Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08
Striking Polls nders Institute q Reign
of Terror in Shenandoah, Pa.
They Attack Non-Union Men Returning
From Work at the Galleries.
The Coal and Iron Police Interfere
sand Use Weapons in Self Defence.
Burough Authorities Helpless, But the
Mob Dispersed for the Present.

SHENANDOAH, Pa, February 3.-Ihe
! striking miners here have at last overstep.
| ned all bounds and been riotiDg up and
down the streets in full possession OF the
town. At 5 O'Clock, when the nonunion
miners left their work in the shenandoah
| CITY and West Shenandoah colllerles, a iot
of striking Polanders attacked them WIN
stones. A squad of hall a dozen Coal ana
Iron police went at once to their asslse.
ance. They caught one OF the rioters ana
we're busting him off when the strikers
rallied and rescued him, and began 10
handle the officers roughly. The latter,
however, succeeded in breaking away ana
started for the Shenandoah City mine 1ol-
lowed by a crowd OF riotous strikers VINO
now numbered about a thousand and who
continued their attacks upon the men and
boys coming from the mine. Six ponce
accepted long odds against them and re-
turned to the attack. They made
AsHARPF FIGHT
and took a couple of prisoners. one OF
whom they landed in Magistrate Shoe
makers. but the crowd rushed for two po-
licemen with the other prisoners and began
to club and beat them. Finding themselves
down and their lives in danger. they drew
their reyolvers and fred into the crowd
which scattered in all directions. Mike
Heffron, a young man, received a ball IN
the mouth and is badly injured. John
Cathern, an iron founder, was shot in
the arm, and q Polander was shot
behind the ear. A borough officer
then arrested both policemen for shooting
in the borough. They were taken before
Squire Monaghen. while the warrant was
sworn out by q Polander, charging the III
plead guilty under the advice OF Captain
Christian, and were awaiting committal to
the Pottsville jail, when things
TooK ANOTHER "A
Two magistrate officers we're on East Gen.
ter street, a square and a half apart. That
whole space was densely packed with peo-
pie, a large portion Polish, who were wild
with passion. They surrounded both Off
GERS yelling for their blood and saying
Lynch them!" "Kill them!" etc. Sud
denly a stone was thrown at Squire Shoe
makers window. In a minute the fronts OF
both Offices we're riddled with stones, and
their inmates had a tough scramble for
safety. Some bruised bodies resulted, but
no serious damage al done except to the
offices, which are wrecked. The town is in
A RIFE UPROAR.
Men are mad with passion and drink, and
nc one appears to have any power to quiet
them. The borough authorities are power-
less and no one can say how the hobs fury
may yet vent itself. Captain Christian
will mass his whole force OF Coal and Iron
men here tomorrow with Captain Linden's
Pinkerton men. Sheriff Duffy swore in to-
night three fire companies OF thu town as Il
tomorrow. The borough council also held
a special session and have instructed Chief
Burgess Boehm to swear in special officers
for the emergency. John Durkin, assist
ant foreman at the Kohinoor colIiery, was
shot at this morning by a Polander. but
escaped injury. His assailant was arrested.
At midnight the mob dispersed and every
4I:-., 30 quiet. No further trouble is aPs'rc'
hended Tor the present