The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-20

untrue, beat him numerically. He was
laid up for three months. The witness
insisted that he never worked in the
| mines and did not intend to-
| George NIeyle, an engineer at Oily
phant No. . colliery of the Delaware
and Hudson company, told that one day
! on his way to work, during the strike
! he encountered crowd OF fifty or sew
| enty-five strikers, led by Stephen Reap
Reap asked him to turn back. The
crowd gathered about him, and its
| manner was such that he decided to
grant Mr.. Reap's request.
! William Whitbeck, who was doing
some haying on a Delaware and Hud-
son farm at Olyphant, told of being
frequently molested, and that once a
crowd of strikers threatened to throw
| him into the river.
Thomas Kennedy, a 15-year-old boy
| from Carbondale, told the story of a
committee of mine workers attempting
to have him discharged from Kelly's
drug store, because his father, William
Kennedy, was working as an engineer
at Delaware and Hudson mine. Pro-
prietor Kelly was travelling through
the west, and the head clerk, Thomas
| Shannon, told the committee he had no
power to discharge the boy. The COM
mittee came around the next day and
| repeated its demand. adding that if the
| boy was not discharged in three days
| they would place a boycott on the store.
The clerk sent for the boys father,
| and after talking the thing over it was
decided that the boy should lay off to
save the absent proprietor from the
boycott.
School Children Struck.
William Kennedy. the boys father,
corroborated this story, and told, fur
ther that the pupils at the public
school which his two youngest children
We're attending, went on strike because
of their aversion to associating with
the children of q "scab." He Withdrew
his children from the school and sent
them to st, Rose academy, conducted
by Catholic nuns.
White-haired Captain Joseph II. Dug
gan, of West Market street, Scranton,
who continued at work in his position
as engineer at the Leggett's Creek COL
liery of the Delaware and Hudson COM
pany, broke down and cried as he re-
lated on the stand, how the Father
Witty Total Abstinence society, of
which he was a member for twenty
seven years. demanded his resignation
because he would not give up his job
He was drillmaster of the society for
many years, and his whole heart was
wrapped up in 1t.
He also told of being frequently
hooted jeered and stoned by strikers
as he was on his way to and from
work, and that committee of the Uni
ted Mine Workers ordered his grocer,
Nj. j, Clarke, to refuse TO sell him
goods
David T.. Lewis, foreman at the
Grassy Island colliery of the Delaware
and Hudson company at Olyphant, tes-
titled that he was turned back from
work one day by crowd of 300 strikers,
led by District Board Member Stephen
Reap. oiyphant was very disorderly
during the strike, he declared. One
sunday morning seven effigies
We're suspended from telegraph
poles in the very heart of
the town. He knew the muir
dered James Winston very well and
declared he was highly, respected,
quiet, inoffensiye man.
John Lowandofski, who worked at
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern companys Dodge colllery during
the strike, found a dynamite cartridge,
with cap and fuse attached, lying in