The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-05
MORE MINE MEN QUIT WORK
TNMOST CASES, HOWEVER, THEIR
 PLACES ARE FILLED.
one Coliiery Badly Crippled and Win be Allowed to Fill With Water Quiet Day i'm the Wyoming Valley Mitchell and Sargent Confer-Proposed ''scab serenade" Stopped by Headquarters.

Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 4,-More en-
 giheers, fremen and pump runners
 obeyed the call of the miners union to-
 day but in most instances the coal
 company officials were able to fill the
 places of the strikers. The Susque-
 hanna Coal company's colliery at Nan
 ticoke was the worst sufferer all the
 firemen refusing to go to work, which
 compelled the company to shut down
 the engines. This colliery furnishes
 the power for the water supply of Nan
 ticoke and unless the engines are again
 started the borough will have a water famine to contend with. There was a fire in the town to-day and as the fire alarm is sounded by means of the col fiery whistle, there was considerable trouble and delay before the volunteer firemen could be called to the scene of the fire. The company, 1t Is said, will allow it's mines to fill with water and let the borough gets its water supply as best it can.
 1t was comparatively quiet in the Wyoming valley, to-day. There was the usual gathering of crowds at sev- eral collieries at starting and stopping time but nothing of a serious nature occurred.
 Some men were stoned on their way to and from work and several were thrown into pools of water. The fear of bodily harm is causing more men to quit work than are the arguments of the strikers,
 President Mitchell was kept busy all day in his headquarters He had noth- ing to say regarding his visit to Scran- ton last night where he met Frank P. Sargent, chief of the locomotive fire men. Regarding the general strike sit uation he said everything was pro- gressing satisfactorily; that more men were coming out each day and that the idle men are behaving themselves well. Tn emphasizing the latter statement MT. Mitchell said the chief of the Wilkes barre police told him that during the twenty one days the strike has been on there have been fewer arrests than dur ing the same number of days prior to the suspension of work. Among the arrests thta were made not one was a miner The national president had no to make when informed that the New York board of trade had de- cided to ask President Roosevelt to take up the task of trying to end the great strike.
 There was to have been what the miners call a "Scab serenade," at Min CTS Mills, a small settlement near this city tonight, but it was called off by orders, it is said, from strike headquar- ters. The strikers had planned to hold a big torchlight procession and parade the town, stopping at the home of each workman who refused to quit work and serenading him and his fam fly with funeral airs led by a fife and drum corps, It was feared that some disorder might occur and the district officials went to the town this afternoon and prevailed upon the local leaders to cancel the affair
 Shamokin, Pa, June 4,-Because they l refused to man the pumps and fire | rooms the fire bosses at Henry Clay | shaft were discharged to-day. The l mine, which has been idle since Mon | lay, Is filling with water and in a short |
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