The herald., 1897-07-31
THE MEASURE TOO EFFECTIVE
TO SUIT THE PLANS OF THE COAL
BARONS
A Sheriff's Proclamation Orders Peo-
Pie to Stay at Home-No
Reports of Disorder
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
PITTSBURG, July 3O.-Legal proceed
ings are to be taken against the march
ing coal miners unless they disband and
go to their homes This was decided on
this afternoon and Sheriff Harvey Low
ry will be expected to see to it that the
asse m blages are diSba rded. While the
marchs on the mines of the New York
and Cleveland Coal company have not
been as effective as the miners wish, it
is evident that the marchers are making
an impression on the employees of the
company. The sheriff has commanded
that all persons shall refrain from as
sembling or copgregating on the public
highways or thoroughfares of Alls-
gheny county or interfering with the
peace. All are commanded to retire to
their respective homes or places of resi-
dence, or be dealt with according to law.
President Patrick Dolan was, asked
what he thought of the proclama tion.
He said that he did not care how many
proclamations were issued, so long as
the peace was kept. which he said it was
intended to do. He expressed himself
as having no fear
A meeting was held this morning
which was addressed by District Presi-
dent Patrick Dolan He went over about
the same ground as was covered in his
speech last night ard added that all la
Dor organizations with the exception of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers was with the miners, in the strike.
He made an attack on this order say
ing that owing to the inroads of electric
railways and other means of rapid
transit wages of the engineers would be
falling sooner or later and then they
would be. asking assistance from other
organiza tions.
In other portions of the district the
strike matters are quiet The strikers
are all waiting with anxiety the result
at the De Armitt mine. The owners of
the Castle Shannon mine have decided
to close their plant until the present diff
ferences are adjusted.
At midnight it looks as though the
sheriff's proclamation will be the biggest
factor in bringing about trouble in the
vicinity of the De Armitt mines. To-
right meeting of strikers was held at
Oak HILL and it was decided to pay no
attention to the sheriff's proclamation.
At the meeting it is reported that Presi-
dent Dolan, A. P. Carrick and other lead
ers told the men that the mandate of
the sheriff was unjust and could not be
enforced. The result of the meeting was
that three meetings were arranged for
one at midnight, one at a. m. and one at
a. M, and the men are now marching
through the Myrtle creek district to
o,l, 1,a;,, 11o
ent times were chosen for the meet
ings as the best time to catch the work
ing miners, when changing shifts. Ex-
citement is running high, and if the
night passes without a conflict between
the strikers and deputies it will be con-
sdered almost a miracle.
SCAB SHOOTING
SCOTTDALE, Pa, July 30-Wild ex-
citement prevails here tonight. AS the.
afternoon turn of nom union men who
have taken the places of the striking iron
workers at the Scottdale IRON Works
were going home one of them became in
censed at the remarks Of some boys and
fired at them. A large crowd gathered
about the station at the time and they
started after the non-union man who
fired five shots into the crowd before he
reached the boarding house. The hotel
was Immediately surrounded by an ex-
cited crowd, and it was with some diff
Guilty that Burgess Porter got them
cooled down, and had he not had the as
sistance of the strike leaders there is no
telling what the crowd would have done.
Another non-union man, whose name
could not be learned, drew his revolver
and fred several shots. He was knocked
down and pretty badly beaten before he
could be reached by the officers and
taken to his boarding house. The ex-
cited crowd is massed about the station
and the non-union men are afraid to
venture out.
Homer Wolfe. of McKeesport and
George Stitt of Apollo have been ar
rested for doing the shooting tonight
They were taken to the lookup, which
was surrounded by an angry crowd
Wolfe claims to be innocent. Threats
of lynching were made, but now that
the guilty parties have been arrested
1t is thought no more trouble will be had
tonight.
KANSAS DIGGERS
PITTSBURG, Kas., July 30.-The
miners in some of the mines in this i'm
mediate district have held meetings and
resolved to notify operators that they
are unwilling to work more than three
days week for the present. The object
of the mir.ers' resolution is to prevent
an accumulation of coal that might
eventually find its way to the east and
thus be the means of deferring an early
settlement Of the miners troubls there.