The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-06
COURT MARTIAL TO COME
An Italian Shot in the Leg by Un-
known Men.
HAD BEEN FOLD TO QUIT CERTAIN WORK
Civil Authorities Say They Can't Hold Down
Southern Shenandoah and Goblin viii
Station Troops in That Sec.
ton OF The Towa.
(By the Associated Press.)

Shenandoah, Pa, August 5.-There
were many rumors flying around the
regions today of trouble in the camp and
various part of the region. The only dis
turbance that occurred, however, was at
Girardville, six miles from here, where
a workman coming from the iGrard
washery operated by w. r. McTurk and
Company was shot in the leg and slight
ly injured.
The injured man is James Caparen, an
Italian. He had been engaged at work
which had been forbidden by the un-
ion and had been warned several times
to quit. This morning on his way home
he was met on the road by half a dozen
unknown men, who began to beat him.
Caparell ran and as he did so one of the
men fired at him. Some of the buckshot
hit him in the leg. He managed to walk
to a physician office, and after having
the shot extracted from his leg he walk
ed to the Lehigh Valley Railroad station
and boarded train for Hazleton. Bur
CESS Jones is investigating the assault
Report was made to headquarters to-
day that three members of Company I,
of the Twelfth Regiment were chased
by crowd of men last night on the out
skirts of the town aud that the soldiers
had sought refuge in the house of Squire
McGuinness at Frackville. The militia
men met the squire and he took them to
his home and kept them there until to-
day, when they returned to camp.
Brigadier General Goblin in the mean
cavalry over to Frackville, but before
the troops reached there the three men
had returned to camp. General Goblin
said the three soldiers will be court
martialed.
Burgess Brown, President of Council;
David r. Jones and Chief of Police John
Fry held a conference with General Goblin,
today and confessed their inability to cope
with the situation as it exists in the
southern section of Shenandoah The
Cambridge colliery, owned by Mr.. Jones
and Squire MeGuinnes is located there.
The borough officials told the General
that men gather in that part of the town
and molest every person, not except
ing the women, that happens along. Men,
they said, can no longer work there in
safety. The burgess said that one man
in this crowd had boasted that their OBJ
iect was murder if they can find the man
they are seeking. Threats are openly
made and the officials requested that
troops be sent there.
General Goblin consented to station two
companies of infantry in that locality
and on the road leading to Turkey Run
hill
Two injured Lithuanians, who were in
the riots of last week, were arrested to-
day, The constable located them and
asked the military officials for protection
while the arrests were made. The two
prisoners, who sustained wounds in the
feet, were boarding in the foreign quar-
ter of the town. A detachment of the
Fourth regiment surrounded the house
and the men were placed in wagon.
The soldiers then formed a Gordon around
the vehicle and escorted it through the
streets to the office of Squire Shoemaker
who committed the men to Pottsville
Jail.