New Ulm review., 1902-08-06
TROOPS ARE IN CONTROL.
Presence of Soldiers Restores Order
Among the Striking Miners
at Shenandoah, Pa.
NO MORE 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 a Statement.

Shenandoah, Pa, Aug. L. Twelve
hundred state troops are encamped
on a 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 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
strations Thursday, and the authori-
tics 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
uty Sheriff Thomas Bedall, and a
nephew of S. II. Bedall, the sheriff of
the county. He was 35 years of age,
and was member of the Bedall-Tag-
gart company, wholesale and retail
hardware dealers Of this city. The
four policemen who were shot and
the strikers who were also hit by bull
~ l. Id
strikers claim they were 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
Thursday to have slight injuries
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
colIieries in the Schuylkill district are
put in operation it will only be ques-
tion of time until mines in other parts
of the strike belt will resume.
President MitchelTs Statement.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Aug. 1.-Shortly
after noon President Mitchell of the
Mine Workers issued the following
statement:
'Wilkesbarre, Pa, July 31.-Complete
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 I greatly dep
| recate acts Of lawlessness by anyone,
particularly by those on strike, I 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 I
| am hopeful that there will not be a rep
| etition of trouble of this character.
JOHN MITCHELL"