The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-30
VIOLENCE IN COAL REGION
NON-UNION MEN ATTACKED AT
 TWO PLACES.
Police Charge Crowd Near shamokin- Operators Declare They wim Ask for Troops To-day If yyorisnen Are Again d-rroubie Near the Richards coiIiery-women and Children stone NOn-Union Men.

Shamokin, Pa, July 29.-One thou sand men, women and children assem- bled at the Mineral ycompany's Cameron colliery this evening and hooted and
 cursed non-union men as they quit
 work. A delegation of boys stoned sev- eral sub bosses as they entered town.
 Chief Burgess Thomas and the police
 charged the crowd and put them to
 flight. The coal company officials say
 they will ask for troops tomorrow if there is a continuance of the attempts to annoy the workmen.
 Mount Carmel, Pa.s July 29.-Two crowds of strikers, numbering fully B. 900 men, women and children, collected
 at all the Reading and Union company operations between here and ,Snamokini this evening and hurled stones and sticks at the non-union men.s Six of the latter were captured by the mob near
 Richards colliery and were badly pum- melled.
 On promising to remain away from the colliery until the strike ends they were liberated. Several scores of non union men remained at couple of the mines tonight afraid to face the strik- CTS who are picketed along roads lead ing into town.
 Wilkesbarre, July 29.-A crowd of fif- teen hundred men and boys prevented the resumption of work at the Wanke | washery at Duryea this morning A number of men came down from Scran- ton to work at the washery. They were l at once surrounded by threatening crowd. The burgess was appealed to to protect the men who wanted to work, but he thought he would not be able to do it and he telephoned to Sheriff Ja- cobs. The sheriff sent four deputies to the scene, but when they arrived the mob had dispersed. The men who had been hired to work at the washery were badly frightened, and when the train | for Scranton came along they jumped 1 aboard and returned to that place. A volley of stones followed them The operator of the washery says he will not make another attempt to resume operations.
 Wilkesbarre, July 29.-President Mitchell will start this week to fill en-
 agreements he has to deliver addresses
 before United Mine Workers assemb ias in different parts of the anthracite re- zion. It is said that he will visit the Schuylkill region first and deliver ad-
 dresses at Shenandoah and Mahanoy City.
 National Board Member John Fallon reports that the strikers are satisfied
 with the relief plan as carried out in the Wyoming region. The first install 1 ment of the relief fund was not large. and succor could be given to only the most destitute cases. But President Mitchell says that when the money re- ceived from the assessment levied on the bituminous miners comes in there will be easier sailing for all those con- cerned.
 Seven striking miners from Nanticoke were arraigned before Magistrate
 Brown. of this city. this afternoon charged with committing an assault on William Young, an engineer employed
 at one of the collieries of the Susque- hanna Coal company. While on his way to work Young claimed, he was
 held up, and that two of the defendants
 threw stones at him. one of the stones
 striking him on the head and inf1icting
 a deep cut. The strikers were held in bail for trial at court.