The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-03-14


the mine law by miners and laborers
1t seems that on Tuesday last eleven men
got upon the cage in the slope of Bear
Run and refused to get off when told to do
SO by the top man. The eleventh man re-
fused to step forward, aud the men on the
cage declined to say who he was.
Mine Foreman R. B. Platt noted the
names of the eleven men and reported
them to Mine Inspector Stein, who has
placed the case in the hands of his advisory
counsel, s, II. Karacher, Esq, of Potts
vile, and prosecutions will be entered
Mr. Ksracher will have warrants issued
and the accused will be taken before the
Judges of the Pottsville court to answer
for the violation of Rule II of the General
Rules embraced in the laws of 1891.
The accused men ara Thomas Daley,
George Beck, M Malone, William Kautf-
man, John Seakavage, john Goodrich, f.
PasscaYage, w Mack, Edward Williams
and M Monaghan, No. l. Malone resides
at Bear Run and the others in town.
The law under which the prosecutions are
made is as follows;
'RU E II. Not mere than ten Q0) per-
sons shall be hoisted or lowered at any one
time in any shaft or slope, and whenever
five persons shall arrive at the bottom of
any shaft or slope in which persons are
regularly hoisted or lowered thsy shall be
furnished with an empty Car or cage and
be hoisted, except however, in mines where
there is provided travelling way having
an average pitch of fifteen degrees or less
and not more than one thousand Q,000)
feet in length, This, however, shall not
prohibit the hosting or lowering of twenty
(2O) persons at one time on slopes where
two (2) or more loaded cars Use regularly
hoisted Provided That not less than
thirty (30) workmen working therein,
make such request in writing to the in
spector of the district, and if, in his judg-
ment, the hosting appliances in every re-
spect are of sufficient strength, he may
comply with the request of the work men,
Provided, That in any coal mine or col
liery whore the hosting appliances are not
of sufficient strength to hoist or lower the
number of persons named, he shall have
the power to reduce the number of per-
sons to be hoisted or lowered"
The article of the Act setting forth the
penalty for violation of the law provides
that any Judge of the Court of Quarter Ses-
sions of the peace of the county in which
the mine or colliery at which the odense,
act or omission as hereinafter stated has
occurred, is situated, is authorized and re-
quired, upon the presentation to him of
the affidavit of any citizen of the Com
monweath setting forth that the owner,
operator or superintendent, or any other
person employed in or about such mine or
colliery had been neRigently guilty of an
oflense against the provisions of the Act,
whereby dangerous accident had resulted
or might have resulted to any person, to
issue warrant to the Sheriff directing him
to cause such person to be arrested and
brought before the judge, who shall hear
and determine the guilt or innocence of the
person; and if he be convicted he shall be
sentenced to pay a foe not exceeding five
hundred dollars, or an Imprisonment in the
county Jail for a period not exceeding
three months, or both.
The law also provides that the accused
may waive such trial before Judge and
demand trial by jury upon furnishing
bail to await such trial in the Court of
Quarter Sessions, Or the accused may elect
to remain in jail until such a trial can be
had.
This case will be the first brought in this
district under the present law. Mine
Inspector Stein says that he intends to push
all cases for violations of the mine law that
come under his notice, whether they be