The Washington times., 1902-06-11
TWO MEN OVERAvVE
MODS OF STRIKERS
Mine Clerk and Ex-Lieutenant Face
Crowds Single-Handed.

WILKESBARRE. June 10.-A crowd
of strikers who were fast progressing
toward tire rioting stage were dispersed
this morning at the William A. mine By
the cco!Hess and resolution of Flank
shadd, clcrl; in the employ OF the Lee
high Valley Coal Company.
A hill commands the Enclosure OF the
stockade. On the hill a large crowd of
men gathered this morning. They were
armed with powerful India rubber slings
and lad a large stock of bullets, buck
shot and stones as ammunition. Every
time a guard or one of the men who were
at N<rk appeared he was greeted with
fusillade of these missiles.
Strikers Ovcrewed.
A Coal and Iron policeman in the
stcckade was wounded in the face with
a buckshot He drew his revolver and
fired several shots over the heads Of the
crowd The assaila1ts held their ground
and continued hostilities. At this point
Young Skedd walked out CT the stcckade
and advanced along up the hill on the
bowling mob.
When he was in easy speaking dis
lance of their advance firing line he
took out a notebook and told them that
he was going to take down the names
of all he recognized and have warrants
Issued for their arrests. He was greet
ed with jeers and volley of rocks, but
he went coolly scanning the scowling
faces before him, and when he saw one
he recognized writing his name down
in the notebook
The deadly notebook overawed the
crowd more than the policeman's pistol
shots had done After Shedd had writ
ten down five names the crowd began to
dsintegrate and soon vanished.
Warrants will be issued for the arrest
of the men whose names Shedd wrote
down.
Women Under Arrest.
Four women and one man were arrest
ed at Nanticoke this afternoon charged
with melting the riot at Hanover on
Saturday last when Daniel sweeny,
Coal and Iron policeman, and John Fred
erick, an engineer. whom Sweeny was
escorting home from work, were knock
ed down The prisoners were arraign-
ed before Judge Van Horn. Witnesses
testified that the mob consisted Of about
sixty persons, but that the four accused
acted as rinEleaders.
The man, Mike Frankowish, was held
in 81 coo for appearance at court. one
OF the women was discharged. and the
three others were held in $500 bonds
each All secured bondsmen and were
released
Opinion differs as to whether the Sab
bath-iike quiet which reigned in Nanti-
coke today is the lull before the storm.
or whether 1t is because the turbulent
element is overawed by the force which
has occupied the coal company's barbed
wire Enclosure. There was little stone
throwing at the guards last night.
The captain in command of the force.
who was a lieutenant in the United
States army in the Spanish war. ad-
vanced alone on the stone throwers, and
told them that he would seize the first
one who threw a stone. and drag him
A prisoner inside the Enclosure.
The mob called him names, but threw
no more stones. 1t was afterward dis
perSeQ by strlRe leaders
New Form of Hazing.
Sheriff Jacobs received Monday num-
Der CT letters from women. wives of men
who are continuing at work, entreating
him to take down the efiges of their
husbands. He sent out several depu-
ties and made another cleaning out of
the effigies.
The .'grave-digging" is a new form of
hazing deviltry. Two brothers named
Miller. who work at the Lehigh Valley
Coal Company's mines, were among the
first victims. Graves were made in
front of each of their houses. all heaped
up and neatly rounded over. and with
headboards bearing the names OF the
Millers. This made the mems families
so nervous that the men complained to
their bosses about it.
Two men who work in the Harry f.
Mine at Forty Fort. have been besieged
for three days with their wives, and
sister of one of the wives, in the dou-
bic houses in which they live Five
efflgies dangle before their doors, three
representing the women and two the
men. The men and the women fear to
come out, and people who endeavor to
III are turned away.
Refuse to Sell Ice.
Every day the boycott lines are being
drawn tighter. At Pittston today the
Pittston Ice Company refused to deliver
any more Ice to the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company. At Nan/coke. the Mine Work
ers' Union today issued printed resolu-
lions urging all tradesmen not to fur !
nish ice or supplies Of any kind to the |
men at WORK and the guards in the Sus-
quehanna Coal Companys mine stock
ade.