The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-24

Whole Coke Region Excited.
Men Joining Coal Strikers.

Ux1oNTowS. Pa, April 24.--At the OH
yer plant, near here, striker named
Michael Petzko stoned the coke drawers
while they were at work in the yard.
Sheriff Wilhelm and a posse of deputies
arrested him. when about 30 women as
sem bled and demanded hts release. The
officers warned the women not 70 inter
1ere. The answer was yell OF defiance,
and then the whole crowd of cursing,
screaming women charged the squad OF
men, attacking them with every missile
and weapon, except firearms.
Blood was flowing from numbers of the
men in a moment, and when some OF
them had been knocked down they were
forced to fight back. Mrs. Petzko, the
leader Of the furies rushed at Deputy
Sheriff Richards with an uplifted ax. He
avoided the blow and knocked her sense
less with his revolver. and she lay
stretched at length on the ground with
che blood gushing from cash in her
forehead. The cry was raised that she
was killed and the bedlam OF savage
excitement cannot be described. But she
revived after 20 minutes.
When she struck at Richards with her
ax the other deputies threw off the re-
straint that had made them helpless
against these women heretofore. Mum
bers of women were felled with blows
from maces, others were 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 dogs. The stu
alton at Oliver is alarming.
More Men Coming out.
CoNNELLsvILLE, Pa, April "a. = The
delegate convention of the coke workers
at Scottdale passed resolutions ordering
the entire region out to join the national
strike of coal miners.
The prospect of spreading the strike in
the coke region has thrown this section
of the region into excitement. Leaders
here now assert that within two days all
the miners of the region will be out.
While they expected cessation of work
at some of the smaller plants, none ex-
pected the larger plants 20 shut down.
When the news reached here that the
men at Valley and Standard, the largest
plants in the region, had all come out
there was general rejoicing among the
strikers. These men refused TO join the
recent strike, but now they are the first to
obey the order of the United Mine Work
ers' association for the general strike.
A Mino on Fire.
= COLUMBUS, o.. April 24.-The firing of
The mine at Monday, yesterday, threatens
TO be more serious than first supposed.
The mine was nearly worked out year
ago and since then has been operated by
= cooperative company Of miners. The
Monday mine is connected with the
Brush Fork mines, which are among the
largest in the Hooking Valley, by an air
shaft, and there is danger of the fire
spreading to the latter, in which case the
loss will be very great. There is no clew
60 the person or persons supposed to have
fired the mine.
Not Inclined to Strike.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, April 24.-Reas-
suring reports still come up the river and
everything now indicates that there will
be no strike among Kanawha miners
The men exhausted themselves in the
March strike. and quitting work nov
means starvation.
Nearly 10000 Ont.
COLUMBUS, o., April 24.-The latest re-
ports received by President Mcbride of
the United Mine Workers show suspension
Of work by total Of 125. 900.