St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-04
The Policemen Fire Into the
Crowd and Wound Two
Innocent Men.
Shenandoah in the Hands Of a
Mob Of Men Mad With
Passion.
An Arkansas Wedding Ends
in a Bloody Fight--Other
Crimes.

SHENANDOAH, Pa, Feb. g. The
striking miners have at last OverStepped
all bounds and have been riOting up and
down the streets in full possession of
the town. At 5 o'clock, when the non
union miners left their work in the
Shenandoah City and West Shenandoah
colleries, a lot of striking POlanders at
tackled them with stones. A squad of
half dozen coal and iron police went at
once to their assistance. They caught
one of the rioters and were hustling him
off when the strikers rallied and rescued
him, and began to handle the officers
roughly. The latter, however, succeed
ed in breaking away and started for the
Shenandoah City mine, followed by the
crowd of riotOuS strikers, who now num-
bered about a thousand, and who con-
tinued their attacks on the men and boys
coming from the NINE The six police
men accepted the long odds against
them and returned to the attack. They
made sharp fight and took
A COUPLE OF PRISONERS,
one of whom they landed in Magistrate
ShOemaker'S office, but the crowd rushed
for the two policemen with the other
prisoner and began to club and beat
them. Finding themselves down and
their lives in danger, they drew their
revolverS and fired into the crowd, which
| scattered in all directions. Mike Hef
from, young man, received ball in
the mouth and is badly injured. John
| Gather, an iron founder, was shot in the
| arm, and POlander was shot behind
| the ear. A shot was also fired by
| Polander, but with what effect is not
| known. A borough officer then arrested
| both policemen for shooting i'll the Dor
ough. They were taken before Squire
Monaghan. While there a warrant was
sworn out by Polander, charging them
/ with assault and battery with intent to
kill. They pleaded guilty under advice
of Capt. Christian, anu were awaiting
committal to the Pottsville jail when
things took another bad turn. The two
magistrate Offices are on East Center
! street, a square and half apart. That
/ whole space was densely packed with
! people. large portion Polish, who were
] wild with passion. They surrounded
both offices, yelling for the officers and
! saying
LYNCH THEM" SKILL THEM,''
| ETC. Suddenly stone was thrown at
Squire ShOemaker's window. In min
/ ute the fronts of both Offices were rid
| Qled With stones ana tHolr inmates nau
tough scramble for safety. Some
bruised bodies resulted, but no serious
damage was done except to the offices,
which are wrecked. The town is in a
| perfect uprOar. Men are mad with pas
sion and drink, and no one appears to
have any power to Quell them. The
borough authorities are pOwerless, and
no one can say how the mob's fury may
yet vent itself. Capt. Christian will
mass his whole force of coal and iron
men here tomorrow, together with
Capt. Linden's Pinkerton men. Sheriff
Duffy SwOre in tonight the three fire
companies of the town as posse COM
mittas preparatory for trouble to-mor-
/ row. The borough council also held a
special session, and have instructed
4 Chief Burgess Bohm to swear in special
officers for an emergency. John Dur
4 kin, assistant foreman at KohinOOr col
7 liery, was shot at this evening by Pc
lander, but escaped injury. His assail-
ant was arrested. Thomas Ryan, OF
| William Penn, is also under arrest fol
participation in the riot there. He was
sent to POttsville jail.
At midnight the mob had dispersed
and everything is quiet. No further
| trouble is apprehended for the present