The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-21
DANGEROUS STRIKE.
THE UNMANAeEABLE "HUNs"
Making Things Very Unpleasant in the Penn
gIvania Coke Regions A Number of
the Strikers. .AFrsItsd Cigar Makers
Lockout in New York City.

MOUNT PHEASANT, Pa, Jan, 20,-sherit
Stewart and 40 deputies and detectives
and 20 armed police from Pittsburgh hat
desperate conflict with $50 strikers thil
afternoon aud succeeded in arrssting Is o
them. After attacking the men at thu
Alice works in the morning the rioteH
rested for dinner, Then they massed Al
the Mutual works, At this point negro
without provocatlon, fired at the Hun
gariAns with a shotgun but failed to hi
any OF them. They surrounded his house
dragged the negro out, beat him fearlully
and left him for dead with his skull irae'
tured, He will probably die,
at 3 o'clock the strikers passed up to-
wards Morswood Aourlshiug every mau'
ner OF weapons from revolveH to case
tCrapers, They were headed by Stefon
Stannix the main agltstor OF the strike,
Then they reached shalt A OF the More.
wood mines they encountered 02 deputy
shirifis' and policemen drawn up for bat
le. Detective Bropper talked to the for
Oigners, telling them that 1t was useless to
resist and that they would arrest the ring
.eadeTs. BrOpper arrested one striker
which opened the ball.
The combat was hand to hand, but the
officers won, arresing Is men and one
woman, who were sent " jail at Green's
burg, The balance retreated. Over ion
shots were fred and several Hungarians
we're injured, how badly IL not known, as
they were carried away by their Compan-
IONS, Only one officer was slightly hurt,
The authorities, 1t Is stated, have tele.
Iraphed to Pittsburgh for more officers,
The strike il only inaugurated, and more
Dloodshed is feared.
A BILLY RUMoR.
Some little excitement was occasloned
by stupid report that the HungarianS
we're acting under orders from the Chi.
ago league OF socialists, and that the
dynamite taken from Loves magazine
during the recent raid was to be used In
blowing up the company property. The
story, however, was generally dlsCredlted
This strike Is undoubtedly the most dan.
,erous in the history oil the coke industry
The operators have ah entirely different
lass OF men TO deal with, az the Hungari.
ms arc unmsnagesble when drunk aud
more like hendH than men. In iormef
Itrlkes this element was not In the field,
ind the oneratOrs had more intelligent
men to deal with.
a tseliUg oi insecurity prevails and cili.
hn ali fakH IA
IRE arming themselves and otherwise pre-
pairing TO defend their homes as best they
may.
SITUATION AT MIDNIGHT.
PITrsDURGu, Jan. 2O.-A dispatch at
midnight says tits thought one Hungarian
vas killed in the Gght with the police this
ifternoon when the arrests were made,
The wife Of one Hungarian who was cap
:ured clung about her husbands neck,
and the united strength Of two officers
could not break her grasp. She accom-,
panied her liege lord to jail. The surging
crowd, the spiteful snap Of revolyers, the
lleeing strikers and Bhfieks oi the women
made 1t an exciting scene.
At half past 8 the special left for Greens.
burg with the prisonerg guarded by police.
men. A riot is also reported 10 have oc.
Cured at the Donnelly and Diamond
works, about three miles east oi Mt. Pleas.
ant, in which i've Hungarians and three
Americans were injured. The condition
Of affairs at midnight Is good. A special
train has just arrived at the Standard
with a police force which will be used to.
night to arrest some men charged with
assault upon q German coke drawer on
lAlk Saturday mnFninU