The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-08-09
NEW DEPUTIES
Do GOOD WORK
IN SPITE OF A LYNCHlNG, HOW
EVER, THE TORCH is STILL
RESORTED TO.


Birmingham, Ala, Aug S.-Under
what amounts practically to martial
law the strike zone just west of Bir-
lmngham, where several thousand coal
miners are idle, Is comparatively
quiet. Orders issued by Sheriff H.g
don at the request OF Governor Conner
are as strong as civil law can make
them They are believed to be the
| last stand before the governor puts
the district under actual control Of
the state troops. Union leaders are
complaining that the new orders are
mot lawful and constitute an infringe
ment of their rights.
Boiled down, Sheriff Higdon's or
ders to his deputies are as follows:
No person shall be allowed to loiter,
and no crowd shall be permitted to
gather near the plant of any employ
er of labor in Jefferson county.
Marching squads must be dispersed
as tending to fRtimidaie wurllmon.
Gathering around passenger stations,
hootlng and jeering Ct men is nut 10
be allowed. Deputies are instructea
to attend any meeting that may he
held, and If remarks of speakers are
incendiary the speakers are to be ar
rested.
To carry out these instructions sew
eral score additional deputies have
been sworn in and sent to the western
part Of the country, where trouble has
been breaking out every dag and
night for the past two weeks. The
several companies of state militia on
duty in the strike zone will be re
lieyed in few days when the great
body of state troops, now eneamped
at Chattanooga, viii be brought to
Birmingham. They number about
1900, and the entire list of ccmpa-
MES will be stationed in the trouble
some section. Many believe that out
breaks will cease only when this ar.
my has been put in charge
The Lynching.
Sensational interest has been given
to the lynching OF the negro dyna-
inter, VIII Milen, by the arrest of
two deputies, charged with the Of
tense. The coroner's jury is stll at
work on the case and will meet again
Tuesday to continue It's probing. /
Evidence has been adduced to show
that it was small crowd which
hanged the negro to tree, and that
probably less than half dozen per
sons took part in the outrage. Mnlen's
tragic death has not put an end to
the dynamitlng Of houses, however. as
almost every night an attack Of this
KIND occurs. so far none Of the oc-
cupants of the houses have been hurt.
the explosions almost Invariably taxi
ing place in the rear Of the residences
early In the evening. On the other
hand, but two men have been arrest
cd charged with dynamting. one OF
these being the negro, Will Mullin,
who was lynched, and the other was
an Italian Adam Kurske, charged
with trying to blow up house the
same night that Mullin was lynched.
No company employing union Ia
Dor has signed up with the miners
since the first few days, when a few
fell into line. The industrial com.
panies are importing stHkebreakers
from all sections Of the south, many
coming FROM Tennessee, Georgia and
Louisiana Soldiers meet every train
and escort the non-union workmen
to the mines, where they are left in
the charge of special deputies. In
some Instances where men have got
on alone they have been roughly ham
died by crowds, one being badly beat
en- another made TO strip and jump
into creek, and third being bruised
with sticks Crowds have been ieer.
ing the arrivals and threatening them
with violence If they take their places
In the mines The orders Of Sheriff
| Higdon are intended to put a stop t.
this practice.