The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-07
ALL TROOPS ARE OUT
GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA IS
SUES SWEEPING ORDER.
ENTIRE DIVISION CALLED.
ENTIRE DISTRICT OF STRIKE WILL
BE PATROLLED.

This Decision Arrived at by State
Authorities Only After Frequent
Occurrence of TumuIts, Riot and
Mob ViOIence-DivisiOn and Distri-
button OF Troops Left to the Major
General COMMUNICABLE Law
Iessness Within the Borders of
the State Must Re Suppressed.
Harrisburg, Pa, Oct. Gov. Stone
tonight ordered out the entire division
of the National Guard of Pennsylvania
to duty in the mine regions. The SOL
diers will be in the field tomorrow.
The order calling out the guard is as
follows:
Headquarters National Guard, Ad-
jutant Generals Office, Harrisburg,
Pa, Oct. Elm certain portions of the
counties of Luzerne, Schuylkill, Car
bon, Lackawanna, Susquehanna,
Northumberland and Columbia, tu-
mults and riots frequently occur and
mob law reigns, men who desire to
work have been beaten and driven
away and their families threatened.
Railroad trains have been delayed,
stoned and the tracks torn up. The
civil authorities are unable to main
tain order and have called upon the
Governor and commander-in-chief CT
the National Guard for troops. The
situation grows more serious each day.
The territory involved is so extensive
that the troops now on duty are in
sufficient to prevent all disorders. The
presence of the entire division Ma
tional Guard of Pennsylvania is
necessary in these counties to main
tain the public peace.
The major general comma nding
will place the entire division on duty,
distributing them in such localities as
will render them most effective for
preserving the public peace.
las tumults, riots, mobs and dis
orders usually occur when men at
tempt to work in and about the coal
mines, he will see that all men who
desire to work and their families have
ample military protection. He will
protect all trains and other property
from unlawful interference. and will
arrest all persons engaging in
acts of violence and intimidation and
hold them under guard until their re-
lease will not endanger the public
peace; will see that threats, intimida-
tons, assaults and all acts of vio-
lence cease at once. The public peace
| and good order viii BE preserved upon
all occasions and throughout the sew
eral counties and no Interference what
ever will be permitted with officers and
men in the discharge of their duties
under this order. The dignity and
authority of the state must be main
tanned and her power to suppress all
lawlessness within her BORDERS be as
serted.
by order of William A. Stone. Gov
ernor and Commander-in-Ch
Thomas ]. Stewart, adjutant gener-
al"
The formal order was given out at
the executive mansion shortly before II
o'clock by Private Secretary Gerwig.
Gov. Stone called a conference of the
general officers of the guard, at which
it was decided to place these troops III
the field Those present at the confer
ence were Maj. Gen. Milly, Gen. Goblin
of the Third Brigade; Gen. Schall of
the First Brigade; Col. Hullings of the
Sixteenth Regiment, who represented
Gen. Wiley of the Second Brigade. who
is in Kansas; Assistant Adjutant
General Elliott and Assistant Quarter
master General Richardson.
The canvas anc other camp equip
age will be shipped from the state
arsenal and all the troops will be in
the field within "a hours.
The troops now in the field are the
Fourth, Eighth, Ninth, Twelfth and
Thirteenth regiments of the Third
Brigade. and the Governors troop,
Sheridan Troop and Second PhiladeI-
phia City troops. The troops which
will be sent to reinforce those now on
duty are the First Regiment, Second
Regiment, Third Regiment, Sixth Regi-
ment, Battery A, First Troop Phiia-
delphia City Cavalry. who compose
the First Brigade; Fifth Regiment,
Tenth wRegiment, Fourteenth Regi-
ment, Sixteenth Regiment, Eighteenth
Regiment, and Battery B, who consti-
tute the Second Brigade.