Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-25
SHOT BIZ THE SHERIFF
A Daring siay Receives q Danger
Gus Wound In the Mouth
he BOLDLY ATTACKS TIE OFFICER
After Repeated Uaraiags had BseE
6isea-fhs freeps Arrive on The
seeae and FFes<rt . Deadly
Clash 81 Arms

SeorrDArE. Pa. April "a Compare
tive quiet reigned ia the coke region
up 10 noon Eyicticns are being made
az several places. bat thus far
there are no indications of trouble.
The presence of tie militia will
probably prevent my outbreak. The
operators oontinu o give out tina;
more men ara ct; ~Ially returning 10
WORK. A MESSAGE nc seiyed here at noon
states that the Whitney and Lippin-
eofr works, on the foungwoC:
b-anch, are practically running
fan, large number of the
cid men having gone 10 work. The
labor leaders are busily engaged in Civ
ing out the tents received Thursday.
They Will DC distributed between Leis-
cnring Adelaide, Morgans aud Painter.
The leaders are confident they viii be
able TO take care Of al the cyicted peo-
pie.
USIoNrowS, Pa, April GA serious
riot occurred at Monarch Thursday
morning which resulted in the fatal
wornding Of one man and the serious
injury of a woman. The sheriff of
Eayette county, with his deputies, has
been deied. and the sheriff himself
assaulted, shot il the ankle and beaten
and cut with an AK in the hands of an
Infatuated Hungarian woman.
Since the ugly Norwood affair the
women have taken the principal part
IN defying deputies, the men either
preferring TO obey the orders of their
leaders and remain inactive or think
ing the sheriff ard troops will not
be SO severe where women lead the
attacks
Thursday morning Sheriff Mccormick
and his deputies went to Leisenring
No. to evict ten families of striking
Slavs. ard as was their experience a.
Adelaide Wednesday they had bloody
battle with an infuriated mob Of men
and women.
1t was about II o'clock when the
sheriff and his deputies reached house
No. 105, occupied by Thomas Tarr.
The sheriff at once read. the writ of
eviction TO Tarr, and by the time
he was through with it n crowd
of three or four hundred men
and women had collected in front
of the premises. Tarr, with an oath,
declined to evacuate the domicile, and
seizing an AK stood in the doorway and
defied the sheriff to enter. Andy Blash-
kos wife, who lived in the other half Of
the house and who had given birth to a
child only two days before. hear
ing the tuInult rushed out, and spy
ing the sheriff made a dive for him,
pistol in hand. The sheriff saw
her coming, and just as she was about
TO fire at his breast ne struck the pistol
q downward blow with his left hand
and ct the same time fred the revolver
he had in his right hand at her. The
two pistols went off simultaneously and
both took effect.
The sheriff had shot the woman in
the fleshy part Of the left thigh, and
she had shot him in the left ankle. Tho
ball, however, struck him only a glanc-
ing lick and did not do him much in
Jury The shot in the woman's
thigh seemed to infuriate her the
more Gad she made second
dash at the sheriff, who showed
her back. She fell to the ground and
was carried into the house in half
unconscious condition by friends Andy
Blashko. seeing that his wife was be.
ing roughly handled. made a dash at
the sheriff with club, but the nervy
little officer was too quick for him. and,
taking deliberate aim, shot Blashko in
the left ankle, the bullet making an
ugly hole In the flesh and shattering
the bone.
By this time the sheriff's blood was
up. and, with a cooked revolver, A.
caliber. in either hand. he stood with
his back against the end of
tie house and informed the mob
that the first man who made
a move towards him he would
shoot, and shoot 20 kill For mo-
ment the crowd held back; then Martin
Scroupka. who lives ct Deisenring No.
I, left the crowd and rushed at the
sheriff with large club uplifted. The
sheriff waited until Scroupka got with
in feet of him and then fred.
Tho shot took effect, the bullet
striking Scroupka in the mouth, knock
ing out two of his teeth and lodging
somewhere in the back part Of his
mouth. The wounded Slav wheeled
and started TO run along the end Of the
house and the sheriff followed him,
firing as rapidly "a he could. Some
one shouted to the sheriff 10 look out,
and turning he saw Tarr, the man on
whom he had served the writ, coming
toward him with an ax. The sheriff
pointed both his rcvolvers at him and
Tsrr retreated
Bv this time Capt Frashcr. of Com
psny c, had brought the soldiers up the
road on double quick. and their pres
ence at once duelled the rioters, and
the sheriff and his deputies proceeded
20 the work of evicting. and in
very short time the household effects
of thirteen strikers were piled in front
of 81 many houses
The Huns or slavs are loud in their de-
nunciations of sheriff Mccormick aud
threats of having him arrested for
shooting with intent - kill are rife.