The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-08
A COUNCIL OF WAR HELD
The Ordering Out of the Division by
Stone Follows.
Az APPEAL BY ROOSEVELT TO MITCHELL
II is Believed That This Has Been Made
through Sargent or Carroll D. Wright.
Mitchell Pays Mysterious Visit
10 Philadelphia.
10 Philadelphia.
(By the Associated Press.)

Harrisburg. Pa, Oct. Gov. Stone
tonight ordered out tho entire division of
the National Guard of Pennsylvania TO
duty in the mine regions. The soldiers
will be in. the field tomorrow The order
calling out the guard follows:
Headquarters National Guard, Adju-
tant Generals Office
Harrisburg, Pa, Oct 6, 1902
I'm certain portions of the counties of
Luzerne, Schuylkill, Carbon, Lackawan-
ma. Susquehanna, Northumberland and
Columbia, tumults and riots frequent
ly occur and mob law reigns, men who
desire to work have been beaten and
driven away and their families threaten
ed. Railroads have been delayed, stoned
and the tracks torn up. The civil author
tiles are unable to maintain order and
have called upon the Governor and the
Commander in Chief of the National
Guard for troops. The situation grows
more serious every day The territory
involved is SO extensive that the troops
now on duty are insufficient to prevent
all disorder The presence of the entire
division National Guard of pennsylvania
is necessary in these counties to main
tain the peace.
"The jor General commanding will
place the entire division on duty, dis
tributing them in such localities as will
render them most effective for preserving
the public peace.
''As tumults, riots, mob and disorders
usually occur when men attempt to work
in and about the coal mines, he will see
that all men who desire to work and
their families have ample military pro-
lection. He will protect all trains and
other property from unlawful Interior
ence and will arrest all persons engag-
ing in acts of violence and intimidation
and hold them under guard until their
release Will not endanger the public
peace: Will see that threats of violence,
intimidation and all acts of violence
cease at once. The public peace and
good order will be preserved under all
occasions and throughout the several
counties and no interference whatever
will be permitted with officers and men
in the discharge of their duties under
this order. The dignity and authority
of the State must be maintained am her
power to suppress all lawlessness with
in her borders be asserted.
by order of
"a NJ. STONE,
Governor and Commander in Chief.
"THOS. j. STEWART,
"Adjutant General"
The formal order was given out at the
Executive Mansion shortly before III
o'clock tonight by Private Secretary
Gerwig. Governor Stone called a confer
ence of the general officers of the guard,
at which it was decided to place these
troops in the field.
The troops now in the field are the
Fourth. Eighth, Ninth. Twelfth and
Thirteenth Regiments of the Third Bri-
gade, and the Governors troops, Sheri-
dan Troop and Second Philadelphia City
Troop. The troops which will be sent to
reinforce those now on duty are the
First, Second, Third and Sixth Regi-
ments, Battery A, First Troop Philadei-
phia City Cavalry, which compose the
First Brigade, Fifth Regiment, Tenth
Regiment, Fourteenth Regiment. Six
teenth Regiment, Eighteenth Regiment.
and Battery 3, which constitute the
Second Brigade.