New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-21
VIOLENT COKE STRIKERS.
RIoTING CONTINUES IN THE DISTURBED
CONNELLSVILLE DISTRICT.
DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS FREoUENT-yERDIoro OF
THE CoRoNER'S JURY IN THE
NORWOOD INQUEST

THE CORoNER'S JURY IN THE
NORWOOD INQUEST.
scottdale, Penn, April oo-Rloting by the strikers
continues in the coke regions. The LeiSenring NO
plant Of the Ficl Coke Company has been kept in an
uproar continuously since Saturday night The works
are surrounded by the mob day and night Explo-
sions of bombs, firing of guns blowing Of horns and
beating Of can be heard at all hours The whole
community seems to be dazed, and no one knows what
moment the worst may come. The coke company
has sworn ont inunctons against thirtythree Of the
leaders, and also instituted criminal charges against
them. The injunction papers and warrants have been
placed in the hands of the sheriff and oonstables, but
they claim TO be powerless to serve them without the
assistance Of the troops.
The injunction suits instituted against forty strikers
by Schoonmaker & Co. up this morning, but were
postponed until the June term of court. At the re-
quest of the defendants, who not ready the same
course will be pursued in the Rainey injunction cases.
which come up in the United States Court at PttSburg
to-day.
There were no evictlons at Norwood to-day, owing
to legal hitch the notices having been dated Sunday.
1t is probable the strikers will leave their houses
quietly The company reports 1o4 men at work at
Norwood to-day. Painters plant is running full and
at the Black Hill mines another block of ovens was
started
A dispatch from Mount Pleasant says: At O'Clock
this afternoon the coroners jury announced its yer
dict in the Norwood riot follows: The de-
ceased came To his death at Norwood on Thursday
morning, April o 1891, about o'clock by bullet
discharged from gun revolver in the hands Of the
deputies of the Sheriff of Westmoreland County This
applies to each man killed in the riot"
Pittsburg April 20.-Today was prolific Of excite
ment and small riots throughout the coke region
The women generally leading and most bitter in
their attacks on the deputies Heretofore they have
been silent but when evctors attacked their homes
the foreign women especially were driven Wild. Dur
Ing several squabbles to-day couple OF deputies
we're struck with stones, and one was cut on the
arm while pushing his way through crowd. Few
evlctions were made the sheriffs evidently fear
oppoton and are gathering larger forces Of deputies
LITTLE Of consequence done at the Whitney plants
this afternoon owing to the raidng Of the companys
forces by the strikers John McSloy, Worthy Fore
man of the United Mine Workers, has had Superin-
tendent j. A. EsSer OF the Leisehrlhe palp' anu CO
sphordnaes arrested charges Of conspiracy, shoot
to- nth intont 10 kill and assault and battery. They
are under a 81 900 bail.
A dlspatch from Uniontown says: "The boys OF
Comnany c spent quiet night at the armory, ana
tho forenoon passed without Incident but they were
clarified at 80 O'Clock this afternoon by an oruer
forn sheriff Mccormick to move at once TO Leith.
Mccormick had gone up at O'Clock to make several
ctops md the order TO the troops meant that there
,os +rouh,e This was Immediately countermanded, TO
the great relief of the soldiers The trouble at Leith
$3.50 over the determination of Andy Dunsko not 10
he evicted peaceably and Apuy was Dacheu up ny Dill
tho Hungarian women In the neighborhood. The
sheriff had evcted Joseph Hartman, who offered no
resistance hut when he attempted TO enter Dunskos
house he was met by the women, who rushed at hin
and struclz him with their fists ard any weapons that
came handy. One brawny woman aimed blow al
the sherrs head with Ratchet, which barely missed
us mark. The sheriff rushed 10 the company ONCE
armed himself and sent deputy TO harry up the 'oops
Init the women begged him to reconsider. Deputy
Crawford went TO Lesenring NO. To-Day 10 serve INC
iniunction papers on thirty two OF the strikers en-
gagged In the hot there SATURDAY morning CIosey III
MS wake came Constable Chick TO arrest the Tloters
Twenv-sX of the latter were arrested ana taken on
hoard The train by the constable Whe thef wives ahd
the wives of other strikers 10 the, NUMBER On
toTty or 1fty poured into the two coaches ana TOOK
nossession The women refused 10 pay their fare,
and they refused TO get of, and the talhheh alter
making number Of Intellectual efforts TO unload them
dnally ran the train side track, cut Oh lhe
coaches prisoners and all and came on te engine 70
Vancc's Mills Junction and reported the situation 10
railroad headquarters. The engineer Drought tle
anrne 10 UniontOwn with Constable Chck ana lhrcc
cT his prisoners aboard. Nothing mas been head OF
thc trainload left behind. Late to,nght loiephohe
message was sent from LemOnt TO lie schnhg NO; :,
Notifying the deputies and company ocldi Iere tnat
80 strikers had just left Lemont for Lsenrhs ana
a iOt is imminent. ,,,,,.,..d +rys afternoon toe-
cranbod 10 the Governor: NO news Is sOod news
im3lytng there yet no necessity 1or troops