Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-09-24
HOT ARRAY occurs.
Governor Stone Ordered Bat
talionto Lebanon, Pa.--Bat-
tie Rumored.
PRAYERS OF CLERGY ASKED
GirardsviIle, Pa, Pastor Issues AID.
dress to Ministers of United States
Asking Them to Pray For Strikes
End-Much LawIessness.

HARRISBURG, SEPT. 24.-lT
WAS REPORTED IN THIS CITY AT
12:45 THIS MORNING THAT THERE
HAS BEEN A PITCHED BATTLE
AT LEBANON, AND THAT 40 MEN
WERE ARRESTED BY S9i-DlRS.
1T WAS ALSO RuMORED THAT
PRESIDENT STERNBERG WAS
SHOT.
Lebanon, Pa, Sept. 24.--H. n. Rich
ards, treasurer of the American Iron
and Steel company, while walking in
East Cumberland street, in the vicin-
ity of the works, last night, was shot
in the abdomen and seriously wound
ed. Six companies of the Twelfth
regiment are now patroIing the COM
pany's works, and the city is under
martial law. Several arrests were
made after the soldiers arrived.
Troops Ordered to Lebanon.
Harrisburg, Sept. 24.-General
Goblin, who is in command of the
troops in the hard coal strike region,
was ordered by Governor Stone last
evening to send the first battalion of
the Twelfth regiment to Lebanon to
assist the sheriff in preserving the
peace. The battalion, which has been
on duty at Shenandoah ever since the
troops were sent there, left last even
ing at SIS for Lebanon in command
of Colonel Clements, of Sunbury. The
troops reached Lebanon shortly be-
fore o'clock.
A delegation from Lebanon, COM
posed of Sheriff Koppenhaver. Thomas
II. Capp President j. H. Sternberg, of
the American Iron and Steel company,
whose employees are on strike; H. c..
Sherk, A. c. McCurdy and James
Lord, called upon the governor yes
terday and requested that troops be
sent to that city. where rioting oc-
Cured Monday evening among the
strikers. After consultation with Ad
jutant General Stewart and Attorney
General Elkin the governor ordered
General Goblin to send the first bat
talon of the Twelfth to the relief of
the sheriff
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept 24.-n the
lawless outbreaks in the Wyoming re-
gion continue, Sheriff Jacobs will un-
doubtedly follow the example of Sher-
iff Schadt, of Laekawanna county, and
call upon Governor Stone for troops.
Several squads of deputy sheriffs were
kept busy yesterday suppressing dis
orders.
Boy Accidentally Shot by Deputy.
Last evening five carpenters en-
ployed at the Conyingham mine of
the Delaware and Hudson company
were on their way home when they
were held up by crowd of men and
boys, The carpenters discharged
their revolvers in the air, which
brought a large number of coal and
iron police to their rescue. The Off
GERS fired volley into the air and
the crowd fed. stray bullet from
one Of the deputies guns struck
boy named James Roland, who was
at work in the yard of the Sheldon
Axle works, some distance away. The
bullet lodged in the lads right Shout
der. A deputy named Joseph Kess-
Ter was arrested charged with the
shooting. He was committed to the
city lookup to await hearing.
Unknown parties placed a number
of sticks of dynamite under the house
Of Joseph Harrison, at Plymouth, for
the purpose of blowing it up but a
timely discovery prevented. Two
non-union workmen at Plymouth were
held up and beaten Twenty-Five
deputy sheriffs went to Warrior Run
to quell disturbance there, in which
nop-union men were attacked.
At Hughestown, near Pittston,
crowd of men derailed a train carry
ing number af workmen to a wash
cry. The engine and two cars left
the track and two men sustained slight
injuries. A number of coal and iron
police dispersed the crowd.
E. G. Zwayor, pastor of the Baptist
church of Girardsville, Pa, has, in
behalf of the Peoples Alliance, is
sued an address to the clergy Of the
United States, asking them to pray
for peaceful settlement of the strike.
Scranton, Pa, Sept. 24.-Whether
1t was the calling out of the Thir-
teenth regiment or that the turbulent
element Of the strikers had exhausted
ehCii NIoiCut SuSISl Lie Udy ySSL6T-
day was comparatively free of law.
lessness.
Non-unionist Probably Fatally Shot.
The only serious affair of the day
occurred at ELEPHANT, about 400 yards
from the camp of the soldiers, an
hour after their arrival. Two broth.
ers, Bert and Charles Lundon, of JET.
ferson township. while on their way
to work at the Temple company's
Lackawanna colliery, were ambushed
and shot down in the road. One of
them. Bert, is probably fatally
wounded. The other received only a
flesh wound and will recover.
Two non-union foreigners. employed
1T the Grassy Island washery, near
the Olyphant station, were on theiR
way to work yesterday morning, and,
in passing the camp of the newly ar
rived regiment, got into an alterca-
ton with a crowd o. mischievous sol.
diers and We're seriously drubbed.
The affair was reported to Colonel