Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-08-03

SCRANTON FrLJEp WITH TROOPS.

sCkANTON WITH TROOPS.
Considerable excitement still extss in
Scranton, although affairs have quietei down
very much since the riot. Business for the
present is entirely suspended. The buildings
on LacEawanna avenue, in the vicinity Of
the scene OF the conflict, give evidence of its
severity, many of them being riddlel with
9 o91ie IS festerday morning, at I o'clock;
Hancock, arrived by the Bloomsberg aud
Lackawanns road. About ninety OF the
rioters were captured BY the troops and were
Drought TO Scranton. where they were loCk q
up In the Second National Bank building on
Lackawanna avenue. An engine II one
car containing troops on their way 10 Scraa-
ton, vas wrecked at rama. Pa by a cnllis
ION with construction train. and Col. Wyn-
coop, who was in command, was slightly
irj0red- The first division OF Pennsylvauia
militia, Gen. Brlnt )n com ma ldiug, which
was stopped en- route for Philadelphia aud
ordered TO Scranton from Harrisburg arriv-
60 safely. They We're at once detailed as
patfol, ana Low have possession OF all the
streets, dispensing 'rJ Iyds AID enforcing or
der IA der martial law. All trains on the
Upper Iehlgh Valley road have been dfscl1-
unuci. 1t has been asce.taiaed that duciuy
teen woundCd.
Il. 4 o. TRAIN STOPPED.
ihiormatlon was received ia Baltimore
yesterday morning at Camden station that a
freight train had been stopped at Is alair,
Ohio, by the rioters, after the guard OF L. =
tr' Dps had left 1t. The train was comiag east
from Columbus, Ohio, and when a, BslaiT.
no trouble being apprenelie1, the guard iCOk
were, however, no sooner out of view ihau
the mob took posse ssion of tie train, put out
the fires and refused TO allow il 10 prOcee1.
The troops were dispatched Tor nj once and
Immediately returned. Upon their APPEAR
6nce the MOB scattered, and the train was
started safely on its way east. Dispatches
received by Superintendent Stewart at Cam
den station yesterday state that trains are
now passing in safety the scene of the attack
by hushS hackers near Piedmont. General
Getty has sent out a strong force OF scouts,
nc s. a., urfa 70,
their deFredations, but has not been enabled
to arrest any of them. The company has Of
fered reward OF $500 for the arrest and con-
victi0n OF the person or persons who made
the assault, and the authorities OF Mineral
county, West Virginia, and Allegany coun-
ty, Maryland, will endeavor to prevent their
escape from justice. The conductor of a
train which reached Baltimore last evening
reported that IN passing the Washington
read junction some one fired AZ the train, the
bail striking The caboose. This, however
shovel no evidence OF having been hit ar;er
q care full examination.
ESCAPE OF THE KEYSER RIN0LEADER.
Raymond Patterson, a conspicuous rioter,
who was arrested by General Getty In per-
son, was permitted 10 escape from the court
house at keyser yesterday afterno IN, evinc-
ing disposition on the part OF some author
tiles, the railroad authorities allege, to neu-
tralize all efforts TO put an end to the disas-
trOus state OF affairs existing.
CUMBERLAND COAL MINERS DEMAND AN
ADVANCE.
At meeting OF delegates OF seventeen OF
the twenty coal mines in the Cumberla1 nd coal
region yesterday afternoon, it was decided
by vote OF thirty-One 10 TWEEN: y ia rec, after
a session OF six or seven hours, to demand
IS cents per ton for mining. Tne meeting
was held at Knapp's Meadows, two miles
hey ord Homecoming, and LAST / from p. m.
till after O'Clock. Fifty four delegates were
present, each delegate representing fifty men.
A delegate from the P.ckeil Little Vein,
having but fourteen miners, was not per
United TO vote. Besides the delegates there
We're nearly three hundred outsiders, who at
tested their devotion to the movement for
advanced rates by app!auding every ex-
preston in that direction.
THE BoATMEN's STRIKE.
The committee of bOatmen VINO waitei on
President German at Baltimore were in
Cumberland last night, and have invited Inc
shippers and builders to consultation. they
are des irOuS of returning TO work, and say
what they want Is uniform rates and righ-
Of position in line. IL is thought possible
that they VIII not insist much longer in de
| manding dollar per ton.
TROC BILE WITH THE MOLLIE MAGUIRES
large mass meeting OF miners AMI labor
ers " as held yesterday at DuDns' Hui, Pa.
during which resolutions were passed dc
manding $3.50 as n minimum basis, claim
ilg one cent in three as coal advances, and
also inaugurating general suspension.
There is only one cClliery in the distric;
working. Troops are rapidly being sent
from PHtsburg TO the coal regions, as ii is
anttciPafe ed that there may be trouble with
the MOllie Maguires.
THE LAKE SHORE BLOCKADE RAISED.
L a UlSpdtCQ from ONO. says: Tue
| first real excitement connected with the rail-
road strike proper is now being had here.
| The Lake Shore officials determined TO start
freight trains west yesterday morning, and
invoked the aid of the police force, four COM
panies OF militia, and about 2,O armed citi-
zeus. No attempt was made To stop the run
mug OF trains on the road. The blockade
may be said o have been raised.
CHICAGO RIOTERS ARRESTED.
| Finy criminals, charged with being guilty
OF participation in the riots in Chicago last
QYYQfOnQh a u no ORC ItrS-
tice Summerfieid. The greater number OF
them were held to bail In the sum o; 500
| each. All the railroads which centre at Chi
cagO are now able TO run through passenger
and freight cars excepting the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern road. This road is
still prevented from moving its troops by
reason OF interference at Elkhart and Cleye-
| land.
| MEETING OF ENGINEERS
large number OF the railroad engineers
| connected with the various railroads leading
INTO Chicago, held q meeting yesterday, and
passed resolutions sympathizing with the
brotherhood I'm the east. but at the same time
deplor1ng the loss OF property and sacrifice of
lie OF innocent parties. IL was AT first
thought that the brotherhood would adopt
steps towards general strike among tie
RAILROAD engineers of the city, but nothing OF
this character came before the meeting
ALL EEGINEERS IN THE UNITED STATES
TO STRIKE NEXT WEEK.
A New York dispatch says il is stated that
The brO'herhoOd OF locomotive engineers have
completed preparations for q general strike
throughout the United States before the end
of next week.
BELLIGERENT FEMALE STRIKERS.
AT Paterson, N. j., two women striking
silk employees were yesterday afternoon sent
TO jail for assaulttng another female opera
tive who had returned to work. The author
lilies are determined TO punish all such acts
Of intimidation.
CAPT. HOwGATE'S POLAR CoLoNY.-Tne
schooner Florence sailed from New London,
Conn.,, at 10 O'Clock yesterday morning for
for the Arctic Ocean. She goes to esta sh
Capt. Howgate's Polar colony at q point on
the coast OF the north side OF Cumberland,
and there TO store the Supplies upon which
in July, 1878, under Capt. Howgate, United
States army, is to subsist. The Florence is
OF NIFTY six tons burthen, is provisioned for
or md a. 18th,