Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-08-01
STRIKE TROUBLES.
One Death Recorded as Result of the
Riot at Shenandoah.

One Death Recorded AS n Result of the
Riot at Shenandoah.
As a result of the riot at Shenandoah
Wednesday evening Joseph Beddall
died shortly after 10 O'Clock last night.
This is the only death resulting from
the riot. He was a brother of Deputy
Sheriff Thomas Beddal and a nephew
kill county. He was 33 years of age
and was a member of the Beddall-Tag-
CART Company, wholesale and retail
hardware dealers.
Policemen Daniel Ringheiser and
Stanislaus Yankowski and Joseph Lau-
raitis, who are seriously wounded, will
recover.
Twenty-six members of the attacking
crowd are known to have been wounded,
most of them slightly. 1t is extremely
difficult to learn the names of these per-
sons and the nature of their wounds.
While martial law has not yet been
proclaimed as result OF the nights
rioting, q provost guard patrols por-
tion of the town. This guard is doubled
about the station OF. the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway, where most of
the shooting took place.
While there were several shooting af-
trays in the neighboring towns, Shen-
andoah has since been free from any
thing approaching serious disorder.
The mobilization of 1900 members Of
the Fourth, Eighth and Twelfth regi-
ments and the Governors troop, rein
forced by the prompt and emphatic
action of President Fahy, of District o.,
unquestionaby made for peace and
good order.
In an interview last night General
Goblin said "There appears to be no
necessity to ovcrrun tho region with
troops. We will for the present at least
act precisely as though we were upon
our annual encampment. There will be
interference with the civil authorities
What may be done later is pure con-
lecture"
| THE CONTRACT SYSTEM.
The Philadelphia Press, the organ of
the Coal trust, is authority for the state
ment that "the operators are little dis
turbed by the threat of the mine work
ers to leave the anthracite fields for the
bituminous region. 1t was said yester-
day that when the collieries are started
again there will be a decided change in
the manner of getting out coal. 1t is
said that the coal companies will con-
| tract with a few miners to work each
collery, and in this way the law relative
to employing only miners will be over
come. The miner or contractor will do
the hiring of the laborers and he will be
able to comply with all the requirements
of the law.
"Under the Pennsylvania statutes no
one can become a miner unless he has
worked as laborer two years in a mine
and has passed satisfactory examina-
tion. 1t is said the law does not specify
what amount Of work a miner has to
do, and on this account it is believed the
mines can be operated by few miners.
sit is thought this is what the oper-
ators meant when some time ago they
said that when the miners resumed
work the number required to get out
the coal would be at least ene-third less
than the number required previous to
the strike"
STRIKE PARTS MAN AND WIFE,
An incident showing how strong Is
the feeling among upper end women oc-
Cured yesterday at Wanamie. George
Stoker, an employe at the Lehgh and
Wilkesbarre mine there, returned to
work week ago. His wife opposed
this step and day after day begged him
to stop work, but he would not. The
climax came yesterday morning, when
the wife appeared at the stockade gate,
and calling to him placed their six
months-old child In the road, crying:
''lf you won't quit you can look after
the baby and the other one. I'm going" "
Stoker applied to tho United Charities
and Matron Bertels took the two chill
dren In charge and had warrant is
sued charging the woman with neglect
Schuylkil county Republican conven-
tion nominated the following ticket:
Congress, George r. Patterson, Ashland;
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clerk OF courts Harrison Ball. Mahanoy
City; register, Thomas Herb, fremont
treasurer, Frank G. Palmer, Pottsvlle;
Lofty, and Horace Reber, Pine Groves
poor directors, Fred Ahrensfcld, Miners