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Show I The Great Strike I In thoColioKoRions of len-sjlvani;. len-sjlvani;. still on I The District Court at Proo I Doing ami I A General Synopsis of the Xcws of the Day. I THE COKE STRIKE. I Sa-ttdtle, Pa. April 19 A hundred I cuke Miikers attacked the deputy sher- I ifls at Leisenring last night. Shuts we:e J exchanged and the guards finally com pelled the smkers to retire, but only after one of the deputies had bten shot and it is leared fatally wounded. Sheriff I McCormick will now ask the governor to r ill out the troops ajjfim. At the offices of the Frick and Mc-Clure Mc-Clure companies it was said a few more men had returned to work this morning. The labor leaders are greatly depressed over their failure to get the men at work y to come out. The men yet remaining out demand those at work be brought out and the Italians driven away within two days or all will return and claim their places. The situation with the leaders is becoming serious. A report has just been received that the strikers blew up the water tank at the Kvle work of Frick & Co., early this morning. No guards were about and nobodv was hurt. j Scottdale, Pa , April tg. Hardly had the soldiers left this region belore the (ears of the citizens were realized and gangs of the striking coakers aifain turned loose their lawless passions of hatred and revenge. Throughout 'the region ail last night the earth fairly trembled with the succesion of shocks ' 1 following the explosion of dynamite bombs. At Leisinring, No jot the Frick works a crowd of strikers gatheied on the hill and at one time thirty bombs were exploded simultaneously, tearing great holes in the earth, breaking windows in many houses, and frightening the people peo-ple for m les around bvjtheir terirKc roar. "' No one was injured, however, and Lut , little actual damage done, the strikers I contenting themselves with this warn- I ' iZ to the workers below. On Monday a the Companies will post nolict'S that uii- ' ' ess the men return to work by Tuesday i they will no longer be looked upon as I employees This means that cheap !; labor will be imported, and as several j hundred eviction notices will also expire I the strikers will have a hard week be- j fore (hem At Leisenring, Deputy Sher- t Iff Craw. ord and a posse were seiving wti s o' tjeciment, when thev were cap- lured bv an anry mob and harshly treat i eil.. One dpu:y was fatally injured. An e3.irtv'lbe made next week, with I a larse io:ce 10 evict the strikers, I and ir uble w 'l follow, j To-dav Secietary Parkers, of the labor I organization, oidered one thousand tents . f'ir the sheUeiing of the evicted per-, per-, ; s rs. 5 Scottdale, Pa. .April 20. Rioting strik- ( ers continue in the coke regions. The Leisering plant of the Frick coke com-s com-s pany is kept in an uproar. Since Sat- f urday night the woiks have been sur- rounded by a mob day and night, and -1 thee plos'on of bombs and firing of gui s C can be heard at all hours. The coke I company have sworn out an injunction ,t against thirty-three of the leaders, and I also instituted criminal charges against them. The injunction papers and war-' war-' " ramshave been placed in the hands of tie sheriff and constables, but they claim . to be powerless to serve them without the assistance of troops. A number of ke plants are running a lull force, 1 w hile others have started up again, i To-dav was prolific of excitement and small tiots throughout this region. Women Wo-men generally are leading and ate moit bitter in thsir attacks upon the deputies Heretofore they have been silent, but I , when the evictors attacked their homes t . the foreign women especially were driv- 1? en wild. During a squabble to-day two j deputies wtre painfully injured. But few evictions were made, as the sheriffs fear , opposition and are gathering larger for ces of deputies. Uniontown, Pa., April 20. There was considerable rioting at Weith and Leisin ring No 2, because of attempted evictions The trouble was all caused by Hungar-1 Hungar-1 ian women who (ought like tigers against ! the sheriff's forces. At one time the i . ' sheriff called lor troops, but the trouble i quieted and the o:der was countermnud- ;j; , ed. Twenty-six of Saturday's rioters . were arrested to day. When the con- , ' stable took them to the the train to be I brought here their wives and other wo- men to the number of forty to fifty pour- I ed into the coaches and took possession. The women refused to pay their fare and the trainmen, afier inefiectual efforts eff-orts to ejtrct them, ran the coaches on a side track and going to Vance's Junction, Junc-tion, repurled the sit jation to headquarters. headquar-ters. Nothing since !as been heard of the train lord. To-night a message was sent from Lemont to I.Mser:ug No 2 no tifiving the deputies and company officials offici-als that 250 strikers had just left Lemont for Leisering and a riot was eminent. |