The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-05
SITUATION
 IS SERIOUS Gov. Conner Gives 0ut
 Statement. MAY CALL MORE TROOPS Has Conference With Sheriff and Military Commanders. Advises Them to Take Increased Meth- ods and to Dt.perse All Unlaw- full Assemblies--FinIey aad
 Wife Arrested.
 
MAY CALL MORE TROOPS


 Birmingham. Aug. f.-Lewisburg Mines. nine miles north of irmingham, were the scene of some exciting shoot Ing shortly after midnight.
 The mines are surrounded by a stock ade and group of strikers approach- ing this, threw a heavy charge or dy- namtte against it, which aroused the whole camp. The men then ran to c ridge nearly a mile from the stockade and opened fire with rifles. No less than 300 shots weer fired into the stockade and the twenty or more dapu- ties around the mines returned the Are With vigor. In the darkness 1t is not known at this hour what damage was done by the firing. although telephona communication indicates chat 10 one inside the stockade was injured.
 
 Birmingham. Aug. A-(HpecafI 1-.- Governor B. B. Conner thia morning gave out a statement in which he de- clared that in his opinion tho strike situation in the mining fields was se- rious. He said that he believed that the State troops. however. together with the State authorities. would be able to cope with the situation. The following statement was given out by the chief executive of the State:
 T was quoted in ChattanooRa aa having said the strike here was 6 small affair. This was in error. as regard the strike situation as exceedingly se- rious When we have men who will ak night dynamite R house. endangering the lives of men, women and chfldrens when we have men who will dynamite the property of law abiding citizens. when we have mqp who will shoot down and threaten to shoot down cit- izens engaged in peaceful occupationHs when we have fniammatory speeches made to arouse undue passion. and In . measure 'siof on unthouEhted persons to violate the peace and safety of the citizens and of the property of the State. then with all good citizens ! re gard these matters as very serious
 eIn conference today with the ehsf- ia, Colonel Hsgdon. and Major Nchiet nnflaTna ndknW our military, ! advthea them to take increased meth ads and means 10 insure that these things shall not be. To accomplish this, fl may De necessary to bring more troops. it may be necessary to curb viciousness in speaking. and to restrain the asaem- bling of people who are together for the purpose of illegally taunting both state officers and soldiers, and of tn timidating people from going about their lawful business. To take more radical means, disarm every combina- tion. whether of men or guns. gotten together for the purpose of intimida- anything else that looks like the breaking of the peace and the safety of the citizens.
 Negroes Badly Advised.
 T understand that there are a great many negroes being gotten together in unlawful assembly. and are being badly advised. I wish to remind them that prior to 1874 with very bad leader ship, both scalawag and carpet hagger. they greatly Injured themselves and the state, and I want to caution them against such leadership now. The atata could not allow 1t then and win not allow 1t now: and I would advise them that the law is for the protection of those Inclined to live in peace and order and work, and not to allow by aftion the violation of that right of every citizen to live in his own home. whether rented or owned. and 60 do his own work in his own way earnestly insist with every citizen that the state officers and the state troops should have their cooperation to ac- compltsh these desired ends"
 While no mention is made yet aa to what will be done. it is not improbable that the Governor will stop some pf the companies of the 1st and End regl- ments, now in encanpment at Chicka- mauga, when they start on their way home. He has called for the rolls Of the military department and Ia going over them with a view of calling out more troops when 1t becomes neces- saFy. He says that 1t Is nonsense to suggest Federal troops for the district: that the State authorities. the officers of the military and the troops are loyal men and that they are anxious to do everything possible to maintain peace and dignity in the State.
 FuIIers Are Arrested.
 Finley Fuller and his wife were ar rested at Brighton. south of here. this hitting of their own home. The arrest was made after an investigation had been made by Major Noble, Deputy Sheriff George Jones, and other milt- tary and county authorities. A. F. Woodward and others made bond for Fuller and his wife after they had been brought to the county jail and locked up on a charge of malicious mischief. Assistant State Examiner Brooks, and Captain Malcolm Stewart of the cavalry troop on duty in the Blue Creek region. were among those who made an investigation into this case of dynamiting.
 A number Of non-union men were put to work today in the Short Creek mines and there was no disturbances. Sheriff Higdon today announced that with the exception of the meetings be- ing held daily by the striking miners which has the tendency of intlmidating the men who would work there is nothing happening in the mining dis lricf The operators again announce an