New-York tribune., 1894-04-27
COKE PLANTS NEARLY ALL CLOSED.
4 MOB OF STRIKERS MARCH THROUGH THE
REGIoN-ATTpMPT TT ASsAssNATE
SHERIFF

Connellsville Penn. April 2G-The strike is sue
cess in this section of the coke region The only
plants In operation Davidson and Leisenring, or
the Frick Company Meyer. Fort Hi and Raney
OF the Rainey Company, and Clirlssa and NeHle or
the Cochran Company. None Of those. except the
two Frick plants running fuH. President Bar
rett presided at a large mass-meeting at DUNBAR
last night. Barrett warned the strikers that re-
sort 10 violence would cos, them a victory. which
he predicted would come within two weeks II they
held together peaceaby. This meeting ha1 the
effect of closing all the works in that vicinity HiI
Farm and Wheeler came out this afternoon. The
other idle plants In that vicinity are Mahonhg'
Atlas. Anchor and Merrill. The big crowd which
marched along the Mount Pleasant branch yester-
day brought all the out and there Is not
plant in operation from Broadforl TO Scottdale.
The Valley, Bessemer Mull!n and United works.
which had refused 10 come out yesterday, Closed
down this morning.
A meeting was held a. Vanderbilt last night.
Nearly 1000 strikers attended. and there was fair
representation of Eng giish- speaking workmen Al
voted come out and remain out TIL the entire
region IS granted d uniform scale. Another meet
Ing Will be held there, and further effort made TO
get all the out. If they refuse TO obey the re-
quest the mob will march to the different plants
and have called on Sheriff Wilhelm for protection
SCm @ oyeSr The dGn q m M a m
district is the hardest 70 get out; The operators
the strike they viii grant the scale agreed upon by
the other companies at the end Of the struggle.
of the coke regions. When the big mob marched
up and down the Mount Pleasant branch all night
women and children fed from their homes in
terror The Oliver men are greatly frightened, and
| will not out. except in company with
! guards The Oliver strikers are particularly des-
perate and dangerous owing to the action of the
company In refusing to employ any Of them again
| They are known TO have large quantities OF dyna-
| mite, and IL IL feared that wholesale attempt 10
| murder the workmen by blowing up the houses In
| which they live will be made by the strikers.
| Creensburg, Penn. April 26-Las' evening an at
tempt TO assassinate Sheriff Mccain made
| near Mammoth While driving home in his buggy.
| the Sheriff noticed the foreigners crouching behind
| a shanty at the roadside Just az he passed them
| two shots were fired. the bullets cutting the air
close his head. The Sheriff whipped up his horse
| and drove to Mammoth. where he secured assist
| ance and returned 10 search for the assassins.
| Unontown. Penn, April 6.-tiomer Lewis. one OF
| the workmen at the Oliver works. was sitting in his
| house last night when two shots fired at him
| through the open door. Lewis escaped injury. The
shots whistled past his head and lodged In the wall
beyond. The strikers at Oliver have been threaten
| ing all kinds OF mischief to the men who
| work This attack did not from
| going TO work this morning at Oliver. Several
| WorkmeD at Oliver have been waylaid by strikers
| pickets and badly beaten.