Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-23
No Plea for Mercy to Deputic,.

No Plea for Mercy to DeputiCe.
Widespread as is the strike in the Ha-
zleton pa region. there has been no
concerted action by the men at the diff
ferent mines. All the strikers are work
ing for the same end-an increase of
about 10 per cent. in wages-but they go
about as separate clans. Some of them
are raising side issue about the COM
pany store, where they are subject to its
abuses, but others have no complaint OF
this nature to make. At the Coke Bros
mines at Drifton, Stockton and Eckley
the men arc paid in cash. They had been
uneasy, however, for some time and this
uneasiness resulted in about three hun
dred Len ut Eckley joining the strikers.
To great extent the strikers have been
restrained from open acts Of violence by
the priests, whose influence prevails to
a remarkable degree. At several turbu-
lent meetings which threatened to end in
bloodshed the prelates have gone among
the excited foreigners, commanding si-
lence and forcing them back. They warn
the men that to destroy the coal COM
panies property is only to take food from
their own mouths by shutting off future
employment. The priests, however, have
no plea for mercy to the sheriff's depu-
ties who shot the men at Lattimer, and
some of them are active members Of the
committee that Is to push the murder
charges in court. 1t is now certain that
no attempt will be made to arrest the
deputies so long as troops are camped at
Hazleton. General Gobin's declaration
that he will protect the sheriff's men Just
as long as he is in command has cooled
the ardor of those who were for going
about the matter hastily. The strike
leaders and their attorneys deny the right
of General Goblin to enforce such an or
der, but they admit that he has the pow
er. District Attorney Fell, it is said, is
against an immediate serving of war
rants, though he is interested in the pros
ecutions.
But Seven Cases in the City.
New Orleans caught its second wind
Monday morning and the breeze of ex-
element that prevailed Sunday morning
subsidized. At first there was DISPOSE
ton to leave town, but when people sum-
med up matters and found that there
were only seven imported cases Of yellow
fever in the city, and that they had been
warned as to six of them, they decided
to wait until the condition should become
aggravated before making a break for
other parts. There was, therefore, no
hcdNs OutSOius tIuNti uuu very ltlie
coming. The natives have, contrary to
expectations, not become frightened over
the existence of yellow fever, and what
ever depression exists Is due to the fact
that business, which was 80 per cent.
above the corresponding month Of last
year, has received a. setback as a result
Of the general institution Of quarantine
measures against this city. Up to the
present writing the attaches Of the board
Of health announce chat there has been
no change In the. vtuation. There are
still only seven cases. None has ret prev
ed fatal, and the bulletins from infected
quarter were Of n favorable nature. 1t
Is daily becoming evident that the first
case of yellow fever originated in Ocean
Springs and that all other points have
caught the infection from that place. DIR.
j. Ii. Purnell, the vicksburg yellow-fever
expert, who found two cases Of dengue
fever existing there, proceeded to Pala-
hatchie, and reports that all the sickness
in Palahatchie was malarial fever, and
that there Is no danger from that point
At Biloxi, Miss. the condition of affairs
as regards the fever is not materially
changed from the former reports. Most
Of those sick are improving rapidly. The
conditions of all are favorable.