The record-union., 1894-04-24
Scene of Disorder at the Oliver
Plant, Near UniontOwn, Pa.
A CROWD OF WOMEN CHARGE ON
THE OFFICERS.
Every Conceivable Weapon and Mis-
sile Except Firearms Brought Into
Play-BlOod Flows Freely - Many
Women Felied With Blows From
the Officers and Others Stabbed
with Bayonets.
Special to the REcoRp-UN1oN.

UNIoNTowN (Pa.), April 23.-The
Oliver plant near here was the scene of
disorder to-day. Sheriff Wilson and a
posse arrested Michael Fitzko for a minor
offense, when fifty women assembled
and demanded his release. The officers
warned the women not to interfere. The
answer was yell of defiance, and then
the whole crowd of women charged the
Sheriff, attacking him with every con-
ceivable missile and weapon except fire.
arms. Blood was flowing from mum ber
of men, and they were forced to fight
back. Mrs. Fitzko, the leader, rushed at
Deputy Sheriff Richards with an up
lifted ak. He evaded the blow and
knocked her senseless with his revolver,
and she fell to the ground with blood
gushing from cash in her forehead.
The cry was raised that she was killed,
and the bedlam of exclamations in
creased. Mrs. FitZko soon revived. A
few of the women were felled by blows
from the officers, others stabbed with
bayonets or beaten with the stocks of
Winchesters, and the Sheriff had great
difficulty in preventing the men from
shooting them down like demons. The
situation at Oliver tonight is alarming.
THOUSANDS OUT IN ILLINOIS.
SPRINGFIELD Ql.), April 23.-J. A.
Craw ford, State President of the United
Mine Workers of America, to-day re-
ceived reports from the State at large,
showing a 900 miners now out on strike,
of the $4,000 in Illinois. John Me-
Bride, National President, has wired Mr..
Crawford this general order: This fight,
being made for living wages, is a general
n ha
thorized or recognized when a general
settlement is determined. Coal must not
be loaded at any price or for any pur-
pose" The operators hold the situation
10 be serious.
REFUSED AN OFFER OF AN ADVANCE.
HUNTINGTON (Pa.), April %. = The
Clearfield Company miners have success
fully appealed to the reluctant miners in
the Huntington and Broad Top region
to join in the strike. This includes all
miners in Sandy Run, Six Mile Run and
Shoup's Run branches, numbering over
500. The East Broad Top miners who
struck on Saturday have been offered 80
cents per ton for mining, but they agreed
to be governed by the action of the Clear
field strikers. This is an advance of to
10 cents per ton.
NOT MINER AT WORK.
ALTOONA (Pa.), April 23.-Not a single
miner is at work in Blair or Cambria
Counties to-day. Everything is quiet.
The Pennsylvania is side-tracking and
appropriating to use of its locomotives
all the coal needed without asking the
superiors' permission.
MORE STRIKERS ADDED TO THE LIST.
ST. LOUIS. April 23.-Advices received
to-day from the coal mining district of
Southern Illinois show that about $50
nd RI no of ri
ers. The men in the Holiday pits at st.
Johns, Illinois, about $50 III number,
and the men employed in the mines
along the Mobile and Ohio Railway have
decided to cast their lot with the United
Nine Workers Association. Besides
these there have been additional strikes.
In the Belleville and the Rich Hill, Be-
vier. Litchfield, Springfield and other
Missouri mines the miners are still at
work.
WEST VIRGINIA MINES IDLE.
CHARLESTON, April 23.-A special to
the Gazette says the men at Cunard, Gen.
tral Echo, DimmOck, Rush Run and
Thurmand, all New River mines, are
idle, and 800 men met at Thurmand to-
day and decided to stay out.
RIOT PRECIPITATED.
LA SALE (Ill.), April 23.-A mob of
800 miners from neighboring towns
men here from going to work, and riot
was precipitated, in which a number of
local miners were beaten and badly in
injured.
EXCITEMENT AT GRASS VALLEY.
GRASS VALLEY Cali, April 23.-The
excitement at Grass Valley now is in
tense over the fact that the carmen VINO
went down into the Maryland mine on
the night shift saw a notice at the $40
station to the effect that they should work
for - 90 day. The men came to the top
and wended their way to Grass Valley.
In short time Wells, Fargo d Co.'s
office swarmed with excited people, who
expected almost riot, but the excitement
cooled down and everything is quiet.
There will probably be no further trouble.
superintendent Dorsey was interviewed
at o'clock and says that all difficulties
have been adjusted, and the men Will all
60 on in the morning as usual.