Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-29
CAV AIRY AT MINES
GOV. STONE ORDERS TYRONE
TROOP OUT.
Pickets at Grassy Island Colliery Fire
on Men Who Had Stoned
Them.

A dispatch from Shenandoah, Pa, yeSter-
day says: Col. Watres, who is in command
of the troops stationed in Lackawanna
county, asked General Goblin today for cav
airy and the Sheridan Troop of Tyrone has
been ordered out by the governor. The
cavalry left Tyrone this evening and are
expected to report to Col Watres of the
18th Regiment early tomorrow morning. The
general says the ordering out of the troop
is not the result of any fresh outbreaks.
He says the collieries at which trouble has
been taking place are far apart and that
the cavalrymen can get over the ground
more readily than infantry.
Sheriff Knorr Of Columbia county says
he did not sign or authorize his name to
be signed to the telegram which was sent
to Governor Stone asking that troops be
sent to Centralia.
The following telegram was sent to the
governor tonight:
SHENANDOAH. Pa. September 2s.
ITO William A. Stone, Governor, Harris
burg, Pa:
Sheriff Knorr says call for troops for
Columbia county is a forgery. General Co
bin says he will send troops to Centralia to
make arrests. Action certain to cause COM
plications and injustice. We guarantee
peaceful surrender of all accused persons to
civil authorities. kilograms to sheriff and
the general will show truth Of these state
ments. TERRENCE GINLEY
Member Executive Board, United Mine
JOHN J. O'DONNELL,
President Centralia Local Union.
THOMAS ]. QUIGLEY,
Secretary"
A dispatch from Scranton, Pa, yesterday
says: By working his troops eighteen hours
day, regardless of the rain and awful
condition Of the roads, Col. Watres of the
18th Regiment has succeeded in restoring
nr6a fhrot, mo-, T olr
radio outbreaks Of a comparatively trivial
nature have occurred during the past two
days. but the usual attacks by mobs on
non-union men and company's properties
have been wanting. So arduous have been
the tasks of the soldiers that many of them
collapsed on the long night marches and
had to be carried into camp. Word of the
coming Of the Sheridan Troop of cavalry
tonight was received at camp with many
joyous comments.
Late last night shots were fired by SOL
diers at strikers, or supposed strikers for
the first time since the troops went afield
At Grassy Island colliery, half a mile
from the 13th's camp, two soldiers from
Company A were stationed in a patch of
underbrush as part of an outpost to the
camp. A volley of stones descended all
about them, and one Of the soldiers was
felled to the ground. The two soldiers shot
at fleeing figures, and a relief detail, at
tracted by the firing, secured the country
for two hours in a fruitless search for the
StOHe tnrOWerS-
AT 1890 this morning shot was heard on
a hillside near the camp, and the search
light which Col. Watres has just gotten into
working order was turned in the direction
from which the shots came. A man with
a gun was observed rushing to the cover of
the woods. The rays of the searchlight
were kept upon him. and after a short
chase a couple of soldiers from the OUTPOST
on the hill ran him down. He proved to be
Michael Gaughan, the high constable of
Olyphant borough. The only explanation
he vouchsafed to Col. Watres this morning
was: II wanted to try out your soldiers and
see II they could be depended upon"
The colonel decided to let the county court
deal with his case. The gun was confis-
Gated.
An Olyphant man who was sent to New
York by Sheriff Schadt has positively identi-
fled the Hungarians arrested in Hoboken
Saturday morning as the men wanted for
the brutal murder Of James Winston a.
Grassy Island Thursday. Attorneys went
today to New York to arrange to bring
them back