Evening journal., 1891-05-05

Ane imported elaNa Drove Out American
worIxinGmen and Now Their Places Are
TO Be FILLED by Italians and Negroes.
Tho Strike Has Cost $4,000, 900.
CoNNELLsvILLE, Pa, May 5.--Coroner
Stone held an inquest at Dunbar in the
case Of the shooting at Leisenring, in
which John Mucha was killed The three
bosses declared that they did not have any
firearms in their possession, and that the
shooting was done by the deputies and
strikers. This was the substance of the
testimony offered by the bosses, and the
coroner rendered verdict TO the effect
that John Mucha came to his death by a
gun or revolver shot fired bya deputy.
name unknown.
Charged with Murder.
After the inquest superintendent Rob
ert Gray, Mine Boss John Aguew and
Yard Boss Callaghan had hearing on the
charge Of murder, preferred by Worthy
Foreman McSloy, before Squire Cotton.
They were committed to jail at Union
town charged with the wilfui deliberate
and premeditated murder Of John Mucha
at Leisenring No 3
Their attorneys will ask for hearing on
a habeas corpus before Judge Ewing Of
Uniontown, today.
Tho shooting of Muchn.
The alleged murder is thus described by
McSloy; Gray and his men went to board
ing house No. IL and endeavored to per-
suade the mon TO return to work Failing
in their efforts they became somewhat cha
grined and left the house When about
l50 feet away they met Muoha and several
others, who, knowing their business, be-
gan jeering and laughing at them This
appeared TO greatly enrage superintendent
Gray and party, who Immediately opened
fire with their Winchester rifles on the men.
Four shots were fired and Mucha fell dead,
having been shot through the head One
other OF the party was shot in the nose, but
not dangerously injured.
Another story.
A dispatch from Dunbar tells a different
story of the shooting It is 60 the effect
that Gray, Callaghan and Agnew, who are
all bosses, We're eseorting Mucha, and the
deputies, mistaking them for rioters, fired
on them, killing Mucha instantly.
Company Il, Tenth regiment, Of Mount
Pleasant, Captain Loar in command has
gone to Donnelly and Mayfeld plants Of
the Mcclure Coke company to preserve
peace during the work Of evicting several
families at those points
Sheriff McCormick's deputies made
twenty-eight evictions at Broadford yes
terday The deputies met with consider
able opposition. several Of them being
very roughly handled Another sherins
posse Is working at Lesenring No. 1,
where the families Of thirty-two Of the
strikers were evicted. The coke strikers
are greatly excited over the killing Of
Mucha at Ieisenring No. 3, and are howl
ing for vengeance. More trouble in that
part Of the region Is expected
Details OF the Inquest.
At the inquest over Mucha's body only
three witnesses were examined, all strik-
ers. One was a brother Of the victim, the
others being John Bloom and ALI Graham,
, colored, who was the principal witness.
J Graham swore that he heard an alteration,
J and on going out Of his house he saw a
crowd quarreling and excited Fearing
he might get shot, he lay down in the
, grass and watched. The company officials
and deputies were backing out and were
followed by a crowd Of strikers. lie heard
! cries Of "Haltr but the parties pushed on
. ! and then three shots were fired The third
shot flashed light in the face Of Superin-
tendent Gray, who, Graham says, fred it,
4 No testimony was offered for the defend
Z ants. They claim that they did not shoot,
4 but that the fatal shot was fired by depu-
4 ties behind them while they were being
/ stoned and surrounded by an angry crowd
!. Of strikers who were trying to capture q
I Slav who wanted to go to work.
I The Operators stiil Firm. "a
4 The operators have about 800 Plnkerton
' men in the region They have called ON
the Pinkerton agency in Chicago for more
men, and In response to this demand the
. Chicago Philadelphia and New York agen-
I !. cies have each sent fifty additional men
: into the region. The operators report an
increased number of men at work at the
various works in the region. They are still
7 az firm for the sliding scale adopted by
: them as when a month ago the scale was
promulgated. 'It Is work on those terms
Or do nothing declared one Of the oper-
ators today. .~sl
i The Chinese Of pennsyivania. I'D
y There are 1900 men on strike in this
n region, Of whom, II is a fair estimate to
/ say 1900 are Slavonians, 1,50O are Ger
Il mans and the other 1900 are composed Of
. Irish, Scotch, negroes and native white
3 Americans Not over thousand of the
strikers, including the negroes, were born
on American soil and not over two thou
! sand OF them can speak the English lam
, guage. The great mass of the strikers,
and especially the Slavs, are ignorant Of
our manners and language, and mean to
J, stay in this country only long enough to
! save a few hundred dollars They are the
i Chinese OF the coke region.
+ Years ago the mines and coke ovens
were worked by native Americans many
- OF whom owned their little homes aud
% titled little plot of ground. As late as
1880 there were only about 5000 coke ovens
4 in this 400 and more square miles, which
\ make up what is known as the Connells-
i vile coke region. Now there are nearly
1900 ovens. But with the growth Of the
industry the native American has almost
: disappeared, and the work he used to do Is
I now done by the imported labor of Europe.
The Coming Of the sIav.
" It was about 1890 that these importations
y OF laborers were begun. It was then that
t the great boom in iron commenced, ana
n the 5000 coke ovens then in the region
b rapidly grew to 5000. The II. G. Frick
company, which now owns about 10000 o3
, the $4,000 ovens in the region, had bogus
e to absorb the smaller operators, and wa@
v reaching out for labor which would cheap
v en- the cost of production. 1t has BEEN
5 charged that the company sent to various
d employment agencies in Baltimore, Philav
a delphia, New York and Boston for labor
a ers and that through these agencies th@
u first installments of Slav immigrants waa
secured.