The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-08
TROOPS ARE IN CONTROL.
Presence of Soldiers Restores Order
Among the Striking Miners
at Shenandoah, Pa.
NO NOR: OUTBREAKS HAVE OCCURRED.
One of the Men Wounded in wednes-
day Nights Riot Is Dead-Leaders
of Mine Workers Deplore Shedding
of Blood President Mitchell
Makes Statement.

Shenandoah, Pa, Aug. L. Twelve
hundred state troops are encamped
on hill overlooking Shenandoah.
Down in the town where rioters and
policemen fought the bloody battle
Wednesday night all is quiet, and the
indications are that so long as the
militia remains the peace of the
community will not again be broken.
The riot, which caused the soldiers
to be sent here, came like flash and
was over almost as quickly as it had
started, and since then there has not
been a single case of violence report
ed. The tens of thousands of idle
men and boys in this vicinity who
had been gathering in large num-
bers and marching from place to
place, did not repeat their demon
STATIONS Thursday, and the authori-
ties consequently had little or moth
ing to do.
Dies of His Injuries.
Joseph Bedall, who was so badly
beaten by the mob Wednesday night,
died shortly after Ten o'clock Thurs
day night. He was brother OF Dep
uty Sheriff Thomas Bedall, and a
nephew of S. r. Bedall, the sheriff of
the county. He was So years of age,
and was member of the Bedall-Tag-
CART company, wholesale and retail
hardware dealers of this city. The
four policemen who were shot and
the strikers who were also hit by bull
lets will recover. Most of the wounded
strikers claim they We're merely on
lockers. The district attorney and
the sheriff are prosecuting an investi-
cation with view of placing under
arrest all those who participated in
the riot. Several of the wounded
strikers called at the miners hospital
dressed. and after the doctors got
through With them they were arrested
and taken to the Pottsville Jail.
Will Encourage Operators.
All the local leaders of the United
Mine Workers deplore the shedding
of blood and the calling out of the
troops. They say the presence of the
soldiers will encourage the operators
to start up their mines, and after the
collieries in the Schuyllsill district are
put in operation it will only be ques-
ton of time until mines in other parts
of the strike belt will resume.
President MitcheIFs Statement
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Aug. shorty
after noon President Mitchell of the
Mine Workers issued the following
statement:
'Wilkesbarre, Pa, July 31.-Compete
and authentic reports furnished by ma
tional officers of our organization To-
Gated at Shenandoah show that the sto-
ries of the riot at Shenandoah were
greatly exaggerated and the facts much
distorted. 1t develops that no one was
killed or fatally injured and that the
entire trouble might have been averted
had the deputies kept cool and used
greater discretion. While 1 greatly dep
recate acts of lawlessness by anyone,
particularly by those on strike, 1 am
naturally pleased to learn that the trou-
BILE is not as serious as first reported I
have repeatedly warned the strikers that
any violation of law on their part would
initiate against themselves alone, and 1
am hopeful that there will not be a rep
etition of trouble of this character.
JOHN MITCHELL"