The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-09-14

that a policeman stationed near
the door became unduly oficious.
Instantly an ominous muttering fol-
lowed mingled with scowling looks
and clenched fists. Word was immedl-
ately carried indoors to Rev. Father
Aust. He hurried to the door and
bundled the men who seemed most
quarrelsome in the church. A few
words of counsel to the others prevent
ed further demonstrations.
Trouble is in the air, and if it is to
come, the time will be Monday. This
is clear from the words used Sunday
night by Gen. Goblin, commander of
the Third brigade. The striking miners
have made elaborate preparations for
demonstration at the funeral of ten of
the victims, which is fixed for half-past
ten o'clock in the morning.
The military authorities are determined
that nothing of the kind shall be per-
mitted, and that from this time on
there shall be no marching of any char
acter whatsoever, whether during
funerals or otherwise. This resolution
is not generally known and the miners
are going on with their arrangements.
Gen. Goblin talked over the tele-
phone to Gov. Hastings for an
hour or more Sunday afternoon.
He said he had merely made a
formal report to the governor of the
situation 1t is apparent, however,
that the commander is not cheered by
the immediate outlook, although he
says he 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the troops are likely to be withdrawn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 ut
most rigor.
Furthermore, he made a revelation
which put a startling aspect upon the
situation. This was, that the house of
the engineer of No. colliery had been
broken into late Saturday night by six
masked men, and the engineer,
who is cripple, numerically beat
him. There is no clew to the
identity of the assailants. The
only work the man has been do
ing lately is the pumping necessary
to free the mine from water. The gen.
eral had also received formal report
of the Audenreid outrage of last
Thursday night, when strikers broke
into the house of Conner Jones, super
intendent of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Co. Jones, whose unpopu-
larity with the miners was one of
the first causes of the strike,
was not there but the men literally
wrecked the interior of the house and
then attacked a mine power house
nearby and stole therefrom quantity
of dynamite. As soon as he heard of
this Gen. Goblin assigned a guard of
the Thirteenth regiment to remain at
Audenreid.
The addition to the strikers ranks, if
made, will be the men at CoXes' mines,
and should they go out the last big
anthracite company in the region will
be idle. 1t was not known until Sun
day that the 1900 men employed at col
liery No. Z had a meeting at Stockton
Saturday night, aud drew up petition
to the operators demanding an increase
in wages of ten per cent. This will be
presented Sunday and the action in the
event of refusal is strike" 1t is ac-
cepted as fact that if these men go
out all the others employed by the
company will join them making the
total number something between five
and seven thousand from these mines
alone. The Coke men had already been
offered an increase but rejected it on
the ground that it was still lower than
the scale paid by the other operators in
the region. These men have been
working steadily up to this time and of
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To all intent and purpose Hazleton
is under martial law. Gen. Goblin de-
clared Sunday night that in spite of
warrants issued for the arrests of Sher-
if Martin and his deputies, no con-
stables or civic authority will be per-
mitted to arrest the men. He said that
the sheriff is an executive officer,
whose duty is to preserve the peace,
and that he, Goblin, and the troops are
really subordinate to the sheriff at this
time, being engaged in helping him to
perform that duty. Under these cir
cumstances he will not permit inter-
ference with the sheriff's officials so
long as the militia is here. In spite of
this fine distinction the commanders
decision on this point is accepted as
superceding the civil authorities by the
Military power.
The events of Sunday were the death
of another of the wounded, Jacob To
mashantos, the 1s-year-old boy who
was shot through the head, the an
nouncement Sunday afternoon by the
hospital doctors that six more will die.
several perhaps before morning, and
the funeral of four of the victims.
These were Andres Yurrick, Steve
Urich, John Futa and Mike Cheslol.
Ten more will be buried Monday
and here the trouble is likely to occur.
1t has been arranged that the ten cot
fms 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 platform is to
be erected upon which it is the purpose
to place the ten collins so that they can
be viewed by the crowd
Then addresses in Polish, Lithuanian
and English are to be made by priests
and others; the bodies will be carried
inside and the pontifcial high mass will