The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-06

heu Wth the Progress oA the striho-
 Interest in Request That Roosevelt
 Take Up Matter ofsottIement-Troub
 at Wiikesbnrre-Boy Perhaps Fatally
 Shot.
 Wilkesbarre, Pa, June 5.-This was
 an uneventfu day until tonight in the
 coal miners strike and probably the
 quietest since the engineers, f1remen
 and pumpmen were called out last Mon-
 day There were several scrimmages in
 several parts of the Wyoming valley, in
 which workmen who refused to desert
 the companies generally got the worst
 of it. No one, so far as is known, was
 seriously hurt. The work of the min
 CTS p!ckets and the stoning by boys and
 young men are having their effect
 Each day a fewer number of men leave
 their homes for the mines, fearing they
 may not again get home alive.
 It was stated at strike headquarters
 to- might that thirty-three additional
 men had joined the ranks of the strik-
 CTS during the day, and that more are
 expected out tomorrow. The operators
 are still able to fill the places Of those
 that desert or are forced to quit work
 Most of the companies have exhausted
 their force of company employees and
 are now using nonunion men more freely It was their policy not to enlist
 the services of strangers until 1t was absolutely necessary. Non-union men from the large cities are still coming in, most of them being brought here under the cover of darkness. They are sent to the colieries during the night because the officials do not care to arouse the
 anger of the men and run the risk of having the recruits attacked. During the day and part of the night the strik- CTS are constantly on the watch and in few minutes can call out the entire population of a mining village, if neces sary.
 The action of the New York Board of Trade in requesting President Roose- welt to take up the matter of settling the strike aroused considerable interest. President Mitchell had nothing to say on the new move. He said he knew nothing about it except what he had read in the newspapers. MT. Mitchell kept close to his office all day. He spent the time in conferring with com mitteemen from various parts of the coal fields and did an unusual amount of telephoning. He said that there was nothing new in regard to a settlement of the strike and expressed himself IS satisfied with the progress of the min- ers' campaign.
 The mining superintendents continue to have trouble in operating their pumps, and in some mines the water Is creeping up slowly, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts of the men an hand to keep it down.
 This is caused mostly by lack of | firemen to keep up enough steam and | also to the fact that some of the men | have to fill dual positions. The super intendent of one company said he had | received a number of applications from engineers in cities outside the coal re- gions for positions.
 The spirit of unrest that has been manifesting itself more or less in this city and vicinity during the last few days broke out in earnest at two places in this city tonight and as a result boy was dangerously, if not fatally shot by a guard at the Stanton colliery and q considerable portion of the fence around the Murray colliery was de- stroyed by fire. There has been con- trouble around the Stanton colliery. Several nights ago a part of the fence surrounding the place was burned and also small frame building op he ho nly o+1 o+ tempts were made to fire the fence. The guards as result kept close watch. Tonight while Charles Me Cam, aged thirteen years, was walking along the field outside the fence it is said a guard on the inside fired re- volver or rifle at him. The bullet struck the boy in the back. The shot was hear by the people in the vicinity and it looked for time as though there would be serious trouble. The boy was quick y removed to the Mercy hospital and he police notified, The chief of the police with a squad of men went to the colliery to arrest the guard and after some trouble the chief ( md his men gained an entrance They got their man, but the crowd on the s outside was so great and threatening ( hat the police did not dare take him C rom the place. At late hour tonight " he crowd was still hanging around the c ,olliery
 Shortly after the shooting the crowd sought vengeance on the companies and some one set fire to a |, restle work. The fire department was and with considerable diff | ulty put out the blaze. | At the Murray colliery, also operated r " the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre com any in the eastern part of the city, a rowd of boys succeeded in burning bout 400 feet of high board fence that d the company's property. The re department eNtlns uished the blaze. When the chief of police reached the olliery he, with the assistance of the hief of the coal and iron police on the round, made an investigation and ffn- fly placed the blame for the shooting i' n four coal and iron policemen who D ere located near the place when the Il hooting occurred. They were taken -om the colliery and landed in the 1T ,ckup. They men say boys were tear IT lg down the fence and that they shot II Ito the air to scare them, and did not Il now that anyone had been injured un-