Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-05-08
KILLED A RIOTER.
Another Collision Between Strikers
and Police in the Coke
Region.
A Volley Fired Upon the Rioters, Re.
sulting in One Man Being
Killed.
An Insane Ex. Governor Tries to
Immediate His Grand.
child.

AhoCuS1 COlllSlOIl lld5 OCCurE6Q De.
tween the coke strikers and deputies,
in Pennsylvania, the result being one
striker dead and one seriously wound
ed.
On the 4th INST, supt. Gray and
Pit Boss Callaghan of Leisenring No.
8, went to house No. II to rescue two
OF the men who had been at work and
were being held at that house by the
strikers. They were set upon and
stoned and the deputies came to their
aid. One of the strikers tried to take
gun from one of the deputies when
o shot was fired by thestrikers. Supt.
Gray then ordered the deputies to
fire, and in the volley which followed,
John Mahan, a striker, fell dead and
another, whose name is not known,
received mortal wound. The strik-
ers then scattered and the two men
who were held prisoners were rescued
and taken to the Leisenring. The sit
uAtion is reported quiet.
INTENSE EXCITEMENT PREVAILS.
The labor people were in q wonder
full state of excitement at Scottdale,
Pa, on the 4th inst. over what they
term the cold blooded murder of one
OF their number at Leisenring No. 8.
John McSloy, member of the execu-
tive board, just arrived from Dunbar,
where he swore out warrants for the
arrest OF supt. Robert Gray, Yard
Boss Agnew and Pit Boss Callaghan
and two of the Plnkerton guards,
charging them with the murder of q
Slav named John Mohan. In MAX
ing a statement of how the murder oc.
CURED, McSloy said: "The abovenam-
ed persons went to Boarding House
No. IL and endeavored to persuade
the men to return to work. Failing
In their efforts, they became some.
what chagrined and left the house.
When about $50 feet away they met
Mohan and several others, who,
knowing their business, com
menced jeerlng and laughing
at them. This seemed to greatly
enrage Supt. Gray and party, who inn
medlately, with their Winchester
rifles, opened fire on the men. -Four
shots were fired and NOLAN fell dead,
having been shot through the head; !;
one other of the party was shot in the
neck, but not dangerously injured.
The warrants were sworn out before
Square Cotton. The labor people are
swearing vengeance and trouble may
follow in course of a few hours"
The coke company and the people
charged with the shooting refuse to
talk on the matter. The coroner has
been notified and will investigate. At
Bradford, Sheriff Mccormick made
twenty eight evictions on the 4th inst.
1t is reported that there was trouble
and that @ number OF deputies were
roughly handled.
At Leisenring No. the men are bet
ter armed than at any point in the
region, and some have Winchester
rifles. They have been drilling, too,
for the past six weeks and are now
fairly well instructed. Such prepara-
tions look warlike and further trouble
is feared in the neighborhood.
The coke operators report an in.
creased number OF men at work at the
various works in theregion. They are
still as firm for the scale adopted by
them as when month ago the scale
was promulgated.
cit is work on those terms or do
nothing" declared one OF the opera.
tors.
Company E. Tenth regiment, OF
Mount Pleasant, Capt. Doar, proceed
ed to Donnelly and Mayfield plants Of
the Mcclure Coke company to preserve
peace during the work of evicting sew
eral families at those points.
A dispatch from Dunbar tells O. diff
iierent story of the shooting on the 4th
inst. 1t is, in effect, that Gray, Cal
laghan and Agnew, all bosses, were es-
corting Mohan to work and the depu-
ties, mistaking them for rioters, open
ed FIRE upon them, killing Mohan in
stantly.