Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-04-25
A PITCHED BATTLE.
The Eyictions in Pennsylvania
Result in a Bloody
Fight.
Women, Armed with Revolvers
and Axes, Resisting the
Officers



UNIoErowN, Pa, April 23.-Thi
was one Of the most troublesome anC
exciting days since the great COX
strike was inaugursted. A serioul
riot occurred at Monarch thIs morning
and another was reported this AFTER
noon, In which lt was said i've mer
and two women had been killed
Fortunately. however. this report o.
the second riot was without founda.
ton. Though the riot Of today re.
suited 10 probably the fatal woundIne
Of one man, and serious injury Of 9
woman, the sheriff of Fayette county
with his deputies has been defied and
the sheriff himself assaulted, shot In
the hand, and beaten. and cut with
an axe, In the hands Of infuriated
Hungarian women. Since the ugly
Norwood affair, women have taken
q principal part In defying deputies.
This morning Sheriff McCormick and
deputies went to Leisenring No. 8 to
evict ten families Of striking Slavs
aud ~ was their experience at AIDE.
laSde yesterday, they had q bloody
battle with the InfuriAted mob Of men
and women. IL was about IL O'Clock
when me sheriff aud his deputies
reached house No. 125, occupied by
Thomas Farr. The sheriff at once
read the writ Of eviction 10 Farr and
BY the time ne was through with 10 q
crowd Of 300 or 400 men and women
had collected in front Of the premises.
FAR with an oath, declined to yaeats
the domicile. and, selEing an axe,
stood In the doorway and defed the
sheriff TO enter.
THEN THE TROUBLE COMMENCED.
Men and women IN broken EagIish
yelled defiance and berateo the sheriff
and his deputies In the strongest Ian.
guAge they could command. The
sheriff tried 10 reason with them. bot
without avail. Their blood was up
and nothing but . first class battl |
would satisfy them. Andy Blashko
wife, who lived In the other half Of |
the hous4, and who had given birth |
TO child only two days before, hear
Ing the tumult, rushed out, and, spy
ing the sheriff, made q dive for him,
pistol In hand. The sheriff saw her
coming, and just As she was about to /
fire at his breast he struck the pistol
. downward blow with his left hand
and at the same time fired the revolver
he had In his right hAnp at her. The
two pistols went of simultaneously
and both took effect. The sheriff had
shot the woman in the fleshy part Of
the left thigh and she had shot hum
In the aokle. The ball, however.
struck him only q glancing lick aud
did not do him much injury. The
shot In the wOmAn's thigh seemed to
infuriate her more, aud che made a
second dash At the sheriff, who showed
her back. She fell 70 the ground and
was carried into the house in a half
cOnciOus condition by friends. Andy
seeing his wife was being
roughly handled, made dash At the
sheriff with q club, but the nervy lit
tie officer wss two quick for him. ana
taking deliberate aim, shot Blashko
In the left ankle, the bullet making
an ugly hole In the flesh and slIveripe !
the bone. By this time
THE sHERIFF's BLOOD WAS UP,
and with cooked revolver in either
hand, stood with his back against the ,
md Of house and informed the mob :
hat the first one who made q move
'owt nds him he would shoot and shoot s
% kiln. tor a moment the crowd held 6
back. then Martin Scroupka, who
ives at LeisenIing No. /, left the
'rowd and rushed at the sheriff with a
huge club uplifted. The sheriff waited
Until Scroupka got within Eve feet Of
him and then fired. The shot took
fleet, the bullet striking scroupka inl
he mouth, knocking ont two Of his
eeth sud lodging somewhere n the
'aek part Of his mouth. The wounded
'lav wheeled and started TO run aloaRl
he end Of the house aud the sheriff
him, firing as rapidly as he
ould. But none Of the shots hit
be Slav. s1me one shouted 10 the
heriff to look out and turning saw
'arf,to whom he bad served the writ.
oming toward bin with an axe. The
heriff pointed his reyolvsls at bin
nd Farr retreated. By this means
Apiain Fraser Of company c, wh0