The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-13

VERY GRAVE.
The Situation in the City
of Hazelton, Pa.
Feeling Against Sheriff mar
tin is Very Bitter.
Elaborate Preparations For the
Funerals of the Victims.

the bloody affapy OF Friday afternoon.
There are strong reasons TO fear a con-
flict between the strikers and the MILL
tary today, and there is an indication
that from 5000 to 1000 more miners Will
join the malcontents.
Feeling continues high against Sheriff
Martin and his deputies, and the inten-
sity OF the situation is such that sud
den turn OF the head or a word spoken
above the ordinary tone brings Iun-
ming crowd. The soldiers are watchful
and ready for any emergency, and the
people Of the town are in a state which
may easily become panic.
An incident OF ugly omen occurred
during the funeral OF three Of the vic
Tins yesterday afternoon. While ser
vices were being held in st. Joseph's
church about 1000 foreigners were con-
gregated abcat the doors. a number
Of them raised their voices and it is de-
clared by eyewitnesses that a policeman
stationed near the door became unduy
ofiicious. Instantly an ominous muir
muring followed, mingled with scowing
looks and clenched fists. Word was
Immediately carried indoors to Father
Aust, who hurried out TO the door and
bundled the men who seemed quarrel
some into the church. A few words
OF counsel To the others prevented fur
ther demonstration.
Trouble is i'm the air. The striking
miners have made elaborate prepara-
tons for a demonstration at the funeral
of 10 OF the victims. The military au-
thCritios are determined that nothing of
the kind shall be permitted. and that
from this time on, there shall be no
marching OF any character whatsoever,
whether during funerals or otherwise
This resolution Is not generally known,
and the miners are going on with their
arrangements. General Goblin thinks
there Will be no further turbulence. He
would not say when the troops are likely
TO be withdrawn, and he has resolved
TO act with the utmost vigor Further
more he made a revelation which put
n startling aspect upon the situation.
This was that the house Of the engineer
of co!liery had been broken into late
Saturday night by six masked men and
the engineer who is a cripple, unmerci-
fully beaten. There Is no c!ew TO the
identity OF the assailants. The only
work the man has been doing lately is
the pumping necessary 10 free the mine
from water. The general had also re-
oeived a formal report Of the Auden-
reid outrage OF last Thursday night,
when strikers broke into the house Of
Conner Jones. superintendent OF the
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal company.
Jones, whose unpopularity with the min
ers was Cne OF the first causes of the
strike, was not there, but the men liter
ally wrecked the interior OF the house
and then attacked a mine power house
hts Nd ef. Ia h.p fr,, it,
of dynamite AS soon as he heard OF
this General Goblin assigned guard OF
the Thirteenth regiment 10 remain at
Audenrcid.
The warrants that have been obtained
for the arrest of the shetff and his
deputies will not be executed according
to General Gobih He says that no
Interference with The work Of the riff
will be permitted as long as the militia
IS on the ground In other words Halle
ron is under martial law even If no proc
lamation has been issued TO that effect.
The events of yesterday were the death
of another of the Youndedy Jacob Tom
ashantos, the lS-yehr-old boy who was
shct through the. headF the announce
ment by the hospital doctors that six
more viii die, several perhaps before to-
night. and the funerals OF four of the
victims. These were Andrew Yureck,
Steve Urich John Futa and Mike Ches-
lok Ten more will be buried today,
and here the trouble is likely TO occur.
l. has been arranged that the 10 collins
Shall be carried on the, shoulders Of the
strikers from the undertaker's shop TO
the front OF ST. Joseph's church In
front OF the church a platform is TO be
erected, upon which II isthe purpose to
place the 10 collins so that they can be
viewed by the crowd. Then addresses
I'm Polish and English are TO be made by
priests and others, and the bodies will be
carried inside acd high mass Will be CCle-
brated After the services the process
sion viii go { the Polish cemetery, where
eight OF the collins. those containing
Poles. will bc placed in one large gIave.
1t is the purpose 10 acquire by subsCrip-
tion sufficient funds 70 oract over this
monument b,aring the names Of the vic
Tins and brief history Of the event.
Seventeen societies. all bat one made up
of Pcles, Hun garians and others Of the
Slav race and one OF Irish are to maSch
in the funeral procession. if General
Goblin executes the intention he an
nounced Last night this whole program
will he upset. and Il is feared that the
men will r cent any interference with
the disposition of their dead.
The addition to the strikers ranks. Il
rnade. VIII bee the men at Coxe's mines.
and should they go out the lass big an
thracita company in the region will be
idle. II was not known until yesterday
that the ZDbj men employed at the No.
coll.cry had held a meeting at Stockton.
and sent piti'l.r o. the operators de-
mardirr ou iu.r aso IN wages Of 10 per
cent. The a, ton ~ the event OF refusal
Is s"str,ke.' IL iG accepted as fact that
II those men 10 out en- the others en-
p!oycd n, 81 CO. many VIII jo!n them
maxim tac tal nunhlr some thing be
tween 5Yte cud iC00 from these minos
alone. The Do.e tlCn had already been
offered a. o. ease. but rejected II on tn
rrou nd that it was st.h lower than th.
sraia rai1 bv the otLcr 0pCiatcrsi In th'
region. TE.sa men have been workinl
steadily up to TITS iin.c Gcd c. late up C.