Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-07-31

ERNoR STONE ORDERED THE
EIGHTH AND TWELFTH REGi
MENTs AND THE GOVERNORS
TROOP, OF THE NATIONAL
GUARD OF PENNSYLVANIA, IN
COMMAND OF GENERAL J.. p. 8.
GOBLIN, TO PROCEED IMMEDIATE.
LY TO SHENANDOAH, THE SCENE
OF YESTERDAYS RioTiNG. GEN.
ERAL GOBLIN LEFT HERE SHORT.
~ AFTER MIDNIGHT IN A SPE.
ciAL TRAIN AND 1T WAS Elk
PEcTED THAT ALL THE TROOPS,
THE COMBINED STRENGTH OF
WHICH is 1900, WILL BE ON THE
GROUND BY DAYRREAK.
The governor has been kept fully
advised of the situation by Private
Secretary Gerwig ever since the call
for troops by Sheriff Beddal, of
Schuylkill county, early 1T evening
At o'clock last evening the follow
ing message was received from the
sheriff and Immediately repeated to
the governor, at Paul Smiths, in the
Adirondack mountains, by Mr.. Ger.
wig:
Appeals of the Sheriff.
Shenandoah, Pa, July 80, 1902.
William A. Stone, Governor, Harris.
burg, Pa.
Deputy sheriff and two assistants
surrounded and one killed, three OF
mob shot by sheriff, three local police
Officers shot, one possibly fatally
Town is without police protection and
local government terrorized, threat
ened by mob If they sign petition.
Feeling running very high. Mine
workers admit foreign element be
yond their control Mob Is beyond
control. Situation requires greatest
haste Sheriff powerless for want OF
sufficient assistance
20. Rowland Beddal, Sheriff"
subsequently the following mes.
sage was received from the sheriff
"Pottsyille, Pa, July 80.
William A. Stone, Governor, and AID
jutant General Thomas j. Stewart,
Harrisburg, Pa.
"Bloodshed and riot In this county,
property destroyed, citizens killed and
injured. Situation beyond by control
Troops should be sent Shenandoah
Immediately.
IS. Rowland Beddal, Sheriff."
Governor Stone started for Harris
burg at s o'clock last evening and ex.
rected to reach here in the Chicago
limited at o'clock this afternoon
He is being fully advised of the sit
uation and the movement of the
troops by Mr.. Gerwig.
Mob Controlled the Town.
Shenandoah, Pa, July 31.-A reign
OF terror. compared with which the
scenes enacted during the riots OF
1900 seemed insignificant, held Shen.
sndoah in its grasp last night. After
six O'CLOCK in the evening, Centre
street. which is one of the principal
streets of the town, was in the hands
Of an Infatuated mob for hours. Two
OF the borough policemen were shot,
one perhaps fatally. Joseph Beddal,
a leading merchant and cousin of
Sheriff Beddal, was brutally dubbed
end died, and upwards OF a score
OF strikers, whose names at this writ.
ing last night could not be obtained.
we're shot by policemen and 1t was ex.
pected that many deaths would re-
sult. Sheriff Beddal arrived from
Pottsville at 7:45 o'clock last night
with force of deputies. He took up
his headquarters at the Ferguson ho-
tel. To an Associated Press reporter
he admitted that he had asked the
governor for troops. The governor
wired that IL the citizens of the town
petitioned for troops, he would send
them and at this writing last night,
Petition was being circulated for this
purpose 1t was almost certain last
right theat the troops would be here
today.
Non-unionists BADLY Beaten.
The trouble started about G
o'clock last evening. when Deputy
Sheriff Thomas Beddal attempted to
escort two non-union men through the
strikers line OF pickets. The work
men were dressed in their street
clothes. but one OF them carried bun
die underneath his arm and this arous.
cd the suspicious of the strikers. The
bundle was torn from him and when 1t
was found to contain a blouse and ov-