Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-07-08
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
Deputy Marshal Dan r. Jack
son by Strikers
The Situation Serious in the Rosemont
Yicinity-Strikers are Armed and
Shooting is INDUCED in.


Shooting is INDUCED in.
RosEMoNT, July S--U. S. Deputy
Marshal Dan r. Jackson narrowly es-
capped being shot by striking miners
about midnight last night. He had
been ordered here on account of the
Trouble and arrived from Grafton on
No. | fast mail about 1870 o'clock.
The train had just pulled out and the
deputy started from the platform to
enter the company's store, when three
shots were fired at him from a clump
of trees about 100 feet away on the
opposite side of the railway track.
One ball from % calibre Winchester
rifle crashed through a window of the
store scarcely foot above Jacksons
head, while another pierced the wood
work above the door A 80 calibre
revolver bullet fired at the same time
buried itself in door six feet away.
J. S. Marshal G. d. Elliott with sew
eral special DEPUTIES, arrived here this
morning from Clarksburg, and within
few minutes after his arrival had
placed two men under arrest and
served injunction papers on half
dozen more. One of the men arrested
German name William Steiner who
when searched was found to have on
his person a 30 ealbre revolver which
bore evidences of having recently been
fired, black jack, and large and
dangerous looking dirk knife. This
man is believed to have been one Of
the persons who fred at Deputy Mar
shall Jackson last night.
While hunting the course of one Of
the bullets fired at the cornpanys
store last night, Winchester ball
was found today embedded in mat
tress on which George Cooke, mana
ger of the store was asleep. Two in
ches higher, and the ball would prob
ably have found Judgment in Mr..
Cookies head instead of the mattress.
The shot had evidently been fred at
window in the second floor of the
building, but had penetrated the cas-
ing and wall of the building into the
bed on which the manager slept. A
determined effort will be made to find
the guilty parties and bring them to
justice.
The other men arrested are Hunga-
rian brothers named Louis and Adolph
Sauosky. They are the men who were
engaged in promiscuous shooting on
the company's property and are the
men on whom injunetions were served
at Clarksburg two weeks ago.
All Of the prisoners with the excep-
tion of the last named were taken this
afternoon to the Jail at Clarksburg,
The latter is sick and could not be
moved.
The situation here during the past
two days has been very serious The
company was not prepared for the
trouble and when the thirty or forty
foreigners were brought here on
Thursday and put to work in the
mines, the strikers at once began ugly
demonstrations. A great deal of
shooting was INDUCED in night before
last. Fortunately, however no one
has yet been injured, although there
have been several very narrow escapes,
Last night number of shots were
fired into a miners boarding house
occupied by Alex. Segeter, his family
and about dozen of the new miners.
One OF the balls passed within six
inches of tue head Of Segeter's wife,
and another barely missed Segeter
himself.
Night before last several shots were
fred from shot guns at two guards on
o bridge near the depot, the shots
rattling down from the branches of a
tree about the men.