The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-13

IS under martial law. General Gopih declared tonight that in spite or the warrants issued, no constables nor any civic authority will be permitted to ar rest deputies. He said that the sherlIt IS an executive officer whose duty IS to preserve the peace and that he, Gopln, and the troops are really subordinate to the sheriff at this time, being en- gagged in helping him to perform that duty. Under these circumstances he Will not permit interference with the sheritf's officials so long as the militia is here. In spite of thls fine distinction, the commanders decision on this point IS accepted as superceding the CIVIL authorities by the military power. The events of to-day were the death of another of the wounded, Jacob Tom ashantos, the eighteen-year-old boy who was shot through the head, the announcement this afternoon by the hospital doctors that six more will die, several perhaps before morning and the funerals of four of the victims. These were Andrew Yurec, Steve Urich, John Futa and Mike Cheslok. Ten more will De buried tomorrow and here the trou- ble is likely to occur. It has been ar
 
 1 ried 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 1t is the purpose to place l the ten collins so that they can be viewed by the crowd.
 Then addresses in Polish and English are to be made by priests and others and the bodies will be carried inside and pontifical high mass will be cele- brated.
 Alter the services the procession will so to the Polish cemetery, where eight of the collins will be placed in one large grave. It is the purpose to acquire by 1 subscription sufficient funds to erect l over this a monument bearing the | names of the victims and a brief his tory of the event. Seventeen societies, | all but one made up of Poles, Hungar- | ians and others of the Slav race, and l one of Irish are to march in the funeral procession. If Gobin executes the in- | tention he announced tonight, then the 1 programme will be upset and it is feared that the men will resent any interference with the disposition of ! their dead
 A number of Polish priests from | New York, Buffalo and other places are | expected to arrive tomorrow. Dr. | Thodorovitch, secretary at the Aus
 trian consulate at Philadelphia, is par | ticipating in a meeting tonight for considering methods of prosecuting the 1 deputies. He obtained aff1davits from 1 a number of the miners who were in Fridays affair which throw some new light on the shoot. They declare, in
 substance, that on the morning of that day messenger arrived at Harwood and asked the foreigners to come to
 Latimer, as the employees of Colliery No. 1 at that place were about to strike. Later, a second message to the same effect arrived, and then the men started ! to Latimer.
 At HaZleton colliery, so the affidavits continue. Sheriff Martin met them and
 warned them not to go through Hazle- ton, but to go around the other way They did so, but arriving at the fatal
 bend in the road at Latinler they again found themselves confronted by the sheriff. As soon as they reached the spot, it is declared Sheriff Martin stepped out and roughly grabbed the foremost man by his coat collar. With his other hand he thrust revolver into his face and used abusive language The miner knocked the sheriff's revol- yer from in front of him and tried to wrench himself free of the officials grasp. Almost instantly the affidavit says, the order to fire was given. The deputies were lined up in a hollow
 square, the fourth side of which was
 formed by the body of strikers. This
 would account for the fact that Sc
 many were shot in the back and side. Clement Plopslack, aged thirty-three years, one of the strikers who was in.
 jured in Fridays riot, died late to.
 night, making the twenty third death