The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-17


has meant IN the past. we dare not sur
render, and are determined we will not.
We, therefore, earnestly request the
support of all who are employed at the
colieres. and ask them to join in our
movement.
The regular barn boss at each colliery
will be allowed to remain at work. pro-
vided he Is given an eight-hour day.
fraternally yours
T.. ID. Nichols. President.
j. r. Dempsey Secretary.
President Nichols also made the fol-
| lowing statement:
NICHOLS STATEMENT.
| All the news we receive is very encour-
aging I feel confident Of ultimate VIC
tory. Our demands have been recognized
as being right and Just: we have courted
| the fullest investigation and are willing
| to abide by the result of such an investi-
| cation. Consequently, the great Ameri-
can public Is with us. The operators re-
| fuse to allow Intervention of the public,
which is suffering. and claim, practically.
| that it is none OF the public's business.
| The public, as natural result is there
fore against the operators. Being first
right and having the public with us, we
combine right with might, and must sue
coed.
Superintendent Phillips, of the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western COM
pany, stated yesterday that seventeen
| Of the engineers, tiremen and pumpmen
who had quit at the Avondale and Jer-
| sey mines, returned to work yesterday,
and that others are to return this week.
Superintendent Rose, of the Delaware
and Hudson, reported that ten of the
| fremen and pump runners who went on
strike were back at work yesterday
| morning.
| Both superintendent report that dur
| ing the past four or five days they have
had numerous applications from min
ers and laborers who want to go back
to work. Most of them, they say, are
non-English speaking men. They have
heard of the declaration of the opera
tors that the forces at the mines are to
be reduced one-third after the strike,
and fearing that the English speaking
| miners will be preferred before them,
are trying to get in on the ground
floor. Seventeen such applications were
received at the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western offices yesterday. They
| were uniformly told that there was no
work for them yet, but that after a
short time if they come in sufficient
numbers, places will be opened up to
accommodate them.
Francis w. Palmer, of Priceburg, was
yesterday arrested at the instance Of
Robert Colburn, Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western fireman. who ac-
cused him of calling him (Colburn)
"scab," while on his way to work, and
of attempting to have his milkman re-
fuse to sell him milk.
Palmer professed to be exceedingly
sorry, when arraigned before Magis-
trate Millar, and apologized to Col
burn. The company's attorney, who
appeared for Colburn, said that the
company had no desire to send men to
Jail for this offense, but that it has de-
termined to protect it's employees from
molestation and insult. The case against
Palmer was withdrawn and he paid the
costs, amounting to $780,
ROBINSON RECOVERING.
Charles Robinson, the Delaware and
Hudson watchman who was mys-
terously shot at Olyphant during Sat-
urday night, was able to sit up yester-
day, and the doctors at the hospital
expect he will pull through all right.
How he received his wound still re-
mains unexplained. All he remembers
is that he felt singing sensation in
his right breast and then became un-
conscious. He says he heard no shot
| fired, or il he did he has forgotten it,
He also declares that it was impossible
| for him to have shot himself, acciden-
tally, as his revolver was in his holster,
with the barrel pointing downward
The most reasonable theory Is that he
was shot by some one at distance.
| TlatI tIn, 4 hot G,sa1 h.ys
fellow watchman or some one else is yet
| to be disclosed.
Towards midnight Sunday night the
residents of the Italian colony at Lack
awanna began shooting revolvers prob
ably to terrify the watchmen at the
William A. colliery. Report had it that
battle was on between the watchmen
and the strikers, but inquiry at the col
liery failed to unearth any fighting. The
men at the colliery heard shooting but
1t was at distance and they supposed
it was the people of the colony fighting
among themselves.
An effigy, hanging from pole at
Dunmore corners, was cut down yes
terday afternoon by Sheriff Schadt and
Deputy Sheriff Gaffney. They were ac-
companied to the scene by the police
patrol wagon, driven by Mounted Off
Ger Perry. Deputy Sheriff Gaffney
reached the effigy by means of ladder
and with pinchers cut the wire by
which it was suspended, allowing it to
fall to the ground. 1t was loaded into
the patrol wagon, taken to the county
Jail and consigned to the furnace.
| All of the twelve Keyser Valley strik-
ers. against whom slander suits were
brought last Friday by Otto and Chris
tan Skellenger and John Morgans, for
hanging them in efiigy, have been
brought In by Sheriff Schadt and held
| to bail for their appearance at court
Each was required to furnish bail in
| the sum of $1,000.
DIR. Lindabury. Surgeon. diseases OF