The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-20
FEARS TROUBLE At
FUNERAL SERVICES
General Goblin breads Out
break Among Strikers.
FEELING is MOST INTENSE
Dead Miner Will be Carried Out of Coal
Region to be Buried So as to Prevent
Trouble Among SymPathizers il
That Section

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Aug 20.-Tke
excitement through Panther Creek Val
ley caused by the killing of the note
rious strike leader, Patrick Sharpe, has
not yet resulted in any violence. but the
temper OF the strikers is bitter and there
IS much fear that tomorrow. when the
grief Of the strikers is paraded at the
funeral, disturbances may. follow.
Fhe c >aI guards. Of whom McElmoyle,
who = Sharpe. was one. are keeping
within the stockades and showing them
selves as little as possible. owing to the
feeling Of the strikers, while the sol
diers, instead of being in Lansford.
where lies the body Of Sharpe, are at a
point three miles distant
Critical Time Tomorrow.
This is within striking distance of the
towl and it prevents the irritation
which the presence Of the uniforms
might cause
General Goblin believes that the crit
ical time viii come tomorrow morning.
when the funeral occurs 7 shall take
special precautions, he said. ito pre-
vent any disturbance following it. and
then, if all is quiet, tie troops MAJ. 90
back 10 Shenandoah before the week Is
over.
General Superintendent Zehner. Of the
Lehigh Coal and Mitigation Company.
who employed McElmoyle, has sent a
letter Of coincidence 20 the family Of
Sharpe, expressing his regret at the
shooting
Take Body Out of Strike Region.
A number of non-union men called
upon the Citizens Alliance, organized
during the period Of recent riots. and
asked what they are going 20 do regard
ing the shooting The alliance is to do
nothing, believing that McEImoyIe shot
in order to defero himself from The
threatened attack, and that he had the
right TO do SO Mc,1ImoyIe himself says
that Sharpe was tr.dng TO pluck the Of
fetal shield from MS breast, and that
q hundred OF more men we're threat
ening him when he fred
Owing 70 the iHtcuse fsaiihE the ii
quest viii probably De held in Maueh
Chunk. where there are no strikers
living II being out of the coal region
there is not likely 70 be any excitement
OF serious nature.
sharpe was under bail to appear be-
fore the grand jury on twenty-five
charges, all growing out of strike
troubles.
Start Work Uuder Guard.
The Warnke washery started this
morning, under the guard Of twenty-five
coal and iron police and ten deputy
sheriGs. The strikers gathered in
groups along the road leading past the
washery. but there was no dernonstra-
ton % violence The guards are behinl
sirouy barricades OF berbed wire and
are armed with Winchesters.
Steam was kept up all night long, and
about daylight special train with
twenty-five workers from Scranton
steamed into the washery yard under
guard. No interference with the train
occurred, and work was and mas since
gone steadily on Sheriff Jacobs. wait
ing in mis- Office here. and Colonel Dough
erty. Of the Ninth Regiment. and Colonel
Waters, Of the Thirteenth. at Scrauton
are all gratifed By the fact that the
strikers are remaining quiet. and hope
ers are on the scene.
Mitchell May See Morgan.
The English speaking workers are
readily controlled. but the temper of the
foreigners is a doubtful quality.
President Mitchell has sent word to
the local officials here that he viii reach
this city Thursday night. Where he will
be in the meantime he does not say. and
this fact again gives rise 10 the runor
that he uey decide to ask the interces-
sion Of J. PieTpont Morgan IN the strike
and endeavor 10 see him in New York
tomorrow.
Local leaders continue to state that
they do not know OF any plan to this ef
feet
GRAND RECEPTION