Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-01-29
EXPECT MORE TROUBLE.
Secret Meeting Was Held and a Second
Attack ON the Works Planned-CouRtry
Alive with Armed sherif's Posses--A
Victim Dead.

Alive with Armed sherinf's Posses---A
Victim Dead.
PITTsBURG, Jan. pa temporary quiet
prevails throughout the Mansfield coal re-
gion, the scene of Saturdays riot1ng. But
few strikers are seen out of their houses,
and the deputy sheriffs on guard at the
various mines in the district had little to
occupy their attention. By many, how
ever, the calm was regarded as preceding
the storm. There are we'll grounded fears
of another outbreak, and the law abiding
citizens are preparing to meet it. Trusted
foreigners who were supposed to be in
sympathy with the rioters were sent out
by the coal operators. They circulated
freely with the strikers and returned with
the information that preparations were be-
ing made to attack the works at Bridge
vile, Rosevale and Beading.
The feeling among the rioters is very
bitter against the Beading brothers for
the killing of Frank Stepitz, and they as
sert that they will have revenge.
If another attack is made on the Bead
ling works, the foreigners will meet with
still warmer reception than that accord
ed them before There are ~ men in the
Beading family, and every one of them is
as determined and brave as the three who
put to flight a mob of several hundred.
Thomas Beading says he and his two
brothers fired at least 100 shots, and he is
satisfied that if a search of the strikers
houses is made at least score of wounded
men would be found. Frank Stepitz, who
was shot through the body, died.
Aiming For Defense.
Squire G. P. Mayer, whose general store
was attacked by the mob, laid information
against 16 men whom he recognized among
! S4@1 off han To
day. At present there are over 100 armed
deputies on guard throughout the region,
and this number will be doubled if posi-
BILE. There are strong reasons for believing
that the anarchists hereabout are respon-
sible for Saturdays disorder.
1t is known that the bulk of the insur-
gents came from Bower HILL and upon the
authority of Rev. Father Jacob Worth,
pastor of st. Joseph's German Catholic
church at Mansfield, there are at least 100
families on Bower Hill who openly avow
anarchism. Their bible is radical anarch-
list sheet printed in Wisconsin and appro-
priately named Lucifer, and the confession
of faith is set forth in the specious sophis-
try of it's publication. This sheet is writ
ten by an unfrocked priest named Michael
Biron-a man of good education who fell
away from the church when in Mainz,
Germany. He is publishing this sheet
in Madison, Wis, and it has considerable
number of subscribers in this section and
in the coke regions.
A dispatch from Mansfield says there is
considerable excitement there, and prepa-
rations are being made for trouble today.
Twenty-Five members of Company H,
Fourteenth regiment. N. G., Pa, stationed
at Mansfield, were sworn in as deputies,
and fully as many more citizens qualified
as such.
Sheriff Richards of Allegheny county is
in command, and re-enforcements are be-
ing dispatched to threatened points as fast
as possible. The sheriff has his forces we'll
in hand, and it is thought he will be able
to cope with any disturbance that may oc-
cur. A meeting of strikers is said to have
been held somewhere in Mansfield, but
where or what was done could not be
learned