' He is wild, harum- scarrm
young fellow, generally drunk, always 8
leader in his set, always getting in scrapes,
and always coming out alive where anybody
else would be murdered. lie has more lives
than a cat. Last spring the Times published
an account OF the trial Of one DOugherty,
for the murder of Chief Burgess Major, OF
MahanoY City, and his acuuittal through the
testimony OF witnesses VINO swore that the
Major was killed by "Pat McCann," who
closely resembled DOugherty, and who, of
course, could not be found. The whole case
was such travesty OF justice that the name
Of Pat Mccain became by word expressive
of an individual akin to MIN who ''struck
Billy Patterson" Not long af,er his acquit-
tai, Dougherty, while walking with two
ladies one night, was fired at by man
who eluded all the efforts of Dougherty's
friends to capture him. "Bully Bill" was
fond OF his joke, and here was an opportunity
too tempting to be resisted. Meeting Dough-
erty, he hailed him with, "DoughertY, have
you found out who shot at you YETI" No;
who was it; your mo; but 1 know who
did t.""Well, uho?" "Pat McCaDn!" Peo-
ple say that this came near being Bully Bills
last Joke, and that his subsequent misfor
tunes are trsceabl6 to it. He was standing
in the door of colliery stable short time
aiterward, when gang OF men approached,
AMI without saying word, drew their re-
yOlvers and began shooting at him. Two or
three mules in the stable behind him were
killed, but he escaped with
SOME PRETTY UGLY WOUNDS.
Scarcely had he recovered from these, how
ever, when, getting on railroad train, he
found there some men whose looks pleased
him so little that he thought it. best to get off
dS0AIs AC Oh 0N~N~~AA By e@-N AAN-N
scarcely done so when bullet from the
train, now moving of, went singing past his
ear. That was but few weeks ago, and bis
next serape was the one recorded above.
These are not the whole of BilI's adventures.
During the riot at Mahanoy City last June,
he was attacked by a mob and rescued by
the police. Two officers escorted him home,
and as he wss about to enter his house a
msn stepped up, thrust pistol in his face,
laa 10 rsc hnt Rillta lnQlyU cfQr
was, ss usual, in the ascendant, and the
pistol failed to explode. No wonder be pre-
fers the county prison as a residence to
Mahonog City Another old scorce was
wiped out last night at Shenandoah Two
wears ago man named COSgrOVe was shot
and killed there by the friends OF person
whom he had assaulted, and young Welsh
man named Conner James was arrested as
his murderer. The evidence was strong
against him, but he was acquitted, and re-
turned to Shenandoah. Last night there
was moonlight picaic," which lasted well
on toward Sunday morning. About mid
night James, who was acting as bartender
at a refreshment stand, was approached bys
party Of men who called for beer, and as he
stopped to draw 1t he was shot In the breast,
the ball going through his body and lodging
in his back. He fell and died almost in
stsntly; bun bis murderer escaped, leaving
no clue beyond the general supposition that
he was Cosgreve's avenger. Bot the most
SoIlOuo OustoBc VI bHo uisub WoS pcipobIdeou
at Girardville. Here the streets were filed
with drunken rovdes, heavily armed, and,
frenzied by the vile liquor in which their
newly gotten money enabled them to in
dulge to excess for the fret time in months.
One crowd, headed by man named Hoey,
Tor Hoary,) entered tavern and became
VIOLENTLY ABUSIVE,
striking and insulting the persons they
found there, and behaving so badly that the
landlord made all haste to put them out.
He succeeded after a while, and then, as one
of the men who had been struck wished to
take out warrant for Hoey's arrest, the land
lord took him the out back way, and went
with him to the Office of Mr.. Gwytber, q
much respected justice of the peace, of that
borough. The mans affidavit was taken