Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-09-26
Disorder and Violence, but Law
lessness Not So General,
In Strike Region.
RON-UNlONIST BEATEN TO DEATH
son-ln-Law Also Injured by Strikers.
Policeman Almost dubbed to Death.
Brave Negroes Escorts Non-union-
ist-Fired on Strikers.


hard coal regions yesterday, the law
lessness was not SO general as it was
earlier in the week. The presence
of additional troops and a drenehing
rain storm assisted greatly in the
preservation of peace.
Near Wilkesbarre a coal and iron
policeman was almost dubbed to
death.
Reports from other parts of the re.
gion show that petty cases of violence
continue to occur. The lower anthra-
cite region is comparatively quiet,
most of the lawlessness occurring in
the vicinity of Scranton and Wilkes
barre.
Troops Kept on Move.
Brigadier General Goblin is keep
ing many of his soldiers on the move,
either shifting their camps or send
ing out companies to scatter crowds.
Yesterday afternoon he moved the
Eighth regiment, which has been sta
toned at Shenandoah since July 81.
to Duryea, half way between Scran-
ton and Wilkesbarre. A company of
II
City, the extreme northern edge of
the hard coal beds and about "a miles
north of Scranton. The company had
a brush with a mob upon its arrival
but no one was hurt.
President Mitchell says the troops
will help to keep the men firmer In
their determination to stand out
against the operators. The coal com
panies claim they are daily placing
more men at work and the shipment
of coal continues in small quantities.
Beaten to Death by Strikers.
Scranton, Pa, Sept. 26.-James
Winston, aged 48 years, wxs killed
and his son-in-law, s. ]. Lewis, was
severely injured by a gang of Hun
garfan strikers, who waylaid them on
their way to work at Grassy island
colliery of the Delaware and Hudson
company yesterday The affair took
place half a mile from and almost
within sight of the camp of the Thir-
teenth regiment at Olyphant. Lewis
got away. but Winston had his skull
crushed with club and fell uneon.
scious. While he lay PROSTATE and
dying the crowd jumped on him,
kicked him in the face and beat him
with clubs. After dancing about their
victim. clapping their hands and sing
ing, the crowd left him. Winston
was carried home by William Doyle,
non-union man, and Mrs. Doyle,
who witnessed the murder. Harry
Simrock. Tom Priston and Harry
Shubah, the three men who are al
legged to have committed the actual
crime, have fed. Six men and a
woman, who were in the crowd from
which the assailants emerged, were
arrested and held in $1,000 bail each
as witnesses.
Brave Negress Escorts Non-Unionist.
Mrs. George Marshall, colored, wife
Of the proprietor of hotel at Jessup,
armed with a shotgun, safely escorted
a hunted non-union man through
crowd of 100 hundred strikers, from
the hotel to the Sterrick Creek Col
liery stockade, late Wednesday night
When the crowd began toRvenge it.
self by bombarding the hotel, Mrs
Marshall fired upon the nearest group
and peppered dozen men with bird
shot. This scattered the mob.
Last evening, a crowd of strikers
threw stones at non-union men, who
were being escorted from work in
Forest City. The soldiers loaded their
guns and the commander said he
would give the word to fire, if another
stone was thrown. The crowd melted
away. One man, who held back, was
arrested.
company from the Thirteenth
regiment was called and attempted to
dispense crowd, which was tearing
up tracks at the Pancoast colliery, in
Throop.
No Martial Law, Says Stone.
Harrisburg, Sept. Ex-Governor
Stone was asked yesterday if he
would declare martial law in the coal
regions. He said:
Without discussing the power of
the governor to declare martial law,
it will be wholly unnecessary to re-
sort to that remedy. The fifty-frst
Section of the act of assembly, ap-
proved April %, 1899. provides that
When a tumult, riot or / e3 shall ex
list the chief shall ca upon the
national guard and he M at his dis
erection order any numbt of men of
the enrolled militia to lie drafted, and
may detail or commission officers to
organize the forces
The national guard has 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 and assist them in pre-
serving order There is now a sur
plus in the treasury and the state is
prepared to maintain a large army In
the field for an indefinite time.
have no hesitation in expressing my
disapproval OF tumults, riots and
mobs and all acts of violence. and my
determination to suppress them and
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