, 1886-01-21
DESPERATE CONFLICT
Between Striking Miners and
Armed Police.
Inhuman Treatment Of a Ger
man Family.
Death of a Well Known Colo
RADIO Pioneer.
Rioting in the Coke Regions.

OIONEHNlLLE, Ia, Jan. zu.-lne slt-
uation has assumed an alarming phase in
the coke regions. This morning 300
strikers, armed with bars, coke forks and
revolvers, started on a march. They
drove the men from work at the Alice
mines and charged the warders at the
coke yards at this place; then the Mayfeld
and Donnelly mines were visited. A mile
west of here a boy named Mentzer was
horribly beaten, and the yard boss, named
McCabc, was chased and hammered.
Every oven front was crushed in. The
rioters have gone across the country to
the Rising Sun works. The greatest
trouble is yet to come; Saturday will be
payday, and on Monday the ten days will
have expired since the notice to quit was
given to the strikers in the company
houses. There will likely be serious trouble
when the ejectment is attempted. The
report that the governor has been called
on for aid is untrue. Sheriff Stewart says
he will not send until he finds himself I'M
ADlC W lODt WIFI lut ulolDIDtu ClCultulc
A Connellsvillc dispatch says the Trot-
ter. Dexter, Clinton and Franklin works
are idle to-day, the workmen having
Joined the strikers. At Fort Hill an ad-
vance has been granted and the men are
at work. Over 1000 men are now out
and the strike is spreading throughout the
ran;nn A. Ctnnorvtla tho ouplo,.ao xrora
attacked this morning and five of them
severely beaten; trouble is also reported
at the Redstone works and officers have
started for that place. The action of the
operators in sending uniformed police
from Pittsburg has aggravated the situa-
ton.
~PiTrsBURd. Jan. pa dispatch from
Mount Pleasant to night, says: Sheriff
Stewart and forty deputies, and Detec-
tive Brophy and twenty armed police
from Pittsburg had a desperate conflict
with $50 strikers this afternoon, and at
lacking the men at the Alice works this
morning. The rioters rested for dinner,
then they massed at the Mutual works,
near Stonerville. At this point a negro
without provocation fred at the Hungar-
ians with a shot gun, but failed to hit any
of them. They surrounded his house,
dragged the negro out. beat him ~fearfully
and left him for dead with his skull frac-
tured. lie will probably die.
At 3 o'clock the strikers passed up to
ward Norwood, fourishing every man
ncr of weapons from revolvers to case
scrapers. They were headed by Steven
Stannix, the main a~gitator of the strike.
When they reached shaft "a at the
Norwood mines, they encountered sixty
two deputy sheriffs and policemen drawn
up for battle. Detective Brophy talked
10 the foreigners, telling them it was use
less to resist, and that he would arrest the
the ringleaders. BrophY arrested one of
the strikers, which opened the ball. The
combat was hand to hand, but the officers
won, arrcsting thirteen men and one
woman, who were sent to jail at Green
vile. The balance reiterated. Over 100
shots were fired, and several Hungarians
were injured, how many Is not known, as
they were carried away by their companions.
Only one officer was slightly hurt. The
authorities, 1t is stated, have telegraphed
to Pittsburg for more officers. The strike
is only inaugurated and more bloodshed
is feared.