Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-03
EASTERN NEWS.
ESPECIAL TO HI DAILY SENTINEL.
YESTERDAYS DISPATCHES.
PHNMsYLvAMIA.
The Strikers Break. Out
With Renewed VigOr.
EXCITING TIMES AT SCRAN-
TON.
TROOPS HURRYING TO THE FRONT.
YESTERDAYS DISPATCHES.
PnMMsYLvAMIA.
TROOPS HURRYING TO THE FRONT.

WI
TroOps have been sent for and are
ex pected TO night when fresh trouble
Is feared. Meanwhile the streets are
being cleared by the Mayor assisted
| by the police and volunteers. Every
thing is quiet to night. The streets
are patrolled by armed men. Troops
are hourly expected. The Delaware,
| Lackawanna and Western track north
Of the city was soaped to night, hut
the train get through all right. 1t had
an escort of IL men from the city.
Large crowds attended the wakes Of
the men shot to-day. the Masonic
Hotel, about four miles from Scran-
ton, was burned down tonight.
seven Thousand strikers on shc
War Path.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, August I.
A crowd of 5000 or 1000 strikers as
sernbled al the Lehigh Valley depO:
this afternoon, as the mail train
from the South came in with master
mechanic Druinhetter as engineer.
Tho strikers stoned him until he had
to jump off. They then mounted the
engine, cut her loose, and ran it into the
sugar notch. John KeiIler, a Con-
stable, was seized by the mob and
roughly handled. They would have
killed him but for the interference of
friends. A large numbar of pa-sen-
gers were compelled to stop over here.
The strikers have the engine taken
from the train and are running it up
and down the road blowing the whistle
and cheering. The miners and rail-
road men are coalescing and trouble 10
feared.
Governor Hartranft Geing to the
Front.
HARRISBURG. Pa, August |.
About 40 persons who we're arrested
the past week, have been committed
for trial. The Sheriffs posse has been
disbanded. No danger of mob VIC
lence is existing here. Mobs are in en-
tire possession Of everything in Kings
ton, Plymouth and N~articOke. Gener-
al BrintOn, with the First Division,
has arrived at Narticoke, and is pro-
ceeding cautiously to Kingston,
Wilkesbarre and Scranton. Governor
Hartranft, with additional troops, ar
tillery and supplies, is On his way.
Altogether, there are about 2 900 troops
on the way to Luzerne county.
Miners Discussing the Propricty OF
HAZLETON, Pa, August /.
The railroad men of this division
have signified their desire to return to
work. All local and through trains
will run tomorrow.
The miners of Eckley, Upper LIE.
high and Jeddo held a mass meeting
to. day. The question of a strike was
discussed, but the speeches and entire
proceedings were in opposition to that
course so long as the Reading Compa
ny continues to work.
Collapse or the striks mt Nashville.
NASHVILLE, August /.
The strike on the St. Louis and
Southeastern road has collapsed and
trains will run as usual to morrow,
Black L.ist-The "Herald' on the
Ohio Republican Platform.
NEW YORK, August 2.
The Tribune prints in capitals the
names of the New York business men
who discharged clerks and operatives
because the latter went out with tho
regiments to suppress the riots. Con
siderable inimical feeling had been
engendered by these discharges for sew
eral days.
The Herald editorially says: The
Republican Convention met at Cleve,
land yesterday, and we are glad to say
adopted a platform which at least by
contrast deserves the support of hOnesi
and intelligent men, and which i:
likely to carry Ohio and Pennsylvania
for the Republicans in spite Of the
many disadvantages under which they
enter the canvass.