Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-10-02
In FIVE COUNTIES.
State Troops Are Camped in
Pennsylvania.
RiOting and Genera LayyIessnes ess COu-
tinues in the Entire Hard Coal
Territory, from Forest City TO
Williamson Ono Miner
CIubbed to Death.

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of the troops in these districts, riot
ing and general lawlessness continues
in the entire hard coal territory from
Forest City, Susquehanna county, on
the north, to Williamstown, Dauphin
county, on the south, a distance of
more than 100 miles.
The section of the strike region in
the vicinity of Forest City, which has
been comparatively quiet ever since
the strike began, was greatly
wrought up yesterday by crowds of
strikers interfering with and beating
men who had returned to work, and
as a result Sheriff Maxey, of Susque-
hanna county, last night asked Gov.
! Stone for troops to assist him and
| other civil authorities to preserve the
| peace.
At present there are four full regl-
ments, two companies of another and
two troops of cavalry in the field.
| The Thirteenth regiment is camped
at Olyphant, six miles north of Scran-
ton; the Ninth is quartered at it's
armory in Wilkesbarre; the Eighth
regiment and the Second Philadel-
| phia City troop are under canvas ON
the top of a hill overlooking Shenan-
doah; one battalion of the Twelfth
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are in the Panther Creek valley, and
one battalion of the Twelfth is pre-
serving order in the city of Lebanon,
where the iron and steel workers are
on strike.
Susquehanna, Pa, Sept. 25.-An
urgent request for troops was made
last night to Gov. Stone by Sheriff
Maxey, of Susquehanna county No.
? colliery of the Hillside Coal q Iron
Co., at Forest City, resumed opera
lions yesterday.
Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. 26.-GOv.
Stone was asked yesterday if he
would declare martial law in the coat
regions. He said:
without discussing the power of
| the governor to declare martial law,
| 1t Will be wholly unnecessary to re-
sort to that remedy. The fiTty-first
section of the act of assembly ap-
roved April %, 1899, provides that in
case of tumult, riot or mob the COM
nander-in-chief shall call upon the ma
| tlonal guard and he may at his dis
cretion order any number of men Of
the enrolled militia to be drafted
and may detail or commission officers
to organize the forces.
The national guard have been
sent into the coal regions to suppress
tumults, riots and mobs where the
civil authorities are unable to sup
press them. They will not interfere
with the civil authorities, but are
there to aid them In preserving order.
There is now surplus in the treas
ury and the state is prepared to main
tain large army in the field for an
indefinite time. ] have no hesitation
in expressing my disapproval of tu-
mults, riots and mobs and all acts of
violence and my determination to
suppress them and preserve order. re-
gardless of consequences and regard
less of cost"
Scranton, Pa, Sept. 26.-James
Winston, aged As years, was killed and
is son-in-law, S. J. Lewis, was Sc
verely injured by a gang of Hungari-
an strikers who waylaid them on their
way to work yesterday at Grassy Is
land coliery.
Scranton, Pa, Sept. 27.-In a state
ment published Friday District Presi-
dent Nichols accuses Michael Grimes,
an eX-foreman, of being "at the head
of movement inaugurated by the
coal companies to bribe a number of
mine workers locals for s., 800 apiece
to vote to return to work" Mr.. Mich
OILS declares at the close of his state
ment that his ''informants stand
ready to prove their assertions in
court"
Mr.. Grimes denies the statement
and the coal companies also say it is
not true
Shenandoah, Pa, Sept. 27.-'Sheriff
Knorr, of Columbia county, yester-
day asked Gov. Stone to send troops
to Centralia. The governor referred
the matter to Gen. Goblin and the lat
ter advised the sheriff to make a fur
ther effort to preserve peace with the
resources at hand.
Strikers held up three trolley cars
filed with non-union men and stoned
the workmen. Guards from neigh
boring collieries were called and drove
the rioters back.
Detroit, Mich, Sept. 27.-The COM
mon council yesterday adopted the
following resolutions:
"Resolved, That a committee con-
sistinR of the president of the coun-
Gil and six other members be appoint
ed to consider the advisablity of ex-
tending an invitation to the people
of all the cities and towns depending
upon the Pennsylvania fields for their
coal supplies, TO appoint representa-
tives to meet In great convention
In this city at the earliest possible
date to consider ways and means to
force resumption of the coal pro-
duction, either by pressure OF public
opinion or by government interyen-
tIon, which should be demanded IL
other measures fail"
\ committee was appointed by
President Smith and they will meet
next Monday night to consider the
proposed convention.
Thinks at. son - Innocent.