Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-09
Battle Between Strikers and Sher-
ifs Deputies.
UNION And NON-UNION LASTERS FIGHT
Austrian Strikers Fired on and Dis
persed.
GENERAL LABOR TROUBLES

| UN1ONTOWN, Pa, May "a battle oc
CURED at the Hill farm works. north o.
| here, at daylight, in which about twenty
nve shots were fired by deputies. No one
| was injured by bullets. but four work.ner
were badly beaten by the strikers, one Of
them. Richard Harbarger, 1t Is thought, be
ing fatally injured.
About S o'clock as Harbarger and thres
companions were going to work, they were
met by a delegation Of forty strikers, whc
notified them that an attempt to go far
Their would be fatal. Harbarger argued with
the men, but they would not give in. The
deputies were rot yet on guard to pro
tect the workmen, SO the strikers fell or
them with clubs and beat them in a mos
brutal manner.
Harbarger was beaten to insensibility, anG
would have been killed had not the deputies
arrived on the scene They got their Win.
chesters. and started to take hand In the
affair.
The strikers would not move, and the
deputies opened fire on them from the
yards. When the bullets began whistline
by their heads, they left their victims and
fled to Dunbar. At least twenty-five shots
were fired, none Of which took effect. owing
to the distance.
Several shots were returned by the strik-
ers, but they were not well enough armed to
critical condition, and there is little hope OF
his recovery. The others were badly cut
and bruised, but their injuries are not of q
serious nature.
STONEHAM, Mass, May "a conflict
with the non-union Armenian lasters who
nave taken the places of the striking union
lasters in Arthur e. Mann's factory took
place last night as the non-union men were
leaving work. Fully 800 people had con-
gregated at the factory, and when the non-
hAfr
surrounded by the mob. The Armenians
were addressed by Rev. NJ. H. Chilgiau, an
Armenian clergyman. and John Kaga njian
an Armenian shoemaker, who advised them
TO leave their work. At this point an elec-
trio car appeared, which the non-union men
started to board.
In twinkling the car was boarded by a
crowd OF people, who prevented the Armen-
1ans from riding. One Armenian, James
Esidjian, chung to the car but was knocked
down and beaten by the crowd. Thorough
Iy frightened. he drew long knife and
began to flourish it. The crowd fell back
and commenced to lombard the little army
OF foreigners with stones. which did serious
damage, cutting heads and bruising the
men considerably. The police came to the
rescue of the Armenians, and after con-
siderable fighting they succeeded in arrest
ing six of the Armenians who were brand
ishing their long daggers. At the station
house 1T was found that the men were so
badly hurt that they will probably not ap-
pear In court today.
TROPPAU, Austrian Silecia, May o-The
striking miners today made desperate
attack upon a detachment of gendarmes
Who were guarding colliery in Polish Aus
tria, with the object of making a raid upon
the mines and building in order to drive
away the men who were at work
The gendarmes, after a warning opened
fire upon the rioters. killing nine of them
and wounding twenty others. The mob then
fled in all directions. threatening. however,
to return in larger numbers and ayenge
the death of their comrades