The Washington times., 1902-06-06
STRANGE WOMAN
MENTALLYDERANGED

trike. Today thsre is a slight i'm
'rovement. \ coed many freme1 an,
theirs qualified to work about thI
jumping machinery nave been brought
ito the anthracite country quietly
within the last twenty-four hours. ant
re at work. And with these non-unior
'ewcomers there also have been brought
n re-enforcements to the small army o.
coal and Iron police now on duty from
yne end of the anthracite country tc
he ether.
Ii is estimated that fully POO new Coal
md Iron police arrived yesterday
Probably as many more will come today
md tomorrow. By Saturday it is, per-
caps, not too much to say that the
-orce of Coal and Iron police in all the
anthracite country will have been re-
enforced by not far short of 5000 men
Admit 1t Means Siege.
All this is in anticipation OF the long
siege which the coal operators now
unanimously agree is before them. a
representative OF one of the largest
companies said this morning that he
had no hope of seeing work resumed in
the mines before October. Others talk
about the strike being prolonged to
winter itself.
All preparations are being made on a
semi permanent scale to pJotect the
men who will be depended upon to keep
the mines pumped. Very soon the men
at work will either have to send their
families to remote places and remain
within the fenced Enclosures of the
company or else quit work.
The courage which the wives and
even the children of these men dis
play is in some instances astonishing.
Yesterday a twelve-year- girl made
her way through the scowling mob
gathered in front of the gates to one of
the mine Enclosures. Her father was
working inside. The child at the gate
sent word to her father TO come to her
When he appeared she cautiously pulled
a revolver from under her apron and
handed it to him. Her mother had sent
it, she said, for her father to defend
himself with. if need be, on his way
home.
Situation at Nanticoke.
The situation at Nanticoke is becom-
ing interesting. Nanticoke is a town of
some 10000 inhabitants, about seven
miles from Wilkesbarre. The Susque-
hanna Coal Company has large mining
property there and the same engines
that pump its mines also furnish the
town with water. When these pumps
were stopped Nanticoke was threatened
with a loss of its water supply.
Last evening a delegation of the city
council waited on the superintendent of
the mines and wanted to know what was
to be done. They were told that just
as soon as the burgess of Nanticoke
would protect the men and also protect
their wives and children from threats.
Nanticoke would have its water supply
restored.
The superintendent showed a list of
eighteen old employees OF the company
who stand ready to go back as firemen.
And there the matter stands.
A leading insurance man of this city
was investigating today with the view
to ascertaining whether by process of
law the burgess of Nanticoke might not
be compelled to give protection to men
who are willing TO work and run the
HaNtl Supp.J
May Cancel Policies.
He said ,Sat the canceling of all in
surance policies in Nanticoke was one
Of the steps that might be taken. The
Insurance companies are getting anxious.
Sheriff Gunbert. of Carbon county, has
sworn in forty deputies and gone 20 the
relief of seventy-fve non-union men
who are besieged by a mob in the coal
store at Yorktown. THY
were on their way TO the Yorktown mine,
but will be kept in the store all night.
a striking miner was arrested while
picking up stone to throw at a work
man on his way home from the Hollen-
back mine this evening. The mob fol-
lowed the policeman and his prisoner
through the streets of Wilkesbarre
throwing stones at the officer. who drew
his pistol. but did not fire. The pris-
oner. Z Pole. is locked up in the police
station.
Attack Made on Train.
An attempt was made at Pittston this
morning TO wreck an Erie passenger
train which was distributing nor-union
men at different co!lieries. Stones were
piled on the track near curve. but the
nngine saw the obstruction in time to
avert 4 crash.
There was a small riot at the Ply
mouth railroad station this evening,
brought on by the discovery that nom
lnicn men were getting on a train 10
20 TO work the pumps at the Jersey
mine. which had been on fire for nearly
.wo years.
One Of the non-union men was struck
IN IN" head with d stone and badly in
IuraG- TO rioters werc arrested.