Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-09-25
believed That If Early settlement of
Difficulties Is Not Effected the Min
ers VIII Begin Returning to Work
Appeal for Armed Deputies from
HaxletOn.

Philadelphia stand ready to start for
the scene of trouble the instant orders
are received.
There are signs of wavering in the
strikers ranks, especially in the Scran-
tonregion, and it is believed that unless
there is an early settlement Of the
strike, the men will begin returning to
work.
Statement by President Harris.
The following statement was given
out Saturday from the Office of Presi-
dent Harris, of the Philadelphia &
Reading Railway company.
Nineteen of our collieries are at work
this morning and twenty are idle. The
idle ones are those about Shamokin, Ma
hanoy City and Shenandoah. In the two
last named districts, our men generally
went to work yesterday and remained at
work until evening. They were attacked
bs Poles and other rioters as they went
none, and many of them We're injured. The
shei'n's forces were overpowered, and he
s os upon the governor for troops. This
sal Wsa endorsed by the borough council
,u the leading citizens of Shenandoah. A
sonslderables body of military is now on the
sround and 1t is probable that there will not
We e.s further violence.
nesio $50 Tar as we are informed, our mentare
nr ons of working wherever they will be
forcay protected. Our own protective
thino. as been largely increased, and every
1aILtaS 6Ssibie has been done to keep the
situation well in hand"
All Quiet. After Riot.
Shenandoah, Pa, Sept. 24.-All is
quiet here up to nine a. m. No violence
of any moment has occurred since the
rioting of Friday afternoon, which re-
suited in the killing of one person in
the streets Of this place, the per-
haps fatal wounding of a little girl and
the serious injury of a score Of others.
Troops began arriving after daylight
and upwards of $500 soldiers are here
ready for any emergency.
Saloons are all closed and martial
law prevails.
The collieries are idle also, they hav-
ing been closed by the Reading com
pany, at the request of Sheriff Toole,
in order to avert trouble.
It developed Saturday morning that
only one person, Mike Yuckavage, was
killed outright in Friday evenings
shooting here. Annie Rogers, the lit
tie girl who it was supposed was shot
to death, recovered consciousness
some hours after the bullet struck
her in the back of the neck and was
Saturday in a fair way of ultimately
getting well.
Brings Matters to Crisis.
Hazleton, Pa, Sept. 24.-Calmness
prevailed throughout the Lehigh re-
gion Saturday morning. No disturb
ances of any moment were reported
in any part of the district. There is
still tense feeling in the public mind,
but the sending of troops to Shenan-
doah, rs miles from here, is generally
regarded as bringing matters to
crisis and the situation here is there
uties are distributed near most of the
collieries and along several of the pub
lie roads leading to mining property
There was the usual number of strik-
ers out early in the morning trying
to persuade workers not to go into
the mines, but they did not meet with
as much success as on the previous
days of the week. Strikers were
careful not to carry their persuasion
to the point of intimidation, thus
avoiding conflict with the deputies.
The latter SO far have not made them
selves conspicuous, they having re-
ceived orders from the sheriff to in
every way minimize the possibility of
getting into trouble with the strik-
ers. So long as the idle men in this
district, who number more than a.
600, refrain from gathering into large
crowds and marching from town to
town there is no likelihood of gen.
eral disturbance.
The men and women of McAdoo
were again on the march early Satur-
day morning. At four a. m. $50 strik-
ers from Audenreid, Jeanesville and
McAdoo and 60 women of the latter
place started for Coleraine, where an
early morning mass meeting was held.
Asks for Armed Deputies,
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept. 24.-sheriff
Harvey telegraphed from Hazleton to
the sheriff's Office in this city at II
o'clock Saturday morning requesting
that number of armed deputies be
sent to the Hazleton region at once.
Up to IL o'clock number had been
sworn in and so were sent to Halle
ton on the one o'clock train.
There is no outbreak as yet, but
Sheriff Harvey says he wants an am
pie guard should trouble occur. For
several days past deputies have been
sent to the Hazleton region on the
quiet, but now no attempt is made to
do the work under cover
Condemn Sheriff and Governor.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept. 24-At a
meeting of the officers of the local as
semblies of the United Mine Workers
Saturday, resolutions were adopted
condemning the action of Sheriff
Toole, of Schuylkill county, in firing
on the strikers at Shenandoah and
also censuring Gov. Stone for ordering
out the state militia.
Troops Sent to HazIeton.
Hazleton, Pa, Sept. 24.-Four COM
panies of militia arrived at McAdoo
late Saturday afternoon. Although
the sheriff of Luzerne county has is
sued no request for troops, It was
deemed advisable to take advantages